Mr.F
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On Saturday 10th September, Z Club member Phil Hyett (240Z) and I (350Z) took the Z Club to the 100th Anniversary Brighton Speed Trial. We were both entered in the Brighton & Hove Motor Club Handicap Class which gave us one practice and one timed run down the famous Madeira Drive quarter mile.
The great news is that, on handicap results, Phil was awarded a time which made him runner-up in class. The bad news is - he was beaten by a Morris 1000; the other good news is - he has officially beaten the Maclaren Mercedes SLR in competition!. The really bad news is that the over-enthusiastic handicapping placed me 40th in a class of 54!
The handicapping system is hard to come to terms with as basically a small team of (hopefully) knowledgeable guys sit down with the entry list and take an educated guess at it! The Merc was considered to be the "scratch" car along with a very quick Caterham 7 and everything was given a negative factor against that. First place Moggy got a -6.0 second advantage, Phil's 240Z got -4.50 seconds while I got -1.5 seconds. A Dodge Viper entered, for example, got -3.00 seconds!!? The big Merc ran an actual best of 12.10 seconds BTW...borrowed from his Mum for the day was the apocryphal rumour. "Just going down to Brighton with a mate. Mum. Won't be long...".
The great news is that, on handicap results, Phil was awarded a time which made him runner-up in class. The bad news is - he was beaten by a Morris 1000; the other good news is - he has officially beaten the Maclaren Mercedes SLR in competition!. The really bad news is that the over-enthusiastic handicapping placed me 40th in a class of 54!
The handicapping system is hard to come to terms with as basically a small team of (hopefully) knowledgeable guys sit down with the entry list and take an educated guess at it! The Merc was considered to be the "scratch" car along with a very quick Caterham 7 and everything was given a negative factor against that. First place Moggy got a -6.0 second advantage, Phil's 240Z got -4.50 seconds while I got -1.5 seconds. A Dodge Viper entered, for example, got -3.00 seconds!!? The big Merc ran an actual best of 12.10 seconds BTW...borrowed from his Mum for the day was the apocryphal rumour. "Just going down to Brighton with a mate. Mum. Won't be long...".
