Next question...... DID YOU WIN ??

 

Hmmm, yeah, by a country mile ................. bit of a cheat though really as it was a SEMSEC race SEMSEC car racing and sprints at Lydden Circuit and Brands Hatch which is a regional amateurs race, not that there is anything wrong with that, but I had an international A licence and experience and it was therefore rather unfair. I was using it as a test day/warm up race in early season before the real stuff started.

This was my life and fun back then and not some of the regional races.

and even better stuff later on.

 

Man those caterhams really like to flick around that light rear. looks like they are pretty hard to recover when they start to go. Must have been a ton of fun

 

They were terrific fun, dangerous, but great fun. They only weighted circa 500kgs and were very 'twitchy' and over steery which certainly sharpened up the reaction speeds.

Better known as 'upholstered roller skates'

 

did you get yours shipped to your house in a crate too? Saw an episode of top gear where the boys attempted to build one.

 

thats pretty cool. there are so many spin outs and mini crashes. I never saw a race like that before. I bet your adrenalin really gets pumpin when you are in the drivers seat

 

I have built Caterham's from scratch but not this particular one as I bought it almost new and undamaged as a factory constructed Caterham Vauxhall Race car. It was a guy who had only one or two races and realised and also admitted he didn't have the 'gonads' or attributes for motor racing.

 

You're right Senormac, it's adrenalin charged and frantic. Most races, unless one trails around at the back, are dangerous and you sustain damage nearly every outing. Lot's of action every race and sometimes there have been quite serious crashes where cars have flipped over and barrel rolled 6 or 7 times but thankfully not me. It's not the most revered motor sport but it is certainly entertaining as witnessed by the crowds who attend. When I sold the Caterham to the Japanese in circa 1996 I then bought an historic 1982 Pilbeam F2 single seater race car (slicks aand wings) which was less manic but extremely fast with only a 1600 Cosworth Ford BDA engine but it revved to nearly 11,000 rpm coupled to a Hewland FT200 transaxle gearbox. It's the first time I'd raced a single seater with adjustable front and rear wings and running on huge slicks and it was like driving on rails around bends with lots of downforce and totally different after the Caterham's.