Hi everyone, and welcome to the 2010 season, this year will are missing Jes with the famous physics defying Cerbera. This leaves the championship wide open, who will step upto the plate and make 2010 a season to remember? Watch this space.
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Round 5 - Gurston Down - 18th April 2010
Written by Steve Cox
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 19:13
Driving at the historic hillclimbs is exhilarating, soaking up the ambience, then concentrating your efforts into less than a minute for each run. It’s a battle to beat your own previous best time along every metre. Will you remember all the changes you could try, at each split-second while your car bucks and weaves beneath you? Not a chance!
For added excitement, Gurston Down in Wiltshire features the only downhill hillclimb start in the country. We surveyed the sunny countryside panorama spread out below us, and the beckoning ribbon of tarmac.
Revving up at the start, it’s best to banish the memory of those spectacular Gurston incidents on YouTube from the previous night. So you wheelspin away, and gravity-assisted acceleration plummets you scarily quickly to 80-90 mph.
With 2 `no shows' the TVR contingent numbered 6 for round 4 of the 2010 championship at 3 Sisters, split equally between the 2 classes.
The event was generally undersubscribed with only 52 entries. All the better for those of us who could make it. We had a leisurely 9.00 sign on, no queues for scrutineering, and the promise of 2 practice then 6 timed runs around the tight kart circuit, with a finish time of 3.30. Sounds like very good value for money.
From the off the Vixens clearly showed that they fancied their chances, Mike Roe having taken the 25 points at Harewood last week, and Stewart Lobley remembering his 25 points at this venue last year.
For some this was their second event in 6 days, following the Easter Monday outing at Croft. Thankfully the weather had definitely moved into Spring mode, with a glorious, if not initially over warm day for the championship's first visit of the year to Harewood.
12 cars, 5 class A and 7 class B, all duly arrived to compete on what must be the best hill in the north, if not the whole of the country. ( As an unbiased Yorkshireman I have to say that). With the usual slick BARC organisation in top gear practice runs started at 9.00 on the dot, and on the dry track most competitors, including TVRs, behaved themselves resulting in a fairly uneventful first practice. The majority of the TVRs were on 1B tyres, with some drivers being new to them so prudence dictated a careful approach. Only 4 drivers broke into the 60's with Paul Edwards on 68.05 followed by Simon Smith on 69.47 then Stewart Lobley and Steve Dennis both on 69.92.
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