Waffle before the race at Mallory Park 4th April 2010

After being very well behaved at the wedding and looking after the kids all night and putting them to bed, i managed to sneak in 1.5 hours heavy drinking . Unfortunately the bar shut soon after i started so had to go mine sweeping for half drank bottles of wine and finally half drunk glasses of wine!! I was ordered to bed at 1am and was very impressed that when i awoke at 8am pm saturday morning i had given myself a hangover in such a short period! So after a nice breakfast and a walk around Bakewell, William and I set off in the bus for the main event of the weekend, Mallory Park (Family members please note that was a joke)!

We arrived at Mallory before the gates opened to allow us into the paddock, this was all planned though so we could queue up and grab one of the few 240volt hook ups. OK the bus doesn't have 240 volts (yet), but as the forecast was for a cold night i wanted to plug my portable electric heater in (you can see it hiding behind the one fold out chair). I hadn't done any work on the bus other than bolt 2 of the seats in which i intended to use as the base for the fold out sofas, and acquired some cushions (for the sofas) to sleep. Ok its not a luxury motorhome like a lot of the others have, but to me its a 5 star hotel compared to the tent!!!!

After a bit of faffing and chatting a group off us went out for a bite to eat and a couple of drinks at a local pub,  The Windmill Inn, which was very nice. A big thanks to Dan for ferrying us all about (5 runs between the pub and Mallory in total)  in his big Lexus!! Everyone disappeared off to bed  so William and I settled down in the bus and quickly fell asleep. I was woken about 2 hours later sweating my ****** off, i had gone equipped with 2 sleeping bags and PJ's as i would have done in the tent, but with the heating and distinct lack of only nylon sheeting protecting us from the torrential rain i felt like i was in an oven! After ditching some layers i settled down again, and although woke a few time due to the rain, I probably had my best nights sleep at a circuit!!! Bus 1 - Tent 0!! When i finally surfaced for a shower, the rain had stopped, and we all had our fingers crossed for a dry day!!