The Show Must Go On!
So, on my arrival I find Cholmondeley in full flight, despite the rain. It’ s a desperate scene as literally millions of pounds worth of automotive history emerges undeterred from the rainsoaked tarpaulin shelters in the paddock and heads for the track. I watch the open-cockpit single-seaters line-up and wait their turn, and notice that Gary Thomas in the Force PC is actually holding an umbrella over his head! But hey, we’ re Brits, and when has a little bit of rain ever
Roger Deans in the 1969 Lola T142. 20 www. cprmag. co. uk
Above: Rain drops on the Arrows A3. Top Right: Liebisch Bohmerland motorcycle. Centre Right: The Hesketh bear looks up at dark skies. Right: Gary Thomas takes cover!
stopped us doing anything? The show must go on, and to their credit, just about every driver took their car out and did a timed lap of the Cholmondeley circuit. Thankfully, by mid afternoon
the rain showers had stopped. Had it actually been warm and sunny, the Friday would have been perfect from a spectator’ s point of view, since there wasn’ t exactly millions of people there. If you want an unrivalled view of the track action, this is definitely the day to go on.
Brutus Returns!
Saturday got off to a much better start. The Sun actually managed to break through the grey overcast from time to time and the cool breeze quickly dried the track out which meant we would finally see some much quicker‘ lap times.’ At 9am prompt, the parade