Boys day out

I've not been to Castle Combe since the first race of the season. Wet weather and other commitments have got in the way. But this weekend there was a two day event which included the CSCC Special Saloons. A championship for old 70s and 80s silhouette cars and Thunder saloons. My brother wasn't doing anything so we cruised down the M4 in his Vantage and enjoyed some great racing. Sadly the spectacle of the Special Saloons wasn't as great I had imagined. Several of the big name cars were elsewhere.But the other races made up for it and the Carlton ThunderSaloon gave me a glimpse of what the championship has to offer in the future.

Damp days racing

For over a decade I have been going to the season opener at Castle Combe. Kim was at Uni in Bath and we discovered the track in the late 1990s. Ever since then I have been to at least one race meet a year, often several. Today was a wash out, we drove down the M4 in rain and it went from drizzle to downpours every few minutes. It never let up. We bailed out half way through as both us and our cameras were getting too wet to carrying on enjoying it. Heaven knows what it must have been like for the drivers out on track