After the rather testing time at Cardiff, getting back to home turf at Mendip was welcome. Gary had spanner work to do on his Daughter’s Mini, so I volunteered to run the meeting. Running the meeting and two cars is a bit…
Super Glue More specifically, the bottles it comes in. Super Gluing Tyres to Wheels is an annoying job at the best of times. The screw caps are forever welding themselves in place and are fecking impossible to unscrew. If its not possible…
I won’t do a full report. Just the highlights. I cleaned up the front kingpins and rear pod damper and put in 20k silicone as opposed the 10k which does seem to be too thin to do anything useful. I also added…
Yesterday morning I was flicking through Facebook, and I saw somebody had made a holder for anti-roll bars. “That’s a good idea!” I thought. I had been invited to a practice day, but the Mrs. had a day off, so I couldn’t…
Time to take a peek at what I spent my summer doing. First off, the 2wd Championship at my local track, Mendip. First off, Congrats to Keith Halsey. Seeing off stiff challenges from Dane, Gavin and Neal while spannering 3 or 4…
As there was no Bristol Mini Racing, and nothin doing at my usual haunts, I managed to get a 4wd entry up at Caldicot. I’ve been meaning to take a trip up there for many months, and with the Cardiff Cobra season…
Sorry about not updating for the last few meetings. I’ve been doing meetings with two cars which has been a lot to keep up with. A 6.30am start, Ugh! But worth it to support a Testimonial meeting for Craig Fearnly by proxy…
I can’t claim today’s spiffing result was due to genius wheel-smithing or Adrian Newey like setup. I hit the weather jackpot in round 1 which flattered my overall performance quite a bit. But having stood out in the pissing rain for 20…
After the last, rather disasterous outing at Tivvy, A bit of a confidence builder was what I wanted out of my club championship visit to the old home track. I was up for being the race director as well as driving, so…
Kept putting the wrong tyres on all day. Really shit performance. I’d rather do it today than at the reigional. Balls. Picture is Taki Inoue, because I was as bad as he was today.
