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Post by NS-R on Oct 17, 2007 9:31:40 GMT
Hi all,
Well it's also the season finale for our championship this weekend at Brands Hatch. John is testing there today but I won't be going out until qualifying (lack of finance!).
It should be a good meeting at Brands as it's the Formula Ford Festival Meeting so we should get a big attendance.
Good luck to everyone at Knockhill for the final SMRC meeting and let's hope we both get some decent weather!
Cheers for now,
Nick.
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Post by awsponsor on Oct 17, 2007 9:46:05 GMT
See - you should have been a banker !! Yeah - good luck to you guys as well... Weather forecast for KH is actually looking pretty good so far..  Dick |
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Post by Blair on Oct 17, 2007 10:05:49 GMT
All the best Nick, no trying to drive through barriers this time.  Hoping for a dry weekend too, as I haven't got new tyres.. |
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Post by Mike Hogg on Oct 17, 2007 10:51:54 GMT
Hoping for a dry weekend as my wallet will implode if it's wet again.  |
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Post by brakedisc on Oct 17, 2007 13:18:29 GMT
Do not expect big crowds Nick. The Formula Ford Festival is not what it was. Gone are the days when 240 competitors turned up all hell bent on going for the big prize. Best racing ever in the past and I have been priviliged to have seen most of the superstars including Schumacher run at Brands in FF.
Good luck for your races and good luck to the Scots in the FF Duratec Festival. Good chance of a Scottish winner this year.
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Post by NS-R on Oct 19, 2007 7:18:22 GMT
The FF races seem to have decent size grids - hopefully there will be a good turnout anyway - the weather is supposed to be decent (if cold) but I think most will be focusing on the Saturday night egg-chasing... Nick. |
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Post by XR2 Baz on Oct 19, 2007 21:19:37 GMT
Egg chasing  Best of luck to the pair of you, and keep it on the black stuff Nick! Cheers Baz |
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Post by jxr242 on Oct 21, 2007 22:15:18 GMT
Egg Chasing = rugby
Race 1
NS Qual 2nd Finished 8th
JF Qual 6th Finished 6th
Race 2
NS 3rd
JF 10th
Race report to follow. Loads of "incidents" Race 1 red flagged whilst NS leading...
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Post by awsponsor on Oct 21, 2007 22:29:10 GMT
Will look forward to that....
BTW... Nick's Knockhill XR2 lap record has finally fallen.. New lap record is 63.324 by Charlie Cope..
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Post by NS-R on Oct 22, 2007 12:58:56 GMT
Will post the report up when we've had time to write it for our sponsors.
I'm quite pleased as I found the 'missing second' from the last time at Brands and was on pole for most of the qualifying session but got pipped by Dan.
I was leading the first race but cars off everywhere so red flag and back to original positions. Made an ar*e of the 2nd start and then spun at Graham Hill bend and rammed into Ben Roper - backwards! Eventually finished 8th overall, 3rd in class.
Second race, charged up the field to finished 3rd overall, 3rd in class as both Ben and I made up a load of places.
So all in all, not a bad 1st season, finishing 3rd in the STs including one DNF and the two rounds we missed at Silverstone...
My ST is now getting most of the panels (!!!) replaced and put back into concourse condition before it goes down to Manc-chester as it's going in the Kempster Ford showroom over the winter.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Post by Dave on Oct 22, 2007 13:45:06 GMT
Are the panels cheapish or are Kempster helping with that?  |
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Post by XR2 Baz on Oct 23, 2007 23:19:07 GMT
Concours and race car in the same sentence Seriously, well done guys on a successful first season. Must have been a pretty steep learning curve for everyone involved. Will anyone in an ST be making a return to KH to join the XR's for some quality racing in '08? Baz |
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Post by NS-R on Oct 24, 2007 10:17:02 GMT
haha - yeah, it needs to be looking back to how it started out as it's going in the Kempster Ford Showroom...they shouldn't have let me loose with it!!! Right, got to get the sponsors report done - I've got John giving me grief!!! Dave - panels aren't that expensive - good job since I need to replace most of them! Nick. |
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Post by awsponsor on Oct 24, 2007 14:51:16 GMT
Just tell John that you're an engineer and he's a banker so he hasn't got a real job whereas you have ..... That'll annoy him ;D So are you intending to race next year or saving your pennies for the wedding.. |
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Post by fletch on Oct 24, 2007 15:28:39 GMT
Are you getting married Mr Sanderson? You kept that quiet all weekend, didn't you??? No wonder you're so keen to get me on track..................! |
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