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I dont think people have an exscuse about saying they had nothing to waterproof wit anyways th BRCA where giving out black bin backs yesterday for rubbish. Adn 90% of drivers have grease in there pit box and insulation tape.

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i am lost for words, what were we supposed to do with that?, smother the cars in grease, insulating tape and run with a black bin bag as a makeshift jacket?.

bag the speedo's inside the bin bag, seal with tape, rub the grease on face in case the sun came out?

place all the blown speedo's in bin bag, seal with insulating tape and ? oh i give up, it is not blue peter you know.
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i am lost for words, what were we supposed to do with that?, smother the cars in grease, insulating tape and run with a black bin bag as a makeshift jacket?.

bag the speedo's inside the bin bag, seal with tape, rub the grease on face in case the sun came out?

place all the blown speedo's in bin bag, seal with insulating tape and ? oh i give up, it is not blue peter you know.

i take it you not a blue peter fan then!!
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Heres one i made earlier
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my era was noakes,purves and singleton, they may have had some clue on how to make the best out of the bin bag,tape and grease
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I dont think people have an exscuse about saying they had nothing to waterproof wit anyways th BRCA where giving out black bin backs yesterday for rubbish. Adn 90% of drivers have grease in there pit box and insulation tape.

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Haha, WTF! With the depth of those puddles and the speeds we were doing even a drip is likely to get in somewhere, it did in mine and Boulters, and im sure most others had the same problem.
In round one i ran my car with no protection at all and lasted no problem!
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actually thinking about it, valerie singleton,bin bag, tape and grease. the options are endless!!
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Anyway, apart from the rain today it was another enjoyable weekend. Do we know if there is any entertainment for Bury Metro???
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it is not blue peter you know.
Aye, but you have more chance of getting a badge on here

Its pretty difficult to waterproof something which gets hot, such as an ESC. So those that chose to, tried to block off any orrifices, and gambled on running.

I found putting screwed up tissue paper in places would soak up the water before it spread and damaged. But some cars are more difficult to protect than others.
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Anyway, apart from the rain today it was another enjoyable weekend. Do we know if there is any entertainment for Bury Metro???
valerie singleton,bin bag, tape and grease.
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I think the organisers have a few ideas up their sleeves. Watch this space
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John, whoooo's she?
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a bit like vicki butler henderson, but for the 70's
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must thank everybody who helped to take the big white tent down, lee, bob,bobdad,kim, cindy and trish.

quote of the day from bob (belgian aero manufacturer) "what does this cancelled meeting mean"

me "it means you have won"

bob "not really a win then"
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On a perosnal note I raced Round 2 (Heat 11) but the car didn't go off the line. We identified the problem as receiver but not due to the weather!

From the National series point of view, the 2nd Round had to be run to ensure the meeting went ahead, the guys in the later heats knew what may have happened if they raced, their chose. I only went to race because I thought I you needed 2 rounds to count from 2, my knowledge of the rules is clearly wrong though as 1 round counted in the end.

Overall I really enjoyed the weekend, it was my first National since Telford in 2005 and it was great to see everyone again, it was topped off with a 53rd place on Saturday and 30th today.

Looking forward to Bury!
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a bit like vicki butler henderson, but for the 70's
Ha ha thats one of the funniest comparisons I've heard, Cant say i remember seeing Val thrashing the tits off cars like Vicki does, but i might have missed the blue peter episode when she did that!!

John, I think that worryingly you may have a bit of a Val Singleton fetish since you mentioned her in 3 or 4 posts!
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Well, abandoning at the end of rd 1 surely wasn't required. I was in heat 5 and with just a little thought and use of gaffer tape and a foam insert car finished fine - and Si's was teh same in heat 6 with the same method. I didn't see many cars stop in those 2 heats.

However, that said it was looking a little rough toward the end of the round. I think the timing was fine, about as good as they were going to get - i have seen more than a few national meetings run on longer that this one did when people were blowing up. Telford last year? Holbeach a few years ago (as Mr long says) and Batley a few times 5 ish years ago. There was no real way of guessing exactly how much rain was going to fall during rd 2, and at the end of rd 1 the track was still driveable IMHO.

John, the AERO guys were real good at getting tents down and packed away!!! mucho thanks for their help putting ours down - despite Si being convinced it wasn't going to fit in the bag!!
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Woody had his crappest days racing ever but at least he let me get a nice photo!





Well done lee!

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You guys take some wicked photos when are the rest goin to be posted from the weekend plus well done lee

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ps do you lot remember sat nite at all lol
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"all a bit standard" ------ bust out the magpie stu!



I'm afraid I have shit-out in amature style BIG time.

On saturday afternoon I dropped all the pics from from the camera onto the laptop, sensible, yes.
I then took some of the maddest cheese/dead magpie/bus-stop-climbing/eurovision song contest/chav pics - all well random stuff, some of you will know.
First thing Sunday moning I then proceeded to format the card, forgetting to drop the stuff from Saturday night onto the laptop first.

Big mistake.

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the chavs in the cars was hillarious
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