Bedford Car Club

23 May Gravel Autotest

What a good day we had! 16 starters on the day, plus a couple who couldn’t make it in the end, glorious weather (equals, to be honest, bloody hot!) and a good time was had by all.

The inevitable dust problems at Little Houghton led to an unusual instruction from the start marshal “Go when you can see the cones!”. Rob Turner and Becky Greenaway are 2 people connected with the Hare clan who somehow got them selves talked into doing it for the first time. Becky had never sat behind the wheel of a car before today! All said how well she did – in a Mondeo!
With this size of entry we were going to struggle to fit in 3 goes each at 6 tests and, truthfully, with the heat we had all had enough anyway, so we dropped Test 6. But it was still good fun and remarkably close as you can see from the results, apart from Mike Biss of course (but we used to say the same about Roger Dudley not long ago – perhaps we can persuade him to bring the Scamp out for a head to head?). Pete Nicholas brought out his ‘new’ £200 Ford Ka at last, after his trailer failure last time. Sadly he broke his exhaust manifold around halfway, which saw him slip from 2^nd overall at the time. Brother Dave had to take his child (sorry, I don’t remember what variety!) back to University, but still wanted to come out and have a go.

The Wakemans are father and son collecting signatures so Owen can qualify for the MSA Formula 100 championship.

Cath should have won 3 awards, but generously backed out of Lady and Novice.

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Photos

Alan Amy Amber Andrew D Andrew G Becky

Cath Mike one or other Nicholas the other Nicholas –maybe

Owen Rob T Richard Rob D Rob G Sarah Tim

18 April Grass Autotest

Only 10 made it to this last minute event, thanks to John Filby for use of the field. Pete Nicholas had a “major trailer failure” on the way so non-started. Nice to see some CSMA friends turning out, though sadly Mike Biss’s Corsa broke an engine mounting and was forced to retire.

Nevertheless a beautiful day was enjoyed by all and if Bob Tatum hadn’t had complete brain fade on Test 7 and got 2 WC’s the results would have been different.

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Some photos:

Andrew Green Stephen Green Sarah Green Bob Tatum

Andrew Dudley Rob Dudley Mike Biss Missed Cath – sorry!

Matt Helm Hayley Bloomfield

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