Britcar 24hr - Massive Respect

[stillgrinning]

Massive respect to the Owen and the boys from BPM Racing who won their class at Silverstone this weekend in the Britcar 24hr.

Cutting a very long story short - They led their class by as much as 14 laps for several hours, right up to the point where their steering broke under the safety car with about 10 minutes to go. Luckily the car in 2nd spot didn't have enough time to catch them and after 24 hours they won by a massive 24 seconds !

Picturedrome on Wednesday for hero worship and war stories !

[Shnozz]

posted on the thread in the britcar forum congratulating the team. Well done chaps- superb effort.

I wont be able to make TP for a while so wont be able to celebrate with you chaps I am afraid. I will try and call in later on (will be driving though) as I owe Owen £20!

[stillgrinning]

Gary's superb photos can be found here www.pbase.com/Trackside/eerc

[Pupp]

Brilliant

[central]

[Pete RS]

Well done Owen - did not get to see you over the weekend but watched most of the race. Going to try this racing business myself next year

[Nicol@]

Well done (only found out the result a couple of hours ago)

[sylva41]

Top job O! Congrats to all the team.
I see there was a minor change to the front aero part way through from looking at Gary's pictures

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

[Nicol@]

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

[Matt172]

Nicol@ said:

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

good to see Darren gets his priorities right

[stillgrinning]

Nicol@ said:

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

[Matt172]

stillgrinning said:

Nicol@ said:

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

no lack of enthusiasm, just a stinking cold if I'd been coming out it would have been at 8, not rolling in at half nine :P

[stillgrinning]

Matt172 said:

stillgrinning said:

Nicol@ said:

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

no lack of enthusiasm, just a stinking cold if I'd been coming out it would have been at 8, not rolling in at half nine :P

[Matt172]

stillgrinning said:

Matt172 said:

stillgrinning said:

Nicol@ said:

sylva41 said:

Hope to make it for on Wednesday and hear the stories...currently on central Pacific time though :

We are not even home yet and he is thinking about the pub.......

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

no lack of enthusiasm, just a stinking cold if I'd been coming out it would have been at 8, not rolling in at half nine :P

;)

[Nicol@]

stillgrinning said:

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

We were asleep by 7.40pm last night! (sorry, blame the 2 nights of no sleep and flying plus 11 hour time switch)

I am sure Darren will be there next week (p.s. he is racing at Rockingham on Sunday, everyone welcome)

[Matt172]

Nicol@ said:

I am sure Darren will be there next week (p.s. he is racing at Rockingham on Sunday, everyone welcome)

we'll be there

[Trackside]

Matt172 said:

Nicol@ said:

I am sure Darren will be there next week (p.s. he is racing at Rockingham on Sunday, everyone welcome)

we'll be there

Indeed. Looking forward to it!

[missdiane]

Nicol@ said:

stillgrinning said:

I'll call round at about 9.30 and pick you up ! There is a general lack of drinking enthusiasm from some quarters (Owen's birthday, Matt's manflu etc.) but I have a pass.

We were asleep by 7.40pm last night! (sorry, blame the 2 nights of no sleep and flying plus 11 hour time switch)

I am sure Darren will be there next week (p.s. he is racing at Rockingham on Sunday, everyone welcome)

Are you doing BTaP this year Nic?