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  1. Time for our group photo on the start finish line
  2. Nothing prepares you for Steve's desire to be shiny, reflective and mirror like. The Mallock is but one example of this stunning finish And yes folks, that rear panel is mirroring the asphalt...it is that shiny! For those that do not know, a Mallock was the idea of taking the best of a seven and fixing its weak points. Gorgeous thing.
  3. More tech inspection fun - Paul dealing with NJMP's 'Froggy' for the first time. Tom C studying Graham's Honda installation and wondering if louvres are the secret to performance. Fred working on his Locost BEC screamer Dermot tanning his face in the Mallock's reflections while Steve shares the joke
  4. Graham's Honda powered Locost Dan's secret strategy to stop people passing and to blind him at the same time! Westfield Miata dash - in the right hands these pedal along quite quickly. Impressive car. Give it a turbo Dan! Getting the cars tech inspected. Michael D giving Roman some "birds and bees" advice while Mario stares on in disbelief
  5. This year we let a Mallock Clubman and a Lotus 61 FF run with us on the basis that they go around corners quickly with a performance envelope similar to a traditional Lotus 7, fit the "add lightness" ethos and the owners are really fun guys. It helped that they were simply gorgeous cars - jewel like in engineering.
  6. Skip's ex-Caterham, in good hands with Dermot, shown standing admiring the blue beastie with Roman. George's Birkin Jay's Caterham Roadsport Mike (Kitcat) mugging for the camera with his Caterham.
  7. Setting up in the pits on Saturday morning - some old guy here... Steve's shiny Mallock Roman's Ultralite. He was awarded the furry poo brown steering wheel cover last year for polishing on the Friday night. He cracked me up by wearing it in the pits this year.
  8. Keeping the photos in sequence Friday night I slept with 9 attractive cars....actually 11 if you count two of my other two cars present
  9. And for Steve when he sees this - thank you! Your comments to me on the problems your Mallock was having under braking proved very helpful on Monday as I was suffering the exact same issue on the BMW but far more extreme. We raised the front ride height and sure enough made progress of fixing its waywardness under braking.
  10. So lets weigh this up....a fun July 4th weekend sevens event with lots of laughter, social, driving, etc or a t-shirt? :flag:
  11. Discussion moves to http://www.usa7s.net/vb/showthread.php?11633-Photo-and-Video-2017-Sevens-HPDE-at-NJMP-Drivers-Club&p=104213#post104213 Photos and video are in that thread.
  12. To make it easier to find photos and video I started a new thread. This is the only video I took the whole weekend. Session 1 on Sunday - start to finish with no editing. I was camera car for Glen so was aiming to mingle around. Its in hi res and has decent audio. Index 0.00 Follow Dan in his Westfield out of the pits 6:15 Passing George in his Birkin 6:30 The infamous carbon rear wing incident of Tom and new skid marks for Dan 8:18 Passing Jay in his Caterham Roadsport 8:25 Dave in his Superformance S1 8:53 Slow down to let Kitcat pass on the happy assumption something exciting might happen 9:50 Passing Dermott in his new (Skip's old) Caterham Miata 11:15 Passing Steve in his shiny Mallock 14:28 Pass Paul in his Birkin 14:29 I go all silly 14:30 I discover someone has moved the wing to a new and exciting position I have Mike W's photos from the weekend. I will be uploading those today and posting here. I have all of them in hi-res to distribute - just have to work out how to do it. There are some absolutely stunning photos in there - some of his best work ever. Edited to fix the video for the blank spot and add an index
  13. First there and last to leave. Just walked in the front door. Kitcat is still heading west through PA. Steve is probably 6 hours ahead of him also heading west. They still have a long ways ahead of them. Mario was heading north to Watkins Glen. Tom C was heading somewhere else - not sure. Matt will be somewhere on the road still heading west. I got given a flash drive by Mike at the track today. I am yet to open it but will look at it tomorrow and post some photos. Will also see what I have in my camera. I have a video of session 1 on Sunday which is uploading to Youtube now. I will publish it here tomorrow.
  14. Sunday was an interesting day: - Sadly Fred could not find the piston he lost on track yesterday and gave up trying to run his car on 3 cylinders so as not to damage the engine. - Roman leveraged the vast expertise of his fellow driving friends to solve a many year coolant leak issue from the cap - yes they just turned it clockwise tightly. - Graham put his seven away with a sump oil leak. - Jeff needs a new ECU - There was a minor track orgy when Simon hit a cone (yep..figures eh?), it moved onto the circuit online just over the blind crest on turn 5....., Tom (Caterham one) appears and hits it dead center...hits arm then takes off the drivers side rear wing. Dan and I closely following witness what look like an explosion of carbon wing, rubber gasket, cone, etc into the air. Dan goes left and creates many exciting new skid marks, I go right and dodge it. And the debris stayed there the rest of the session - which was fine if you have the right lines around that corner... The bruise on Tom's shoulder was coming up nicely last night. - Dave had a oops at turn 1 - in the braking zone coming into turn 1, I see the dust cloud go up across the blind hill and instantly think Shane/Xcarguy, hit the brakes and trickle over the crest. Dave was looking dusty off to the left! - Matt found rotating at turn 7 to be his style - a simple corner that takes out the best of us - Jay was graduated by the Drivers Club Chief Instructor from green to sevens group to join us on Sunday - yay! It was remarked at dinner last night that the frequency of incidents of years past are not being repeated in more recent years. Its true we are all getting better! Dinner was the usual riotous affair at the Clubhouse. Pre-drinks with swimming occurred for those taking off the last session. So it was all very merry. Sorry photo lurkers but I need to sign up for a new photo hosting site since Photofucket has broken. Then my camera can be uploaded and shared. There will be a lot of high quality photos of cars on track in due course as Amos and Mike were there doing duties. We have to sort out a share solution for those too. Group photo on start finish line and at Don's party on Saturday night will be shared around. I have emails of those who attended. I am exhausted but I am going out on a test day today to try and get the unruly BMW to handle. There will be a side drive of the Mustang. The CSR will probably sit in the pits basking in the sun. Then the drive home tonight and sleep in tomorrow. Thank you to all for coming. It was fun, it was social, it was great to see everyone again and get some quality track time in with a bunch of great drivers. We will do this again but maybe not July 4th weekend in 2018. I want to get a weekend at Thunderbolt circuit to give some variety. This will mean moving dates to April/May or September. Once I get the 2018 Drivers Club Calendar in December I will do a save the date post. Glen - it was great to see you again yesterday. Sorry I missed saying good bye at the end. Too many things were distracting me!
  15. I am the lucky guy to have slept with 9 lovely ladies last night. Luckily (for me) they were downstairs with the keys confiscated by their owners who were worried about midnight test drives. :rofl: I am still in disbelief but we packed 9 sevens into my garage last night with my Mustang and Holden up on their lifts and Wemtd was confident we could have got another 3 sevens in if we had them. We will go for a record next year! Great night at dinner last night! Looking forward to a top weekend finishing Monday afternoon here for me.
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