Spin Off July 11
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NOTTINGHAM SPORTS CAR CLUB July 2011 1 CLUB WEBSITE www.gosprinting.co.uk Don’t forget to visit the Club Web Site. Its full of useful information from Club events and dates to results, Championship positions, downloadable regs and membership forms and details. If you’ve got something that could be useful to other NSCC Club members, then why not advertise it on the Web site. For further details contact Andrew Warren on :- [email protected] SPIN OFF ARTICLES Breaking news, adverts, for sale items, letters, views and race & event write ups should be sent to the Editor. Copy date for the next Spin Off:- 14th August 2010 And sent to : Paul Marvin. 4 Marriott Drive, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester LE8 0JX Tel : Mobile : 07715 353440 or Email : [email protected] 2 IN THIS ISSUE Chairmans Chatter 4 Editors Mutterings 5 WSCC Curborough Regs 6 2011 NSCC Speed Championship Calendar 7 Invited Event dates for 2011 8 Major Motor Sport Event dates for 2011 9 Target Times 2011 10 - 11 Event Contacts List 12 Classic Corner 13 Marshals Update 14 Funny Stickers 15 Curborough July 10th Event Report & Results 16 - 23 Mole Racing Report 24 - 26 New Ipad App 27 Championship Positions up to Round 12 28 - 29 “A Lesson to be Learnt” & Supplementary Regulations 30 MSA News 31 - 34 Official & Committee contacts 35 Acknowledgement The artwork on the front cover is re-printed with the kind permission of the well known motorsport cartoonist Jim Bamber. Jim has very kindly allowed me to use his illustra- tions. For a sneek preview why not visit his web site www.jimbamber.co.uk 3 Chairman's Chatter Great to get our first NSCC organised event under our belt last Sunday – the Curborough double lapper. A full entry with support from the TVR boys, who turned out in force, and some familiar faces from nearer to home. The weather smiled on us and a good day was had by all with some PB's I'm sure. There were some close fought battles among the classes, not least with the single seaters where Steve Miles emerged victorious and claimed FTD to boot. Hopefully there will be a full report from someone to fill in the details as I wasn't able to stay all day and apologies if I missed having a word. I did take a few photos which I'll send to Andrew Warren for the website when I get a chance. Having waited until July for Curborough we had two 'events' in one week when on the Wednesday evening following we had a visit to Simon Hadfield's clas- sic car operation at Shepshed. This was a long standing invitation through our president, Vi Selby, who has known Simon for many years in her capacity as a grid marshal at Mallory, Donington etc. and was first mooted when Simon was our guest speaker at the awards a couple of years ago. Numbers were limited to twenty and first refusal was given to marshals with the other places quickly filled by some of the committee and other locally based members – sorry if you missed out. It was a fascinating couple of hours as Simon showed us around, explaining the ins and outs of the various cars in the workshops and added a few well chosen anecdotes from his 30 year involvement in the classic racing car scene. Lola T70's, F1, F5000, D-Type, 250F, F3, Sport 2000.............they were all there. Entries for Thoresby are progressing nicely but we have MIRA before that so please get your entries in if you haven't already and please get some copy to Paul of your Championship exploits. Sorry, a bit rushed this month so increased the font to fill the page! Hopefully see you at MIRA Roger C [email protected] 4 Editors Mutterings So another month has passed and for many of you this will be second issue you will have received by email. Hopefully this method of delivery is working fine for those of you who opted to receive Spin Off this way. It certainly saves the club a few precious pennies and me a shed load of printing time and paper. The first of the Nottingham Sports Car Club run events happened on July 10 th and we managed to buck the ever common trend amongst many clubs of poorly attended events and had a full entry for the tradi- tional double lap event. Well supported by NSCC entries and over 25 entries from the TVR Speed Championship! the surplus from the event will certainly help towards replenishing the Club deposit account. A full account of the Curborough event can be found elsewhere in this issue. Our next event is at MIRA near Nuneaton. A superb facility with very fast flowing corners it reminds me very much of Hethel; the Lotus test facility in Norfolk. Both have smooth wide surfaces, technical bits, and really, really fast bits!! The only downside for some, is that MIRA will only run on a Sprint on a Saturday. Don’t let this put you off. It has a fairly relaxed start in that entry to the circuit is not until 8.00am. To all you competitors who attend the NSCC Championship rounds please try and find the time to put a few words in an email to me or handwritten letter. It doesn’t matter if it’s a general account of the days proceedings or an account of your own endeavors; everything is wel- come to publish in Spin Off. So come on, let’s have your reports please. Thoresby Park is only around the corner now and the finale to our Championship season. If you’ve never been, make the effort. Whether it’s for both the Saturday and Sunday events or just one of them, get your entries in to Roger. Don’t forget the Saturday evening social at Pelethorpe Village Hall. A hot meal, an onsite bar and a chance to catch up on the days proceedings. Keep a watch out on the club website for updates, Spin Offs and new photos from our events; our new webmaster is doing a sterling job. Paul SPIN OFF Have you received a copy by post and you would sooner receive an elec- tronic copy and save the club a few pounds? Email me at [email protected] and you’ll receive future copies to your email in-box. Plus……… If you received an electronic copy and would prefer a “hard” copy, then please email at the above email address and I’ll make the necessary amends. Paul Marvin EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 50 Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax. Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags. Then try 50-lb potato bags and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.) After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag. 6 2011 NSCC SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR Round Date Day Circuit Organising Club 1 17-Apr Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorks) 2 17-Apr Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & Dist’ MC 3 17-Apr Sunday Silverstone Sheff’ & Hallamshire 4 30-Apr Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 5 07-May Saturday Shelsley Walsh MAC 6 08-May Sunday Shelsley Walsh MAC 7 14-May Saturday MIRA MAC 8 04-Jun Saturday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 9 05-Jun Sunday Pembrey BARC (Wales) 10 11-Jun Saturday Anglesey Chester MC 11 12-Jun Sunday Anglesey Chester MC 12 19-Jun Sunday Curborough Westfield Sports CC 13 25-Jun Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 14 10-Jul Sunday Curborough (L) NSCC 15 16-Jul Saturday Llandow BARC (Wales) 16 13-Aug Saturday Mira NSCC 17 28-Aug Sunday Harewood BARC (Yorks) 18 03-Sep Saturday Aintree Liverpool Motor Club 19 10-Sep Saturday Loton Park Hagley & District LCC 20 11-Sep Sunday 3 Sisters Longton & District MC 21 17-Sep Saturday Thoresby Park NSCC 22 18-Sep Sunday Thoresby Park NSCC 7 INVITED EVENTS Events to which we have accepted an invitation, but do not form part of the NSCC Championship. Keep watching this space as it will be updated as more invites are accepted. DATE VENUE CLUB CONTACT noreenward 13th August Curborough BARC Midlands @tiscali.co.uk noreenward 1st October Curborough BARC Midlands @tiscali.co.uk Subject: BARC Mids Curborough Sprint Hi All, As an 'Invited Club' to our sprints please can I remind you of our Curborough Sprint on Saturday 13th August which is urgently in need of more entries. Please can you remind your members of the date. I have attached the Regs and Entry Form to enable you to pass them on. I really do not want to have to cancel this event as well as our May Sprint so please do your best to persuade your members to enter. There is also the Team Challenge included in this event, with a separate award, and we have seen some very unusual names for these teams. As well as trying to run our events efficiently we hope everyone has a fun day.