Just heard from Andy, he says came third so looks like the website is wrong.....
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I was actually on the inside and Andy was following Steve in when Steve jammed his brakes on more than Andy expected and that was the result!
Was also just behind Walsh when he jettisoned is roof at 120mph
it flew up and hit the bridge on the main straight luckily it missed me and landed on the grass
Was also just behind Walsh when he jettisoned is roof at 120mph
it flew up and hit the bridge on the main straight luckily it missed me and landed on the grass
Just back in after an uneventful trip home. The tour bus completed another gruelling 800 miles of abuse 
It was a good weekend for the TSE LOTRDC entrants :-
Jamie just for completing both races despite having only 2 laps in qualifying and a car that needed some fine tuning.
Neil for another class win in the scratch race (although Steve Williams passed him on the last lap, it wasn't counted as the race was red flagged and they counted back).
Andy for coming close to a podium in the first race - the safety car really worked against him - essentially he went from a very close 4th with a 50/50 chance of making 3rd to being nearly a lap down on the other 3 as he was just lapped by Randy when the S/C came out .
Andy's drive in the handicap race was epic with some brave overtaking. He was in with a chance of a top 5 finish (remember, the handicap race is set up so that, more or less, the whole field should cross the finish line on the last lap at the exact same time), but overcooked it when Wiley Ocelot Williams took 3rd place off him and lost loads of places as a result. I am sure he would have been the class A winner if nothing else. But that's racing, and although he was kicking himself, he still finished ahead of 2/3rds of the rest of the pack, having driven fewer than 40 laps of the circuit in his life!
It was also a weekend of S2's shearing the rear suspension just like EGOR did - odd - both Andrew Kell and Hans Baumhardt suffered identical failures! That's too many to be a coincidence :- perhaps we need to be swapping the bolts a couple of times a year!
Right, I'm off to bed
Robin
It was a good weekend for the TSE LOTRDC entrants :-
Jamie just for completing both races despite having only 2 laps in qualifying and a car that needed some fine tuning.
Neil for another class win in the scratch race (although Steve Williams passed him on the last lap, it wasn't counted as the race was red flagged and they counted back).
Andy for coming close to a podium in the first race - the safety car really worked against him - essentially he went from a very close 4th with a 50/50 chance of making 3rd to being nearly a lap down on the other 3 as he was just lapped by Randy when the S/C came out .
Andy's drive in the handicap race was epic with some brave overtaking. He was in with a chance of a top 5 finish (remember, the handicap race is set up so that, more or less, the whole field should cross the finish line on the last lap at the exact same time), but overcooked it when Wiley Ocelot Williams took 3rd place off him and lost loads of places as a result. I am sure he would have been the class A winner if nothing else. But that's racing, and although he was kicking himself, he still finished ahead of 2/3rds of the rest of the pack, having driven fewer than 40 laps of the circuit in his life!
It was also a weekend of S2's shearing the rear suspension just like EGOR did - odd - both Andrew Kell and Hans Baumhardt suffered identical failures! That's too many to be a coincidence :- perhaps we need to be swapping the bolts a couple of times a year!
Right, I'm off to bed
Robin
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Thanks to Robin and Kelvin & Scuffers for getting me through scrutineering when it looked like the trip there may see me fail to qualify! Awesome guys - HUGE thankyou.
Race 1 was gutting - was in a 4 way battle for second, got passed by Randy then the race was yellow flagged and the safety car deployed - i watched as 2nd and 3rd drove off in to the sunset uncontested.........gutted. I'll need to edit the in car audio
Handicap race - decided to go for it off the start, got pushed on to the grass but kept the foot in and went on a charge. Had an awesome race up until the last lap, when the Ocelot nipped by and hammered on his brakes - i braked as hard as i could but lost it in to copse at 80+. Would have been 4th and 1st in class- finished 11th and 2nd in class.
Was raging at Steve W initially until i realised he was totally in the right and i was wrong, he'd gone past and I should have conceded the corner - raging with myself until Robin pointed out I'd had a great race and pulled the best overtaking manouvre he'd seen all weekend - when you watch the footage look for an orange Exige that appears to be standing still
shattered today - Mcape cracked a rear brake disc in the final lap!
Stayed in the borders, McKeaned it up the A68 and was in front of the TV with the Old man on father days watching the end of La Liga having a Stella by 9.30
Race Report to follow in the RLC thread
Race 1 was gutting - was in a 4 way battle for second, got passed by Randy then the race was yellow flagged and the safety car deployed - i watched as 2nd and 3rd drove off in to the sunset uncontested.........gutted. I'll need to edit the in car audio
Handicap race - decided to go for it off the start, got pushed on to the grass but kept the foot in and went on a charge. Had an awesome race up until the last lap, when the Ocelot nipped by and hammered on his brakes - i braked as hard as i could but lost it in to copse at 80+. Would have been 4th and 1st in class- finished 11th and 2nd in class.
Was raging at Steve W initially until i realised he was totally in the right and i was wrong, he'd gone past and I should have conceded the corner - raging with myself until Robin pointed out I'd had a great race and pulled the best overtaking manouvre he'd seen all weekend - when you watch the footage look for an orange Exige that appears to be standing still
shattered today - Mcape cracked a rear brake disc in the final lap!
Stayed in the borders, McKeaned it up the A68 and was in front of the TV with the Old man on father days watching the end of La Liga having a Stella by 9.30
Race Report to follow in the RLC thread
AMG GT-R
Atom 4 - CM425
Lotus Esprit S4S
G30 M5 Comp
Ferrari 599
Lotus Elise S1 "Shed" spec
Atom 4 - CM425
Lotus Esprit S4S
G30 M5 Comp
Ferrari 599
Lotus Elise S1 "Shed" spec
Awesome results guys . . . truly inspirational . . . I was dead to the world at 2100 last night (ok some vino plonko probably helped too) but that was only 7 minutes of driving over 2 days (and about 24 hours total thinking/worrying about the next run) . . . hate to think how your schedule must be . . .
Fd
. . . hate to think how your schedule must be . . .Fd
Gruelling
I was up at 02:30 on Saturday, picked up "Gentleman Racer Gordon" at 03:15, meatware cruise control enabled for an average speed that would see us arrive at Silverstone within 1 minute of anticipated arrival time of 08:00 - only to have to do a U-turn because the keys to the RLC were in Neil's pocket, and Neil was eating at the cafe up the road (no surprise there, then).
Pre-qualifying helped skeggsy get his master cylinder bled - needed easy bleed and pumping action to get it sorted!
Qualifying was hectic to say the least - working under a lot of stress to get Andy out for the last 6 laps - Kelvin was a saint (if you need someone around you when the sh*t hits the fan, Kelvin would be my first choice) - I just couldn't get the cable from the fog light through into the boot - then I remembered it was the RLC, got the battery drill, 10mm bit - new hole that follows a more direct path ripped
Battery isolator issues passed me by (Simon S is so helpful in the paddock!) - later went to talk it through with SS to work out that the isolator is two way - the +ve switch is there to cut power just to the ECU/engine feed (not the big starter/alternator) cable, and this was wired correctly on our cars) but the unit also has a -ve switch (big stud on the front switches to the backplate of the unit) and you route the main chassis earth from battery through this - that's what was wrong on the RLC/TangoR).
After that, in the pub for 3, too many ciders, off to bed for 23:00 - up at 06:30 when somebody started shouting at their kids Breakfast and back to the circuit to get the cars ready for the race - managed 30 minute kip from 12:30 to 13:00 before both races were on us and back in the bus at 17:30 for a cruise home - was in by 23:00 having dropped Nicola off at chez McApe's
Cheers,
Robin
I was up at 02:30 on Saturday, picked up "Gentleman Racer Gordon" at 03:15, meatware cruise control enabled for an average speed that would see us arrive at Silverstone within 1 minute of anticipated arrival time of 08:00 - only to have to do a U-turn because the keys to the RLC were in Neil's pocket, and Neil was eating at the cafe up the road (no surprise there, then).
Pre-qualifying helped skeggsy get his master cylinder bled - needed easy bleed and pumping action to get it sorted!
Qualifying was hectic to say the least - working under a lot of stress to get Andy out for the last 6 laps - Kelvin was a saint (if you need someone around you when the sh*t hits the fan, Kelvin would be my first choice) - I just couldn't get the cable from the fog light through into the boot - then I remembered it was the RLC, got the battery drill, 10mm bit - new hole that follows a more direct path ripped
Battery isolator issues passed me by (Simon S is so helpful in the paddock!) - later went to talk it through with SS to work out that the isolator is two way - the +ve switch is there to cut power just to the ECU/engine feed (not the big starter/alternator) cable, and this was wired correctly on our cars) but the unit also has a -ve switch (big stud on the front switches to the backplate of the unit) and you route the main chassis earth from battery through this - that's what was wrong on the RLC/TangoR).
After that, in the pub for 3, too many ciders, off to bed for 23:00 - up at 06:30 when somebody started shouting at their kids
Breakfast and back to the circuit to get the cars ready for the race - managed 30 minute kip from 12:30 to 13:00 before both races were on us and back in the bus at 17:30 for a cruise home - was in by 23:00 having dropped Nicola off at chez McApe's Cheers,
Robin
I is in your loomz nibblin ur wirez
#bemoretut
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