Northern Saloons and Sportscars

[ChrisG99]

Anyone wishing to race at Oulton Park on Saturday 30th July in a non championship race meeting? Shakedown for our championship event on the 13th August?
Northern Saloons and other Saloons and Sports Cars are being offered one 30minute qualifying and four 30 minute races all for the cost of £250, how cheap is that? Apparently Saker booked track time but non of the Belgians are comming over. There will probably be some British ones out but they are trying to fill the grids.
For further details contact the Gibson household by the usual means or if you just want to enter contact BRSCC Head Office 01732783142.
This is a genuine one off offer probably never to be repeated that will probably fill up quickly at price quoted!

[simon.g]

Originally Posted by the youth

myself and jim semple are up against it to get our cars ready for next weekend
Mine currently has no cylinder head as the head gasket blew, the parts arrived today and i pick the skimmed head up tommorrow so it should be running later this weekend all been well

steve

does this mean me and pete might have a damage free weekend for a change??

[Westysprinter]

Originally Posted by sgeecars

does this mean me and pete might have a damage free weekend for a change??

Bloody ell kettle pot black LOL

[the youth]

Originally Posted by sgeecars

does this mean me and pete might have a damage free weekend for a change??

lol si

Im sure in one of your videos I spotted you run into the back of pete lol

and in answer to your question yes if you get out of the way of an out of control taxi lol

see ya at the weekend m8

steve

[Peter Dixon]

Originally Posted by the youth

lol si

Im sure in one of your videos I spotted you run into the back of pete lol

and in answer to your question yes if you get out of the way of an out of control taxi lol

see ya at the weekend m8

steve

He claims I reversed into him, the swine!

[Steve Gibson]

Nothing like a bit of "behind the bike sheds" squabbling.

[Steve Gibson]

Oulton park filling up fast only 5 more grid slots left and then it's the reserve list, sadly no room on the timetable for a split grid.
Here is the list of who have entered so far.

Class A1
8 David Botterill
35 Peter Cook
54 Andrew Morrison
69 Marcus Fothergill
Class A2
40 Neil Claxton
50 Bill Addison
90 Jeff Wilson
Class B
21 Ken Hall
42 David Hewitson
44 Mike Cutt
46 Ian Humpish
49 Mike Williamson
Class C
15 David Cox
96 Richard Ralston
Class D
1 Paul Moss
11 Martin Addison
16 Mick Starkey
17 Simon Gibson
34 Michael Stanley
53 Jason South
55 Daniel Mckay
67 Peter Dixon
Class E
22 Simon Mayne
24 Alan McPherson
43 Alexander Rae
51 Martyn Lightfoot
77 Mark Leybourne
92 Kyle Murchie
Class H
18 Brian Morris

[Westysprinter]

Originally Posted by ChrisG99

Anyone wishing to race at Oulton Park on Saturday 30th July in a non championship race meeting? Shakedown for our championship event on the 13th August?
Northern Saloons and other Saloons and Sports Cars are being offered one 30minute qualifying and four 30 minute races all for the cost of £250, how cheap is that? Apparently Saker booked track time but non of the Belgians are comming over. There will probably be some British ones out but they are trying to fill the grids.
For further details contact the Gibson household by the usual means or if you just want to enter contact BRSCC Head Office 01732783142.
This is a genuine one off offer probably never to be repeated that will probably fill up quickly at price quoted!

Bargain of the year,as a 102DB trackday on the wed is £239 and that means taking a day off work. Mmm Dear Mr Bank manager...

[Jim S]

Originally Posted by the youth

myself and jim semple are up against it to get our cars ready for next weekend
Mine currently has no cylinder head as the head gasket blew, the parts arrived today and i pick the skimmed head up tommorrow so it should be running later this weekend all been well

Jims car... well here goes.. it has no engine or gearbox!
the head gasket blew on that at cadwell like mine (bloody cosworths!) and the engine is out to fix that (hopefully back in later today)also at cadwell his gearbox failed that is due to be delivered to mine on wednesday next week and fitted on friday......wish us luck!!

steve

Well things are still a bit tight for me making it, the engine is back in and running and the box is due for completion by Elite tomorrow (Wed) but I'm in Aberdeen working till late on Thursday so Friday looks like it will be a busy day, just hope I don't generate any problems, if so Steve will be getting a panic call.

Jim

[Westysprinter]

Originally Posted by Jim S

Well things are still a bit tight for me making it, the engine is back in and running and the box is due for completion by Elite tomorrow (Wed) but I'm in Aberdeen working till late on Thursday so Friday looks like it will be a busy day, just hope I don't generate any problems, if so Steve will be getting a panic call.

Jim

You'll be there Jim - bring it in bits, plenty of helpers at the circuit

[ChrisG99]

There is now an entry form on the DDMC web site for 30th July. Entries are now going quickly so if you wish to have five 30 minute sessions for £250 get your entry into the BRSCC quickly. http://www.darlington-motor-club.org.uk

[the youth]

My car is ready, got the engine running yesterday so hopefully the missfire is cured.
Jims not going to make it tho, elite tranmissions have made a mess of repairing there own design fault and after 6 weeks still can't give him a working gearbox! we all thought quaifes customer service was ****e!!

steve

[Jim S]

As Steve has said my car won't be ready as one of the things that got damaged when the box let go at Cadwell was 2nd gear and for some reason "Elite" have managed twice to get the gear wrong when machining a new one..!..!, to say that I'm just a bit disappointed is an understatement to say the least.

I will be there at the weekend to make sure Steve keeps calm

Jim

[ChrisG99]

A timetable for the 13th August was ommitted from the posted Final Instructions.
A provisional timetable is now available on the Darlington site: www.darlington-motor-club.org.uk
A quick time check for NSSCC is as follows:

Qualifying @ 0830, Race 1 @ 1200 and race 2 @ 1620.

[skeggy]

Just to expand on Chris's post.

The web page with the full time table is:

http://www.darlington-motor-club.org...29&source=home

Then click on Timetable to get the pdf.

Issue 1 ( so check for updates!) times:

SIgn on: 7.30
Scrut: 7.30 - 8.30
Q: 8.30
R 1: 12.00
R 2: 16.20

[Westysprinter]

I havent received any finals

[diz]

Originally Posted by Westysprinter

I havent received any finals

BRSCC just send tickets and a timetable by post.
They Email Finals and Entry List, plus the timetable (again) on a Wednesday - today - to all entrants.

This is also on their website
http://brscc.co.uk/race-meetings/det...rn-centre.html

[Westysprinter]

great circuit, shame about the carnage. I was doing well until No3 Con Rod popped out to say hello

[skeggy]

Just reviewing/editing our videos and thought I'd ask your opinions on the safety car in race two.

In race one Pete Dixon's Civic looks to me to be in a more dangerous place than Alex Rae's Ginetta does in race two.

What do you think?

[Matthews Dad]

Originally Posted by skeggy

Just reviewing/editing our videos and thought I'd ask your opinions on the safety car in race two.

In race one Pete Dixon's Civic looks to me to be in a more dangerous place than Alex Rae's Ginetta does in race two.

What do you think?

From a marshals perspective, ( I was at Island / Foulstons so could see the ginetta and have seen the in car of the civic)

The Civic in the Gravel at cascades was a lot further into the gravel and was a fair way down the hill from the beginning of the gravel so was unlikely to be collected where the ginetta ended up was near the edge of the gravel and near to the line of fire had anyone lost it going into Shell so IMHO the safety car was justified

[Dave Brand]

Originally Posted by skeggy

Just reviewing/editing our videos and thought I'd ask your opinions on the safety car in race two.

I was the Post Chief at Shell, so it was me who requested the Safety Car!

I was not happy with the position of the car, particularly so early on in a very close, competitive race. All it needed was an overtaking move (& there were plenty going on!) to go slightly wrong, someone to lose it under braking or get slightly wide on the entry & run off the circuit & there's a very real chance that it would have been hit. My incident team did try to push it out, but were unable to do so, so we needed a recovery vehicle; unfortunately the brake problem (?) which out it into the gravel trap in the first place made the recovery much more difficult than anticipated, which is why it took so long.

Maybe we could have got away with leaving the car there, maybe we couldn't. My assessment of the situation was that it was too great a risk to take; that opinion was backed by the Clerks, who have the benefit of cameras looking at Shell from a different viewpoint.

[flying muppet]

Originally Posted by skeggy

Just reviewing/editing our videos and thought I'd ask your opinions on the safety car in race two.

I was Post Chief at Cascades, where the Civic had ended up in the gravel.

The car was a good distance into the gravel trap, and so my judgement was that it was in a relatively safe place and I was happy for the car to remain there for the race - probably looks different from an in car camera because of the way the track is slightly banked and the gravel trap falls away from the edge of the circuit.

Had it been a 3 hour race my decision might have been different, but to effectively stabilise half of a 15 minute race just to move that car would have been futile.

As above, the Clerks would have seen the situation on CCTV and were happy.

Perhaps you should come and join us and have ago at judging these situations yourself???

[Westysprinter]

Im a post chief (28 years expereince!) and was a competitor in the race, I agree that Petes accident the cars were safe, unfortunately I didnt make it to the second race
I'm pretty sure the question wasnt a criticism at the marshaling

[flying muppet]

Originally Posted by Westysprinter

I'm pretty sure the question wasnt a criticism at the marshaling

That's alright then!

[Dave Brand]

Originally Posted by Westysprinter

I'm pretty sure the question wasnt a criticism at the marshaling

I didn't take it as a criticism!