We ran onboard cameras on the Moran's and the
Groves / Ranson team, the quality of the footage and the sound is simply
stunning. The other thing that
happened this weekend was the MotoGP, their video is not quite as good
quality, but the action was even better than Loton. Here's a link to the
event on BBC I player
MotoGp - Catalunya.
Man on a mission award must go to Will Hall, at this rate he will get a
British Championship number in a 1600cc car, he is troubling drivers
with over twice that capacity! Team Ranson & Groves had an annoying
vibration problem, Martin got 2 second places and Paul also achieved 2
top 10 finishes in the troubled car. Lets hope it's okay for Doune.
Remember to book tickets for the BBQ, see the link below.
Some onboards from Loton for you to
enjoy. All using the great Cameras4sports bullet cameras.
Roger Moran 2nd run off
Paul Ranson 2nd run off
Martin Groves 1st run off
Scott Moran 2nd run off
Force
OMS
Collection
Gould
DJ
A message from George Ritchie at Doune.
This is an update to the published details. There is now an organised
BBQ, George needs to know numbers. Contact
George
Calvin
Talbot is a familiar sight as a marshal at the hill climb
events, he is also a keen artist.
Calvin studied art at Stroud College and now has a new website
www.cstartworks.co.uk
Glorious
Sparkling performance
Old Goulds can still spin
2 Champions, one is taller !
Paul Haimes catches the dust
Shelsley Walsh
Rounds 11 & 12 - Scottie -
Scottie -
Gallery
It's getting tougher at the top. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in
the midday sun, and yep they all turned out true to fashion. Scott Moran
won both run offs, Paul Ranson had a second, and oh so nearly his
elusive first win. Will Hall did stunningly well, Eynon parked it in the
recticel, Tom New created a new hole in the bank, maybe New Hole would
be a good new 'feature' name. Sean Gould showed that the fine handling
Goulds could do at least a 360 in the esses and handle so well you can
drive them away, as several other Gould drivers (and a certain M. Groves
demonstrated). Paul Haimes showed that Dalarras do not like cement dust
and Martin Groves latter proved that the Goulds also had a distinct
dislike for things not tarmac. Still we cannot blame the blue little
Peugeot for the oil it deposited, it's a great car, and a crowd amuser,
all be it in need of an engine without the extra holes! At the end of
the day the esses had so many lines of cement dust, tire marks, muck and
whatever that it would have had to be the last round of he championship
with a gap of 1/10th of a point to try any harder. Wise men, big men,
(and women), keep it sunny side up.
Talking of sun and the reflections
it can cause, keep this a secret...
Al Rayner is 50
and no secret is the disappointing performance from Oliver Tomlin,
his mother Sandra had to run the car for most of the weekend without his
help (or even him taking his allotted drives), what an unacceptable
performance! Even more so because he had left his wife at home labouring
for most of the weekend. Congratulations to Oliver and Ellie on the
birth of 'squirt' or 'sprog' or whatever her name ultimately becomes.
[Update] Eva Rose Tomlin. I was nearly 50 when you were born, said Al a while
later..................
that's better, can you do the other ear? Almost a historic :-) Al and Sandra Tomlin, ones a grandmother and
pretty quick on the hills, the other is Al.
It was the third La vie en bleu at Prescott at the
weekend. A fantastic collection of cars on display and
travelling up the picturesque Gloucestershire speed hill climb venue
and it didn't rain. Here's a
gallery of the photographs. The
highlight of the weekend had to be running an onboard camera on the
Senna Lotus T98 F1 car. The
camera4sports bullet once again providing outstanding footage. This was the third attempt at
filming the Senna car, the previous years it was just too wet to
consider running cameras. What a fantastic event, great
organisation, great food and wine, just great. Well done to
everyone.
We met with Patrick Morgan of
Dawn Trader Performance
who run the ex Ayrton Senna Lotus T98 F1 Turbo car. I wanted to
attach an onboard camera to it, Patrick looked a little nervous ! I
then produced the kit we have developed and he started to smile.
Well the result was well worth it. This is a priceless car, a
heritage in the world of racing. Senna was one of my two heros (the
other one is Rossi), to film on this car, what a honour. Enjoy the
onboard clip for now -
Onboard the SennaLotus T98 at La vie
en bleu 2009 - we will
produce combined on board and off board footage later. We might even
make a little bit up using last years footage.
Bugatti EB 110 (CHASSIS # 1) the 1st
Bugatti supercar, EB (Ettore Bugatti) 110 years after his birth. Veyron Pur Sang (Pure Blood) one of only 5 in the
world - no paintwork just pure polished aluminium and carbon fibre 3 Bugatti Veyron (and the number is rising) 1939 Type 59s Bugatti owned by King Leopold III of
Belgium - this is the legendary Black Bugatti, the last of the great
Bugatti Grand Prix racing cars. 1937 Type 57 Atalante - you may have head of this
one in the news late last year. Found in the garage of eccentric
Doctor on his death. Sold just after Xmas for just over £3 million
to a European collector and coming back to Cheltenham for this
event. 1986 Lotus 98 Turbo Renault formerly driven by
Ayrton Senna. With up to 1300 bhp available, this
car will provide one of the weekend’s highlights.
AND weather permitting (it did !!).
The Battle of Britain Flight -
Lancaster, Hurricane & Spitfire!!
The Prescott venue even have an excellent booklet with discount
vouchers for use against admission, track days, food and wine. A
fine amount of effort goes into this event and the venue. We are
really looking forward to it. There were 7 Veyrons there last year.
Here's a little clip we made
La Vie en blue 2008 You will find pictures from
2007 and
2008
The Yamaha MT01 found in the paddock was a little modified (see
thumbnail below). I want it !!
Gurston Down Rounds 9 & 10 - Groves - Scottie
A paddle shift has been added to the Ranson and Groves car. We went
to Prescott for La vie en bleu instead.
Harewood
Rounds 7 & 8 - Roger & Scott Moran
Gallery Wow, what a race meeting !
Roger took the first run off win by qualifying last and then running
first. He out qualified Scott in the second run off and on a wet
track with no need to save the car for Scott, he really gave it some
beans. He managed a fourth place in the second run off by some fine
and sideways driving. Trevor Willis had a high speed moment as he
tried to catch the 59 second run of Paul Haimes, this was a
bit of a tall order as Paul had actually done a 61 second run but
Trevor had misheard the time !!! It was scary to watch. Martin
Groves put in a very impressive run in the second run off to claim
two third places. Even happier than all of them was Paul Ranson
who's slow season start was turned around with two well deserved
second places. His time of only 0.01 of a second behind Scott Moran
is even more impressive as the car does not benefit from traction
control.
Smiles all round, rivals helping each other, no fuel stops, and no
cheating. What a sport. Eynon Price got the nutter of the day award
with a beautiful example of his rally driving skills enabling him to
catch the sideways car and re-plan his route around the corner.
This was a great weeks hillclimbing but also included the sad loss
of 6 times champion Tony Marsh and 'boys own hero' Allan Staniforth,
both passing away in the week. They have left the hills.
In a separate, but also sad note Jos Goodyear has also pulled out of
the championship in his beautifully prepared Pilbeam.
Meanwhile at the fintray Hill Climb Donald McCaskill took the class
record in his 600bhp EVO, here's his
onboard.
Sandra Tomlin MP97 looking good
Paul Ranson - happy bunny two second places, almost that elusive
win.
Roger Moran - Keeping all the trophies in the family
Chris Merrick - such a well prepared car
Eynon, no handbrake required !!
Barbon Rounds 5 & 6- Groves - Cancelled Gallery
So wet they had to cancel one of the run offs. As I arrived at the
top of the hill the heavens opened and stayed open until the water
was running down my back. Will Hall tried to get me as he exited the
hairpin and this slow speed off caused a track inspection and a
delay to the meeting. Martin Groves won the only run off to be held
as the Moran car seemed to be suffering due to the traction control
settings which were then modified to good effect for Harewood the
next day. The most fun was had at the end of the meeting as a
tractor was used to drag all the vehicles and trailers out of the
soft grass paddock.
It was mildly moist !
Will Hall, Missed me ! (not by much)
Won all the rounds
Trevor Willis
Mud glorious mud
Shelsley Walsh 3rd 4th May
Venue wonderfully prepared, maybe just a little bit more striming
needed. Marshalls, rescue, officials, timing, and ALL put in
tremendous effort that was visible. This was not a national round,
but a local venue, so we ventured out to watch the 'fun'. A new
season, a wet, greasy, changing, and challenging track. The track
bit back. We normally only follow the nationals so it was quite
interesting how much this meeting could affect them. Jos Goodyear
had a big shunt and the car is fairly heavily damaged. John Bradburn
had an enormous, horrifying accident where he managed to spin, flip,
do a 360 mid air horizontal rotate, roll and end up down where the
rhubarb used to be and then walk away. Easily the biggest off I have
ever seen at Shelsley. As usual we had only just met John the night
before and chatted for the first time. Then a yellow Caterham ended
up in the same place. The Ralt was photographed in the pits and then
crashed at Kennel bend, John Bradburn was photographed in the pits
and then crashed.... we didn't take many photos this weekend which
made it all the stranger. Then the blue OMS did a graceful
slow roll into top esse. Will Jos and John manage to get their cars
rebuilt for Barbon next weekend? Trevor Willis showed his speed and
consistency in an awe inspiring reading of the track, the conditions
and the grip to record 2 very smooth wins. Watch him pick up the
points when the leading Goulds have a failure or their power does
not feature. Oh and to round the weekend off Valentino Rossi won the
MotoGP and said he was "Focka Fasta" on live BBC TV. He was as well
! Here is a small
gallery
Richard Weaver - John Bradburn
Richard Weaver - Jos Goodyear
1000cc in the run off
Scarily smooth Trevor Willis
Richard Weaver - again
Prescott
Rounds 3 & 4 - Groves - Groves - no hill record!! It was
great to see the Coley's sounding and going well over the weekend,
it was great to see the Gould of Rob Turnbull on song. It was a
great night in the Prescott Lodge as great food a good band and a
large crowd had fun. I got 2 sharp wake up calls on Sunday morning,
the first was a Pavarotti loud "tea or coffee, Richard?", and a
little shake of the tent from Roger Moran. At 7am. After the
Marshalls pound the night before? All I could do was giggle, maybe
this was retribution for Holly meeting a Dalek waiting outside the
door, or it could be for something else I have done. The second was
from Rob Turnbull who decided to crash exactly where I was standing
on Orchard. Here's a photo of Rob on his way to wake me up
from
Gary who was standing next to me, and has a sequence of the
shots there. Anyway, Martin Groves won both run offs. The Moran's
took it easy with a troubling gear shift to bag sensible points.
Martin is amazed to have scored points in all of the first 4 rounds
of a season.. We were 'off duty' at the weekend, so no video, only a
couple of photos, and a Dalek on the startline. Here's the
pictures
Petrol
Steam
F1 Fuel
Steam via petrol and diesel
why ?
Loton Park - Martin Groves - record. Scott Moran - record
holder. Things did not go well at the weekend.
Anyway Martin won the first round with a new record, Scott took the
second with an even newer record. So points wise it's 11 -
11+champagne. Yea ha. Here is the gallery Loton Park Rounds 1 & 2 2009 Gallery
We are now affiliated with Cameras 4 Sports and can advise, supply,
and setup your onboard equipment. We have done a deal with provide
us with some more onboard cameras to cover this years championship.
We will be using the excellent ICE580 bullet cameras on the Champion
Scott Moran's car, the car of Martin Groves and Paul Ranson, and a
few more. Click on the cameras for sports logo to go to their shop.
We did our first onboards
with the Fleetwoods at Loton Park 5 years ago. I look forward to
repeating history.
We captured absolutely excellent onboard footage on the cars. A
clip will be added later.
Must try harder
Dark Vader / Black Stig
[Paul Ranson is white lid, Martin Groves is black lid]
Scottie + new sponsor !
Take the helmet of sonny- Chris Merrick says to Tom New
Looks familiar - Adam and the rest of the Fleetwoods are back
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Calvin
Talbot is a familiar sight as a marshal at the hill climb
events, he is also a keen artist.
Shelsley Walsh
Rounds 11 & 12 - Scottie -
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