that was an absolutely brilliant weekend - strange as it may seem for me to say such but i had a really great time
on saturday its obvious to those that were watching that my car was quite easily one of the fastest around the circuit, it was handling, braking and accellerating like a demon.
heres a few pics from the weekend...i did buy a CD with about 45 images on it but i wont paste them all up here.
heres what happened
at the end of the start straight theres a very fast and tight (taken flat in 4th) jink between two haybails. it took about a 30 degree twitch of the steering wheel right and then left to get through it ready for the short 20 yard squirt to the next corner. i got through the right twitch absolutely fine and then turned it to the left. unlike all the other laps i had done (which was a lot!) the cars back end came around and carried on sliding until we were facing backwards, heading broadside onto the grass at about 70mph.
as soon as we hit the grass i knew we were going over, especially when the tyres came off the rims and they started to plough a furrow. my last conscious actions before the impact onto the concrete was to yank on the handbrake whilst upside down and assume the foetal position (tucking my head down a little).
it was one hell of a bang when we landed but there were no real injuries of note. my passenger has a few grazed knuckes from the shattered safety glass. the mighty shed was still running too
i do have some mouth injuries where i managed to bite the hard palate of my mouth and also my left cheek, so its nothing but soup for me in these last few days!when i returned in the morning, with the help of another club member we pulled the tyres back onto the rim, reconnected the battery and then drove it back to the paddock.
edit: ive only just posted this now because the next day i drove back to cornwall for work and have been feeling quite feverish (hopefully just coincidence).