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Originally Posted by delta
No news from Pete or David but looking on TSL they finished P28 and P3 in class . I just wanted them to get some race miles undr their belt ready for Spa . Good job boys . Well done .?
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It was great fun, thank you for inviting me. David and I have honours even for lap times, I was fastest in qually, he got the race fastest.
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Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker
I met up with them briefly and had a chat  Car was looking good and they were in good spirits, and tucking into bacon butties when I popped in  |
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Originally Posted by MGDavid
Well that was fun ! Actually ended up P25 after all the penalties and DNFs were sorted out, we managed to keep a clean sheet :-) Reasonably pleased with times especially as I'd not been to Donny for about 12 years. As the car's hardly turned a wheel for almost 4 years we will go through it, rebuild the brakes, look at suspension, maybe a bit of testing otherwise save the car for Spa. Mike must have sorted the weather for us today - scorchio !
Good to meet Lancsbreaker at last, lots of other happy faces too, all just glad to be back out there.
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It was interesting when we all lost you! (David disappeared to the assembly area when we weren't looking, cue much scratching of heads. I eventually found him at the head of the assembly queue). I found the car to be much easier to drift than my MGB (which tells me we need to sort that out) and could get on the gas much earlier than I had been able to do at the 1 May meeting. We did get pinged for track limits and lost our fastest lap in qually but we still finished well. Come the race, David took us up to 33rd having spent much time swapping places with an MGB, in my stint we got to 28th but I confess it was pretty busy, on one particular lap I overtook a blue Elan at Coppice and ran down to the chicane where I came up behind a B, when I tried to out brake the B , the Elan shot in front of both of us and having better brakes, brake tested both of us, just as a line of faster cars took advantage! I came through the chicane off cam and lost a bit of time. But crucially it was all clean and no contact whatsoever. This would be the story of my stint, because every time I got into position to overtake, the race leaders or the faster cars would bring out the blue flags so progress was hampered. Anyway, my job was to bring Gilbert home unscathed and we achieved that in spades.
Another humorous episode was the flying stuffed animal. Mike's lucky cuddly toy broke loose and spent my stint rolling around the passenger footwell. Fortunately it endured the experience unscathed! Will be reinstalled using a restraint of some kind.
Yup, good to say hi to Lancy.
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Originally Posted by andy97
Good to see you briefly before my unscheduled stint as safety car observer. Hope you enjoyed the day, you certainly seemed to be going well around Redgate (the only bit of the circuit I could see).
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Good to bump elbows Andy also good to hear you had a good race on Saturday.
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Originally Posted by coppice
Wandered round the paddock on a Gilbern hunt - if I'd read this thread first I might have looked in the garages. I hope to see it at Cadwell.
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Yes we were elevated to the aristocracy this weekend.
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Originally Posted by E.B
Great to read fun was had, the car is undamaged, and after a quiet few years did not let itself down. Well done all involved. Look forward to reading about the next of Gilbert's Adventures.
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This was my first taste of the CSCC and it was a pleasant experience in a lovely car.