A great day!

[S2N]

I had the most fantastic weekend at Brands Hatch this weekend that I must tell you all about it!

My bf races for Motorvation Motorsport and it was the first race of the season (BRSCC Formula Ford Saloon)
Although Steve wasnt driving (car not ready) the other two cars were there/

Arrive Saturday at 6pm with everything already set up by everyone else!, light barbeque, start , await new gearbox for the Sierra as it had blown during the day
Go to the Kentagon, get more crawl back to lorry to erect tent minus the airbed that i left at home

6.30am Sunday (race day) Awoke, still drunk, very cold, very aware need to fit a new gear box

9am Everything is going to plan! I then get a surprise! Our team manager managed to land me a trip in a rally car driven by Ray (cant remember surname), former F1 driver, rally instructor chap

10.30 Get in Rally car
10.40 Blew tyre on rally car, get out

12pm: more more people, lunch

2pm, RACE!!!! We didnt actually win but for our first race and despite the new box that got stuck in third it was a very thrilling 20 mins!

It was a big first for me, first time at a race and first time in a rally car! I cant wait for the next one!

[mrs fish]

Glad you had a great weekend, I did too.

Bruntinghtorpe on Saturday...

Had a spin in a griff 500 race car, JeremyC's Cerbera and Jousts Noble. All equally good fun, but not quite fast enough well they were but it didn't seem it on such a long straight.

Also great company

Do feel a lot of sympathy with all the drivers of the track day though.... those stone chips were bloody awful

[incorrigible]

Great weekend here too, don't know whether to post on the "how not to fly a kite" thread had my first experience of serious power kites (11 square meters really does pull you around a bit even in the v-light wind)

Pub all day Sunday watching he rugby, fantastic

Aching back and shoulders from Saturday, aching head from yesterday, doh