Colour indicates the lane.

The winners were Nigel and Tina in their BMW Mini.

Second place went to Ian and Jo Peacock, with Martyn Storey and Liz in third spot.

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Ian and Jo on their
way to second place

Guy and Diane on
the quest of another
kitchen utensil

Paul's new mini?

Katie

Martyn

Phil and Pat

In his second race, the Autoglym Post Historic Touring Car Championship in association with Dunlop, Phil finished fifth behind a 7.3 Litre Jaguar, a BMW 2002, a 3.0 Litre Capri, and a 2.0Litre MKI Escort RS2000.

Left for dead on the straights, the Mini ruled the bends!

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Race 1
Phil Manser
facing in a straight
line at last

Race 2
Phil Manser
approaches the hairpin

Our MotorSport Reporter at large provided the following pictures:-

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Phil after the race

Heading for Hall Bends

In the paddock

Return to the paddock

Heading for Hall Bends

Post race

After the race

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Tina - Nigel - Andy - Katie

After a closely fought contest, two teams tied with 5 points out of a possible 21. This meant two tie break questions, which went the way of the quiz in that nobody knew the answers. The result was finally decided on the toss of a coin and a box of Terry’s ‘All Gold’ went to Tina, Nigel, Andy and Katie. Commiserations to the winners as they will have to set the next quiz, which is due in June

Thanks to Phil and Pat for setting the questions, they obviously had a box of dates left over from Christmas!

The rain stopped on the morning we arrived, but the park was still a bit of a quagmire covered in straw.

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The beer tent

Wildgoose

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Campsite

Relaxing

Paddy meets Rob

Time to go home

The winners were Rob, Audrey and Jennifer Goodwin in their Mini Clubman.

Guy and Dianne managed to add to their stock of kitchen equipment.

The route took a lot longer to complete than the organisers anticipated and so photographic opportunities were few and far between. In fact they were taken at the finish!

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Mark and Luci

Phil and Pat

Andy and Nicky

The weekend started for Diane and I on Saturday 1st August. We planned to camp overnight to gain the atmosphere of the start of the event. We arrived at 3pm hoping to get onto our pitch and set up early.

The Cambridge and Oxford Owners Club were still setting out their pitches so we were not allowed on to the site until 4pm. We had an hour wait with others who came early but it did get us talking to each other, something we probably would not have done had it been for the wait. We met Fiona and her mum Alison, who were there helping the organisers.

We soon had the Mini off the trailer, the trailer parked with the camper and the tent put up. A quick cup of tea was the next order of the day, it was then over to the organisers area for tea. This marked the end of the day and bed.

Sunday started bright as it always does for this event. Martyn arrived at about 9.30am followed by Rob and Jane. We were finally joined by Fiona. We had two guests, Richard Mortlock from the Bury Mini Club with his very nice Woody and a Gentleman whose name eludes me with two very special vehicles, one was a Microdot which is a hybrid from 1976 and a Minissima, both designed by William Towns.

It stayed warm all day and was ideal for walking and taking in the exhibits. We packed up after the rafle and prize giving and went home after a thoroughly satisfying day.