Re: 2009 24hr Race at Snetterton
Picture time!
This was The Flying Dutchmen team, in my eyes, the stars of the show, I think they actually deserved the spirit of the event prize, novice team on the first time out, proved to some of the old school teams how to do things and had a beautifully turned out car, never run before.
Thankfully, the Dutch were our neighbours, and they had proper coffee...
Richard Hollis, (Hollis on here) was our first man out, the car was fresh from a fair bit of work after the roll at Silverstone, the team painted it before qualifying!
Some of the Flying Dutchmen before the race.
Dutch pitstops were fast and efficent, showed great teamwork.
Crisis racing, aptly named unfortunately, as they had a few this weekend.
This is the car of Crossways Academy. The team consisted of The racing Rasta, Olly, two brothers who'd passed their ARDS test that week, a young lad called Chris who'd been borrowed from another team, and a car with a broken chassis that wasn't built.
Myself, and Richard and Tom from Team Hollis stepped in and welded a UJ into the steering column, finished welding a lot of the roll cage that was missing, fitted a seat and harnesses, empied the diesel from the fuel tank. The guys scraped through into the race by the skin of thier teeth and a lot of help from everybody on the pitlane, the three of us and Chris sorted them out every pitstop, kept the car going and generally calmed things down when the guys were in a flap with the stress of it all.
This is at the point when the race was red flagged due to fog...
During the red flag period the cars were under a parc ferme condition, hence we were not allowed to touch them until the race was continued.
So folk generally had a kip or a chat..
The dutch car bent a rear arm after the green flag went up, the team did it under 20 mins and had the car back, perfect and slightly faster afterwards!
You don't get this in F1, a car breaks down and the driver pushes it back to the pits himself...
Crossways academy teams final session about to start, they complained about the car suffering fuel starvation towards the end, i caned it around the pits and couldnt tell so sent them back out. It finished, plum last, but as I doubted that it'd ever make the startline without a miracle, it was quite something!
The love is spreading!
That's all folks! i'll have a word with the other guys on the Hollis team and see if they'd mind me posting their pics up here too.
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samfieldhouse wrote:
What I like about I2F is that there is no pretence of democracy.
were on the case... keep an ear/ eye out. Everyone keep the dates free.
this year was my first! and i enjoyed every minute of it!
