That was a surprise
It’s easy to complain about the 2020 season but there was a season and grateful thanks must go to the 750 Motor Club for making it happen.
It was also the most successful year for me. It‘s no secret that the Scarab became an expensive nightmare and several years were spent trying to get the engine to go properly and the trying to diagnose something odd with the suspension. It’s great to see Phil Waterhouse make significant progress with the same car.
Early lockdown grumpiness saw me buy an AHS Challenger via a FaceTime call. Frankly it could have had three corners and no engine but I’d have bought it. 2020 was the first season where I attended all the rounds, and actually finishing all but one meant that my B championship position was pretty good.
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m…
The great danger in ending a season, I’ve found, with a car in pretty good order, is that you start the jobs too late and then discover jobs with little time to complete them.
There’s been plenty of time spent in the garage this winter but much of it on the Europa and trying to find engine parts (anyone seen a spare Renault 16 anywhere?).
The grand plan this year was to sort the trailer. I swapped the trailer for the smallest possible footprint, spent a fortune on materials at the start of December with the intention of boxing it, carefully welded, glued & bent, measured and painted and here we are 4 months later and it’s still not finished! Getting there though.
The car only needed a service until I spotted some wear in the steering rack, and then a huge crack in the steering column, and, oh look, a brake pushrod is bent. Easy stuff but sending stuff off and, trying to source materials remotely made small jobs become big ones and led me to spend an hour tiding up “frankenseat” to discover that it was held together by rivets and taped bits of plastic. Not hard to do but not a planned job.
So, a couple of weeks to Cadwell and there are a few odd jobs left. Like servicing it…which was the only job required at the end of last season…
2021 Objectives
It’s nice to have done well in the B championship last year but that’s a clear function of having turned up a lot. When others came along, they were faster. So being quicker & more consistent have to be focus. Coaching helped last year and I need more help.
There are a few new B entrants this year, Wom, Rich & Rachel were unlucky with their cars so I need to worry about them but the two drivers who I really struggled to stay with last year were James Huckle & Elliot Mason. Target set!
