Easter Racing at Combe

[Speedman]

Spent Easter Monday at Combe as I have done for the last 14yrs now. The timetable wasn't as good as previous years, but there were still some good races even if grids were smaller at times. We had a walk round the paddock during the morning.

Owned by one of the Marcos drivers.

Marcos












The CCRC Saloons are all getting a bit modern now, theres a 10yr production cutoff so 205GTIs and the like are no longer eligible. There was a lone Swift though as well as a couple of new Minis.




Over by the Formula Fords, we spied this very clean BMW

[Speedman]

Taking part in the open GTs race at the end of the day was this stunning Aquilla GR1, a 7lt prototype. Sounded amazing and went like stink in qualifying.








The MG Midget race was for several classes from stock through to modified.






one of the MG drivers was running on the road in this brutal MG SV XPower.


Lastly there were a few MK2 GTIs in a production cup.



;D

[Speedman]

After lunch the racing began, the FF were pretty quiet, the following MGs a bit more frantic, especially at the chicane, lifting a front left on most laps.












The Golf race was also uneventful, though they were lifting the rear rights into that same corner.


The saloon race got nasty when a chap rolled his Saxo at a silly speed, luckily he walked away, but it started a chain reaction of events as a blown engine coated the track in oil and made a massive smoke screen.




Ouch!


The Marcos race also ended badly when one driver stuffed his 1800GT into the Quarry tyres.






After a hectic GT race the Golfs looked much quieter in their second race, until this spin right in front of us bunched a few cars up, then it was lots of leaning and position swapping till the end.







We watched the final FF race end in mayhem and tyre smoke, before heading home.




Sneaking a peek in the College building I spotted a 6R4 replica in progress, looks interesting!


;D

[browser07]

I used to go to the college there was great hearing cars go by when in lectures , what was Dave doing in the infield ?
that metro has moved on a bit since i last saw it

dan

[Speedman]

Apr 26, 2011 21:29:29 GMT browser07 said:

what was Dave doing in the infield?

He went off under the safety car, not sure if he spun when they all braked or clipped someone.

First time the garages there have been open. looks very well set up ;D

[RobinJI]

Looks like a good day, and some nice photos.

Our college was there running our Radical in the Sports and GTs, although I wasn't up there with them this time. If you've got any pictures of a white radical with black wheels, covered in 'Bridgwater College' logos it'd be great to see them

[Speedman]

Got a couple, one in the paddock and one out at Quarry. ;D




;D

[Keefy]

looked like a good day out mate. Cracking photos as always

[Seth]

Apr 28, 2011 22:28:52 GMT Keefy said:

Cracking photos as always

That Marcos pan with the nice rapeseed background is great!

[Graham]

Cool Pics looks like it was a good day