Friday 28 June 2013
Body No.001 arrives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first body is now out the mould, trimmed and outside for the photo shoot!!!!!! It has turned out better than we ever imagined and we are completely blown away by it!! We just hope everybody else is and we get a few orders!! The body is going up to MNR at the weekend after the the Donington races, so if you fancy a sneak peek come along to donington on sunday
Pembrey 16th-17th June 2013
For the first time this year i managed to get off early enough on fridat to get a bit of testing in. William was getting a lift up with my sister so we headed up mid morning and got out for the afternoon session. Amazingly it stayed dry for the sessions and i got my head back around the circuit. The back section really i spretty technical and its easy to lose a few seconds if you dont use all the track. Paul Rickers was out too, and comparing times he was very slightly quicker, but i was sure i had a bit more to come and the gap was so little it would disappear in the race.
The Rabid camp was set up with the usual suspects minus Mr Watson, whose torrid run had continued with a slipping clutch at the RR earlier that day and he had decided to hang his boots up for the weekend. But we soldiered on without him, which to start with was rather difficult as Dave usually supplies the BBQ and our new BBQ had decided to melt. Luckily Colin Spicer came to the recue with a huge drum BBQ and got Bobs birthday weekend started with a few beers and a proper welsh BBQ, i.e. pissing it down!
The morning was dry and breezy, but the sky looked rather dark, but very unRGB like it stayed dry for practice and the race! I Qualified 2nd in class for the first race and pole for the 2nd, but there was a gaggle of us all together on very very similar times. The first corner at pembrey is very slow, very tight and very narrow, with a fast run down from the start/finish straight, and usually causes plenty of incidents in the first lap, so i decided to just take it very carefully, no heroics, just stay out of trouble and try and hold my position. This all went to plan, i held my position and tucked in behind Andy to settle in. The next few laps were great fun and Paul was right behind us until i nearly lost it, having a very sideways moment allowing Paul to zoom by. the following lap Paul got past Andy at Honda and i followed by down the straight. Andy had developed a miss fire hence the rather large difference in speed down the straight. I chased Paul down for the next few laps, and after he made a couple of mistakes pulled up along side him at hatchetts, but decided not to push my luck and allowed him to take the racing line at the next corner, then at Brooklands he made another mistake and I was lining up to try and take him at Honda, but the red flags came out just before the corner as Nick Donaldson had a rather big incident with the barrier on the exit. So i finished 2nd behind Paul, with Andy 3rd. Paul also got fastest lap by 0.02 of a second. I'm really enjoying my racing with Paul and Andy this year, we are very close and we are giving each other a lot of respect and room, i think we would all rather finish the race rather than have a collision, even if it does mean finishing a position down.
Saturday night a group of us went out for Bobs birthday to a local pub, lots of beer was drank and some rather large plates of food (i think Dave would be more gutted about missing this than the racing). There then followed a rather jolly and late evening in the bus, with about 12 of us all squashed in.
Sunday started of almost dry but then got wetter, by the time we were out to race it was properly wet on track, although the rain was fairly light and there wasnt really any standing water and not too much spray. The plan again was to stay out of trouble for the first lap, which i did, but lost a place to Andy. By the time we got to the back straigght it was evident there was still a fair amount of grip and i felt confident to accelerate hard from Brooklands and into Honda, this allowed me to power past Andy. I held onto to first place for the rest of the race, but made a conscious effort to try and get the fastest lap, which i managed on the last lap, giving me the maximum 16 points.
So with the result from class R in for the weekend, it means that i am 1st, 1 point ahead of Matt Higginson in the overall championship and 1st in Class F, 14 points ahead of Paul. I need to keep getting the top 2 positions in Class F but also need to start getting those fastest laps more often to keep me in contention for the overall top spot. And looking back at the videos i need to try and concentrate on keeping the proper lines when following someone as i seem to wonder off or follow them when they make a mistake. But so far what an amazing season!!!
Photos from dan
The Rabid camp was set up with the usual suspects minus Mr Watson, whose torrid run had continued with a slipping clutch at the RR earlier that day and he had decided to hang his boots up for the weekend. But we soldiered on without him, which to start with was rather difficult as Dave usually supplies the BBQ and our new BBQ had decided to melt. Luckily Colin Spicer came to the recue with a huge drum BBQ and got Bobs birthday weekend started with a few beers and a proper welsh BBQ, i.e. pissing it down!
The morning was dry and breezy, but the sky looked rather dark, but very unRGB like it stayed dry for practice and the race! I Qualified 2nd in class for the first race and pole for the 2nd, but there was a gaggle of us all together on very very similar times. The first corner at pembrey is very slow, very tight and very narrow, with a fast run down from the start/finish straight, and usually causes plenty of incidents in the first lap, so i decided to just take it very carefully, no heroics, just stay out of trouble and try and hold my position. This all went to plan, i held my position and tucked in behind Andy to settle in. The next few laps were great fun and Paul was right behind us until i nearly lost it, having a very sideways moment allowing Paul to zoom by. the following lap Paul got past Andy at Honda and i followed by down the straight. Andy had developed a miss fire hence the rather large difference in speed down the straight. I chased Paul down for the next few laps, and after he made a couple of mistakes pulled up along side him at hatchetts, but decided not to push my luck and allowed him to take the racing line at the next corner, then at Brooklands he made another mistake and I was lining up to try and take him at Honda, but the red flags came out just before the corner as Nick Donaldson had a rather big incident with the barrier on the exit. So i finished 2nd behind Paul, with Andy 3rd. Paul also got fastest lap by 0.02 of a second. I'm really enjoying my racing with Paul and Andy this year, we are very close and we are giving each other a lot of respect and room, i think we would all rather finish the race rather than have a collision, even if it does mean finishing a position down.
Saturday night a group of us went out for Bobs birthday to a local pub, lots of beer was drank and some rather large plates of food (i think Dave would be more gutted about missing this than the racing). There then followed a rather jolly and late evening in the bus, with about 12 of us all squashed in.
Sunday started of almost dry but then got wetter, by the time we were out to race it was properly wet on track, although the rain was fairly light and there wasnt really any standing water and not too much spray. The plan again was to stay out of trouble for the first lap, which i did, but lost a place to Andy. By the time we got to the back straigght it was evident there was still a fair amount of grip and i felt confident to accelerate hard from Brooklands and into Honda, this allowed me to power past Andy. I held onto to first place for the rest of the race, but made a conscious effort to try and get the fastest lap, which i managed on the last lap, giving me the maximum 16 points.
So with the result from class R in for the weekend, it means that i am 1st, 1 point ahead of Matt Higginson in the overall championship and 1st in Class F, 14 points ahead of Paul. I need to keep getting the top 2 positions in Class F but also need to start getting those fastest laps more often to keep me in contention for the overall top spot. And looking back at the videos i need to try and concentrate on keeping the proper lines when following someone as i seem to wonder off or follow them when they make a mistake. But so far what an amazing season!!!
Photos from dan
Thursday 13 June 2013
Mould finished!!!!!!
Ahead of schedule the mould was popped off today!!!!! Excited isn't the word!!!
Hopefully we should have the first body out in 2 weeks time!!
Hopefully we should have the first body out in 2 weeks time!!
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Plug Finished
The plug was finally finished with all the fences added to create the mould split lines. It then had to be transported 1 mile up the road to the mould shop. To do this das trusty trailer was stripped down to the bare chassis and with the use of jacks, blocks, rollers and a brother-in-law it was loaded on and strapped down.
The large roofing bolts are added on the fences are to create locating plugs in the mould, the mould is laid over the fence and bolt head, the fence is then removed and the next part of the mould is laid up against the GRP, the shape of the bolt heads is built in so you get a locating dimple when you bolt the moulds together.
The plug is still up at the mould shop but should be finished next week, here are some progress shots of the mould being made
The large roofing bolts are added on the fences are to create locating plugs in the mould, the mould is laid over the fence and bolt head, the fence is then removed and the next part of the mould is laid up against the GRP, the shape of the bolt heads is built in so you get a locating dimple when you bolt the moulds together.
The plug is still up at the mould shop but should be finished next week, here are some progress shots of the mould being made
Snetterton 300 25th May 2013
The car required nothing doing to it after brands, we (well dad and dan) had even checked it over on the sunday and I washed it for the stoneleigh show, so it was a simple pack up and go. I was picking dan up from his house in the bus on the way and dad and will were meeting us at dans at around 5pm, hoping to be at snetterton for pizzas by 8pm, but The m42 being closed, followed by the m6 being closed ensured that it took dad 3 hours to do the 70mile journey from home to Dan's. This at least gave dan and I time to stock up food from tesco and more importantly buy a new wiper blade for the bus which had ripped itself to pieces earlier in the day.
Another detour caused by fun on the A14 meant we weren't setup and eating pizza until 10pm. We set up camp with the usual rabid crew, most of which had been testing that day and reported of a very damp day! Surprisingly Dave's car was still in 1 piece, bobs bdn was all OK even after numerous off roading trips, but Marc nordons MNR LMP was going through a rather comprehensive rear end rebuild after twisting both rear drive shafts after its first trip out on track. Another sad sight was Colin Chapmans rather bent BDN, he’d had an accident in the 2nd test session of the day after aqua planning down the straight then bouncing off the Armco, battering both front and rear ends.
Saturday morning and off to scruitineering as usual, which was running behind as usual, returning back to camp after an hour as usual, luckily with no issues as we wouldn’t have had time to sort anything anyway. AMG TV then came over and filmed a quick interview as they were featuring RGB in the TV coverage on Motors TV the following week. I garbled some words out and then hoped it would be left on the cutting room floor, but unfortunately it was not:-
I’d never driven the 300 before, so the 15 minute pratice session would allow me to do 6 or 7 laps in which to learn the circuit and record a grid position. Due to this I wasn’t too hopeful on getting a good time or grid position, but there were a lot of people in the same situation, especially due to the poor conditions on the Friday. With 35 entrants, another great entry for the RGB grid, there were plenty of cars out on track, but its also a very long circuit with plenty of room so I had a pretty clear run, and other than trying to drive Coram for a couple of laps like it was before the circuit changes and having a rather large spin, it went pretty well. I felt there was plenty of time still to get out of the circuit but it was great fun and the new infield section was challenging and I could see plenty of opportunities for over taking. When the result came out I was surprised and delighted to have qualified 1st in class for both races and 10th on the grid. For the first time there was a real divide between classes, the top 9 were all Class R’s, followed by 9 Class F’s. Although this is showing up the speed differentials on the faster circuits, it meant that the class F’ers should be able to concentrate on the class F race rather than being mixed in with the R’s.
Race 1 started OK, I got a decent start, didn’t bog down and went off in the pack, Andy Hileys car was on my inside and I could have probably kept my toe in carried around the outside of him into the first corner, but the risk wasn’t worth it it so I backed out and tucked behind him and was slowed by the braking pack into the Montreal, this allowed Steve Bell to drive round the outside who if you look carefully at the video gives me a wave as he goes past on the way to Palmer corner ;-) I tucked in behind steve and then chased him down for the next couple of laps working out where we were quicker/slower than each other. I got level with him on the outside coming into Riches, we both left room for each other around the corner and I made it first and took the lead. I managed to pull out a small gap and then the rest of the gaggle of F’s (Paul R, Nick Donaldson, Colin Spicer and Andy Grant) caught up and whilst they fought it out I managed to pull away a little more and concentrated I just maintaining the gap rather than blistering pace. I lead the race up until Riches on the last lap, Paul R had put some storming laps in and coming up the start finish straight my mirrors we full of him, I decided (badly) to take the inside line coming into Riches, but out braked myself and Paul came flying past. This ruined my corner and exit speed from Riches and Paul pulled a good gap. Ontop of this it turns out he had a flyer of a last lap and set the lap record to which I had no answer and he grabbed the wi!!! Although I had lead for the majority of the race, Paul thoroughly deserved the win and I wasn’t disappointed in the 2nd at all.
In race 2 I had a cracking start and i think I was up to 6th overall by the time we came into Montreal and had a 3 class R cars between me and the next class F. I didn’t put any resistance up as Hiley and Dave Wale came past, but I still Had Tim H between me and the next class F car, something I wanted to maintain without slowing me down. Tims car is affectionately placed in its own class, class B, standing for Bisexual as it looks like an F’er but is infact an R. It is nearer the class F pace rather than the R (I think there was 3 seconds difference between him (9th) and 8th on the the grid) so I was hoping to use him as a buffer. For a few laps we had a great time swapping places, running side by side and letting each other have the track space rather than balls out defending, which meant the lap times stayed up. Unfortunately after I got passed Tim, his driveshaft popped and he had to pull off. This left the road clear for Steve to up the Greenway hunt, again on the last lap I could see lots of him in the mirror and made a royal cockup of Oggies, locking up and missing the apex, with Steve almost going up my chuff (he did say afterwards he’d considered trying stick his nose up the inside at this point but would have most likely result in a collision so decided not to). I managed to hold on for the rest of the lap and claimed the victory, which I was rather chuffed with as can be seen in the video.
On the negative side, the most of the other of the Rabid gang had a pretty awful weekend. Bob had gone well in practice, but on the 2nd lap of the first race his throttle jammed open as he came into Coram and he ran straight on into the tyre wall, crunching both nearside corners and side pod, Dave’s run of random problems continued, in practice his battery died and he lost all power, race 1 he had to retire with the car going into limp mode due to some electrical failure, he then had a small fire in the wiring loom whilst repairing the electrical issue and in race 2, although he did finish the water was boiling up (turns out the water pump had packed in and whilst sorting this out discovered the gears on the end of the crank to clutch were damage).And to round it up Marcs LMP poo’d its rear CV joints in race 1 as the driveshafts were too short, meaning no race 2.
Photos from dan
Another detour caused by fun on the A14 meant we weren't setup and eating pizza until 10pm. We set up camp with the usual rabid crew, most of which had been testing that day and reported of a very damp day! Surprisingly Dave's car was still in 1 piece, bobs bdn was all OK even after numerous off roading trips, but Marc nordons MNR LMP was going through a rather comprehensive rear end rebuild after twisting both rear drive shafts after its first trip out on track. Another sad sight was Colin Chapmans rather bent BDN, he’d had an accident in the 2nd test session of the day after aqua planning down the straight then bouncing off the Armco, battering both front and rear ends.
Saturday morning and off to scruitineering as usual, which was running behind as usual, returning back to camp after an hour as usual, luckily with no issues as we wouldn’t have had time to sort anything anyway. AMG TV then came over and filmed a quick interview as they were featuring RGB in the TV coverage on Motors TV the following week. I garbled some words out and then hoped it would be left on the cutting room floor, but unfortunately it was not:-
I’d never driven the 300 before, so the 15 minute pratice session would allow me to do 6 or 7 laps in which to learn the circuit and record a grid position. Due to this I wasn’t too hopeful on getting a good time or grid position, but there were a lot of people in the same situation, especially due to the poor conditions on the Friday. With 35 entrants, another great entry for the RGB grid, there were plenty of cars out on track, but its also a very long circuit with plenty of room so I had a pretty clear run, and other than trying to drive Coram for a couple of laps like it was before the circuit changes and having a rather large spin, it went pretty well. I felt there was plenty of time still to get out of the circuit but it was great fun and the new infield section was challenging and I could see plenty of opportunities for over taking. When the result came out I was surprised and delighted to have qualified 1st in class for both races and 10th on the grid. For the first time there was a real divide between classes, the top 9 were all Class R’s, followed by 9 Class F’s. Although this is showing up the speed differentials on the faster circuits, it meant that the class F’ers should be able to concentrate on the class F race rather than being mixed in with the R’s.
Race 1 started OK, I got a decent start, didn’t bog down and went off in the pack, Andy Hileys car was on my inside and I could have probably kept my toe in carried around the outside of him into the first corner, but the risk wasn’t worth it it so I backed out and tucked behind him and was slowed by the braking pack into the Montreal, this allowed Steve Bell to drive round the outside who if you look carefully at the video gives me a wave as he goes past on the way to Palmer corner ;-) I tucked in behind steve and then chased him down for the next couple of laps working out where we were quicker/slower than each other. I got level with him on the outside coming into Riches, we both left room for each other around the corner and I made it first and took the lead. I managed to pull out a small gap and then the rest of the gaggle of F’s (Paul R, Nick Donaldson, Colin Spicer and Andy Grant) caught up and whilst they fought it out I managed to pull away a little more and concentrated I just maintaining the gap rather than blistering pace. I lead the race up until Riches on the last lap, Paul R had put some storming laps in and coming up the start finish straight my mirrors we full of him, I decided (badly) to take the inside line coming into Riches, but out braked myself and Paul came flying past. This ruined my corner and exit speed from Riches and Paul pulled a good gap. Ontop of this it turns out he had a flyer of a last lap and set the lap record to which I had no answer and he grabbed the wi!!! Although I had lead for the majority of the race, Paul thoroughly deserved the win and I wasn’t disappointed in the 2nd at all.
In race 2 I had a cracking start and i think I was up to 6th overall by the time we came into Montreal and had a 3 class R cars between me and the next class F. I didn’t put any resistance up as Hiley and Dave Wale came past, but I still Had Tim H between me and the next class F car, something I wanted to maintain without slowing me down. Tims car is affectionately placed in its own class, class B, standing for Bisexual as it looks like an F’er but is infact an R. It is nearer the class F pace rather than the R (I think there was 3 seconds difference between him (9th) and 8th on the the grid) so I was hoping to use him as a buffer. For a few laps we had a great time swapping places, running side by side and letting each other have the track space rather than balls out defending, which meant the lap times stayed up. Unfortunately after I got passed Tim, his driveshaft popped and he had to pull off. This left the road clear for Steve to up the Greenway hunt, again on the last lap I could see lots of him in the mirror and made a royal cockup of Oggies, locking up and missing the apex, with Steve almost going up my chuff (he did say afterwards he’d considered trying stick his nose up the inside at this point but would have most likely result in a collision so decided not to). I managed to hold on for the rest of the lap and claimed the victory, which I was rather chuffed with as can be seen in the video.
On the negative side, the most of the other of the Rabid gang had a pretty awful weekend. Bob had gone well in practice, but on the 2nd lap of the first race his throttle jammed open as he came into Coram and he ran straight on into the tyre wall, crunching both nearside corners and side pod, Dave’s run of random problems continued, in practice his battery died and he lost all power, race 1 he had to retire with the car going into limp mode due to some electrical failure, he then had a small fire in the wiring loom whilst repairing the electrical issue and in race 2, although he did finish the water was boiling up (turns out the water pump had packed in and whilst sorting this out discovered the gears on the end of the crank to clutch were damage).And to round it up Marcs LMP poo’d its rear CV joints in race 1 as the driveshafts were too short, meaning no race 2.
Photos from dan
Monday 20 May 2013
Brands Hatch 27th April 2013
To say i was a little excited about the delayed season opener wouldn't quite do it justice. Since Donington I (well we, me, dad Will and Dan) have been counting down the seconds. We were all packed up and ready to go by the middle of the week, but couldn't go testing friday as we had to wait for Will to finish school. He was on strict orders to run home so we could be on the road by 4pm, which he did and we were, but 45mins down the road we received a phone call from my irate mother as the central heating had packed in, 1.5hrs later we were back at the same spot and way behind schedule. Arriving in the paddock just before 9pm, we rolled up to the Rabid camp, where Bob and Dave had saved us a huge amount of space the night before. A quick setup, followed by lighting up the new BBQ with pizza stone to feed the crew and a couple of beers. and it was then time to start helping Dave setup the geo on his MNR after he had removed the front corner during testing. Wheel alignment at midnight is not the best start to the season, but spose it sums up the spirt of the RGB paddock and the weekends wouldn't be complete without this sort of thing. Although i think Dave could have done without this bit of "RGB lifestyle".................
Saturday was an early start, due to the large entry, class F and R had been split into their own races and class F were out early in the day. Having 40 odd entries for RGB is fantastic, and the class F's getting their own race can only be a good thing for RGB, possibly something we will manage to get more and more of if grids stay healthy, hopefully attracting more people to come and join us. It was also exciting the F'ers would have a pole start and podium finish, something not possible with the new wave of class R cars dominating the front end of the grid. Quali went well, the car felt really good and i had a good clear run, which was probably due to me being first in the queue and there being 16 cars on track. The times came in and the first 3 rows were all in a few tenths of each other so it was lining up to be a close fought race. I was 2nd for both races, 0.06 seconds behind Paul Rickers, so a front row start for the first time ever, very exciting!!
I had a mediocre start, as did Paul next to me and i managed to nose a head of him getting into paddock, but i was being a little tentative and wanted to ensure i didnt have a collision or a spin with cold tires, at which Colin Spicer (starting on the 2nd row) who had a flier came steaming through on the outside to take the lead. Coming out of Clearways i got far better drive than Colin and went up his inside. Over the next few laps i managed to pull out a decent lead, but due to Steve Bells diff lunching itself and being stranded in the middle of druids the race was red flagged. The restart didn't go well (i must sort that clutch lever out!!) and i was 3rd by the time we got into paddock. A couple of laps in i got past Paul up the inside after another decent exit from clearways, and then the following lap did the same on Andy Grant (in Al Boultons old purple peril) via the outside line at Paddock. I saw Paul get past Andy the following lap and when the last lap board came out he was right behind me. I panicked and drove the last lap very defensively, and did close the door on Paul coming down the straight after Graham Hill, but managed to hold on to the finish line to claim my first ever class win and overall race win!! As you can see from the footage i was rather pleased and almost put the car into the pit wall whilst punching the air!! We were called into park ferme so had to walk down to the podium, but by the time we had got there the next race and started so missed out on the interview and standing on the podium, which was a bit of a disappointment, but nothing was going to take the smile off my face after the win!
Saturday was an early start, due to the large entry, class F and R had been split into their own races and class F were out early in the day. Having 40 odd entries for RGB is fantastic, and the class F's getting their own race can only be a good thing for RGB, possibly something we will manage to get more and more of if grids stay healthy, hopefully attracting more people to come and join us. It was also exciting the F'ers would have a pole start and podium finish, something not possible with the new wave of class R cars dominating the front end of the grid. Quali went well, the car felt really good and i had a good clear run, which was probably due to me being first in the queue and there being 16 cars on track. The times came in and the first 3 rows were all in a few tenths of each other so it was lining up to be a close fought race. I was 2nd for both races, 0.06 seconds behind Paul Rickers, so a front row start for the first time ever, very exciting!!
I had a mediocre start, as did Paul next to me and i managed to nose a head of him getting into paddock, but i was being a little tentative and wanted to ensure i didnt have a collision or a spin with cold tires, at which Colin Spicer (starting on the 2nd row) who had a flier came steaming through on the outside to take the lead. Coming out of Clearways i got far better drive than Colin and went up his inside. Over the next few laps i managed to pull out a decent lead, but due to Steve Bells diff lunching itself and being stranded in the middle of druids the race was red flagged. The restart didn't go well (i must sort that clutch lever out!!) and i was 3rd by the time we got into paddock. A couple of laps in i got past Paul up the inside after another decent exit from clearways, and then the following lap did the same on Andy Grant (in Al Boultons old purple peril) via the outside line at Paddock. I saw Paul get past Andy the following lap and when the last lap board came out he was right behind me. I panicked and drove the last lap very defensively, and did close the door on Paul coming down the straight after Graham Hill, but managed to hold on to the finish line to claim my first ever class win and overall race win!! As you can see from the footage i was rather pleased and almost put the car into the pit wall whilst punching the air!! We were called into park ferme so had to walk down to the podium, but by the time we had got there the next race and started so missed out on the interview and standing on the podium, which was a bit of a disappointment, but nothing was going to take the smile off my face after the win!
Mid afternoon, minutes before the class R race the heavens opened, and i was very glad i wasn't on that grid. The conditions looked horrendous, something the drivers confirmed when they returned from their midday wash!! Never the less it was a good race to watch, not because of the numerous spins, but some close racing and outstanding drives by numerous drivers,most notably Matt H winning his first race in impressive style, Scott M first outing in his new car and getting on the podium and RGB'er newbie Duncan Horlor steering his rebuilt Spire GTR to an excellent finish after starting 15th! Well done all, a great showcase for the RGB grid!
Race 2 came and the circuit was still wet, but the standing water had cleared and very little spray. I had a decent start and got past Paul as we entered paddock, i then managed to pull out a good lead over the next few laps (i couldn't see any cars in my mirror by the time i entered paddock hill, so decided to back off and just manage the gap until the chequed flag to claim the win. So that was my 2nd ever win and made it a double winning weekend, bloody fantastic!!!
Now drinking and eating is all part of the race weekend, but after such a fantastic day it got a little bit silly. Not everyone had had such a good day, i.e Mr Watson, but he is very good at eating (hey big man) and drinking, so he forgot about his troubles and joined in with the festivities. The evening was great fun, Bob had cooked up his special pulled pork, Dave had bought gallons of red wine, Steve M bought a bottle of Jack D and i had bought our old favourites Jagermeister and tins of red bull. Visitors passed in and out of the camp and by 2.30am there were many empty bottles and the odd body littered around the camp at which point the last few capable of walking staggered off to bed.
We stayed around to watch the 2nd class R race, again very entertaining with a fantastic 3 car battle upfront, with John C recording his first win in the new Spire, Al B impressing in his first outing in his newly acquired Spire and Matt H coming in 3rd with a lap record.
So the weekend had everything, and although i have had many many brilliant race weekends this tops them all!!!! A big thanks goes out to Dad for the 100's of hours he has put into developing and repairing the old GM1 over the last few years, i wouldn't have got this far without his support, and definitely missed a few races along the way without his paddock angle grinding skills!!! And another big thankyou to Dan for his faithful support, especially through some of the darker weekends, and for feeding us and keeping the camp in a habitable state! Fingers crossed some more fantastic weekends are ahead.......
Roll on Snetterton!!!!
Thursday 25 April 2013
Stoneleigh pre show prep
As the bodywork won't be ready for the show, the next best thing is some large art work, so after a friends hard work we have a blinged up MNR GM3
Monday 22 April 2013
Bus clothing
The bus has also had a bit of a makeover, and is now wearing its full new Autotech race livery
Pre mould making photos
The body is off to the mould shop in he next few days so i thought we'd get a few photos of it out doors before it goes. The daylight has shown a few areas that need slight attention before it goes, but overall its looking pretty damn fine!!! You'll notice at the rear the tunnel like shape exiting the rear panel, this will give an option to create a venturi style tunnel at rear if required, but in RGB this isn't permitted so will be full enclosed by the floor and just a visual feature.
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