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Date Posted: 01:50:50 09/29/08 Mon
Author: Ed (HAPPY)
Subject: Lydden/Cadwell

The end of the season has come around and what a finish to the season. Lydden saw us get faster and faster and even beat Ralf Remnant into the first corner. In fact we held him off for over a lap before he just nudged past us. Lydden did see us get our second overall race win of the season as Ralph forgot to bring half of his sidecar and had to send a runner from Kent to Sommerset to fetch the missing pieces. We had a first,two seconds and a fourth over that weekend.
Cadwell was an improvement as the main problem we have been encountering is overheating which results in a loss of power. As the air temperature was very cool the outfit kept its power for much longer and did not fade as much as on the hotter days. This meant that we went off the start line like a whippet with a rocket up its arse and again beat Ralph and indeed everyone else to the long up hill stretch and held it till the end of the back straight. Eventually he did come past us but not easily and did not really power away. In the first race on sunday after fitting a new clutch we flew off the start line and into first with Ralph drafting us all the way down the back straight. He managed to gain a length at the top section but we pulled a better line through the traffic and left him a good way behind. The race was red flagged and restarted with us in front on the grid this time and off we went again. Not such a good start but good enough to pull out an even bigger lead and increase the gap by quite a few hundred yards. Eventually Ralph pushed so hard he got involved in an accident and did not finish but he would never have caught us anyway. The last races found us cruising round so as to guarantee a finish as i believe we are in the running in the championship. I will check it out and let you know. This could be the first time a group8 has won the sidecars for 15 years. A big thank you to Gaz and Jack,Phil and Cath and even Josh who have made the season so much easier and allowed us to get on with doing well instead of running around aimlessly. Thanks Ed

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