Brands Hatch - Marcos Nightmare

[shapeshifter]

Brands Hatch – what a nightmare, only went to watch Chris Beighton race his orange Team Tiger Marcos, he was doing so well until he smashed it to smithereens - gutted, does this mean his season is over?

Edited by shapeshifter on Tuesday 29th August 14:15

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rude-boy said:

Will be very sad if it is, although I take it the title is out of the question now anyway after such a bad w/e.

The car went in hard (I was about 75 meters from the point of impact) but if there isn’t too much damage to the chassis it could be fixed relatively swiftly.

Hope they are out again as it’s great to see them take the battle to the 911s

I did see the car back in the paddock, it was in really bad shape although they didn’t seem to think there was any engine damage, the chassis looked very twisted – the team looked so disappointed, considering the age and the original value of the Marcos they really do take a good race to some very high tech bits of kit, lets just hope they get it ready for the next meet.

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Any news on the Marcos, does anyone know if Chris Beighton is rebuilding for the next race?

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renkadima said:

shapeshifter said:

Any news on the Marcos, does anyone know if Chris Beighton is rebuilding for the next race?

Chris is racing in the Britcar 24 hours this weekend, so we'll probably find out then. The damage to the car was considerable, as you obviously saw; but he also managed to smash the dashboard with his head and from what I could gather at the time a rebuild would be unlikely in the short term.

There's always hope though.

Thanks for that, what a shame, what car did he use in the Britcar 24 hours?

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Trackside said:

B1GRLM said:

In the 24 Hour they were driving with Oliver Bryant and his father in their Marcos Mantis which was new to them with this being its 1st outing...

...which sadly ended its race looking rather second-hand.



I didn't see it go off but I did notice some marks across the grass on the exit of Becketts along with a light pod and some yellow plastic?

Please dont tell me Chris Beighton did that?

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renkadima said:

nutta29 said:

yeh, chris B was driving when he had that off :-(

To be fair though, he was 'assisted off' by a back-marker.

The poor fella, he really is having a bad run recently, I just hope his orange team tiger stays in tact ready for next years Chaested challenge.