Just got home from Castle Combe. I've rubbed in a load of aftersun as I've gone a bit on the pink side. I didn't think it had been that sunny but I guess quite a bit of UV was getting through the clouds.

Apart from a couple of very light showers the weather was pretty good. There were some fantastic cars to drool over in the paddock and even better to watch many of them being driven enthusiastically on the track. My Spyder had its first track outing (well, since I've owned it, not sure if previous owners took it on the track). I think its fair to say I wasn't the quickest car in my session. I was third car out behind two Westies from the BKCC too and they left me behind quite quickly. (they both have more power, less weight and better tyres plus quite a bit of track experience). I had West behind me so I'm looking forward (I think) to seeing his video footage of the back of my car for a couple of laps until he lost patience and zoomed past and away. I had another 7 or 8 car come past and was actually lapped by an orange westy (also BKCC - a very experienced fast driver in a 220hp 560kg car). I managed to spin on the left hander of the esses - I put this down to being on the wrong line having moved over to let a faster car through at the entry and a cold right tyre due there not being many left handers at Combe. Great fun though! and didn't get black flagged.

I definitely think I need some new tyres - the Eagle F1's are date stamped 2003 so well past their prime - I need some 888's before my next outing but that will mean getting som 15" rims too....

The pictures i got are really rubbish quality from my phone...