Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Went up Friday night with a few mates for the weekend at Britcar. Typically had to come home early on the Sunday as my mate had a ticket to the Jonny English premiere in London that afternoon as he built the Rolls in the film  So we didn't get to watch the entire 2h4 race. Plenty of racing on over the 3 days though - a brilliant weekend.
Only just invested in the camera (my first DSLR) so still getting to grips with settings and techniques as I've always been on for 'point and shoot' until now!
This Smart got a puncture, threw it into 2 spins, rolled seven times and the driver escaped with only minor cuts & bruising 
Later discovered this was actually driven by a former client of mine
This went on to win it from what I understand:
Thorney Motorsport (didn't do all that well as it spent more time in the pits than on track this weekend!)
One Jazz I could accept owning!
Now back to work 
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Gerrards Cross Drives: Porsche 911
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loads of cars had dropped out when i watched it as i didnt even see half those cars, saw the blue 430 going round though
you doing Lemans next year then 
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Located in Chalfont st Peter
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Graeme
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No pics of the seat Leon I painted!
Dont suppose you saw it? Goldish with yellow bumpers!
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nick_sri
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exellent pictures
i see farmer giles turned up to see the race
[Edited on 03-10-2011 by nick_sri]
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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that was Rich after two nights in a tent with Stu
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
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makincorsac
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some very good pics in there mate
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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coq yoghurt
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FlamingCorsa
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Registered: 22nd Apr 03
Location: Shropshire
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we got asked by butler motorsport few months back to do the food for the team!
ended up cooking for 3 race teams in the pits, looking after 4 bmw's and an mosner!
at one point had 3 bms in having work......
one was doing a head gasket change, which eventually retired after a valve dropped and game over for engine!
another one was doing an engine swap, which they had only fitted the day before cos engine temps were running to high, put the broken engine back in and managed to finish the race!
other car had prop shaft problem but finished,
the mosner thay were running blew and engine on thursday...... 4 hours latter they had a brand new engine deliver to the track!!!!!!!! and 36 hours after then the engine blew in the race!
the money involved in the race is crazy, £1200 a set of tires that last hour and half! the drivers for team we were looking after were paying 6k each to drive the car!
was really good weekend and think we provided the best food in the pit lane....haha, its nice cooking for mecanics who just love any food they are given!
cars i noticed doing well were the astra vxr that finiished inside top 15 along with a mk3 golf mainly cos they were prob reliable, also clio came in around 20th!
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Damn I wish I knew you were doing that Would have been good to put a face to a name!
I saw your car on the Saturday evening parked up, grabbed a couple of BB shots:
Definitely ridiculous amounts of money floating around that place, but then what do you expect in the World of motorsport I suppose! There was a guy over in the single seater area who had a Aston Zagato one night and a Vanquish S the other too
Loved walking up and down the pits every couple of hours to see what else had gone missing off the donor cars out the back too
Graeme - wide arch thing in the standard platinum grey with loads of decals all over it for an insurance group? If so, yes, if not, no
Tom - there were loads that dropped out overnight it seemed as we went for a nose through the pits in the morning - most that were in the pits were out rather than in for repairs
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
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Nice shots Looks like it was pretty good mate, how come they weren't using the new building though 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Alex_Rally
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Registered: 6th Sep 09
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i like the guys t shirt saying
no speakers
no bodykits
no bullshit
i want one of them 
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Corsa_Sport21
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Registered: 13th Apr 08
Location: Leven, Fife. Drives : 205 GTi
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Nice pics and some tasty cars.
Did you notice if any of them were using AP Coilovers??
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
ours to see what else had gone missing off the donor cars out the back too
Graeme - wide arch thing in the standard platinum grey with loads of decals all over it for an insurance group? If so, yes, if not, no
Yeah that's the one, painted 2 cars for them now. Both the same cars but used for different race series. Go to le mans for the 24hr. Can be costly to get there but not to bad ticket cost and it's an experience.
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Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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Rich that looks awesome, joint CS trip next year!
Some amazing cars
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Was definitely a great weekend, and cheap tbh - a mate picked up all 4 tickets for £100 iirc
Lee Mans is very tempting - there's a possibility I'll be going next year. Would love to do Britcar again too, BUT, I feel it wouldn't be anywhere near as good if the weather was shite
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FlamingCorsa
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shame didnt get to meet up rich,
i was impressed that everyone was alloud to just walk around the pits and c all that was going on! i managed to get in and out of track and into the pits even without a pass........ did help having the clio litterly full of food tho so think they knew i was going to feed the teams! had to take a trip to tesco for drinks 2twice for teams it was so hot ....
we were blowing fuses most of friday night but managed to get beta power suply for saturday!
brother manged to get in team photos but i had to come back to work sunday at the pub, hopefully we will be able to cook there agian next year....... enjoyable weekend, summit different and quite profitable for us:-)
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