Sunday 30 April 2000

Stoney Street Accident

The accident at Stoney Street happened on the friday evening as Ray Goodwright, the chief marshal was using the last of the daylight to set upthe section.    He was walking down the section and his wife Brenda was following in the 4x4.    She lost contol of the vehicle, and ran over Ray, punting him off the track down the hole.    She and the vehicle then slid over after him, rolling over several times in the process.   She was not wearing a seat belt, but the air bag went off preventing her from suffering serious harm.    Not surprisingly, when she crawled out of the wreakage, her first thought was that she had killed her husband!    She went for help, and an ambulance was brought to the scene.   Ray was taken to hospital where a crushed shoulder has been diagnosed.

The shoulder is going to have to be completely rebuilt, and this process is expected to take a good TWO YEARS.     Fortunately, Ray is a fairly pedantic sort of person, and therefore both he and Brenda had signed on before they left home so both are covered by the MSA insurance.   Also fortunate is the fact that the Policeman who came to the scene had the foresight to rescue the signing on sheet from the wreakage before the rain could destroy it.

 

Friday 28 April 2000

Bluehills

I now have a theory regarding Bluehills. The reason it appears to be so difficult is all to do with the anticipation (fear?) that builds up whilst you slowly make your way down the approach road in an endless queue of cars. In fact you work yourself up to a failure. But if you are very lucky as I was last weekend you arrive at the start of Bluehills 1 with not another car in sight on 1 or 2. The marshals hurry you up, you quickly let down the tyres, clean 1, straight to the start line of 2, sun in your eyes, cannot see anything let alone the restart, start, stop, restart, clean section. Stop, blow up tyres. It all takes less than 5 minutes. You then ask yourself what all the fuss is about Bluhills? its easy. Ah but its all in the mind you see, no queues no problem.

Well thats my theory for 2000!!!

Stuart Harrold, Troll, number 351on the Lands End

Monday 24 April 2000

Photo Album!!!!!!!

Help!

 I cannot seem to add any more photos to Northern Trial Album.

When I try, all I get is a light blue box  with no info.

What am I doing Wrong??? 

Saturday 22 April 2000

Lands End 2000


A rare mistake by David Heale ensures that he will be practising his panel beating skills....

Friday 21 April 2000

Lands End Chat

Lets set up a chat on the Lands End.

Drop by The Chat Room at 9pm on Sunday and Monday and share your experiences.

Click on the Link on the left.

If you haven't been there before go in a few minutes early as Mr Microsoft needs to download a little piece of Software. It's automatic and takes less than a minute.

Don't want to chat just listen in? You can only do this if you are a Member. Sign up and drop in!

Michael

Thursday 20 April 2000

Lands End - can you help?

Hi Everyone,

Usual request - If you can let me have any material on the Lands End I will be really greatfull. How you and your buddees got on, anything you saw or heard - it all helps. Pictures to of course.

I am passengering Mike Hayward in his White Class 7 Escort Mk 3. We are starting from Bristol at around 9.

Hopefully we will get to Penzance in which case we will be eating at the Admiral Benbow in Chapel Street. Good grub and a quite a nice drinking place before the youngsters arrive!

Michael

Friday 14 April 2000

ACTC Site - Problems???

Hi everyone,

Doug S e-mailed me to say he is having problems following my link from Classical Gas to the ACTC site. Can some of you give it a try and let me know how you get on.

Michael

Tuesday 11 April 2000

New Picture from John

Check out the new pictures John Salter has added to his "Blast from the past album" - They are great.

Michael

Friday 7 April 2000

MCC now on the WEB!!

WWW.UKMOTORSPORT.COM/MCC

There are a few anomalies with the site at present - the News page has disappaered, and the list of Basingstoke starters for the Lands End is blank, but these should be sorted by the end of the day.

I know that the site needs more 'photos, and I would appreciate any comments that will help improve the site.   " tis a simple thing but mine own"

Tell you friends about it, and tell them to e-mail me with thoughts, that will help me build up a list of  "Friends of the MCC Web Site" who will get mailled when updates are made.

 

 

 

Wednesday 5 April 2000

Stroud Anniversary Trial

Now that the first new trial of 2000 is over, can I remind you all to put the 11th November in your diaries - yes it is a Saturday again but this time the first car will be off at midnight on the Friday. The format is as advertised in previous issues of Restart and should offer a distinctly different sort of trial to the Northern and, indeed, to any current ACTC trial - a sort of mix of the Exeter, Allen, and Cotswold Clouds.

The route planning is well-advanced with the vast majority of sections on county roads, and those that aren't are all on 'proper' tracks. There will be minimal, if any, overlap with sections used for the Clouds. We hope to run five or six sections, including at least one special test, at night. A lot of the route will be on 'green lanes' - yes we do have them in the Cotswolds - and we have found a decent number of historic sections that have not been used for years. Some were last used for the Guy Fawkes Trial in the 1960s and 70s, one goes back to the 1950 Fedden Trial, and some have not been used (as far as I am aware) since the 1930s.

Some of the sections will be comparatively easy (unless we have really bad weather) and shouldn't stop anyone unless they're very silly but others will be as taxing as anything on the three events mentioned above. We have at least one potential 'all classes' stopper if I can persuade the farmer to let us use it (the entrance and exit are UCRs but the section, unfortunately, is a Bridleway).

More news as and when we have it.

Andrew

Sunday 2 April 2000

Kyrle Video on the net

Hi everyone,

I have put a short Video on the net. It's called murray.avi and it can be found on www.idrive.com

Log on as "classicalgas" password is "trials"

There are a couple of other bits I put there just to try this idrive concept. Anyway, let me know how you get on. You can use this idrive to upload stuff for others to download.

Why not get an idrive of your own if you like it! If you do let us know so we can al share files with you.

Michael