Lydden, Saturday 19th Ocotber

Last Lydden event on Saturday 19th of OCtober, as usual, sprint in the morning (Riku competing) and racing (me) in the afternoon.
Sprint and race entries still available should anyone want a go.
let me know for more info and to put your name on the gate if you want to come. As I have a sprint and race entry I should be good for a few free entries to this one.

I am aiming to put an entry in for the sprint too Mark. Should be a good weekend i believe a load of guys from FDMC are entering as well.... a certain hooligan known to this club may also make an appearance but i am not holding my breath

Are you going down Friday night...mind you you wimpy racers hotel it these days

si21

I am aiming to put an entry in for the sprint too Mark. Should be a good weekend i believe a load of guys from FDMC are entering as well.... a certain hooligan known to this club may also make an appearance but i am not holding my breath

Are you going down Friday night...mind you you wimpy racers hotel it these days

si21

Holiday inn express mate, not camping there in October.

Entry sent in i believe entries are £99 up until the 11th October then they increase to £125 as a last min.com thang.

now all i gots to do is fix Christine...
si21

Well entry accepted, I have some problems with the car electrical short suspected windscreen wiper motor flattening the battery, once started it charges enough to keep it starting for a short periods of time. I also have a suspected warped front brake disc or a flat spotted front tyre or both, I was constantly locking up the nearside left front under late heavy braking, can be driven around but not ideal.

Riku treat me gently I have a fragile ego at the moment LOL

Si21....ready to be smoked LOL

Plenty of interest in this morning Sprint with Riku & Mitchell in Clio's and Simon Gamblen and Tim Jeffreys in their big banger Alpine's, while Tony Gomis is also out in the can am. Several other Clio's also entered. And in the afternoon I will be racing the Clio.
Between us should have plenty of entrance passes available so get your names down if you want to come and have a look.
Race and Sprint entries are still available also.

No one coming then?
still places available.

[stephendell]

Where's the entry list and timetable? Is there a link?

[stephendell]

Found it here: http://www.lyddenhill.co.uk/

[stephendell]

Actually there was only basic info there. Anyone got an entry list...

When is the sprint scheduled to finish and racing start?

What day for the whole family!

Firstly though it was great to see a good turnout of Alpine's and Renaults for the Sprint. Tim Jeffery's A610, Simon Gamblens GTA, Tony Gomis in his A110 (it was raining after all!) Mitchel Perry's Clio 182, another couple of Clio's as well showed up. Only one person missing really, Mr Taylor are you listening?

First up have to go back to last Monday when I took the plunge and ordered a new set of Michelin Wet race tyres as the set I had inherited were past their best as my performance at Brands Hatch proved, with this Lydden race and the Birkett at Silverstone next Sunday I did not want to be caught out if it rained hard again. £950 is a lot to shell out on something that may not ever be used but in this case the investment paid off as Lydden was wet!

Riku was first out in the sprint and set a benchmark practice time on the wet tyres (track was only damp at this point), close rival Rodger Burgess in the escort slithered around on Slicks and could not match Riku's time, Mitchel set a 3rd ( out of 5) in class time. First timed run then and now raining far harder, the Escort had swapped to wets and I was expecting a fast time from it, it was, 92.32 pipped Rikus practice time but he was now on track and set a 90.12. 2 seconds up on his practice time set in drier conditions. But more was to come in the final run. The Escort went slower in now totally wet condition's but, somehow Riku found another second or so and posted an impressive 88.78, not only winning the class but was 4th overall in the entire sprint- beaten only by 3 single seaters a huge achievement and to put into context, my fastest ever Lydden time in the Spider, on slicks was 85.67.





Congratulations to Tim Jefrey on a fine class win and even Simon Gamblen had a good day, despite a spin at one point!

Times of interest here.
Riku Garner 88.78
Mitchel Perry 97.54
Tim Jefrey 99.33
Simon Gamblen 105.90
Tony Gomis 111.32


So, on to the afternoons racing. Still wet and raining. Set a practice time good for 4th on the grid and finished 4th after an uneventful race although my engine stopped on the grid giving me a heart stopping moment just as the 5 seconds board was shown, luckily it re started just as the red lights came on.
Race 2 then, on the grid 4th and got a good start into 3rd which became second when Bill Richards spaceframe Metro stopped on the track, unfortunately bringing out a red flag and a re start, Inexplicably, the grid was lined up in original order with the repaired Bill Richards back in his front row position- (will have to check the regs to see why that was as his car had failed after the original re start?). Start 2 then and the red lights came on for a brief second and flick off almost instantly (there is supposed to be a wait of a certain amount of seconds) which caught me out and several cars passed me but another failed car on the grid bought out another red flag so back the 4th on the grid again. This time I got a great start and somehow was in either the lead or second (waiting to check the go pro footage) when yet another red flag came out, back to the grid- this time for a front row starting position- a first! Another good start into second place but knowing the faster cars are behind me Is a bit of a worry and spent too long looking in the mirror and got passed by one car and then the superfast Mazda RX7 (which won the first race) eventually barged past in the hairpin which involved a bit of contact. Although the leaders were not too far away, I could not catch them so settled down for another 4th place finish only to be caught by surprise by the Ginetta which crept up on me with a couple of laps to go. 5th place then but luck would have it, the leaders Suburu went off on the final corner of the last lap handing my 4th place back to me.

2 fourth places then and a great day!

thanks for reading.

Love these write ups! Yourself and Riku sound like your having a blast and doing really well. Are you planning on going to the Surrey Quays meet on Monday?

Cheers.

Love these write ups! Yourself and Riku sound like your having a blast and doing really well. Are you planning on going to the Surrey Quays meet on Monday?

Cheers.

Yes John, one of us at least should be there.

Mark, Riku,
Sounds like you had a great time out.
I was down on the International Rallye Sunseeker in Ringwood, Marshaling.

[BIG_MVS]

Well done Riku that's a really impressive time. 11 seconds quicker than Tim Jeffreys A610 wowsers!