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8 Apr 2001, 23:06 (Ref:78765) | #26 | ||
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Thruxton!? No bloody chance It's waaaay too fast for the Mightys. We do visit Combe though, on the 7th of May..
Excellent! Woohoo - Cadwell is a spot-on circuit! It's got straight bits, tight corners, hairpins, a few wiggly bits, it's wide in some places, and very narrow in others (so narrow, you could practically lie down with your arms spread and touch both sides). All you could want from a circuit. I love it - but it was a damn scary place at first. Jeezus. And yes, unfortunately, we had a bit of a 'fuel delivery' problem - but I'll go more into that in my race report, which will be posted on my www.fullthrottle.co.uk site (sorry about the URL) Congrats to Andy Roberts! Well done for challenging for the lead in the Formula Hondas. It looked pretty spectacular , a very creditable second place.. Thanks to Craig and Sparky (hope you got home alright bloke!) for coming along to cheer me along. I didn't finish, but I had a great time, and the rest of the Mini people are such nice people. Next stop - Oulton Park, so a few of you have no excuses because it's on your doorsteps That's on the 28th April.. We'll be back at the scenic Cadwell Park track on the 1st of July this year for a double header - don't miss it! I will be racing again on the 21st April at Oulton, the weekend before the Mini race. This time i'll be running the Maestro in the 750mc Hot Hatch championship. That should be quite scary, considering i've never driven te Maestro, and I've never driven around Oulton either |
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Cheers Chris. I watched some of your mini race but as I was out in the very next race I had to get down to the assemly area pretty smartish. Bad luck witb the DNF but you were going pretty well before that. The minis look wicked fun to race!
I had a pretty good weekend actually. Despite bending the car on Saturday after the truck had a blowout on the way up we still managed to qualify 2nd on the grid. I got the lead of the start and led the first 4 laps only for it to pop out of sixth on lap 5 meaning I lost a lot of speed on the back straight and lost the lead. Still I managed to finish a very happy second and was even more please when I was told afterwards that I had set the lap record for Formula Honda on my last lap! Pretty pleased with that Think were both at Cadwell again in July Chris so hopefully our races will be a bit more spread out so I cna watch your whole race this time. Wicked fun though AndyR www.ar-racing.co.uk |
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9 Apr 2001, 17:42 (Ref:78989) | #28 | ||
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Wa-hey!! Cadwell is NUTS!! What a teeny tiny circuit - the karts looked too wide! Definately a track you need to be able to drive in your sleep...
I had a bloomin' marvellous time. Took me hours to get home, though. With loads of standing water after Kings Lynn and single lane roads, I was OK until I got caught behind a caravan procession!! Not a dual carriageway in sight... And for Chris to have made all the efort that he did learning the circuit on Saturday, and qualifying higher than he did at Donington, only to have our little 'mechanical defeat' was a blow to say the least. Great atmosphere though. Seriously thought Chris had come a cropper on Saturday afternoon - there are far too many 'red Mini with white roof' combinations out there!! Sadly, I won't be able to make the April 28th at Oulton meeting, but I'll definately be at Castle Combe on the 6th/7th of May. Great to meet you Andy. Excellent result too. Well done on the fastest lap! See you in July! (Cadwell? We must be mad!) |
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9 Apr 2001, 19:09 (Ref:79024) | #29 | ||
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Excellent news on the lap record Andy!
On the subject of drives home, we managed to get to Lincoln before I realised that the trailer handbrake was on! And after we got on the A1, Mr. Frosty (our G reg Cavalier that tows the Mini) decided he didn't need two of his wheel nuts on the nearside rear, and spat them out. The other two loosened on the way home, and we nearly had a Reliant situation! Definately a wierd weekend. Must do it again soon... July you say? |
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9 Apr 2001, 19:20 (Ref:79025) | #30 | ||
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Grr. Doublepost..
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11 Apr 2001, 22:50 (Ref:79679) | #31 | ||
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Incidentally, I've posted a race report on my site.. www.fullthrottle.co.uk (sorry)
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12 Apr 2001, 02:34 (Ref:79719) | #32 | ||
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Argghh!! It's the Cadwell Curse, I tells ya...!!
Hope Mr Frosty's OK... Great report Chris! Well written, full of humour and not the least bit of resentment! I know what I'd have said: "Bloomin' pit crew... mumble.. mumble..! Call yerself a mechanic? Grr.. mumble.. mumble..!" Ahh, to be sure, Sir, you're a Gent, so ya are... You sure you really want me there at Oulton? Oh. One more thing... |
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12 Apr 2001, 22:37 (Ref:79939) | #33 | ||
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Heh I'm just glad I'm not racing tomorrow - Friday the 13th and all that.. The Mini 7s are though...
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20 Apr 2001, 21:10 (Ref:82818) | #34 | ||
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Some piccies for Andy R:
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20 Apr 2001, 21:11 (Ref:82819) | #35 | ||
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20 Apr 2001, 21:13 (Ref:82822) | #36 | ||
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Lets try that again....
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22 Apr 2001, 19:46 (Ref:83700) | #37 | ||
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Cheers mate! Love the pictures.
When are your racing next? Let me know if your at the same meetings as I'm at and I'll come cheer you on if our races don't class like they did at Cadwell! Keep up the excellent race reports btw |
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23 Apr 2001, 23:07 (Ref:84190) | #38 | ||
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Cheers Andy!
Looks like we won't be at the same track together again in 2001 until Brands on the 18/19th August - but we only have 1 race over those two days, so it all should be nicely spread out |
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