A much more normal "Clubbie"
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pauln1964Saturday was the Historic Sports Car Club Finals Meeting. Their last of the year so a good turn-out of nice people and gorgeous machines for one last fling before the winter break. In some cases the flinging was taken a bit literally and the winter will be spent on repairs - at least there'll be plenty of time to get things ready before the next meeting.
I found myself posted to Becketts Outside, which is one of two points on the National Circuit I've not done before. The other is Becketts Inside. On the National, Becketts becomes a right-handed hairpin taking the cars onto the Wellington Straight and back down towards the Brooklands/Luffield Complex. There's still a fair bit of speed carried through there by the best. It was a pleasant day. Good company on post and nine 15 minute sessions both morning (qualifying practice) and afternoon (racing). All but one of the races were entertaining too.
There's a couple more meetings for me before the end of season. We have next weekend off to go to Steph and Matt's wedding. After that it's "The Birkett", a 6-hour relay race which is tremendous fun. Then the first weekend in November is the Walter Hayes Trophy - two days of Formula Ford mayhem. By then I'll have done 34 days this year, two of them at Mallory the rest at Silverstone. 31 of them (30 if you don't count the Friday evening at Britcar the other week, which I probably shouldn't) as an Incident Marshal (3 as flag). The cut-off to qualify for the GP is usually around 15/16 in the duty you apply for. I think I'm over that, somehow.
I found myself posted to Becketts Outside, which is one of two points on the National Circuit I've not done before. The other is Becketts Inside. On the National, Becketts becomes a right-handed hairpin taking the cars onto the Wellington Straight and back down towards the Brooklands/Luffield Complex. There's still a fair bit of speed carried through there by the best. It was a pleasant day. Good company on post and nine 15 minute sessions both morning (qualifying practice) and afternoon (racing). All but one of the races were entertaining too.
There's a couple more meetings for me before the end of season. We have next weekend off to go to Steph and Matt's wedding. After that it's "The Birkett", a 6-hour relay race which is tremendous fun. Then the first weekend in November is the Walter Hayes Trophy - two days of Formula Ford mayhem. By then I'll have done 34 days this year, two of them at Mallory the rest at Silverstone. 31 of them (30 if you don't count the Friday evening at Britcar the other week, which I probably shouldn't) as an Incident Marshal (3 as flag). The cut-off to qualify for the GP is usually around 15/16 in the duty you apply for. I think I'm over that, somehow.
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Date: 2010-10-11 07:15 pm (UTC)...wait that's kinda cool I might start doing that...
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Date: 2010-10-11 08:19 pm (UTC)Call me what you like, btw. Luap, Laup and Pula are my usual typos.
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Date: 2010-10-12 01:57 am (UTC)Sounds good, hope you make it there.