Christmas Greetings Race Fans and welcome to the AWARD WINNING JONESEY-RACING WEBSITE!!!.

Yes, that bit is actually true!! Following tough competition with no other eligible websites I am pleased to report that the Jonesey-Racing site left no other rivals reeling and was voted No 1 !!!

 Yahoo!

As I am clearly not offending enough of you, I have decided to make a concerted effort to wind up the whole field ….and why wait for next year? I’ll start right away!

I must say I was surprised (and grateful) to receive the Spirit of the Championship Award, so I immediately entered into the “spirit” of things and changed my tipple from wife-beater to Gin & Tonic.

As  the racing is over I have resorted to a post Dinner & Dance report for my material, and to be honest there is more to report now than when the racing was on!.

We were promised a better D&D than last year and sceptical as I was I must give credit where it’s due and express my thanks to Maggie and the team.

I was overwhelmed to find hot food  this year, plus gravy and also extra veg. Who knows next year there might even be hot water in the rooms too!

The after dinner speaker was sacked (HURRAH) and was replaced with a competition to find out which team was full of hot air with a balloon blowing game.

It came as no surprise to find the Churchlane Racing Team are still the biggest wind bags of them all!

A lady on an adjoining table was heard to exclaim “I’m blowing like mad but it won’t go up!!”

Too much drink I expect…….

Another shock of the evening  was when the new-look Long Haired Dave made his first public appearance.

As predicted by this AWARD WINNING website, the flowing locks were gone following his championship win. I will now be calling him Short Haired Dave which I will abbreviate to SHeD…in deference to his faithful V8!

Following the marathon drivers meeting it looks as though there will be a few new faces out with us next year.

If the superlight BCV8 cars don’t blow away in the wind they might even get to race!.
Also I hear that the Neaves Team intend to field 3  cars next year with the addition of the Blaine Boys.

I was somewhat concerned about one of the lads though as I noticed he was suffering from a bar related ailment. Yes that’s right it was the old short arms and long pocket illness. I understand there are concerns that he may not be able to reach the steering wheel next year!

I know they are not officially drivers yet but why waste time?

Despite strong protests Blaine Neaves insisted on hogging the microphone for almost an hour having said he would not give a speech in response to his class win. The only sad note was that he forgot to mention his success was all due to manual labour, I am happy to put matters right here.

Back to the meeting a newly married “Blue Streak”  was present and was clearly worried about the likelihood of too many cooked meals as he was asking to have the car weights reduced in class A.

Put it this way he won’t have to worry about success ballast.(You can read that any way you want!)

Weasley was given the night off from Hogwarts but remained mysteriously hard to spot spending most of the evening under the invisibility cloak, only emerging for a brief spell (geddit?) to collect his award for most improved spinner…er I mean driver.

James Walpole spent most of the evening working on his Doctor Evil impression and Pete the Snail Burchill spent most of the evening entertaining his Loony friends in the bar.

Beaker, sorry I mean Simon Hutchinson collected the coveted Driver’s Driver award and tried to issue a protest about the result of the balloon blowing contest.

The DJ made a valiant effort with the disco but really stood no chance once word got round that the bar would stay open until the last driver remained standing. I hear they are still waiting for Burchill and his team to leave!

Well there you are folks, a good time was had by all and with winter upon us it is time to return to your garages and start the fettling and the tweaking.

Just so you don’t miss out on all the Peter Best related gossip I am pleased to tell you that the next update will be published in the New Year when, as is the norm I will be making  some predictions for the 2009 season and bad-mouthing those of you who have yet to make a contribution to the Jonesey-Racing fighting fund.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy (used to be prosperous but let’s be honest the Country is broke) New Year and look forward to seeing you all soon back on track.

Jonesey.