Weekend 2 of the Brisca Season for 2012, and well it ended up being a bit of a Brucie bonus...
There were 3 potential venues for the Jho fun bus this weekend. A weekend of drinking with those people of renowned temperance, the young farmers at Weston Super Mare. Fortunately, the YFC panto I had co-
produced and wrote, didn't get past the Cornwall stage, so no need to be there!
Another alternative was to see if, contrary to some opinion, Autospeed could organise a piss up in a brewery, St Austell Brewery to be precise for the Bill Dalley Tribute Evening. After spending the afternoon down at Stadium Retail Park, going to the shoppers, in true Bullseye fashion.... here's what you could have won, an evening of nostalgia was put on by Clive and Jim Wilcocks. I bumped into Clive in Liskeard town centre, and he is always a fountain of knowledge of olden times, and to a relative whippersnapper like myself, who can barely remember St Austell!
Of course, usually as sure as eggs is eggs, I would be at the opening St Day. Random winners, great racing, nice and quick. Good day for the new brethren of the Janner Motorsport, as Matt Westaway (835) and Bertie Bassett (31) took a heat each. Dale Moon (302) followed up his Taunton GN win with a nice heat win. The returning Adam Deeble (685) shocked the Janners with two seconds. However, in the final, it went to Chris Mikkula (522) who took the "Voice of Autospeed" trophy.
Here's a few pics to music taken by the excellent Ali P...
So what cataclysmic event prevented me from heading to St Day. The accumulation of prenuptial brownie points, with the future in laws, meant my presence was required in the Benevolent Republic of Skegness. So spending the evening eating Chicken Chow Mein discussing the onslaught of pringles at Birmingham or the new fence at the Wall. Then we watched a country singer.....I'm pretty certain that Paul Wilson would have requested 9 to 5.... think about it.....and Barrington Goldin could be heard shouting "Joleene" Not to sure who is the "Coward of the County"!
Birmingham saw an evening of pringle based fun as 2 racewinners were stripped for jumping the gun. Nigel "GoesBeforeThe" Green (445) picking up his second. Darren Clarke (571) getting pringled twice in one race - that's a first - and perennial start abuser Big Boy Bradbury (886) got docked. Jack Cave (801) followed up some impressive displays with a race win- his first in the formula. The final went the of Steve Green Jnr (154) who proved he is still one of the tar drivers to beat.
Up at the new look Cowdie, with the wall and inner fence gone, and being told to "watch the sparks fly"- promising much, however it was business as usual, as Gordon Moodie (7) and Chris Burgoyne (647) carved up the heats, with the Moodster taking the final, and Eddie taking the GN.
Sunday came, and whilst my heart was in St Day, I went home Northampton way! Now I worked out whilst I was there, that my last Northampton visit was 2005, for the Willie Peeters World win. I was shocked, but NIR is a venue which you can dip in and out of and not miss much. It was also my first Hot Rod meet for quite some time too, I think quite possibly a Ringwood bank holiday might have been the last time. It's a shame they don't like the more action tracks - stock rods at Taunton are proof that they can run round small tracks rather well! I forgotten how good they can be if the racing is close, so Kewy (174) I might make the effort to watch again. I wish I could say the same about MASCAR, good idea in concept, but do we really need another non contact saloon based formula? I kept on thinking about Bubba J, "heeeeeeeeeee's making a left turn"
The Rebels usually flatter to achieve anything with me...its the bouncing I can't stand.... but a couple of spectacular rolls did the trick...
A somewhat disappointing 25 F2's turned up to Northampton, with no real travellers of note, and no real atmosphere. After Mike Green (115)'s opening heat win, which saw Ryan Cattell (904) have one the most spectacular blowjobs ever, sadly of the engine variety, for Ryan who was glum, until he pronounced at the end of the meeting... "Long live Billy the Bus" meaning that he will be partaking on the shale for a few weeks! Also Dastardly Daz Kitson (732) put away Simmo the Gold (871) in a lively move that saw
Heat 2 went to Jack Cave (801) who with the help of white top wing man Aryton Mills (222) got away from the marauding reds. An early spin for Bradbury saw him recovered from being 3/4's of a lap down to a respectable 9th.
Final time, saw a white charge again from Mills this time was followed by Cave...we then witnessed a Bradders masterclass of how to overtake 2 cars in one corner...firstly Green Jnr (154 and Kitson) and then the now leaders Pete Hobbs (8) and Mark Guinchard (183) just in case you weren't taking notes. A dummy spit at the pringle awarded to Guinch which relegated him to 4th, but a solid display from Bradbury saw him take the points.
The GN saw fag papers, hairs breadths, micrometers required as it turned into a dash for the line between Hobbs and Green (115), with the win going to Green by the smallest margin of them all .001 of a second. Methinks Hobbs might have his transponder on a fishing line to cast off just in case of another close finish again!
Up at the 2012 World Venue, it was very much like the night before, as Burgyone took a heat, but the rest of the day belonged to Moodie. A heat, a final, and the GN, an astonishing 46 points saw the Fife man very much lay down a marker for September - this is where I win.
So 2 weekends down, and well the quality of the racing so far has been nothing short of brilliant. Yup, the same guys are doing the majority of the winning , but come May, there will be a new breed to join the "old hands".
National Points (Unofficial and probably incorrect) are here on the site, as well as the dominator, which looks to be fairly close already and a trend might be developing!
Laters...
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