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19 Aug 2021, 12:28 (Ref:4067719) | #1 | ||
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Oulton Gold Cup
Only a week away from the next big UK Historic meeting.
Any entries out yet? Who's going from Tenths merry bunch? |
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HSCC normally produce a full entry list about a week before the event, so any time now. I am entered in the Historic Road Sports race - hopefully with a rebuilt gearbox after it broke a main shaft at the BDC meeting a week or so back. |
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Hoping to be there on the Monday to spectate.
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I'm racing down at Brands GP circuit with CSCC on the Saturday, and heading over to Castle Combe to watch the Classic Alfa Challenge on the Monday, so will miss this. Blooming calendar's far too congested
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Just noticed the following on the HSCC Faceache page:
FUEL SUPPL Y AT OULTON PARK We have been advised that, due to on-going staff issues, Vital Equipment will NOT be at the Oulton Park Gold Cup. |
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May head there rather than OP is there are Classic Alfas at play ... |
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Details and timetable are on the Castle Combe Racing Club website. HRDC have three races. They make a great spectacle round Camp and Quarry. Should be a good day
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Cracking entries so far for most of the series but Dumlop Saloons field seems very thin? Have HSCC missed some of the list or is it due to the calendar
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I suspect that it's an accurate list. For a number of reasons (primarily, I think, the complexity and expense of the cars), the entries haven't been great for some time. Low-double figures is consistent with previous races.
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Our annual trip up north
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One day, assuming normality returns at some point, you should try Croft as well. The place is terrific and needs as much support as it is possible to generate.
Combine it with a vacation somewhere North of Morpeth and enjoy wonderful scenery, reasonable costs and some very empty and interesting roads. Head towards the coast (East) if you feel the need to mingle but always with space easy to find if you so desire. The beaches seem to stretch for miles and miles. Good for walking. Not sure about bathing. |
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21 Aug 2021, 06:24 (Ref:4068195) | #14 | ||
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The Croft Nostalgia Weekend is due to return next year...
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Great news but if the Silverstone Classic is on the weekend of 29th - 31st July, 2022 then the Croft Nostalgia meeting would need to be on the second weekend of August (rather than it's traditional first weekend date) to stand a chance of great grids.
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21 Aug 2021, 13:30 (Ref:4068312) | #17 | |
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There does seem to be a reluctance from some of the southern "elite" to come north of Donington. Croft and Oulton Park always get a thinner entry ands there has never been any success getting a decent historic meeting at Knockhill.
Living in the far north of England I am amazed at the lack of knowledge of geography of some of our southern friends. One fellow competitor in the GTS series suggested Anglesey was nearer to me. I had to point out that while for me it was 200 miles to Donington it was in fact 220 to Anglesey. It's the same with the various TV series of so called celebs touring the UK at the moment. It would seem most had never visited the Lake District let alone Scotland. What a blinkered world they live in. |
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Just been chatting to my mate who lives in Broughton in Furness, who is still battling to get his Alfa Junior Z out on track consistently, and we were discussing my forthcoming marathon to Brands.....as he says, he's got at least an hour before he reaches the M6, so he's at least an extra hour on top of that before he could start our journey......Croft is effectively his local circuit ......
This has just prompted me to check the distances for me to the most popular circuits - Oulton is nearest at 57 miles, just over an hour. Slightly surprising to me is that Croft is next (80 miles, 2 hours), then Donington (117, 2 hours or so). Furthest of a batch of over 200 miles is Brands at 260 miles, 4 hours plus, depending on the day |
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As midgetman says, once you got to Dover (in happier times) then the real driving could start. We had a very good entry of Historic FF2000 cars at Pau which is well over 1000km from Calais. Most of our guys were towing a trailer behind a small motorhome or camper. It doesn't matter if it's Croft or Charade - it's all down to having a spirit of adventure... |
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Exactly, Alan. Back in the 60s, we used to journey up to Oulton twice a year which meant a 6 or 7 hour journey over a Friday night after we had all worked a very full day. After the Saturday race, we then drove down to Mallory for a race on the Sunday. Unfortunately, we didn't have the luxury of a camper van, so we either slept in the tow car or under the stars on the trailer. And this in the days when the M6 was still only a dream, so it was all cross country from just after Watford Gap services. |
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I remember racing at Thruxton (for the first time) in the mid-70s and arriving at the circuit around 10-00pm we noticed the gate from paddock to circuit was open so we did a couple of laps in the tow car, with trailer and racecar attached, to see which way the corners went. Not sure if the knowledge helped in practice the next day.
In those days Thruxton offered bunk rooms in a wooden building for competitors at very reasonable rates - certainly cheaper than a hotel. Does anyone else remember them? |
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I'm even sorrier that you have tried to be pedantic, Viv! But we would nowadays travel to Oulton on the M6, picking it up from just after Watford Gap, as well as using it on the return when going to Mallory before going home on the Sunday evening. And from Mallory we would have gone back to the M1 for our trip to North London. |
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In the 60s and70s we used to travel to most tracks in the UK, now it normally takes longer to get to most of them even with all the motorways, because of the congestion !
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