Tigger at Thruxton

Tigger is currently at Thruxton ready and raring to go. We had two 25 minute practice sessions yesterday's to quickly get up to speed. So today is 1 x 15min qual and 2 x 20 min race. But more importantly the sun is out and shining :-)

Thruxton countdown

Car and trailer packed for Thruxton. Tigger making his own way there!

Tigger Update: On the mends

Tigger after Arch’s long front surgery

Tigger back at McMillian’s workshop

Next step – The paint shop

Week today – testing at Thruxton

2 weeks and counting.

2 weeks and counting until Thruxton. Tigger is back from Arch + a new long front. (you'll never guess, but the A5 was closed when my mother was returning Tigger to McMM. She has not had much luck with these journey's! This time she stopped on a roundabout to look at the map and a lovely police came to the rescue. I swear she should have asked for his number!) So tigger is waiting for the fabulous guys at McMM to rebuild him. It feels like ages since I've seen the red lights go off. Can't wait roll on Thruxton.

The next chapter–Tigger’s journey to the Bones Hospital.

Ok, so the blog has been a bit poor since I decided to drive into the pit wall in Anglesey. Mainly because I am still truly gutted. It was completely my fault and one of course I will learn from. Motor Racing is an expensive sport without having to pay for additional repair bills. Anyway, to try and get the repair bill a little smaller I have managed to twist my mothers arm to pick Tigger up from McMM and drive it to Arch in Huntingdon (School holidays are not for another 2 weeks, otherwise I would have been able to do it to). In fact, it didn’t take much twisting but my mother hasn’t done much trailering on her own, so it was bound to be an exciting experience.

Ok, so today's mission by my mother was to drive from her home in Grantham with an empty trailer to McMillan Motorsport in Hinkley to collect Tigger and take it down to Arch Motors in Huntingdon.  All was going well until turning left onto the road where McMillan are based to find that the road was closed with local access only.  Because McMillan were very close by she thought that she would be able to gain local access but soon realised after turning left that it was access to just a short row of houses only.  She managed to just about turn round with the trailer (About 100 point turns) but was blocking the road (This is a very impressive feat, my mother has only recently starting towing, done very little on her own and I don’t think before today she has reserve it in a straight line, let alone completing a turn in the road).  A local resident got out of her car and asked if she could help and said that she was driving that way and would show her an alternative route.  However the new way my mother was shown ended up being another dead end. Unfortunately this time it was up a narrow residential street with cars parked either side.  My mother did not have McMillan's number so she had to call Arch to ask them to call McMillan to come out and rescue her!  To cut a long story short McMillan came to the rescue and Rodney finally arrived to save the day (Mums new knight in shining armour – or mine, who knows what would have happened without him! Im surprised she is still speaking to me!). Rodney reversed the trailer back up the road and guided her to the McMillan workshop. A dismantled and very poorly Tigger was put on the trailer and she then drove down to Arch Motors, delivered the car safely and then drove home! A round trip of four and a half hours!  She has to return next week to collect the car and take it back to McMillan to complete the rebuild (Let hope the road isn’t still closed).  Arch Motors are based opposite Hotel Chocolat that has a factory shop selling discounted chocolate.  I think she deserves a big box! I might even splash out and get the none discounted ones – I think she deserves it. Don’t you?

Hello Anglesey Pit Wall, Goodbye Race Weekend

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Amanda’s Lap Record on Motors TV Blog

Amanda’s Lap Record at Rockingham Speedway now appears on the Motors TV Blog. Click Here to view it. Happy reading.

LAP RECORD HOLDER

Amanda Black Classic Graduate Caterham lap record holder at Rockingham Speedway – International Sports Car – 1:38.396 May 2012

McMillian Motorsport Caterham Graduates Lap Records

Rockingham–Race 5 & 6

Qualifying – Wet – P8 & P7
Race 1 – DNF + Fastest Lap
Race 2 – 7th + Fastest Lap

Tigger coming back on the flat loader after the end of Race 1. Snapped lower right wishbone after setting the fastest ever lap round Rockingham Speedway in a Classic Caterham – Smashing the old record by 0.8 seconds!

Luckily the car was repairable for race 2. Thanks to Stuart Higgins for lending me a lower right wishbone and McMillian Motorsport for fitting it. Started P7. Had a rubbish start and failed to select 2nd. Dropped to P11 and spent the rest of the 20 minutes battling with the others. Finished P7. What an exciting race. P2 –> P8 all battling at every single corner! Achieved fastest lap again.

Although a DNF and 7th position was disappointing - the season to date is going well. Highlight summary after 6 races.

1 x 2nd place,
1 x 3rd place,
3 x fastest laps
1 x fastest lap record

Draft Rockingham Timetable–19-20 May 2012

http://www.barc.net/images/stories/pdfs/timetables/HQ1213_RK192005_V4.pdf