Where and When
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:08 pm
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Re: Where and When
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:20 pm
Snetterton, Sunday 8th June 1975.
London Car Club and Romford Enthusiasts Car Club, Clubman's Car Races.
London Car Club and Romford Enthusiasts Car Club, Clubman's Car Races.
Re: Where and When
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:30 pm
Gracious Mary, how on earth did you know thatMary Lindsay wrote:Snetterton, Sunday 8th June 1975.
London Car Club and Romford Enthusiasts Car Club, Clubman's Car Races.
Re: Where and When
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:39 pm
I was there under my alias - Miss Smith. 
Re: Where and When
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:33 am
I was there too – no alias. Third in class I was but the first in Class – Chris Cooke – had a ‘modsports’ car as you will see from his lap time close to +8 time
Re: Where and When
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:26 pm
I received a Christmas card from a friend recently (well of course recently!), and he also enclosed the programme from that meeting. Apparently he had seen it in an antique shop in Norfolk while on holiday and thought I would like it.
I don't know how much he paid for it, but the cover price was 15p.
I don't know how much he paid for it, but the cover price was 15p.
Re: Where and When
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:33 pm
Thanks for showing Bob!
Best wishes for 2015,
Machiel.
Best wishes for 2015,
Machiel.
Re: Where and When
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:03 am
Hi Bob
Most interesting.
I used to meet up with Robin Gray at a friend's parties; it appears he was quite quick.
I cannot reconcile the lap time as being consistent with it being at Snetterton though. I have records of lap times at all the circuits current in 1964(OK 11yrs previous) and the over 2500cc GT record was held by Mike Parkes in a Ferrari at 1m 39.6s, 97.95mph! It could be that they used a shorter circuit than the conventional 2.71 mile circuit that I used to drive on but I was not aware that they had 2 circuits back then.
No doubt Mary or Leigh can enlighten us.
housie
PS I tried to attach the document but although I attempted to reduce the file size it wouldn't accept it saying the file was too big!
Most interesting.
I used to meet up with Robin Gray at a friend's parties; it appears he was quite quick.
I cannot reconcile the lap time as being consistent with it being at Snetterton though. I have records of lap times at all the circuits current in 1964(OK 11yrs previous) and the over 2500cc GT record was held by Mike Parkes in a Ferrari at 1m 39.6s, 97.95mph! It could be that they used a shorter circuit than the conventional 2.71 mile circuit that I used to drive on but I was not aware that they had 2 circuits back then.
No doubt Mary or Leigh can enlighten us.
housie
PS I tried to attach the document but although I attempted to reduce the file size it wouldn't accept it saying the file was too big!
Re: Where and When
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 8:08 am
Alan,
You have to VERY SURE of your facts before posting anything on this site. There are too many PEDANTS only too willing to point out your mistakes, and humiliate you (well it happens to me a lot
). To avoid them causing you any embarrassment I post a copy of the circuit lay out taken from the programme.
As we all get older the memory tends to fa ................................
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Re: Where and When
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:04 am
Judging from the times written in the programme I would say we were on the 1.917 miles circuit.
Nice to see the proper names for the corners though - such a shame that some have been changed.
Nice to see the proper names for the corners though - such a shame that some have been changed.