Tour Britannia 2014

[catswhiskers]

Looks like Phil was in top 10 times on 12 of the 16 stages. Very consistent and a credit to Phil & Helens team work and the cars reliability. Well done guys. If I'm not mistaken, thats 3 class wins in 3 years.

Mick

[carol]

We'll done Phil & Helen on your win
xxx John & Carol

[LM mic]

Absolute congratulation to Philip and Helen !
Nice and serious prep; so good win !
Bravo mon ami !

[Bernard]

Hi all

ok here goes

got the timing for practice at Oulton (race1) all wrong.... I hadn't raced there before so I followed someone who had... I followed for 3 laps then backed off to "go for it" ...however the rain came and I qualified about 12th..... Then for the race it was hammering down....driving into a wall of spray... I got a good start but the guys in front didn't so no where to go.... Had a dice with a rapid Fulvia 1.6hf who I got passed in a couple of laps then moved up to Mike Smith in. Mk1 escort and overtook him only to spin out ... No damage done... I then set off to chase him down again.... Caught up with him to finally cross the line in a dead heat for 11th equal.....

prior or to the event I chose to take Michelin wets... That proved to cost me dearly in the next 2 dry races at Anglesey !.... But on the stages they held up pretty good... In the races they felt like driving on jelly tyres....

i guess you you can see the stage times online, we had a really good event finishing 7th overall and 1st in the Post
Historics.... We had some surprising placings even finishing joint 1st on one stage and beating the eventual winner on a couple of stages.......so quite happy as we were self supported with nobody changing our tyres or bleeding our brakes !

thanks to Mel and John Davidson for coming along to give moral support

thanks to all the organisers and Marshall's of Tour Britannia

Cheers
Phil and helen

[Bernard]

Some piccies at www.sbkmotorsport.com

[Bernard]

Forgot to say that I suffered a seized rad fan which blew the fuse so it took out both fans, this resulted in a very hot engine at the start of the first Anglesey race and at the same part of the circuit on each lap the engine would cutout for about 100 metres...... So I started to go backwards down the field...... Got it sorted for race two but only running one fan... Just managed to finish the race before the engine got too hot.... I did have the cabin heater on full blast to help the situation !!....

[john]

Well done Phil and Helen.
Looks to have been a blast.
Conditions at Oulton were really dire for the race.
Pictures on the professional photographers site are witness to that.
You are not the first or last to spin out of Old Hall, that's for sure. One of the best places to do it!
Glad the rest of the event went well despite the rad fans issues.

[LM mic]

Hey Phill
Next year it will not be so easy !! you will have to watch your mirrors some french S..... Strat will follow you close , very close !! ( Hummm §§ hope so if everythng runs ok with the built ???) LOL

[Stratie.fr]

Some piccies at www.sbkmotorsport.com

Congrats and thanks for the link with nice professionnal pictures of the event!

See you maybe on Britannia Tour next year with John and Me in an other Stratos of the SEC ...

Regards

[john]

Wow!! Sounds great Frederic!