I'm in! Micheal Schumacher Watch Out!

[SMIFTER]

I've been officially accepted into my first motorsport event in the Dolomite.<br>
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I'm car No. 74 in the Wessex Sprint, Colerne NE of Bath next bank holiday Monday.<br>
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Sorry - no spectators permitted as its MOD owned.<br>
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I'm not expecting great things though - I'm up against 5 RS2000's, some of which are running very hairy cams and throttle bodies, a Toyota MR2 turbo, a supercharged 1.7 Puma, a couple of MGB's and a 2.3 volvo 360 (eh?).<br>
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Hopefully I wont be last! it will be embarrassing if the Volvo Beats me!<br>
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Graeme

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[Dave]

Good luck in your first event!<br>
Did you see a programme called something like So you want to drive a grand prix car" the other day? Supposedly there were only 3.000 entrants for the position!

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[SMIFTER]

I thought I'd let someone else go for that one.<br>
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I have a similar physique to some of the wannabes on that programme!<br>
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Besides Frank Williams offered me a seat but i had to turn it down 'sorry Frank - I've just bought a couple more go faster sprint bits on ebay and i can't let them go to waste... '<br>
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[mick the driver]

you did right by turning down franks offer.<br>
i went to silverstone last week to see some f1 practice.<br>
and the williams car broke down<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br>
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something to do with overheating ..... that sound familiar<br>
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[SMIFTER]

Well I’ve taken part today and I’ve got the racing bug!<br>
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Despite every other car in my class running supersoft Yokohama A0032R tyres and me having my Kwik fit budget Yugoslavian remoulds I didn’t disgrace myself by being last.<br>
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I was 10th fastest out of 14 competitors, which I’m reasonably pleased about. More encouraging is the fact that after every run I was getting consistently better lap times after tweaking the damper settings and learning the best braking and turn in points. The bloody Volvo managed to be 5th fastest though! I think he was a bit of a demon driver to get that time in such a piece of poo. Even my Brother in Laws 2.1 escort couldnt beat him (He got 7th). Despite a few escorts missing the class was dominated by the RS2000 escorts (no surprises there), which I was nowhere near. Saying that I didn’t see any other road car out there bar Caterhams and TVR’s, which were as quick as the RS2000's.<br>
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The Sprint got a few admiring glances and comments, the best comment was from the MSA Scrutineer who said ‘much underrated car, if it had a Ford badge you wouldn’t see many escorts here’. There was also a bloke who claimed to have a full set of Broadspeed engine building instructions but I couldn’t find him in the paddock again. Bugger!<br>
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All in all and most importantly it was bloody good fun and I’m looking forward to the next Sprint on 25th May at Llandow Circuit, South Wales. I think Spectators are allowed at this one if anyone fancies a day out inhaling rubber vapour!<br>
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Of course Pics and videos will be added to my website in due course.<br>


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[SMIFTER]

Videos are now on there!

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