RAF MARHAM Weekend 18th & 19th April 2009

[bodieanddoyle]

seems I only post on here around marham time, apologies.
I went saturday as I have friends in ABS. I did have a couple of undertakes, I'm possibly the slowest thing on track at times. I don't mind most of them, hey it gets heated out there and the mist decends.
i do have issue with one that tried to take me on the inside after the last apex part just before the turn into the hairpin at the bottom of the straight. I am observant and look all around me so I didn't stick my car straight into his door but if he was faster/i turned sooner/neither of us looked then it could have gotten sticky. most people were rather well behaved I thought, so well done all! and big thanks to the organisers and the guys 'n' gals marshalling it- you're terrefic 8).

mr frogeye- I have a pic of the smoke kind of ebbing away. you were doing some mighty closing speed on that clio!

I have overtaken on the sweeping curve after the complex, if you can then everyone does. not much i can though in my box of rust.

all in all it was good times; marham trackday was awesome as usual 8) I have some saturday pics but they're not online yet.

[Jonesy CRX_Turbo]

Anyone happen to get any pics or vids of a little grey CRX (hairdresser looking 2 seater) as i didnt get any and unfortunately my turbo didnt last long enough for me to get major track time!!

[MG Mark]

As with all of the above, I echo their thanks to Pete, George and to all of the volunteers for yet another superb event, taking the time and putting in the considerable effort to organise it and run it.

Thoroughly enjoyed Saturday and, as usual, as the first real outing of the year other than bimbling around normal roads, it reminded me why the MGA never fails to brings a grin to my face. As well as that, many thanks to Ian for the "Monza Experience" -

Nice clips from Gary's Frogeye!

MG Mark

[boosty]

Jonesy CRX_Turbo said:

Was the yellow kit cat with cos on the number plate off here?

If you mean L16COS then that was me. What did I do?

[Shortie123]

Well, what a day..... I've got to say, after waiting nearly 2years, the passenger ride in Stevo's Sunbeam was worth my £70 alone!! What an adrenaline rush it was, to be still "full chat" at the end of the straight and only letting off AFTER turning into the complex! Cheers Steve, it made my day to be in one of the oldest cars there and to be whipping past cars of a newer age and more modern engineering!

On another note, the Sierra lasted the day without a major hitch (had to change rear pads at lunch) and made it home without missing a beat. All in all 208 miles on half a tank which i don't think is bad for a 3.1 V6???!! (around 110 of them were track miles!)

Looking forward to the next one even more now.

Will post my pics at a later date as i've left my camera round the other half's!! DOH!!!

[Jonesy CRX_Turbo]

boosty, nah mate. Think i held you up a bit through the twisties, moved over so you could have some fun on the next lot!! Just really liked the car and was wondering a bit about the spec mate. Came to have a chat a few times but you were always out haha

[boosty]

Jonesy CRX_Turbo said:

boosty, nah mate. Think i held you up a bit through the twisties, moved over so you could have some fun on the next lot!!

Yep, the twisties were good this year. Not much held me up for long and you certainly didn't.

Jonesy CRX_Turbo said:

Just really liked the car and was wondering a bit about the spec mate. Came to have a chat a few times but you were always out haha

Yep, as long as I had fuel in the tank and rubber on the tyres I was out on the track, just as it should be.

BTW If you're on base can you please pass on my thanks to all involved for making it such a great weekend.

[Chequred Demon]

I have posted 3 videos on YouTube.

I do apologise for the use of a handheld mini camera. It was on a mount but fell off after 1 lap (together with the driver side washer) and I didn't realise my son was filming until we had finished. I will delete them if anyone has an issue with that or any of the content.

There are some good shots of the Frog Eye Sprite and the MG Midget on one of them and the other Tuscan too. The Turbo Rover 400 is there and the big black Merc to name but a few.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbK6tjfr3yc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv19tPl2N0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3WSo3kDvwg

[Paul GTS]

What car were you in there mate?

I think I need to learn how to blip the throttle while braking!

When pushing that hard you can really feel the engine braking the back tyres when you dont really want it too lol.

Had a few scary moments when I did that.

Was also getting it set in mid corner and able to steer out of the corner using the throttle. Not drifting but just enough to loosen the back.

This is me.

[Chequred Demon]

Hi PaulGTS,

I was in the TVR Tuscan Green/Purple with the rear wing.

[mrB10]

Is that Phil? If so I was next to you in the white 205!

[Chequred Demon]

Hi Andrew,

Yup it was me.

Looks like you got home OK; was it the battery?

[markCSC]

What a great day!

I was ballast (passenger) for the day and a big thank you to Steve, John and Chris who took me out.

Thanks to everybody who helped oragnise it and to the nice RAF people to gave up their time to marshall and cook bacon butties!!

I'll try and get some pictures from Sunday up later

Mark

[mrB10]

Hi Phil, yes it was definatley the battery that has seen better days!

Great day out though, and I have to admit I couldn't really see too many bad incidents on the day, although I did see a black MX3 get black flagged for doughnutting outside the cones after going through them!

[giger]

Hi all - great day on the sunday, I was there with another car club and was in the white JDM civic type R (with duck tape on the front).

If anyone got any pics of me I'd appreciate a copy. I'll post my pics up soon.

See you at the next one

[Shortie123]

i think i've got at least 1 pic of all the cars there on the sunday, took nearly 100 in total, have loaded them onto the laptop, just got to move them to my photobucket account then i'll add them.

Just had a look..... White 4door Civic?? Yep, got a pic of it, will sort it out for ya asap.

Edited by Shortie123 on Tuesday 21st April 13:51

[Paul GTS]

http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii133/Olly_m4ng...

Here are loads of pictures that my friend took during the day. Should have pictures of most.

[jim potter]

did anyone get any pics of the golfs on saturday ?


i got a fair bit of vid, which im in the process of sorting threw.

post em up or email them to me if its easier.

p.s the driver and passenger in the grey golf are both fine, we are looking for another shell as we speak, so if anyone knows of a mk3 golf gti 16v or vr6 , that spares or repairs..

thx jim

[mrB10]

that was a bit of a shock seeing that roll and get recovered! I suppose ebay will be your best pal for the shell? Good luck glad you were all ok.

[jim potter]

yeah held up very well consdiering.

lookign on ebay, and other sites as we speak, so hopefully we'll have another shell soon.

he has a track day booked for end of may at woodbridge.. so fingers crossed