The centre decided to run a grass autotest at the Bywell classic car show so I decided to enter with the BGT just for a laugh. It's been over 30 years since I last did an autotest competitively so I was looking forward to seeing if I still had it.
It was a scorching hot day and rough on the marshals who were out in the heat all the time.
There were two tests and the plan was to have three runs at each, all times counting. After three runs at test one it was decided to only have one run at test two to give the marshals some relief from the heat.
Did I still have it? Well sort of. I finished 6th out of 10 entries, which wasn't where I was hoping to be. My only consolation is that I didn't do a wrong test or hit a cone. I just wasn't quick enough. My times were improving on each of the three runs at test one but I was way too slow on test two.
Pam took some amazing video of the tests which are shown in full later. Here is a short compilation to give a flavour of the event.
It was a scorching hot day and rough on the marshals who were out in the heat all the time.
There were two tests and the plan was to have three runs at each, all times counting. After three runs at test one it was decided to only have one run at test two to give the marshals some relief from the heat.
Did I still have it? Well sort of. I finished 6th out of 10 entries, which wasn't where I was hoping to be. My only consolation is that I didn't do a wrong test or hit a cone. I just wasn't quick enough. My times were improving on each of the three runs at test one but I was way too slow on test two.
Pam took some amazing video of the tests which are shown in full later. Here is a short compilation to give a flavour of the event.
Here are the full runs at both the tests.
Interestingly just after I put these videos on Youtube I got two notices of copyright infringement because of the music in the background. I'm not sure what I was supposed to do to avoid that. If I deleted the soundtrack from the video and put on some royalty free music, I would have lost the sound from the cars. Ah well, that's life.
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