Archive for the ‘Preparing’ Category

Last weekend it was time, yet again, for the club’s August bank holiday meeting at Silverstone. This is the one meeting of the year when all the racing formulae are at the same meeting so it’s very busy, and bustling. I’d decided not to test as I know the  circuit rather well. However, after swapping the clutch I thought it’d be useful to do the Allcomers race which was absolutely first thing on the Saturday morning, so as to check that everything was working.

Continue reading ‘Soaking in Silverstone’ »

Yesterday, Colin said I’d not updated this blog for “years”. This is a slight exageration as it’s nearly been three weeks. However, it is too long. There’s been lots of other things on, you see. Just to make you realise how hard we pseudo academics work I was even at a conference for all of last weekend so I didn’t get any time at all to go in the garage then. Continue reading ‘Emerging, blinking, into the light’ »

Sorry for the delay people, but I’ve been out and about for a while and haven’t had a chance to update these condensed outpourings. However, I have done a bit to the J15. Most importantly I’ve done some work to attach, at least initially, all of the bodywork. For evidence, here’s the car on the drive.

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Not been too well the last few days. However, the Fury is now fixed up for its next outing. However, first of all here’s a shot of the last Brands races courtesy of Dave Hackett who as is often the case has produced some great photos of the RGB meeting.

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The start of the race season is fast approaching, so I’ve had to spend a lot of the weekend fettling the Fury for the (J15-less) start of the season. The photo is of the end result.

Continue reading ‘Frustration’ »