The Road Rat (Magazine)

[Karnevil]

Does anyone get The Road Rat?

It's a great quarterly magazine,maybe a bit high brow for me but every now and again and article captures my imagination.

This issue has a piece about a British proposal for a LeMans type race.
The Parsley Hay Peak District Road Race.
It would have been great if it had got the go ahead.

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[Karnevil]

Wasn't the April edition was it?

issue 7 got mine yesterday

[ChrisCar6]

Looks a bit narrow for sportscar racing - wasn't the April edition was it?

[Karnevil]

Looks a bit narrow for sportscar racing - wasn't the April edition was it?
looks about right for 1955 road racing

[Stratos Fear]

Back in the early 70's when I was into road rallying as a student in Sheffield I seem to recall a particularly well-used "white" road (un-surfaced) called Dirtlow Rake which must have been in this area somewhere . Great rallying territory !

[ChrisCar6]

looks about right for 1955 road racing

A few years ago there was a plan to create a road race here based in Jedburgh, but it has never got off the ground.

[Normb666]

Just like those ostrich farms. They never took off either. Heehee!

[Karnevil]

Here you go......................FAO Doubting Thomas!

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-2012/92/peak-practice

[ChrisCar6]

Here you go......................FAO Doubting Thomas!

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-2012/92/peak-practice

Fascinating - it's amazing the risks they were prepared to take in those days. It feels as if we dodged a LeMans/Dundrod - style carnage.
Thomas.

[Karnevil]

Fascinating - it's amazing the risks they were prepared to take in those days. It feels as if we dodged a LeMans/Dundrod - style carnage.
Thomas.

Oddly enough I thought the opposite.
We missed out on a chance to build a state of the art facility learning from those lessons and leading the world......................

[john]

Back in the early 70's when I was into road rallying as a student in Sheffield I seem to recall a particularly well-used "white" road (un-surfaced) called Dirtlow Rake which must have been in this area somewhere . Great rallying territory !

Indeed it is Peter. I don't think you would want to take even the best prepared road rally car down Dirtlow now.
Like so many classis whites it's been ruined by the 4x4 brigade and dirt bikes. Still everyone is entitled to their fun.
Still lots of classic yellows in Derbyshire.
A Trasmeira style event would be a real money spinner for that area.

[Stratos Fear]

Interesting John - it was possible at some speed in those days but as you say interests change with the times (and , no doubt legal and health and safety requirements) so no great surprise. Mind you the roads around the LB workshop are a lot of fun as well (as I discovered recently when I visited) !