#thunderslot

The racing was great fun and the cars behaved impeccably. The only thing we did was unscrew the pods half a turn – apart from Leon dunking his in go-go juice, because apparently “someone else did it, but I’m not going to grass them up”, nothing other than tyre taping and sticking lane colours on was done. We all fell for watching the wrong car once or twice, except for Craig and whoever he was racing, as he had the only red car. The rest of us were of the opinion that if we are going to have a McLaren, we want Brucie’s one. Plus we knew the red one had mega huge induction shrouds, so weighed in at a whopping 0.12 grams heavier than the rest of the pack.

So no motor running in, no tyre truing or gluing, no weight in the nose, just box fresh cars straight out of the sealed carton and away we went. Damn, these cars are top quality. Have a look at the charts for the results, these babies were going far faster than they should have been and we had great fun in each of the 10 heats.

Are we the first club in Wales or the UK to run them in a competitive event? Or run them exclusively at an event? I think we deserve a first Class VIP trip to that place up near Brescia where Thunderslot are located. Or at least we’ll go and say hello to Giovanni and any other of the team at Gaydon in May. Should be worth a few stickers. ;)

We had so much fun tonight, that we have decided to ask around beforehand to see who will be coming to future club nights where the numbers will be lower than normal, and decide what we think we may do – club cars, night running, bring all your cars and have a test, different class on different lane, Thunderslots, Policars, etc. etc.. Let’s be creative, and then the world is our lobster!

Don’t forget next week, March 20th is DTM Round 2. Rescheduled from a few weeks ago.