Snetterton

[David]

Big sprint meeting tomorrow and Sunday

Small classes for the JPSCs though. Jeff has to deal with a Marcos GT, and I with a Caterham

But, at least the Marcos is orange (so it must be fast!).

[jeffw]

lol.....I hope to be infront of the Marcos

[dopdog]

Have a great one guys, very envious not to be there so look forward to a full report

[jeffw]

Two Sylva in different classes, 2 class wins !

I'm also pleased to say I scrapped in front of Mr Hussey at the death as well

[beemer]

A few pics in the album below from yesterday. the Marcos was marginally in front of Jeff in the paddock
Nice to meet you yesterday Jeff and thanks for the chat (y)

PS excuse the bikes

https://goo.gl/photos/mL1ah6ZSaKzg4cdf7

[adithorp]

How did your times compare to previous Jeff? Were the new ROP rules being applied?

[David]

Jeff was learning his new car -- and having some "issues" with his Geartronics set-up. However, he still beat me on both days (twice as many horses and stickier tyres may have played a role here -- I certainly can't admit he's a better driver!! ).
Both of us won our classes on both days

[jeffw]

The times today where somewhat faster (down to a 97.18) with loads more to come.

https://youtu.be/Ot2ScWS89aQ

Watching the video I can see at least a couple of secs and that is without dialing the car in.

[jeffw]

Thanks for stopping and having a chat Tony, some nice pictures there

[David]

Thanks for the photo Tony.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned at the top of this thread, both Jeff and I were in very small classes at Snetterton -- and we both won them by well over ten seconds due to car disparities. That sort of margin reduces the fun-quotient of in-class competition to nil, so we need to look elsewhere for a competitive edge -- but you always find someone.
Luckily for me, a gentleman (epithet not applied lightly) named Stephen Laing runs a Caterham R500 in the next class up, and, at Snetterton, we are very evenly matched. I had managed to beat him by a few tenths on Saturday, but on Sunday it was much tighter. I had to leave after two timed runs, at which stage I had him beaten with a time of 98.52s to his paltry 98.53. However, in his third run he improved to a spectacular 98.50s, leaving me trailing in his dust!
That is worthwhile competition.
Stephen features in one of Tony's photos.