Messages

 Do you get any indications as to how many viewers you had round the world? Personally I got messages from France, Denmark, Holland and New Zealand commenting on the high quality of the coverage. Graham.

Firstly, I would like to thank the club for the great honour it has done me by presenting me with this historic trophy. And secondly to team Dogfish for letting me do three one hour sessions, and allowing me a grandstand view of Gadget's accident. From now on a tripple roll will be known as a Gadget!
Do any previous winners of the Ian Gammon-Hardaway trophy know if there was ever a case for it, and, if it has got lost in the mists of time, I would be pleased to get one made. Also only ten of the winners' names are on it so some research needs to be done to get it up to date, and I could price having that done while it is in my care. Graham Harper.

 Just a wee bit worried about team Stinky being in with Team Dogfish. Hate to think what the place will be like by Sunday afternoon!

 Alan Gow is also remembered for forcing the safety car off the track during an over-enthusiastic re-start during the night!I will look out old race details I have for those missing results.

 Wee Fiona's first race was at Snetterton, not Mallory, as she wasn't ready for the first event, but then my cars seldom are.......
I am therefore regarding this years 24 hour race as my 20th anniversary, to be toasted with Bombay Saphire, as the bottle is the same colour as Wee Fiona in her first year.

Many years ago I overhauled a few Citroen SM engines, and they had sodium-cooled exhaust valves, which are hollow stemmed with welded heads. One of them had a head come off while being ground, and non cooled one piece stainless valves are the replacements. The problem there was due to corosion at the weld, and as these engines were also fitted to the Maserati Merak a lot of engines were badly damaged when they were started after a few years hybernation. NEVER try to start one of these cars if it has been dormant without knowing if it has the stainless valves. Could our recent problems be that everyone fitted new valves as a precaution after 2004, and those valves are now coming to the end of their lives with the current cam?