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View from Pit Lane – Edition 20
Le Vigeant – 26/27/28/29 August – Part 4 Sunday race position 6th Matt was up at 7 am making coffee, the smell of which tempted me out of bed to join him. We formulated a quick plan then got to work on Trudie with the usual race prep routine. I took the wheels next door to…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 19
Le Vigeant – 26/27/28/29 August – Part 3 Race position 8th. Another gorgeous late summer’s day ahead of us. The race prep had already been started on Friday evening, it was just a case of finishing off, buying some new tyres and giving Trudie a final clean. We had 2 qualifying sessions and 1 race to…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 18
Le Vigeant – 26/27/28/29 August – Part 2 The weather forecast was set fair for the next four days and so it proved with a glorious sunrise for Thursday’s track day. Both Matt and I had had fitful sleep, the ‘will she, won’t she’ scenario was a heavy burden, so we were up early drinking coffee…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 17
Le Vigeant – 26/27/28/29 August – Part 1 This is one of the meetings we’ve all been looking forward to the most, giving our friends the ideal opportunity to come along, support Rik and see what it’s all about. ???? Since Pau, Matt and I have put some hours in on Trudie to finally get to…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 16
News Update 24th August 2021 The fickle finger of fate moves in mysterious and wondrous ways. Last week I was expecting the delivery, from UPS, of our tweaked ignition. Instead, I received an email from BDK Race Engineering informing me that the Royal Mail guy had picked up our parcel, by accident or stupidity or…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 15
Pau Arnos 6/7/8 August – Part 2 I was up early, just before sun up, closely followed by Matt who also had troubled sleep. Both of us had been going through the procession of problems we’ve had all season, trying to piece together some kind of diagnosis. Nothing is adding up, but both of us…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 14
Pau Arnos 6/7/8 August – Part 1 The twelve days since Haute Saintonge was barely sufficient time to recover and not enough time for a new speed sensor to be delivered before leaving for Pau. The only choice was to fit the speed sensor from the spare engine. Matt had printed out a test procedure…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 13
Haute Saintonge 23/24/25 July – Part 4 – Sunday Matt and I were up early, for differing reasons. Me because I wanted to get to work on the race prep and Matt because of his tooth which was now so bad his face had swollen quite badly during the night. Cruelly, I did have a chuckle at his…
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View from Pit Lane – Edition 12
Haute Saintonge 23/24/25 July – Part 3 – Saturday View from Pit Lane part 3 Up and out of our bunks at 7 am for coffee, nicotine and a peek outside to witness a beautiful dawn, not a cloud in the sky. Matt and I chatted for a bit, not mentioning our respective health problems, then…
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