A Newbies viewpoint - Crackpot Run 21 May 2011

Great report Paul!
I wish there was a group like The Border Patrol here.
Sounds like a first class group, running first class events
and providing first class first aid!

Well done Border Patrol! :woohoo: :thumbsup: :woohoo:

I was just taking a final look at the original photos Saul and I took of the day and had skipped past quite a few because they were blurred.

Upon taking a closer look I realised that three were taken on the final descent to Butter Tubs.

Saul had the camera in sport mode and had taken three shots in very quick succession as we came down the hill and has inadvertently captured the seconds after Paul hit the barrier. In them you can see a cloud dust moving to the left of his car.

cjj has obviously pulled up and is just out of shot from this angle behind the wall. I have zoomed in on the middle one of the three photos

fantastic write up, i wouldnt fancy driving around there in the dark :ohmy: :ohmy:

From those photos, it's easy to see that is a very complex piece of tarmac.
Steep gradients, sharp bends, camber all over the place!

I can see it would be easy to upset the car's handling, if you get it slightly wrong.

Paul (Kameleon), how is your search for a new TF going?

You've got to hand it to BMW for insisting that the windscreen strength on the MGF, later evolved to the TF, met with much higher specs which were inputted from BMW's Z3 development program. The frame and windscreen are bonded together and the roll bar is housed in the screens frame. This was a very close call which could have been a lot worse, had it not been for BMW. :dry:

How is Kameleon nowadays?

Selected as a topic of high interest and placed in the 'Words of wisdom section.' - A cautionary tale by 'PQD44' Paul.