The Motor Racing Spectator

Frost on the car, the temperature gauge reading 0.5 degrees celsius, patchy fog drifting over the fields. Autumn has arrived and on a distinctly chilly morning it was off to Mallory Park for the circuit's final car action of the regular season with a meeting organised by the 750MC. 11 races were on the schedule with double headers for 750 Trophy, Formula Vee, Sport Specials, RGB, Toyota MR2 and a single race for the 750Formula Championship. All the other categories run by the club had their final races at Snetterton the weekend before so this was finals day part two for the club. There wasn't a cloud in the sky for qualifying in the morning and it was good to be trackside in some glorious sunshine, which cannot be said for most of this season! After 6 qualifying sessions there were 3 races before the lunch break, one of which, the first Sport Specials race was red-flagged after oil induced mayhem at the Esses. The usual story- car puts oil down, cars behind spin off in all di...

The final rounds of the British Formula 3 and British GT championships were the centre piece of this 2 day BRSCC organised meeting. A very late addition to the meeting were the final 2 rounds of the FIA GT championship and after what happened on Sunday, certainly an unwelcome addition as far as I was concerned! This is the longest I've left time wise to report on a meeting on the blog this season as I was left somewhat angered and annoyed by the events of the day. First of all the timetable was always going to be very ambitious with the addition of the FIA GT series but why oh why the 12 car field had to have a 30 minute "warm-up" is a mystery. Especially after the 26 car British GT field had just had a 10 minute warm up in the previous session.The last scheduled race was due to finish at 6.40pm and it's pretty dark at this time of year. So what the day didn't need was a big delay, so what did we get - 2 big delays..... The run off at Redgate corner is now one ...