Firstly the Fury. Adrian came over at the weekend and in between glimpsing at the GP and England’s dismal performance in the footie (the latter not being a great interest of mine, but Anthea’s from Liverpool so it’s in her genes) we started sorting out the Fury. Adrian set to sorting out the sidepod which was battered against the chassis side-impact protection and I started getting at the chassis.
Tag: Racing
Coming to grief
Well, I suppose it couldn’t last. After ignoring the Fury all season it finally had a bad race.
Last weekend we went down to Brands Hatch, again, for a two day, two race, weekend. What’s more, our race on the Sunday was quite early so I was hoping to get home to get on with the J15. I should know not to think like that…
Hatching plans
Last weekend was another race meeting, this time at Brands Hatch. (As usual, the Indy circuit. I’ve still never even walked around the GP circuit. One day…)
So, I got the Fury dusted down, I even spent a while doing a nut and bolt check, before going to Brands on Thursday evening. The weather forecast was, for a change, actually quite good so hopefully I wouldn’t be spending the weekend in a confusion about whether to change the wheels, adjust the ARBs, and so on.
By the way, before you complain, my apologies for the lack of video/photos here. I bought a new video recorder (one of these) and the camera is rubbish, generating a truly gruesome vertical vibration. With luck someone will have taken some photos and I can decorate this post later.
April is the cruelest month…
Well, it’s cold anyway, especially in the wastelands of Mallory Park race circuit. We were racing there at the weekend, on Sunday, and I spent the Saturday morning fettling the Fury (having completely ignored it since Snetterton) and we set off for Mallory so as to arrive at about 5pm when they’d let us into the circuit. Mallory is unique in that you have to drive round the circuit (actually in the wrong direction) so as to get to the paddock. Hence, you have to queue up outside for ages. Continue reading “April is the cruelest month…”
A lonely race
A quick post to link to a video of the race at the weekend. This is some “highlights” from my race at the weekend although it could hardly be called exciting. Mind you, its looks fascinating compared to the GP at the weekend.
Two hats Tim
I knew it was a bad idea. I got home on Sunday from just about the most successful race weekend ever. Now I’m in a bit of a quandary as it’s going to be tough to get the J15 up to the performance of the Fury, at least in the short term.
Birkettastic
Last weekend was the Birkett and we were up again racing in team Eastern Delight (we decided to give it a better (?) name this time). The Birkett is a unique event being, if you don’t know, a 6 hour relay race for teams of up to 6 cars and drivers. In this week’s Autosport Marcus Pye got it just right in his column where he says:
End of the season
A little vignette of an RGB/750 club paddock:
I took my cordless drill to Mallory, as I always do. I didn’t use it though. However, two other people borrowed it:
- Adrian was having cat problems, again, and used the drill to hack out the remains of yet another expensive waste of money
- Andy borrowed the drill to help him repair the bonnet of an MG Midget that was racing that day, although clearly not in an RGB race.
I don’t know about you, but I think that’s great.
Down to the wire
It was time for another race meeting, this time at Snetterton. I decided not to go testing, although I did spend the test day there with Dan who was out for the first time in his RGB race car.
Silverstone again
Well, it was time to be back at Silverstone again for the club’s annual festival meeting, which essentially means that all the club formulae are represented which means loads and loads of cars and only one race each. Unless, of course, you’re an RGBer and you’ve been let into Bikesports for a cheap(er) race than usual. I didn’t have time to do any testing, so that would have to do for me.