2026 TRR Club championship ……..

[Hamish]

With this years championship starting I thought I would share with you my preparation regime for this year.

i am sure it (won’t) put the fear of god into my fellow competitors or have them pinching my ideas.

I wasn’t there but apparently - The season  has started at Cadwell with some keen competitors braving the weather and Rob MacGregor taking the honours  (pic by Rob)having spent the winter tuning and tweaking I should think, may be Rob needed to look at the bonnet fastening, as weight loss during a run and having the bonnet fly off is not gentlemanly ? Chris Lindforth was out in earnest this year following his very successful rookie year last year having now added new racing tyres and of course Len olds our current champion 😠 putting in the effort to come from Lands End - literally. Matt Waltham in his TR5 is a force to be reckoned with yet again once he repairs a broken gearbox mount - that suggests to me he just has toooo much power !

well my last event last season was a 2 day event at the end of September at Harewood.

since then family responsibilities came to the fore with aged parent illnesses and moves to care homes etc etc I won’t bore you with but that is just all coming to an end thankfully with positive outcomes.

honestly I had every intention of “sorting”the  car.

but since Harewood the poor thing hasn’t turned a wheel and ALL the fluids are the same 😔 I’ve not event sat in it or jacked it up - shameful I know.

yesterday I put my race numbers on for next weeks SHELSLEY hill climb 228 only to find I don’t have enough 2s or 8s. So outwith the black duct tape. 
With having father in law staying to recuperate from a v major op, I think I will be simplifying my race weekend logistics and drive to SHELSLEY and make it part of my shake down. Rather than pick up my trailer and juggle the cars on the drive and upset the neighbours.

Are you allowed to drive our old cars on the road with a crash helmet on ??

anyway I promise to dust the car off move the Alvis to get the tr out and put a lot of V power in - if the third mortgage is approved on Friday ready for Saturdays early start and drive to the racing  

wish me luck I’ll needed it this year !

I’ll let you know how it goes  so watch this space.

Edited April 4 by Hamish

[dave bailey]

Good luck Hamish, Well done on the Clubmans Award. I was hoping to dust the TR4 off, but things keep getting in the way. I'm still working on it.

Dave. 

[Chilliman]

My recent last minute prep involves trying out the new tonneau for leaks (all good thankfully) & I'm booked for a rolling road session next Wednesday ready for my first event of the season at Shelsley next wekend.

See you there...👍

 

[Hamish]

All looking very racy John

See you there - hopefully

[jerrytr5]

Had my share of elderly parent issues too, and a holiday, so the 7 Sprint is behind schedule. Almost there though, just trying to finish off the new ignition module. Glad to see John back up and running.

Will be along somewhere, sometime but nothing booked yet.

Jerry

[stuart]

2 hours ago, jerrytr5 said:

Had my share of elderly parent issues too, and a holiday, so the 7 Sprint is behind schedule. Almost there though, just trying to finish off the new ignition module. Glad to see John back up and running.

Will be along somewhere, sometime but nothing booked yet.

Jerry

Get the 5 back out Jerry 😉

Stuart

[Hamish]

For a change I drove to Shelsley Walsh to compete. 2 hours each way mostly motorway 

very early start at about 5.30 dark wet and cold. 
the rain hurt within a couple of miles of just aeroscreens use so put my crash helmet on. 
 

we had rain, hail, and sunshine virtually every couple hours in cycles. The track surface top to bottom is brand new and the first practice was v wet and very very slippery. It got a bit better in the dry but it sure needs curing time to get best times back. 
 

I have tried a new GoPro max360 camera and took some stills from it. 
 

the drive home was in a mostly dry weather window. 
 

literally 6months since I last used the car and it was faultless. 
the 2 practice times in pic