Yesterdays AMOC Sprint at Goodwood turned out to be a brilliant day (well almost!), the weather was looking a bit iffy in the morning, but turned out to be glorious sunshine for most of the day.
Returning to Goodwood after my last event, I had gained additional confidence in the cars setup with the changes to the brakes and tyres, so mentally I had stated a target to get under the magical (for me!) 100 seconds, my best last time on the Dunlop’s was 109 seconds!
Two GT40’s entered in the Sports GT & saloons over 3 liters class, Martin Weigolds fabulous “6 GTD” and Suzie “K40 GT” my car.
Practice started with me being placed behind a single seater, I had thought that this was fine and was more concerned with Martin catching me up, anyway things got underway and half way round on the first lap there was a red flag, so we all lined up again, I thought things seemed to be going quite well when I caught up with the single seater down the back straight.
So off again for another try this time with no baulking we pulled in a 102.57, Martin (or rather his car) was suffering from a fouled plug, so Frank was dispatched to get some new ones, the second practice was 102.47 for me so fairly consistent!
The array of cars at the event was far and wide from some of the earliest Astons such as The reeds DB2 driven by Tony and Anne, to the latest N24 version of Astons Vantage Racer driven by ace driver Gillian Goldsmith who took FTD with a 94 or 95 seconds, plus giving the crowd a moment with a rather spectacular spin at the chicane.
I have to say my favorite of the meeting was 85 year old Paul Channon showing us the lead in his original AC Cobra that he has owned since 1969 – wow!
So to the timed events, I had managed to force a rather hearty lunch down, sadly Martin and Frank had missed out due to very poor service and a cock-up with the catering! (Fat bas???d I hear them shout!).
Suzie by now seems to be flying and in the first of the timed runs we pull in a 98.36 (days objective achieved for me and we ended up with second in class!), with Martin close behind with a 100.36.
For the second timed run things were not quite so impressive – we lined up in the number one spot, red light then green, a few beans were applied and 20 feet off the line - bang, no drive (Bugger!) that was the end of my day fun - but what a day it had been!
The day ended with David Such driving his tremendously quick V8 Aston to the class win at 97.7
Once we got the car to the paddock it appears that one of the CV joints had exploded, so hopefully if that is all, we will be out for the next event.
JBW
Returning to Goodwood after my last event, I had gained additional confidence in the cars setup with the changes to the brakes and tyres, so mentally I had stated a target to get under the magical (for me!) 100 seconds, my best last time on the Dunlop’s was 109 seconds!
Two GT40’s entered in the Sports GT & saloons over 3 liters class, Martin Weigolds fabulous “6 GTD” and Suzie “K40 GT” my car.
Practice started with me being placed behind a single seater, I had thought that this was fine and was more concerned with Martin catching me up, anyway things got underway and half way round on the first lap there was a red flag, so we all lined up again, I thought things seemed to be going quite well when I caught up with the single seater down the back straight.
So off again for another try this time with no baulking we pulled in a 102.57, Martin (or rather his car) was suffering from a fouled plug, so Frank was dispatched to get some new ones, the second practice was 102.47 for me so fairly consistent!
The array of cars at the event was far and wide from some of the earliest Astons such as The reeds DB2 driven by Tony and Anne, to the latest N24 version of Astons Vantage Racer driven by ace driver Gillian Goldsmith who took FTD with a 94 or 95 seconds, plus giving the crowd a moment with a rather spectacular spin at the chicane.
I have to say my favorite of the meeting was 85 year old Paul Channon showing us the lead in his original AC Cobra that he has owned since 1969 – wow!
So to the timed events, I had managed to force a rather hearty lunch down, sadly Martin and Frank had missed out due to very poor service and a cock-up with the catering! (Fat bas???d I hear them shout!).
Suzie by now seems to be flying and in the first of the timed runs we pull in a 98.36 (days objective achieved for me and we ended up with second in class!), with Martin close behind with a 100.36.
For the second timed run things were not quite so impressive – we lined up in the number one spot, red light then green, a few beans were applied and 20 feet off the line - bang, no drive (Bugger!) that was the end of my day fun - but what a day it had been!
The day ended with David Such driving his tremendously quick V8 Aston to the class win at 97.7
Once we got the car to the paddock it appears that one of the CV joints had exploded, so hopefully if that is all, we will be out for the next event.
JBW
I take my hat off to both of you! Are those the quickest laps from a GTD?
