What a day
On the drive down it was semi dry untill we got to Petersfield when the heavens opened up and vision was around 15 yards , the sheet on the Stylus was dipped between windscreen and rollbar which filled with several buckets of water. Once we got to Goodwood and unsheeted the seats were full of water too --- everything was saturated , including the foam padding taped to the back of my seat , also the harness absolutely dripping. Alec set about drying everything while I signed on .
On the day our class was ---
ULTIMA 4.4 --- sent home due to sound failure
RX7 6.7 not 6.3 0VER 600BHP He told us
CORTINA 5.7 500BHP Apparently
ANGLIA TOYOTA 1.6 bhp
ESCORT M1 spaceframe 284bhp he told me
STYLUS 2.0 232BHP ---- 2nd in class at 93.84sec's behind the RX7 driven by Andy Embling
The RX7's best time on his very last run was just 0.45sec quicker than me at 93.39sec's
Untill 4-00pm and his last run , I was leading the class so started to believe I was actually going to beat him and his mighty beast
There was a huge entry , in fact the max for the cicuit so with the two lapper practice plus wet track early on , I didn't get a first timed run till after lunch around 2-00pm
So we were all sitting around under the paddock shelters talking for at least three hours , between practice and 1st run. After we'd talked cars/engines etc etc we ended up talking about dogs of all things but we did have a laugh in the process
Jeff Wiltshire/PHOENIX 300 bhp supercharged 2lt Zetec plus undertray flat floor and rear diffuser ---- not in our class but I have an interest because I set his car up last year which made him VERY quick. He was rather disgruntled most of the day , going slower than last year before fitting the flat floor plus supercharger etc , in fact several seconds slower than me ------ obviously something to do with either power not getting to the road or the diffuser , I told him. Why don't you just take the rear diffuser off as you were quicker than me before the extra power and diffuser , was my next advice ------- at first he said nah , can't be bothered BUT eventually he did then promptly set a time of 90.1 sec's
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JEFF NOW A HAPPY MAN 
So after a horrible start it was a good day although very late finishing.
Strangely , they charge £30 less than TWMC do at Goodwood 
After the new harness expense then deciding on Prescott for a stylus meeting point , I decided to miss Goodwood's August 4th out this time but 'envy' got the better of me 
that way it wont get banked too soon 
I've asked Len whether there'll be a ' late ' extra charge ----- he says NO so that's rather nice seeing as it'll be 5 days over the last entries date on arrival 
