Northern Saloon & Sports Cars

Well it had to happen one day. After 35 years of competing in motorsport of all kinds, I returned home from Cadwell Park with a heavily panel damaged car.

Everyone knows that the first couple of corners are the most dangerous and also the ones on which you can easily lose the race. Cadwell has a very narrow startline anyway and lends itself to a first corner mellay. From my perspective, I got an excellent start from 13!!! on the grid and was catching up the 7th & 8th places when the Peugeot 206 seemed to try to squeeze through a non existent gap between the Fiesta of Darren Flounders and John Parton's Honda. I dived for the left as the Honda started to go sideways, thinking he would spear of right. Unfortunately, the 206 kept his foot in spinning John right round through 360 degrees and back across the track where he rolled across my front (2 wheels on the grass by now). I hit his rear quarter and then had Paul Moss and Paul Swift pile into the back of me as they also had no where to go. 8 cars suffered damage in that one and guess what, the car that caused in got none!

John's car has a fair amount of damage, Paul Moss's has severe front end damage whilst mine will need a portapower, wing, door, rear quarter, and totally repainting.

The good news is that the electrics seem fine and the little car was flying with only the driver limiting performance. Roll on Croft as I won't be at Oulton.