Auto 66 Club – Car & Motorcycle Sprint – Mallory Park.

I received the paperwork today for Mallory Park on Saturday.  It looks to be a very interesting paddock including motorcycles, which I hadn’t realised would be there. Excellent!

Looking at the programme at the most important class – the “2 & 4 seater sports cars up to 2000cc” I see there are no fewer than four MX5s: Me, Dave Field from Phoenix Fives (my local MX5 club) who is taking part in his first sprint and two Mugglestones – Alan and Nick sharing a 1990 Mk1.  But where’s Tony Thomas? Well, he entered the “Standard Saloons & Sports Cars 1400 – 2000cc” class. This is probably a mistake but makes no difference to us in the HSA MX5 class as it’s just our times that are important. So that’s five MX5s – the largest field this year. And more cars mean more points are available.

Other cars that caught my eye are a 1999Alfa GTV ( I don’t think there’s a single Alfa I do not like and I can’t explain why I’ve never had one.  It’s certainly not because I let my head rule my heart – I once had a V6 Ford Cougar.)  A Renault Alpine – said in a previous post that I like those; an 8 litre Dodge Viper – I want to see that go round Gerrards; a rare Talbot Lotus Sunbeam; a 1976 Lancia Fulvia and lots of Morgans.  Lots of single seater racing cars too, but you must realise by now that that’s not really where I’m at at the moment.

The bikes look interesting too especially to my mind the two strokes (I used to race a Kawasaki 500 triple) – there’s a 1981 Yamaha TZ and a Honda NSR V4.  There are also five sidecars and a trike – should be interesting!

The Auto 66 Club’s Final Instructions contain some rules that must have been imposed by Mallory Park.  One that I haven’t seen before is that because so many competitors dropped oil in the paddock last year we all have to put a plastic sheet under our cars.  The other really odd one is that all competitors should bring “absorbent pads” with failure to do so carrying a £100 fine.  Well I have promised to be braver this week so perhaps I’ll need them.

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  1. Tena for Men, brilliant. Oddly enough I work for a chemical dsitributor and we sell prodcuts made by Oil Dri which include exactly the sort of thing that would be ideal for the purpose, though I didn’t find out until to late to do anything about it.

  2. Hope you had a good day. Weather was very variable wasn’t it. The Auto66 are sprinting again on Sun (6th June) at Elvington airfield, York and again at Olivers Mount, Scarborough in August, bikes & cars.
    Stu

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