Archive for the ‘Racing’ Category

birkettteam1Last weekend was the Birkett and we were up again racing in team Eastern Delight (we decided to give it a better (?) name this time). The Birkett is a unique event being, if you don’t know, a 6 hour relay race for teams of up to 6 cars and drivers. In this week’s Autosport Marcus Pye got it just right in his column where he says:

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malloryA little vignette of an RGB/750 club paddock:

I took my cordless drill to Mallory, as I always do. I didn’t use it though. However, two other people borrowed it:

  • Adrian was having cat problems, again, and used the drill to hack out the remains of yet another expensive waste of money
  • Andy borrowed the drill to help him repair the bonnet of an MG Midget that was racing that day, although clearly not in an RGB race.

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s great.

Continue reading ‘End of the season’ »

090920Snetterton01It was time for another race meeting, this time at Snetterton. I decided not to go testing, although I did spend the test day there with Dan who was out for the first time in his RGB race car.

Continue reading ‘Down to the wire’ »

silverstone_01Well, it was time to be back at Silverstone again for the club’s annual festival meeting, which essentially means that all the club formulae are represented which means loads and loads of cars and only one race each. Unless, of course, you’re an RGBer and you’ve been let into Bikesports for a cheap(er) race than usual. I didn’t have time to do any testing, so that would have to do for me.

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We’re just back from a rather frustrating weekend at Mallory. I should have known better really. We didn’t go there last year as it was right in the middle of the time when Anthea was being replumbed. However, a lot of the RGBers that did go didn’t have a fun time of it. Continue reading ‘Malloried again’ »