Again this is for those who like this sort of thing - I raced at Brands in the Historic Roadsports ByBox meeting and have posted the in car video in the link below. The race was also covered on Motors TV. (if this isn't your bag, then just skip on past this post!)
To set the scene, I decided to try out some Toyo 888 tyres as opposed to the Yokohama A048 that we normally run. The upshot is that the tyres have good grip but a weak carcass (in my opinion) so that as you can see it was quite difficult to drive with a very squirmy front end!
I was on pole but as expected I was beaten off the line by a well driven Griffith (Mathew Truelove) and couldn't get past him on the twisty bits and then was left for dead on the straights. Behind me (most of the time) I had Dave Randall in his G4 Ginetta which meant that I had to defend on the very bits where I wanted to attack.
Plenty of other nice cars out there - 5 Elans and a Plus 2.
For any of you that race in UK, Historic Roadsports with the HSCC really is tremendous fun with highly competitive close racing - and generally done in gentlemanly fashion.
I've attached a pic that shows the action but is from a long way off - anyone got some better photos?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4yT26ZWmKY&feature=feeduPaul