Cover : BPMC Win Autoglym National Motor Club Quiz 2008
Front Row - The winning BPMC team of James Page, Tim Murray and Keiron
Winter, with supporters Dick Craddy, John Page and Martin Emsley
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Cover : BPMC Win Autoglym National Motor Club Quiz 2008
Front Row - The winning BPMC team of James Page, Tim Murray and Keiron
Winter, with supporters Dick Craddy, John Page and Martin Emsley
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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2008 BPMC Events Calendar 2008
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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Navigation Scatter
Friday 8th February The February Navigation event is a Scatter and is a joint event with BMC. The Start will be at Gordano Services J19 M5, and the event will take place entirely on map 172 The finish will be advised in the final instructions, but will be before midnight. Signing on will be from 18.45. Initial Route information will be handed out at 19.30. The event will take place entirely on map 172 It should be possible to visit 75% of the points without covering more than 40 miles.
Regulations and entry form are available from the club website or contact Paul Parker 01275 843478 or britishsprint(a)paulparker.f9.co.uk. There will be no entry fee, although cheques will be required for any insurance cover required.
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David George, well known .as the race commentator at Castle Combe, is also a great Land Speed Record enthusiast and in 1997 spent two weeks at Black Rock Desert, helping the Thrust SSC team during their record breaking attempts.
He will be talking about the car, its construction, and the record runs, and will also be bringing along a selection of Thrust SSC memorabilia and photos, including a piece of Black Rock itself!
Navigation Exercise
Friday 7th March
Last Nav-ex of the Winter.
Club Night
Monday 10th March Wheatsheaffrom 8.30pm.
Stoneleigh Show Visit
Friday 14th March
Club visit to the Historic Motor Sport Show - "Race Retro" - More info later in the magazine.
Great Western Sprint
Saturday 29th March Our new joint event with Bristol MC at Castle Combe and a round of the British Sprint Championship. The regulations will be available to download from the website or they can be sent to you by getting in contact with the Entries Secretary Alan Want at 17 Bristol Road, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AQ or by phone on 01275 848736.
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February Club Night
Monday 11th February 8:30pm Guest Speaker David George will be talking about THRUST SSC
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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Chairman's Chat
By Kieron Winter
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won, the club bought the equipment trailer. Graham remembered this and asked if we still had the trailer. It was good to tell him that it was only a few months ago that we handed it on to the Scouts.
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What a great way to start the New Year by winning the Autoglym Quiz. You will read elsewhere in the magazine how the team from Bristol Pegasus qualified for the National final at the Heritage Centre at Gaydon and came away as the winners. I was lucky enough to be one of the team, but I have to admit that it was Tim and James who were quicker to the buzzer than myself. In fact when it came to the final, Tim was in excellent form. At one time he interrupted the Quizmaster on a question about Brooklands. Tim took the gamble that the question was going to be about the holder of the lap record and so he gave the name of the driver, the car, the date and the speed in mph to two decimal places - we never found out what the exact question was, but he got us a point.
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Plans are well underway for the Great Western Sprint at the end of March. Several planning meetings have taken place, with Clerk of the Course Martin Baker and his deputy Mark Chater paying several visits to Castle Combe to finalise details. We are also very pleased to announce that Bristol Seat will be sponsoring the event. Bristol Seat is the new Seat dealer for Bristol and will be opening their new facility at Feeder Road. Seat has strong links with motorsport by sponsoring a works team in the British Touring Car Championship, the World Touring Car Championship and in the recent past were F2 World Rally Champions. There are also strong Seat links with the Great Western Sprint and Bristol Pegasus Motor Club, as the Clerk of the Course and Deputy Clerk (Bob Hart) are both Seat owners!
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We had an excellent day and were well looked after by Autoglym. We had time to talk to Graham Robson, who organised the Ford Motorcraft Quiz back in 1983 when Tim was the winner. With the money that Tim
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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Club Night Venue
The Wheatsheaf
From M32 J1
Take the A4174 ring road towards Downend. 200 metres further on, turn left at traffic lights (signposted to Winterbourne). Follow the B4058 for approximately 2 miles. You will find the Wheatsheaf Inn on the right hand side of the road.
From M5 J16 (Almondsbury) Take the A38 towards Bristol After 200 metres take the first left at the roundabout. Keeping in the outside lane to go straight ahead at the traffic lights.
Continue straight ahead at three consecutive roundabouts. At the fourth roundabout turn left, continue to the T junction and turn left into Winterbourne High Street. The Wheatsheaf Inn is on the right hand side of the road, approx. 400m from the turning.
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Our motorsport year got underway with the annual trip over the Severn Bridge for the Dick Craddy / Andy Rigler Nav Ex. It was good to have two new crews out on the event, one in a car and the other in a Transit van! The Monte Carlo Rally is now over and I thought the TV coverage was very good and an improvement over recent years. I hope you have found the 'Dave' Channel; they are promising to have a programme every Sunday evening on rallying and also have shown some documentaries on GT racing. The Grand Prix teams also seem to have got their new cars out early and most of the teams have their driver line-up settled. Let us hope that the championship race is as close as last year, but we can do without the politics.
Our first Guest Speaker of the year will be David George who will be talking about Thrust SSC at the February club night. For those of you who go to the races at Castle Combe, David will be familiar to you, as he is one of the Commentary team.
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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Bristol Pegasus Fantasy Fl 2008
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looses his seat, he's out of the championship; however, the rest of your team can still score. Likewise, if one of the teams packs up and goes home, your drivers and other car can still score.
Car scores are based on the highest finishing machine of your chosen make. There are also bonus points for pole position and fastest lap for finishing cars and drivers.
The organisers may ask for a tie break choice to be made before the last race of the season.
Here's how it works (all points apply to both the drivers and the cars):
Win - 25 points 2nd - 20 points 3rd - 18 points 4th - 15 points 5th - 12 points 6th - 10 points 7th - 8 points 8th - 5 points
Improvement Points:
One point for every place made up from start position. So if grid position 12 finishes in sixth place, you get six points.
Race Bonus Points :
Pole position - 5 points.
Fastest lap-5 points.
Hat-trick (pole, fastest lap & win) - 5
extra points.
Duplicate teams are inevitable with the number of entries received each season. We therefore ask for a Tie Break - "Joker Race" - Nominate the one race at which you think your team will perform at it's best. In the event of a tie at the end of the
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The Bristol Pegasus Fantasy Formula One competition is now into its 13th year and seems to be as popular as ever.
Our rules differ a little from those found in the "real" Fl championship so make sure you read them carefully. The major difference is that we have the concept of improvement points - if you start last on the grid you will get points for every place you make up during the race. This can make things quite unpredictable at times !
We will accept entries upto the first race - the Australian Grand Prix on the 16th of March.
Entries should arrive by Friday 14th March - Good Luck !
The Rules
You must choose TWO DIFFERENT DRIVERS and TWO DIFFERENT CARS and one ENGINE from the listings below to make up your team. You may choose any driver and team combination - for example you can put Kimi Raikkonen in a Super Aguri if you wish.
Your team budget is £ 100 m. You may spend less but if you exceed the budget your team WILL NOT be accepted for entry.
Your driver scores only when he is racing, and the cars and drivers MUST be classified by the FIA as a finisher to score points. Substitute drivers do not count. If your driver
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season your points from this race will be doubled. You will not score double points unless there is a tie. The organisers may ask additional questions if it still looks as though the fantasy championship is heading for a tie towards the end of the season.
Entry is free and open to all club members. Spouses may also submit an entry. Results will be published in Backfire each month and will be available between magazines on the club website.
Prize - A DVD or Video of your choice will be awarded to the winner.
Teams And Driver Costs
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2008 Race Dates
16 March Australia
23 March Malaysia 06 April Bahrain
27 April Spain
11 May Turkey 25 May Monaco 08 June Canada 22 June France
06 July Great Britain 20 July Germany
03 August Hungary
24 August Europe
07 September Belgium 14 September Italy
28 September Singapore
12 October Japan 19 October China 02 November Brazil
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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The easiest way to enter is online at www.bristolpeqasus.com or Complete the form below - if you do not wish to cut you Backfire send entry on a photo copy or a plain piece of paper to the Backfire address at the front of the Newsletter.
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2008 Fantasy F1 Entry Form
Remember: You have £100m to spend on two different drivers, two cars and an Engine.
Driver 1 : Driver 2 : Team 1 : Team 2 : Engine : Joker Race :
( choose one race to score double points in the event of a tie )
Name: Address :
Telephone : E-Mail :
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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2008 Exeter Trial
By Alan Spencer
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engine speed on tick over "twit". We arrived at Gatcombe Lane and from the top of the hill it looked as if it was on fire, we arrived at the start only to be greeted by Duncan Pitaway and Jack Taylor with their start crew - A large 45 gallon drum full of wood "nice and warm".
Normans Hump and Clinton in Bovey down woods not far from Wiscombe Park has always been a big challenge for the Mini but the Parsons sailed up both of them although the engine stalled on the Cilton re-start - was I clear? I don't know. Waterloo just across the A3052 at Hangmans stone was also a good climb despite it climbing the bank and jumping out of gear.
We arrive at Exeter services just after 1st light for Breakfast 2 as far as I was concerned. We had climbed all the early hills, the results may show different.
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After the cancellation of last years Edinburgh Trial with worries of Foot and Mouth by the Motor Cycle Club, the "Triple Awards" for 2007 were decided on this the first round of 2008.
A dry night and day would be an advantage for those Triple Award chasers, not to be, its winter and its Britian of course. (Even the Romans got fed up with the weather and went home - well that's my theory anyway.) The over night run was wet and it also rained during the day -very hard at times, but this proved on some hills to be good as although wet the slime had been washed off.
We started with Mai and Donny from Cirencester in the wet, during the night it cleared several times, but the rain soon returned, and made our way to Haynes at Sparkford for the trial start, an hour at the Museum gave an opportunity to view the cars in the museum at a reduced rate, and time for the first breakfast although overcrowded due to the early arrival rule being relaxed this year.
The Parsons Ford ran well but we found on some of the early restarts it stalled - had forgot to increase the
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After an hour break we then head for Tilbutu Steep - a hill that in the early days the mini would just drive up - it was a green grass lane, not any more its a rock garden, I've broken diffs and the footpeg on my Motorcycle on this Hill, the Parsons takes it all in its stride and we pull off the restart only to fail further up the hill not enough right foot? Fingles Bridge on Dartmoor was for all classes but this year it was surprisingly rough and
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The Bristol Pegasus Motor Club Backfire - February 2008
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class "0"s had a bit of a problem on the sharp hairpins. Wootons Steep is what its said - STEEP - the restart was in the loose shale part this year and many never got out of it including me-Fail no 2.
We then travel on to the famous SIMMS a hill that in 15 years i've only climbed once, that was on a Motorcycle, we have a 15 minute stop here but I wanted to carry on, its a compulsory stop, in the village hall nice tea and cakes. It starts to rain very heavily - waiting in the queue rain is dripping down my neck - I think we will not climb this one. Watching the others they stop at the restart box high and to the left, I was thinking stopping low. Then its my go and as we arrive at the box it looks better high and left so I follow all the others, and to my surprise off it goes up and out of the top "great I've got up SIMMS in a CAR" What pleasure what joy must have been the wet conditions who knows?
The next hill across the road from Simms is Tipley, nice hill with several hairpin bends, a bit rocky, have got out of this many times in the mini with no restart.
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The Parsons in Class 8 has a restart, I could not believe it, the car pulled off the box and I was so surprised I had to look back as I thought the marshals were pushing me, great, not for long not enough right foot again and we fail a bit farther up.
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