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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We had a "Boys' Day Out" today. My colleague has a TVR Griffith. This is 4 litres of brutal power with en engine that is low revving and high on torque. Glass fibre body, lightweight, powerful brakes. A British Sports Car par excellance.
He books "Track Days" at motor circuits. A Track Day is a non competitive day where you learn to drive cars on a race circuit at speed in race conditions, but with no aggressive or competitive driving. Thsi circuit in this pic is Goodwood. It's famous for being the track at which Stirlng Moss was nearly killed, and which wrecked his racing career. There's an interactive map under motorsport at http://www.goodwood.co.uk/circuithire/ St Mary's is where Stirling lost it and had a rather serioys car shortening moment.
Anyhow, this thing goes fast as hell. And I drove it for between 10 and 20 laps (one loses count), and learnt how different circuit driving is from road driving.
The little pic below is the car. Not me. He was driving there, with a colleague as passenger (this is the UK. Which side is the wheel on? Yup, the right!) Oh yes. It rained. Slippery circuit. The back straight we may have hit about 110. the car is capable of more, but I sure wan't! Tired and very happy and smelling of motorsport. AND trusted to drive it by myself!
We also got to see the prototype Aston Martin DB9. The set of 2 pics show it. It's had its press launch, so the concealment panels are off. One heck of a car even if Ford do own it.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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It struck me when I was at university in the motorsport clib there, and one couple were out and proud
That track day, I looked back tonight, and wondered. There were mainly guys there. "Petrolheads" to a man. About 30+ men. I know one was gay [me, you fool!]. By the law of averages two others should have been. Makes you think, doesn't it.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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