Think the Duke car ran out brakes at one stage and clobbered the back of a Honda, later had big engine problems.
Uhm yes, that was me driving the Honda, it was the Daniels Motorsport #68 car. I was going into Vale and got an almighty clout on the rear quarter, apparently (so i'm told) my car did at least 3 or 4 full rotations. I ended up 100yds from the corner and the Duke car nearer 500yds. Peter Duke himself was driving and came up to me as I sat in my car waiting to be recovered and apologised. Their car was a total front end write-off and didn't run again.
Essentially we lost the complete rear-quarter, The car woudn't start as a wire had been sheared inside the fuel tank, think I was bl@@dy lucky it wasn't more serious.
We did get the car back out after about 5 hours with a rebuilt rear quarter (lots of hammering by the team) and, as that rear suspension had been destroyed on that side we had to replace both sides with essentially road suspension. Surprisingly it drove quite well (as you really only drive the front end of a FWD car) and we actually placed that car 4th in class.
I also drove the 67 car in which we won our class.
On a TG note I had a most surreal experience. In my job [Race School Instructor) I've met JC and Hampster before (raced against him in the 24hr 2CV race he did 4 years ago) also lots of the other motoring presenters etc. but I was minding my own business in the garage when all 3 of the TG guys popped in looking for Fiona Leggate (she was one of my co-drivers in 68 ). They thought she was in an MGZR (was supposed to be) so I was talking to them about how that deal fell through etc. The car she was supposed to drive qualified BEHIND them (they qual'd really badly) so were basically looking to tease Ms Leggate about that. They will wanted to find the MG so I got the regs and checked the garage numbers etc. all together probably chatted for a couple of minutes, was sooo weird (damn JC is tall, RMs hair is long, RA is short)
BTW. If Martyn, ArosaMike or any one else posting pics here objects to me possibly using one of those pics for my blog etc (i.e. none-commercial) please advise.
Maxx
(Malcolm Edeson)