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ChrisCar6
Wasn't the April edition was it?
issue 7 got mine yesterday
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Looks a bit narrow for sportscar racing - wasn't the April edition was it?
Re: The Road Rat (Magazine)
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ChrisCar6
Looks a bit narrow for sportscar racing - wasn't the April edition was it?
looks about right for 1955 road racing
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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 !
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Karnevil
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.
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Just like those ostrich farms. They never took off either. Heehee!
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Here you go......................FAO Doubting Thomas!
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a.../peak-practice
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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.
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ChrisCar6
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......................