Hi everyone, and welcome to the 2010 season, this year will are missing Jes with the famous physics defying Cerbera. This leaves the championship wide open, who will step upto the plate and make 2010 a season to remember? Watch this space.
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Buy a TVR (if you haven't already got one)! - Join the TVRCC & sign up for our championship. - Apply for your race license - Buy your race overalls and helmet - Send your entry forms off - wait nervously for your final instructions to come through the post...
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Round 2 - Croft 5th April 2010
Written by Tim Scrivens
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 00:00
Easter Monday dawned drizzly and cold with a bitter north wind sweeping the Croft circuit.An inauspicious start to what turned out to be an entertaining and exciting day's sport. 16 TVR's entered and thirteen started including Mathew Oakley out for the first time in his 6.2 litre LS3 engined Griff.
First practice was a toe dipping exercise. How slippy was the track going to be after this slight but constant drizzle? Surprisingly grippy was the answer. Right on the pace was Mike Roe in the Vixen, far faster than the others in his class. Amongst the big boys Paul Edwards T350C and Oakley in the mongrel Griff were setting the track alight , both in the 94 second mark. Mat was ever so slightly pleased at the way the Griff performed straight out of the box. Jon Carter on his first visit to Croft was finding out which way the track went. Simon Smith was having his first outing in his new Tuscan and Dave Wilkins was doing a nice line in adjustable Chimera boot lid braking systems. But that was first practice and didn't mean anything.
I have campaigned for some years to drop North Weald as the opening round of our championship. Today, as if to thwart me yet again, the sun shone and everyone had a great time hence I suspect my quest for the season to start in April may still have some years to run.
You'll not be surprised that it was a cold morning enjoyed only by the soaring crows playing in the same arctic wind that chafed and reddened the hands and faces of the good souls in the paddock as they untied, unpacked and unbundled their paraphernalia. Drivers stood in dole queue silence as they waited to sign on and then fumbled numbly with a biro to signify their attendance. The curious thing is though, that in concert with the opening of the burger van the sun flung wide its French windows and beamed at us cheerfully, the grumpy early coldness warming into good natured banter as the prospect of the new season cheered the assembled.
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