Silverstone 2023

[Normb666]

Chaps, can I have a volunteer for the Saturday to perform a hard but rewarding task on behalf of the club please....

I've been contacted by a guy called Nick Wilkinson from Adrian Flux, who's organising something to celebrate their 50th. This includes a place at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, on the Hamilton Straight apparently, and food and drink will be provided. Unfortunately it's just one person per club so is there anyone who's got no mates who'd like to give it a go? Need to know ASAP so I can tell him!

[Basher]

That’s a nice idea norms buts there’s four of us going on Saturday in our gang things might get moody if I nip off for a free corporate lunch , l will pass

[threep]

Whereabouts is the SEC gathering? I can't find any maps ahowing where each car club is. A mate is racing this weekend so I'm based at the Wing.

[hollytree]

Thanks to Ken for organizing and thanks to Ian and Paul for the shelter.
On returning on Sunday morning from our accommodation at the salubrious National Badminton Centre - great accommodation and price plus fantastic Chinese restaurant 1/2 mile away - George and I pulled in for petrol.
On coming out of the forecourt shop a gent was looking at my car.
"Very nice" he said
"Thanks, but it's not real I said"
"I know he said, but you made a good job of it (praise indeed!)"
Anyway we started chatting and it turns out he has a red one, but was not driving it at the weekend as he was competing in some races. He said he would try to come over to the shelter, weather and races permitting

[ProtoTipo]

Anyway we started chatting and it turns out he has a red one, but was not driving it at the weekend as he was competing in some races. He said he would try to come over to the shelter, weather and races permitting

Hi Steve,
That was Paul Tattersall. He's got a real Stratos, and he was racing his Ensign F1 car.

[ProtoTipo]

Another photo of the SEC stand at Silverstone:
I'll be back with more, and a report, later.

[ProtoTipo]

Ok, first of all, a big thank you to Ken Tomblin for sorting the club stand with Silverstone. Especially as Ken didn't know if he was going himself!
Thanks to Julie Tomblin and Paul Hassall for putting the shelter up. I noted the neat symmetry with the Droop Snoot Group next door.
'Nice to see Tom Ransom and Max, Ollie Tomblin and Mrs Ollie, Steve Sellars and Steve's Dad, Steve Cook, Dave Beresford and Tim.

The weather turned out to be pretty good for the whole 3 days. When it did rain, it was fairly brief and often made one end of the circuit wet and the other dry. This made for some interesting racing.
The racing was as enjoyable as ever, but there's so many races on Saturday that it's a challenge to see all that you don't want to miss. For me, Friday is usually about doing everything else that doesn't involve watching the racing, so I had a look round the trade village with Ken, Julie, Paul and then Ian Hassall, after he turned up on his bike. After Ken Julie and Paul went back to the stand on one of the free buses, I walked over to the National pits. On Sunday I managed to get a bus to the International pits (Silverstone Wing) and get back to the infield (on another bus) before the first race started. Later on Sunday I watched the Formula 1 race from the Hamilton Straight grandstand, and saw Lancia Stratos owner Paul Tattersall spin his Ensign on a very greasy track. He didn't hit anything and neatly turned out of the spin to make the car go straight and forwards, which looked quite impressive. 'Had a look at the vast collection of RS200s, the display of current F1 cars and some of the other club stands before spectating again in the Luffield/Woodcote grandstand towards the end of Sunday afternoon. All in all an enjoyable weekend, if not a little bit tiring. It's probably an age thing? Here's some of the photos I took with one of the first Coolpix that Nikon ever made...