Club Arnage

Anyone going? Anyone dressing up?

Going on Sunday with my dad. My brother is there today and Sunday helping (or hindering) a friend of his run a red & white Mk 1 Zepher in one of the races.

I won't be dressing up, but I fear my old man will be.

We'll be dressed up. Look out for us.

Any chance of putting a Club Arnage sticker on the back of them so I can pick you out in the crowd?

Shall be there sunday, dressing up. It's on Speed tv in the states. Not shown here till October 24th 11pm

Did anybody get any good pics from the weekend espcially the 8 Spit flypast, must have been awsome, gutted couldnt be there.
Peter, did you get to the testing day?

Here are a few (72!) pictures I took at the weekend and some few my wife took at the test day.
 
I was only there Sunday so did not see the formation fly past.

All in all a good day once the weather cheered up!

http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/c1063853.html

Thanks Nordic, great pics, dont know if I feel better or worse now.

Never mind Goodwood, I just looked at Nordic's photos of the 1980 Val de Terre hillclimb. God it takes me back, my first 'climb was in 1980 at Loton Park and I later got to know some of the people in those photo's including Roy Lane, Martyn Griffiths and Rob Turnbull. Jeez I feel old...

Hi As it says this is in Guernsey and has been on the RAC calender for a long time

In this picture is the Tiga run by the dad of Andy Priaulx's who is the current WTC Champion.     http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/p4092282.html  huge money was spent on this car including, I think, NOS at one time. Grahams dad owned the local Fiat garage. I think he actually won some rounds in this car. Andy also went on, I think, to win the British Hillclimb Championship. Not sure in which car.

>Martini...

I looked but only found traffic chaoes and piss....ed people.

Oh and the idiot in the Aston who was very drunk. You idiot

Don't despair Mr. Z, the fact that Roy Lane is STILL competing should make you feel a bit more youthful. Last spotted him charging up Shelsley Walsh over the August bank holiday in a very tasty 911RS.

I read that Newey and Dario Franchitti both managed to crack up E-Types, with Franchitti's bang-up being serious enough to keep him from the last irl race of the season.  The E-Type's probably safer than one of those sh**boxes, anyway.  Probably for the best.

Hasn't Newey crashed twice this year - was it a GT 40.

Stick to what you're good at

Well obviously he is really good at crashing.
You have just brought back a very sad memory of the Classic.  And I was having such a good time... :(

Newey is a total liability behind the wheel by the look of it. Two big write-offs in practice/qualifying, he was only driving the E type cos he'd smacked up his GT40 beyond recognition. If one of his F1 drivers had such a record they'd have been sacked on the spot. Get back behind the CAD/CAM terminal Adrian before you hury yourself properly.

I did hear that his crash at the Classic was not his fault, but a failure somewhere on the car, maybe a tyre.

As normal some pretty historic cars came away from goodwood with some damage, including one driven by Stuart Graham who had his very first racing crash if my dad is to be believed, and pretty much anything driven by
Carlos Monteverde who must win the award for more money than talent.

However I would rather see these cars be raced than be locked up in in a museum somewhere. I just wish it was in not such an inept manner.

Wasnt it Carlos Monteverde who almost totaled a yellow GT 250 a couple of years ago? I agree the cars should be raced - not one fully competive car would be totally authentic after its first race anyhow - the optimum (i.e.the ones with the most provenance) race car finishes a race just befor it falls to bits, it is then take back to base to be rebuilt with new parts and raced again to the same limits, this is without the inevitable crashes that a car is likely to have if its driven on its limit. If a car is worth more than £1M it will last for ever because it will always be financially viable to repair it.