The University of Turmoil: 2007

Wednesday 19 September 2007

Trip to western Ireland

Pictures from a long weekend trip to County Clare to visit an old school friend.

Sunday 5 August 2007

Le Mans 2007

This year's trip to Le Mans was a wet affair. It also saw a record minimum amount of spectating, only 5 of the 24 hours.

http://picasaweb.google.com/universityofturmoil/LeMans2007

Thursday 10 May 2007

Silverstone FIA GT

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The first outing with the new £50 digicam was to Silverstone for the FIA GT meeting. So here's a few paddock snaps. The field for the GT3 race especially was excellent with 40-odd cars starting.

Ton Up.

During last weekend's travels the Dirty Volvo passed the 100k milestone, and, by law, a photograph had to be taken.

Sunday 22 April 2007

The guest championship at Dono was the Belgian GT championship, they run to similar GT3 regs to the British GT championship but using Michelin tyres.

Once some laptimes get posted on t'internet, it would be a good comparison between the two tyres brands....

Belcar - Donington 22nd April 2007

British GT - Donington Park 2007

Rounds 3 and 4 from Donington Park. A rather depleted GTCup class this weekend, with the G20 out, a Dave Dove's Ferrari also not showing, there were only 4 cars to start the Saturday runs. The Team Tiger Marcos blew its engine during practice, so it was just the three cars starting the race (The RPM 911, the Morgan and the 'ice cream' Ferrari) and when the RPM car pulled up after flames were seen coming from its engine, there weren't enough finishers to fill the podium. Thankfully the 911 was back in rude health for Sunday's race and all three cars made the finish.

I'll post a link to the league table once I find one....

Link to the full album.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/BritishGTDonington22ndApril2007

Friday 13 April 2007

Opening Round of British GT - Oulton Park - Easter2007

The first couple of races of the British GT championship were held at Oulton Park over the Easter weekend. It was mixed fortunes for the Richmond Racing G20, with it being well up on last year's pace, but the new engine gave out as the car crossed the finish line.

Link to Ginetta pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/universityofturmoil/G20OultonPark060407

Friday 16 March 2007

British GT Media Day 2007

To an overcast Silverstone for the first motoring excitement of the New Year, and the British GT media day.

After the official photo shoot, It was a chance for the RR boys to shakedown the G20 after its winter rebuild.

Some new sponsors on board this year.

Marner Brown - a Beat Combo.
EasyTac - The solution for downloading, viewing and reporting digital tachograph data.
FileNet - 'An IBM Company'

Link to the Full Gallery

Friday 9 March 2007

Silverstone British GT 2006

The final round of the 2006 season for British GT.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/SIlverstone230906

Brands Hatch British GT - 2006

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/BrandsHatchBritishGT260806

British GT Rockingham 2006

I'm a big fan of the setup at Rockingham. Perhaps the economics will never add up, and it will be bulldozed for another housing estates, but we can enjoy it while it lasts.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/RockinghamBritishGT230806

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/MonaroRockingham230806

Snetterton British GT 2006

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/SnettertonBritishGT160706

British GT Oulton Park 2006

And so to sunny Cheshire.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/OultonBritishGTG20

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/OultonBritishGTOthers

British GT Media Day 2006

The first public outing of the Richmond Racing Ginetta G20 was at the British GT championship media day.

Full image galleries, G20:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/BGTMediaDay2006G20GTR

and other vehicles:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/BGTMediaDay2006Others

Thursday 8 March 2007

Le Mans - 2005, 2006 and Le Mans Classic 2006

The Pilgrimage to Le Mans is now an annual events, it seems that the numerous cold drinks consumed had an impact on the number of photos taken. Some of the following were taken on a camera phone...
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/LeMans2005

There was also a weekend trip to the Le Mans Classic in DP's Roush Mustang.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/LeMansClassic2006

Nurburgring Trip - Oct 2006

A diesel Volvo is not normally near the top of any list of vehicles you would want to drive on the infamous Derestricted Tollroad in the Eiffel mountains. Having sampled Ring Racing's rental BMW 325i the previous day, the extra torque from the oil burner made up for this pilot's lack of skill and knowledge of the route around the North Loop.

The highlight of the weekend was getting a couple of passenger laps in Matt's VX220 turbo, where 130mph was seen on the clock without much effort.

The Full Gallery can be found at http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil/RingOct06

First Post

You've got to start somewhere....

My plan for this so-called blog is to link to my photo site and add some brief comments on the events shown in them.

My old collection of photos on the Smugmug site have now gorn, and my pictures are now stored in a Picasa web album.

Whilst the Smugmug site looked professional, they did charge $30 per year, whereas these google owned tools are gratis, which for my purposes is ideal.

The link the main photo album page is :- http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/universityofturmoil

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