BMW time - the first two from the Classic Trial.
Long time BMW driver John 'Two Summers' Hudson. Those who regularly buy or read one of the British classic car magazines, will know that whilst John spends the NZ summers here, he spends another summer in the UK, where he has been instrumental in fettling contributor Dave Evan's BMW, to a very high standard. Sadly, Dave passed away suddenly just a week or so ago, so our condolences to John for the loss of a great mate.
Marty Irvine having a guest drive in Barry Kirk-Burnand's E46.
Warwick Mortimer, not Andre this time.
Warwick deserves another pic as along with Barry, he is a great contributor to local classic motorsport.
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Not so mellow, yellows...
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Great photos Ray. You've got that bazooka sussed now.
Thanks Nigel - and thanks for the tips!
MGB time. Four cylinders. Longest BMC/ERC supporter, Nev Thompson.
First equal series winner under my stewardship when owned by Nick Wilcox, now owned by John Palmer.
Eight cylinders - John Fulford.
Many drivers like to see photographs of their cars in action, not for an ego boost, (drivers? egos?) but it shows what the car is actually doing especially under cornering and braking.
Note these three V8 MGs. Grant Kern's MG BV8 sports - obviously not a factory V8. Top driver. Good car attitude.
Dave Mallin's genuine factory MG BV8 GT, formerly raced in the earlier days of the series by Harley Norager, where it famously earned the distinction of the first series car to be black flagged and a drive through penalty for breaking the speed bar. Another top driver. Good car attitude.
Adrian Hayman's home brewed MG BV8 GT. This car has never really looked very settled on track.
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No comment...
Car for sale
Last edited by ERC; 04-10-2018 at 09:23 PM.
Not in the programme... I am assuming a Swift.
Ferrari day 1 today - nothing on track. Heavy rain. Came home. Nigel may have stuck it out longer, as he had driven a couple of hours to get there. Traffic the usual crawl from Drury northwards at 11am, with torrential rain south of the Bombays.
Sorry for the Ferrari racers and even the Ferrari owners just hanging about, but off track it was a lake in places. Maybe the future plans for HD will include a lake?
Last edited by ERC; 04-14-2018 at 03:42 AM.
Yep..take the motors out of the cars and put into the Sprint Boats
No race today but there will be 2 tomorrow. 2 qualifying sessions today instead.
Rained on and off til lunchtime. Not much the organisers can do about the weather.
Only 36 club Ferraris turned up instead of the 200 mentioned in the publicity. Hardly surprising given the weather bomb but still a wee bit disappointing.
That said I've now been to a Ferrari Challenge meeting so I can cross that off the bucket list!!
A few cars out on track at the moment - dry race line - but raining in Auckland (10am).
Back to the Legends Meeting... Interesting to contemplate what the status of classic/historic motorsport would be without the popular BMW E Series, then two grids of open BMWs? Would we have been restricted to 1 day meetings?
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Last one as the first one - Chuddleigh Haggart showing why this sort of racing is so much better to watch than utes, certainly from behind a camera. Not as much lift as Nigel's brilliant photo, but this was a just little earlier in practice.
Overall, although I didn't stay for the racing, from a 'getting to know the lens' perspective, a most productive morning and another pile of pics into the library.
Last edited by ERC; 04-16-2018 at 10:01 PM.
Caffeine & Classics March. As expected, a massively reduced turnout as it was Beach Hop weekend, so not too many photographs.
Nice car but wouldn't be my choice of wheels.
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