2023 Race Dates

[Peter Mallett]

Which Silverstone, the HSCC Finals or MRL?

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

I presume you will be coming??

Regrettably, if this weather persists I might have to give Croix a miss this weekend - it is just too hot for me.

Croix sits in a bowl & simply sokes up the sun & there is very little shade. With the temperature currently in the low 30's it is just too much.

[Gerard C]

I understand, John. We can't breathe either here, even in the forests near Paris. You've to wait till 2 AM to have an acceptable outside temp. Stay safe.

[drbob]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Which Silverstone, the HSCC Finals or MRL?

HSCC Peter

[Peter Mallett]

Understood. Thanks.

[HRSTR5]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Great news. I don't know Jerez but you've a nice set of great tracks scheduled.

I really enjoyed Jerez when we were there with the FJs 10 years ago. Pretty hot of course, and quite an abrasive surface on tyres if i remember correctly. Like so many tracks, it turns out to be bit more undulating than it looks on tv.

Delta and I ran a lap on foot one evening .... which i won after a sprint finish ... that wouldn't happen now!

I love southern Spain anyway, spent a year down there as a Student at Cordoba University ... thing is the students went on strike about 2 months in, the faculty closed for the rest of the year ... so I had a fabulous but alternative, non-academic, education for the rest of my time!

[Mike Harte]

A bit like one of my sons; he was supposed to spend a year in a Tokyo university, but he failed to attend one lecture and not many classes either. Instead, he spent his time working for the Japanese company that he worked for in London on weekends and holidays. Plus a lot of time with his Japanese girlfriend who later became his wife.

When he returned to Durham uni, they debated whether he should be sent down because of his Tokyo absences, but didn't. That didn't stop his ways, though; he spent the year, his last of the course, mostly in bed with a British female fellow student attending very few classes and lectures. In fact, according to his tutor who I spoke to on graduation day, on the day of his oral (Japanese) exam, he failed to turn up at the appointed time because he and the girl spent most of the day in bed and he eventually arrived just as the tutor had he coat on and was going home for the day. Somehow he managed to convince her, in Japanese, to be lenient and conduct the exam.

I was amazed that he ended up with a first, especially as his twin brother worked really hard to get his 1st in Economics at Bath. And now that son doesn't use any knowledge gained in uni, whilst his brother is probably going to spend the rest of his career in Japan.