Hi all,
Well, the BORC Round 2 was an entertaining weekend in some nice weather over at Ellesmere - thanks to Gordon from CA who called by and had a chat - nice to see you and thanks for your support. The course was a mixture of fast field sections, some varied woodland, and one forest section where the tracks were covered in bark and wood chippings that rutted up into unpredictable humps/dips and "washboards". The latter made for some interesting flying lessons at speed in mid-forest, tested the suspension to say the least, and went well beyond acceptable limits of being shaken around in the car! Overall, a slightly disappointing finish, with 2nd in class and 25th overall from 54 starters, caused by scoring a maximum time on one round, where we lost around five and a half minutes. Our ignition power just cut out completely part way round on the second run out of ten, leaving us pissed off and stranded until we traced it eventually to the internals of the switch breaking (thanks a bunch Demon Tweeks!). Back on course, we managed to make up time hand over fist to get back up the board and one more run would have secured a second class win, but that's racing unfortunately. Anyway, a simple enough problem to fix and at least it wasn't major enough to stuff up the whole round. Next round up near Lockerbie in Scotland on the first weekend in July, but we'll all have been to LE Mans by then - Hurrah!!!
MG Mark
