Recent race reports
Le Mans Classic 2014.
This year would see us return to Le Mans Classic to see if we could better our results than in previous years of 2012 and 2008. Once again we’d been placed in ‘plateau 3’ alongside 75 other cars. There was a total of 4; Aston Martin DB4GT’s entered including ours. Scrutineering For a change, […]
Double podium at rounds 7+8 in the MR2 Race Series at Brands Hatch.
After watching England’s opening qualifying game against Italy late Saturday night we were all relived that qualifying was not until 11.50 the next morning, race 1 was at 4pm and race 2 at 6.15pm. Qualifying; Once again a packed grid of 34 cars on the Indy circuit would prove difficult finding space to get a […]
Donnington Park – Nippon Challenge.
As the MR2 race series would not be racing at Donnington this year, the Nippon Challenge was the ideal way to race at our local circuit. With a combined grid of Nippon cars and French manufactured cars, this would be a full grid on the National circuit. Qualifying; It was warm and dry […]
YourIrishShop.com MR2 Race Series rounds 3+4 at Castle Combe
May bank holiday weekend would set the stage for the second round of the YourIrishShop.com MR2 race series at Castle Combe. Qualifying was warm and dry, the circuit did seem quite slippy and i waited ages for the tyres to get up to temperature. My new engine was all ok so I pressed […]
Opening round to the MR2 Race Series at Rockingham.
Rockingham 6th April 2014 The first race of the MR2 race season would be at this under-rated venue. Friday afternoon was spent running in my freshly rebuilt engine as last season’s engine smoked quite a lot. First signs were not good as after 2 laps I got black flagged for excessive smoke. One […]
Track Attack Autumn Series at Donnington Park.
Track Attack Autumn Series Donnington Park would host this 3 race autumn series. Any make and model of car was allowed, classes were based on engine size; up to 1600cc, 1600-2000cc and 2000cc and above. Tom Alexander would be racing races 1 and 2, Nathan Harrison would be racing in race 3. Qualifying; This was […]
Last MR2 series event at Oulton Park.
Oulton Park September 2013 This was the first time the MR2 race series had visited Oulton Park so Friday testing was needed to learn the circuit. After a good days testing with dry sunny weather I was happy with the car, my lap time and couldn’t wait to race on the Saturday. Qualifying; After warming […]
Mallory Park with MR2’s
Qualifying, Normally during this 15 minute session I try to get a quick time in early on and then sit out the remaining time hoping that my lap time is good enough. With most of the quicker MR2 drivers racing on the Saturday in the Nippon Challenge and being used to the track and conditions […]
Aston Martin Centenary, Brands Hatch 2013
Aston Martin Centenary Brands Hatch, July 2013 We would be taking 3 cars to Brands Hatch weekend, the DBRS9, DB4GT and DB4 Lightweight. Our DBRS9 would be competing in the 100 minute two driver Centenary race, the DB4GT was entered into the Classic Centenary race for FIA cars which was 30 minutes and the […]
Lemans Legends 2013
We were competing in the Legends 45 minute race as we have done previously in 2007, 2009 and 2011. The drivers were once again Tom Alexander and Adrian Willmott. Thursday’s practise/qualifying 1 hour session was at 4pm on the Thursday. Tom was driving first but pitted at the end of his opening lap complaining […]
