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:
Tag: Silverstone
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.
(Possibly) working again
Well, I think I fixed the clutch, and also changed the oil and so on so if I’m lucky I’m ready for the next race at Silverstone.
It turned out that the problem with the clutch at Mallory was due to something really rather dim. When we’d put the replacement plates in we couldn’t make things fit properly in that the plates seemed to thick. When I took it all apart, in the calm and lack of heat of my garage I realised that we’d left one of the plates behind; it was just that it had worn so smooth and shiny that it looked like the clutch backplate! Once I realised that I took it out and everything fitted properly.
Racing at Silverstone
Well, it was back to Silverstone again for the club’s annual August bank holiday meeting. At this meeting all the club’s formulae are racing so it’s pretty packed and hard to see how they could run it anywhere other than at Silverstone due to the amount of space available there. Problem is, it’s a completely awful circuit for spectating at. I did rather well here last year so it’d be nice to do reasonably well again.
This photo was taken by Mark <something or other> who’s talking about coming racing with is. I’ve shamelessly nicked it off his on-line photos, I hope he doesn’t mind. 🙂 (You might also be able to tell that I washed the car before the race!)