The new race year started with a rare trip to Oulton Park. We don’t go very often because you can only run a single day meeting at Oulton (something to do with the locals being able to hear a circuit five miles away when all 15 of them are going to church). Although scheduled to be on the longest version of the circuit we were on the Island circuit instead due to some uncompleted works.
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So, I needed to fix the Fury. That meant I needed to make a new wishbone and here it is sitting in the jig. The problem was that in thinking about the design of the wishbone then at one point I must have lost my presence of mind.
Oulton Park again
Finally, we’re back racing at Oulton Park. I came here first in 2004, in my first season and I’ve been waiting to come back ever since as it’s a truly great circuit. However, as it’s been so long it seemed sensible to do some testing. So, I signed up, as did lots of other RGBers, for the testing that was running on the Friday afternoon before the race day on Saturday. (You might wonder about the odd dates; I think it’s a result of yet more noise problems at circuits like this. After all, it’s only been there since 1948 so you can understand how people who move 5 miles away in 2005 are going to be surprised and dismayed to find the distant whine of racing cars disturbing their peace.)
The photo here is nicked from Buzz’s photo site. Buzz is supposed to race with us but has had such a bad run of luck that he licking his wounds at the moment. I think he might have said that he’s planning on getting out at Mallory though.