Oulton Park Gold Cup 29/30 August

[bill773mini]

Not yet

[mk1]

Mine have not arrived, but this is not a bad thing as I won't be able to make it. Unfortunately circumstances have conspired against me this year.

[fricsman]

Ticket arrived this morning, Thanks Pete.

[mk1]

As did mine, I'm gutted that I won't be able to make it.

Sorry all.

[Pete]

Sorry you can't make it Mark.

As for tickets everyone should have recieved theirs now though they didn't actually arrive from Oulton til feckin mid week and had to be posted out pronto by Steve Eccershall !
Just arrived back from holiday but will hopefully see y'all later today.

Pete

[tomkidd]

Just going to get the car from the workshop now

[Brynmor]

Cheers for organising again Pete, a fraught trip for us there as we lost all gears by time of arrival. Cheers to the chap from Wrexham for the loan of tools,I didn't get your name sorry.

As to the 'racing', The Derek Bell trophy was shaping up as an excellent race until the safety car, also safety car in race 1 which was a shame. OK day, bit hard to see cars in the paddock due to the gigantic motorhomes... I was astounded how empty the place was of spectators though, real shame for the organisers there really.

I know it's said every meeting but one car on that F5000 grid lapped in 2 1/2 laps...

I'm afraid that we left before the last race as we wanted to get a good chance of getting home in case box played up, fortunately it didn't...

[cookie1071]

Pete,

As i've said on the MCR forum, top day, tks for organising on everyone's behalf and looking forward to seeing some action shots from the event.

But what happened to Mr Harber?

Niall.

[uncle 997]

Mr Harber blew a large hole in his engine block 3 laps into the Saturday morning session .

[Brynmor]

Seems that if you're there today, you will about now be seeing several Nissan Group C cars and a 962....the 962 which wasn't advertised....and i've never seen running...bugger!!

[tomkidd]

Cheers for the ticket Pete, I got down there at 11ish with my Dad in the Skoda after having trouble with the mini not running.

[acespeed72]

A big thank you to Tim Harber and Paul Fish for gear lever and knob after we broke ours in qualifying. Thank you to all who came over to say hello and offer support

[YMJ]

Any results, photos??

[acespeed72]

we got 4th o/a and 1st in class/1st mini home thanks to Whizzo no photos as yet

[Pete]

Results here......

http://www.mstworld.com/Results/2010/10208hsc.pdf

Thanks to all for coming down,shame about the appalling weather in the morning but it did brighten up at Midday, here's a few pics....





Mike Smith's car in the background looked noticably faster in the latter stages of the race, Barry Long's in front was the lead Mini but came a cropper after(?) the pitstop, fill us in Barry....





One of the two 1000cc cars that had a good scrap with each other all the way through....



Fishy's double wipers, nice time warp car...





Bill's lovely motor.....

[acespeed72]

Barry got taken out by the little Abarth didnt see him lapping him under blue flags ended both there races on the spot. Barry had quite a bit of damage but didnt see how bad the Abarth was. The Abarth and the Saab were a little too slow at times. The Saab nearly did the same to me in qualifying. But thats saloons for you.

[uncle 997]

The car is not badly damaged at all,it is just panel damage and it will be back out for silverstone finals.
The weekends racing was going so well and we were on for a third overall and a definate class win when a slower car went off in front of me and left me no where to go.
After the race whizzo came and thanked me for gifting him the fourth place .

[YMJ]

Thanks fellas

[mk1]

Sounds like it was an interesting weekends racing!

Come on Tim, lets have a look at your new positive crank case ventilation system

[acespeed72]

we were gifted 4th o/a but won our class and beat two cat D cars outright. I dont class beating Barry Longs or Roger Godfreys cars as they had problems. We also had problems with gear shift, siezed n/s/f shocker which has smashed the lower pin off, collasped n/s/f bearing which was new for race and two broken studs on hardy spicer on the n/s so we were very lucky to finish ourselves but finish we did