A busy day at work tomorrow, but the Motorhome is largely packed ready to head out to Dijon tomorrow evening and drive over night. Fortunately I have my brother David along in support this weekend, so that'll ease the drive. He's an airline pilot, and is in the simulator at Heathrow tomorrow, but should get here about 2000, which is good timing as the kids will have just gone to bed, and we can head off to the Eurotunnel. We'll be well stocked with beer from brother-in-law Phil's brewery, and have plenty of food for Friday's FJ BBQ, where our Motorhome will be the focal point, and will the 'kitchen'!
Oversubscribed grid of 40 cars, so 4 are reserves. Slightly disappointed to see that there are only 4 in my C2 class this weekend, which is a shame. Particularly so because the other three are John Delane and Kim Shearn in their Lotus 18s and Charles Cook back in the Envoy with a rebuilt engine. Now all three of those are Ford-powered cars, with quick drivers, so to be honest I expect them all to beat me ... which in turn is likely to mean me losing the overall Championship lead, but I've been very lucky so far, and it has always been inevitable that 'normal order' would be resumed at some point!
I came to Dijon last year and despite driveshaft failure in Race 1 I still had a great weekend, the circuit is fabulous, unchanged from that epic F1 battle between Villeneuve and Arnoux back in 1979 - here on YouTube if you haven't seen it www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nxwn3OHkEw. The circuit is sweeping and undulating, with no namby-pamby health and safety chicanes, and a very long straight. While you're on YouTube you can see my highlights of Race 2 from last year here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxeAUg72m6M&feature=plcp
We get plenty of track time, free practice (it's not free though!) all day Thursday and Friday morning, there are four sessions i could run in, but i'll probably do 2, as it's all quite expensive, and would be a lot of extra running for the car. Then the usual 25min qualifying Friday lunchtime, and two 25min races, one Saturday lunchtime, one Sunday morning.
We have one big decision left to make ... What music to keep us trucking on through the night ...? Could go with Zep, or Stones, or AC/DC (although after Brian Johnson 'blanked' me at Brands maybe they're off the playlist this time around!)
WiFi permitting I'll be blogging over the weekend.
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