what a great start to the season!!

[tbdgriff500]

really enjoyable opening meeting, great to see everyone after the long winter, very eventful weekend for most, glad all are safe and cars can be fixed, there was some top driving buy the new Tuscan drivers as these cars are a big step up from tasmins, your confidence will grow at every race and the gaps will close, shaping up to be an awesome seasons racing, bring on brands in the sunshine!!
ps, red means wait Christian, I bet as you looked in the mirror you were thinking, what a brilliant start I have left the whole field standing!!
pps, lets get some photo's up on here and some links to incar footage if anyone has any, I will stick mine up tonight after editing.

[TVRleigh_BBWR]

Was good to be back, if only as a spectator, was a great start to the season, and things are really looking good.
Hopefully I'll be able to get my car out next year, so there will be at least one Taz in the field, not going to bring it out though until its 100% sorted, and painted

[Graham]

Qualifying was good fun at least

[NTEL]

Well is was a good start for some. Full extent of my wows means engine rebuild, new gearbox and clutch (not pissing about with T5s anymore), new ignition system. Other enhancements will be gear oil cooler, diff cooler and other bits to improve reliability..... See you all at Anglesey at best or Oulton if I'm lucky

[sarbec]

Had a blast still buzzing now many thanks to everyone for all the positive comments

[YRRunner]

In similar vein, I want to thank all the organisers, drivers and teams. What a great bunch. Great fun, both the racing and the paddock banter on Saturday night (or as it turned out... daybreak Monday morning for some of us Special thanks to my team, Andy Race (mentor and tormentor) and Big Col for their brilliant management and maintenance of my car. The car is running so well now that I managed to do 2.5 hours of practice and testing on Friday, plus the qually and 2 races without any mechanical problems (other than losing brakes in front of Dave S two laps from the end of Race 2 Thank you to the racing God's for absolutely idyllic race conditions (long may they last) , the slightly confused but hard working Marshall's and Race Control at Rockingham and lastly, big thanks to the taxi driver who managed to get me to the holding area 5 minutes before the start of the race (I promise this will never happen again Andy
Thank you all again for a truly memorable and dramatic weekend! Still buzzing, Mark.

[ads]

Good to see everyone again, (thanks Darren for the tickets). Shame a few had issues, but still good racing and lovely to see so many on the grid. See you at Brands

Here are a few pics of the Saturday from me.

[bill tvr]

What a great weekend ,great racing ,good Freinds and sunshine .Our car ran the best it has ever ,a great thanks to Darren for all his hard work in getting my car ready for the season ,and to Matt for helping at the circuit
So glad Jim got his Tuscan out , after all his hard work getting the car back to race spec
Really proud to be part of The Challenge ...

[RetroWheels]

Faith. Restored.
Excellent weekend's TVR racing with really great people, stunning cars, a few drama's and lots of laughs - this is what it's all about - plus the music and 7% organic cider were the icing on the cake


Anyway have a pic of a Tuscan being a Tuscan .....


courtesy of Jony Ellis-cheers

[ctsdave]

Evening all.

Had a cracking (if not busy!!) weekend but great to be back! Got plenty of work to do before Brands - namely try to find out why I'm still getting a drop in oil pressure under braking... Had a 40min phonecall with Pace today and they are baffled lol...

Anyway, a rather short video of race one from me here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZC1XxIT0w Worst start I've ever had and the race didn't really improve for me!

Will upload race 2 ASAP - just learning all this computery video editing stuff lol...

Dave

[7 TVR]

So great to be back out with everyone and overjoyed with the way the car ran
Little bit over excited with my first front row start but st happens and it won't happen again!!
Looking forward to see you video of the first race Tim as my professional pit crew managed to forget to turn the camera on in race 1 and turned it on then off in race two leaving me with a full 3 seconds of footage in the holding area!!
I did not get many shots but here are a couple my mate took

Waiting

Four abreast going into the first corner

My new screen saver

[HUI]

There is a good write up and two pictures in Autosport this week

Maureen - Mrs Hui

[YRRunner]

And reference to Christian's, I quote... "HUGE" jumped start. "And kept going" (what else was he supposed to do)?
Great pic though!

Edited by YRRunner on Friday 23 May 18:37

Edited by YRRunner on Friday 23 May 18:41

[YRRunner]

And one of Hui blocking anybody on the inside

Edited by YRRunner on Friday 23 May 18:57

[heightswitch]

YRRunner said:

And one of Hui blocking anybody on the inside

Edited by YRRunner on Friday 23 May 18:57

Thats a wide line
Nice to see Hui back out after a comprehensive re-build.

N.

[RedSpike66]

Has Christian been cheating again ???
Bloody Southerners !