Great event, congratulations to everyone involved. I enjoyed catching up with familiar faces again, and thanks to members and visitors of this forum who came up and introduced themselves. Its always great to meet people for the first time who are regulars here.
This thread has only been running 2 weeks, and has had over 7,500 views..............and counting!
Steve, as you know, HMC doesn't begin and end with the action on the track. HMC is about helping out fellow competitors, helping behind the scenes to move the class in the right direction, presenting a beautiful car, racing cleanly and giving your fellow drivers space, putting your hand up to take on organisation work, interacting with the punters, printing up and giving away free posters of your race car to the kids (and personally signing them!), and remembering that historic racing is about having fun and leaving the ego at home. You're the complete package, you deserve the award.Originally Posted by fullnoise68
Fullnoise68-Absolutely agree you were all of the above, and you also looked after my boy Scotty when he was on the hunt for some oil.
Never good to see an accident at an historic meet. Does anyone have an update on Brent Willis and his Lola after the crash on Sunday?
I hope my comments on catch fencing don't sound too negative. Its just a sign of the times that they exist and only requires one stray wheel ending up in the crowd to prove its worth.
In Australia we are blessed that at just about all tracks we can rest our elbows on top of the fencing and watch the racing and take plenty of photos of the action.
Yes Brett came out ok and uninjured thank the Good Lord....after hitting a sheet of oil from another car he tagged the wall and the car sustained a minor amount of damage that will be attended to presently. We all wish this super star and his family operated crew well for the next round. Kind regards, Tony Rutherford.
Brett is ok, his shins took a hit but he is a tough bugger and said all is ok. On chatting with Brett on Monday morning he said he had no belt marks etc and that the Hanz device worked brilliantly in that his head was not jolted and the belts over shoulder were absorbed by it.
Brett was unfortunately just along for the ride after hitting the oil. Also it was a angled/glancing blow (still bloody hard hit). Brett had just set his quickest time and was going for it and after starting from back of grid (after missing qualifying and problem in 1st race) he was in 5th and closing in fast. The car will need a lot of work, but this has been discussed with the wizards and it will be time now.
On behalf of the Willis Team, thank you to all who came to check on Brett and for the support you offered to all of us at this time, this is appreciated .
We are still going down to the Scope meeting at Ruapuna this weekend to have a good watch and keep an eye on a couple of the boy's and the teams. See you there ladies and gents.
Here's a link to Mark Holman's report of the Festival on the Classic and Sports Car magazine's website:
http://www.classicandsportscar.com/n...more_article_3
I was in Hawera on tuesday picking a motor up this time,and i stopped in at the work shop in Wanganui where the Custaxie is,they are getting the car ready for the Skope Classic and are taking the car down there today,and the driver is flying down later in the week.I think they are getting there with this car with all the work that they have done to it,they have looked at the motor and have it running better last time i talked to the driver at Manfeild ,they have fitted a fan to the car to get more air through the radiator to get it to run cooler last time i saw it at Manfeild it was pushing some water out.all the best to all who have worked on this car getting it up to speed for this weekend .as we all know heat kills any motor if you push it hard and this one is an old piece of iron today, and sometimes it takes a lot of work to get it to live as a race motor heres hoping they have a good run this weekend.
Nice to see some overseas exposure. Let's hope it attracts some international entries for 2015.
Hope you guys don't mind a few more images - couldn't resist the mighty spin
The sound of this thing made your insides rumble
Brilliant Shano! There is no such thing as too many photos!
These are out of order but I'm struggling with the uploader a little.
How about this for a blow-up - must have been a major to make all that smoke
Both weekends now loaded on Groundsky Photography, some excellent photos on there for those interested.
A few shots taken on the Friday,was only there for a couple of hours but was well worth it.
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