Quiet In Here, Isn't It

I notice that no-one has availed themselves of the blogging facility yet.  Is that because you have nothing to say, or because you can't work out how it works?

I enjoyed the Shelsley last weekend.  That was the last event of my season, and I'm quite happy to stop now.  Come the spring, I'm sure my urge to drive like a hooligan will have returned and I'll be up for another go.
 
I couldn't get the car of the line properly at Shelsley.  Normally I'm recording 2.75 - 2.80 for the first 64 feet (all the weight at the wrong end of the car) but last weekend I was doing 2.95 - 3.0.  I'm sure the line was a bit dusty.  But still I managed to record my fastest run of the year on the first timed run.  With a decent start, it would have been close to my PB.  
I was winding myself up to do it all again with a better start when the Lotus Elan was brought down the hill on the back of the truck.  Then it started spitting with rain.  As I sat in the queue for the final timed run, I studied the tarmac alongside the car to see if the rain was wetting it, and I thought about the Elan.  So basically I chickened-out.  
A good run up Shelsley for me depends on how late I lift going into Crossing, and how early I get on the power again.  There's no opportunity to fix a mistake once it's been made, so I have to be right in my head to really commit to that corner.  And I wasn't, so I lifted early, got on the power late and lost about a second.  But I got the car home in one piece, which is always top priority for me.
 
Gary Thomas was showing me his new compact camera with "fish-eye" distortion feature.  He took a picture of the Cosworth with it.  It looks like a hearse...