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Wow - I hadn't seen the onboard! Amazingly little damage considering the violence of that crash.

Nope, it definitely has the spacers and I hope I'm not stupid enough to put them on the wrong way round (I remember checking they were right). Cheers.

Jacked it up tonight.... one of its ~1,000 mile old rear wheel bearings is buggered. Easy.

No, I've checked the easy stuff... :cry:

Thanks. Driveshaft seems the obvious one, but I'm surprised I can't feel anything through the steering. I'll jack it up and see if I can feel anything.

Hello chaps, Can anyone diagnose the noise my Cup's making...? Driveshaft? Wheel bearing? Gearbox? Can't feel anything through the steering, and it actually sounds like it's coming from the back but I think that's an illusion. Cheers, Rob.

Yeah, of course we can do that - and have a drive of mine if you'd like. It doesn't look like it's understeering but it is difficult to be sure from the onboard vid.

PS. I want that Mini.

Must do Clay Pigeon one day! Graham, to go back over old ground, there's definitely something weird with the steering on your car. It's sooo long winded compared with mine. It must cost you masses of time, especially at venues like Clay. Watching our onboards from Castle Combe you're using...

Great to see you at the weekend Graham - isn't it brilliant to have started again?! I've found Combe such a hard circuit to learn, not helped because it feels quite intimidating with such high speeds and so little run-off in some places. I've now done four sprints and a track day and it's...

Hello all, I 've got an on-going hazard light problem and wonder if you could check I'm not missing anything... This first happened a couple of months ago on a horribly wet day. The hazards came on for a few seconds and then went off. The same thing happened a few more times that day, but only...

Haha, thanks Graham. To be honest I didn't have to do much and I did get a free bottle of wine, so actually quite low on the heroism scale...

I'm doing Sunday... once again the two WsM hillclimb Cups will avoid meeting each other! Wish me luck!

It's okay as long as the rim doesn't touch the tarmac... I love that 2CV... want one.

PS. Good luck at Wiscombe!

Ahhh... I've heard about you... Maybe one day we'll actually do the same event!

It's their "Autumn Speed Finale" meeting ("pre-finale" on the Saturday) - http://www.shelsleywalsh.com/events/ I'll be competing on both days as they're rounds of my championship (the Welsh Sprint and Hillclimb Championship). Fingers crossed for decent weather!

No I didn't, you were 8 tenths faster! You were LOADS quicker than me in the wet.

Sorry, I hope I didn't come across as being arsey as that wasn't my intent. You'll always get people with non-compliant cars in club motorsport, and nine times out of ten they get away with it. Some are ignorant of the rules, but others do it deliberately. I don't understand why, it can't be...

Thanks Graham. I'll be honest though and admit that until I read about my victory on Facebook I hadn't heard of the Bristol MC Speed Championship and wasn't aware that I was entered in it!! Haha.

Nice write-up Graham. I do love Wiscombe, such a fun and challenging hill in the most beautiful location. I had a fairly good day on Saturday, I shaved a whole 0.08s off my PB but that was more than enough for maximum points in my championship. On the other hand I was beaten quite...

Very good point - a much bigger 'brave pill' needed to brake after Avon Rise when on a flyer!

Hi Graham, Combe's my local track. I've hardly driven it but would love to get it sussed. I've always been in the 'brake early' camp but at the recent Dick Mayo Sprint I thought I'd try the other approach. I did yet another split-screen video showing my quickest opening lap at the Great...

Here's Wiscombe... I'm surprised that my car seems a bit quicker to Bunny's Leap, but it's quickly beaten once into the twisties. I love Wiscombe, can't wait until September.

In hindsight this is an unfair comparison as I know the circuit better than Graham - maybe I'll do another with Wiscombe where Graham thrashed me! It is interesting though, Graham's car is quick off the line (as you'd expect with a diff and sticky tyres) but otherwise there doesn't seem to be...

Graham, hope you don't mind but I nicked your video from YouTube and put it together with mine for a split-screen jobbie. I thought it would be interesting...

I think the Castle Combe sprint was £130. They're typically in the £70-£150 range.

There are loads of championships... I'm doing the Welsh Sprint and Hillclimb Championship (http://www.wshc.wamc.org.uk/) which oddly includes venues like Wiscombe in Devon and MIRA in the Midlands as well as Castle Combe etc... There's a Association of South-West Motor Clubs sprint...

I've been doing hillclimbs and sprints for just over a year. I absolutely love them, hillclimbs more than sprints, but they're all great. You'll hear some people moaning about the lack of seat time (on Saturday we had four ~75sec runs) but for me that's one of the reasons it's so exciting. At a...

I share your thoughts about Castle Combe - there's about a million different lines you could take, and it's hard to know which of those you should take! I managed a 74.67 on my first timed run, but it rained for the second so only managed a 77. I think the Clio Cup was the only class affected...