Summer Special July 2008 (Have you seen Dave?)

As I while away the hazy summer evenings, baling the water out of the garage, my thoughts turn to the Peter Best Challenge. I begin to wonder what has happened to the “web-master” on the official site. Is the series still running? Will I win the lottery? Will my grey hair ever turn black again?

Indeed the official web is more of a cobweb it seems. Where is the newsletter I hear you ask, the race report, even the decisions of the recent committee meeting….where has everyone gone?

So concerned was I that I placed a missing persons report and enlisted the help of a firm of private detectives in order to track down V8 Dave.

So far indications are that he has taken too much interest in his other role as Chairman Elect for the Campaign for Real Ale. Rumours have it that he is secretly brewing up an Ale to rival the MG favourite, Old Speckled Hen. He is still in the testing (or tasting stage) and this has had an adverse effect on his ability to type.

Please report any sightings of V8 Dave to me so we can guide him back to his keyboard.

The lack of any MG Action drove me to seek new goals. After lengthy negotiations I am pleased to announce that the Jonesey-Racing Team* will be participating in the forthcoming Land Speed Trials in Bonneville USA.

Inspiration came from a recent MGCC Race when John Bussey did his famous impression of “Puffing Billy” with his trademark boil up on his TC.

Why not enter a steam powered car? After all I have been steamed on several occasions before…must have been all that Speckled Hen perhaps?

OK, it’s only the logo that will be there but during the few quiet weeks before the next race why not have a look at the efforts of the steam car chaps, click HERE to go to their web. In fact land speed record attempts and MG’s have a lot in common. Another interesting link via the MGOC click HERE & HERE.

When I’m not looking at the progress of the Steam Car I have been reluctantly pottering with the Trusty B before the next race.

An observant fellow racer (Thanks Team Neaves) spotted that my front wheels were pointing in different directions after the last race at Silverstone, and if truth be known they have probably been like this for a while. I am told that setting the wheels like this is unlikely to help my race results so I decided to check things out.

I now await delivery of a new steering rack to replace the original worn out one. Let’s hope this has a positive effect on my cornering antics.

On another note, if you have managed to avoid splashing out any cash on your cars this month due to the break in racing, why not get your entry form off to Castle Combe nice and early?

OK race fans, I think I have wound up enough people for one report so I will sign off now.

I will post a pre-Cadwell report shortly before that race and who knows we might even have seen the official Silverstone Report by then!!

And finally…… I notice that current champ James Walpole or Jay Dubyah as we all know him, has undergone yet another name change. According to the August edition of MG Enthusiast magazine he is now to be known as Jim Walpole. 

Jonesey

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