Been absent for a while....... The AMF was on last weekend and it was a great event showcasing 80's and 90's V8 supercars and 80's F1's. Great to see Ian B in his Indy car. Here are some happy snaps of the event. you tube clips Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
It kept things moving along for the weekend.......the headlight was a J Car genuine item.......would have seen more in the dark with a box of red heads
BG, I think the AMF has the potential to be an Aussie Goodwood FoS, but not in it's current form. As you're on the board, here are my constructive recommendations: 1. restrict entries - e.g. there is no way that home-made clubmans should be sharing the track with world class historic cars 2. increase the entry fee if needed to recover the revenue of fewer cars - anyone who complains shouldn't be there anyway 3. minimum 15 minutes per session, with a full warm-up lap rather than the current half lap, which isn't nearly enough to get heat into big tyres. Make sure there's a cool down lap for every session (this didn't happen at all for my sessions). 4. tell the race control people that you don't have to stop a session because of a yellow flag on one corner! 5. have a practice day on the Friday. If you can't close Wakefield Rd, then use the return road just before the chicane. People with complex cars need several runs to sort the gremlins out. All of my problems (battery, dry break fittings, fuel pressure) were a direct result of the long rough-roads tow from Sydney, I'm sure I wasn't alone. 6. Have a drivers+crew marquee, serve cold soft drinks during the day, BBQ and beers after 5pm as an opportunity for social engagement. Goodwood do this really well and it makes entrants feel like they're valued. Add $100 to the entry fee to cover costs, make a donation to Rotary and they'll staff it for you. Ian
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Ian, You raise some really good points, i agree on the entry fee totally and the whole clubman thing. It didnt help that after the first sprint in your category there was a moron who was behind my F5000 who blew .051 at 11.50am.........and gets banned for 24 hours, in a normal sense loss of licence should have occurred for 6 months
the great things about the event are (1) incredibly friendly people everywhere, (2) beautiful and historic location and (3) the circuit is actually interesting and technical.
No, under CAMS rules he gets a 24 hour cant compete......if he was on the street he would be looking at loss of licence. CAMS at least should stand tall and make the penalty fit the crime, a year off of racing plus a fine, 24 hours is s joke.
Motor Racing should be like Aviation.......If you blow over .02 you should be banned indefinitely......Simple , Just like you would loose your job in aviation and become unemployable.......
The scary thing is that there is an obvious drinking culture amongst many competitors, the beers, rum&cokes, etc come out at 5pm, then they go to dinner with a few wines and bingo, next day you're over the limit. The current testing regime is too random and too limited - in 8 years of historic racing, I've been breathalysed once. Simple fix is a compulsory breathalyser for competitors as you enter the circuit, with your name signed off in a book.
it should be drug and alcohol testing, this idiot reckons he stopped drinking at 3am. In GT we get tested on a regular basis, in historcs....its once in a blue moon
Interesting... even on the TT tour, every participant was breathylazed every morning - and it had to be zero.
I like a drink as much as any normal person, but seriously, what kind of a dickhead do you have to be to be drinking at 3am knowing that you’re driving a race car around a track at a public event that day? I can’t believe the rules for the track aren’t at least the same as for the road. And the testing should definitely include testing for drugs.
because tarmac rallies involve transport stages on open public roads. CAMS rules for circuits are also zero blood alcohol, but the testing is random - that's the bit that needs changing.
and stiffer penalties need to be imposed, case in point this idiot got done at 11.50am Saturday and then Sunday 11.50am he is allowed to drive....gets in his car for the last sprint in his category and causes a red flag and blames the stewards because he blocked the track as his gear selection malfunctioned (more like his brain malfunctioned)...........but still reckons cars could get through safely........and complains about the walk from car park to car, some people just like to have a whinge
