Well it was the UK Oval Track Legends British Championship on 17th July - First qualifier was running well catching lead pack of cars when I saw dust cloud from inner circle speedway track in turn one, as I was exiting four.... nothing over the raceiver, so wrongly assumed someone had got a wheel or two on the shale and track was clear.... then I saw two stricken cars blocking track, I hit brakes locked up and spun 180 degrees into accident..... then waited for the impact (as I had a train of 10 cars behind me!) Got hit twice head on. Chassis twisted big time, but managed to get car out in time for the feature and finished 13th from 19 starters.
Then a £1600 ($2500) repair, as we'd bent axle, broke the diff and bent the half shaft, as well as the chassis! I dropped the car off on the Tuesday before a 7 day vacation and picked up on morning of our biggest meeting of year the UK Oval Track Legends National Championships.
Practice day went well, car took a little getting used to (better set up on car), and when the rain hit in session 3, the three drivers on Federals (myself included) pulled away from everyone!
On Saturday 31st July we had three qualifiers for the National Championship feature. 8th place in the first one was good, and was running well in second until a driver overtaking round outside chopped nose off front of car and spun himself, where I T-boned him and again waited for the impact (as a field of cars behind...and nothing on the raceiver!) Whallop - A car used back of my car as a ramp and launched into a roll down straight. 4 other cars were damaged in this accident. The driver who rolled actually broke his wrist (but carried on repairing his car through the night and raced in National Championship with a broken wrist!)
Thanks to Duck Tape and cable ties we put the 5 pieces of bodywork back together (as tech insisted we had to run with the body on car), we had to weld the back of the car back together, and I went out in qualifier three and set fastest time of weekend! Finished 10th in the National Championship having qualified back in 14th.
Hopefully that is my bad luck of our way for season as we go back on the points race in two meetings this week at Skegness on Thursday 19th & Sunday 22nd.
Chris