Hi, I went down on Sunday with my 3 girls and joined up with Peter, Mike, John & Dee for what turned out to be an excellent day. The strong winds felt on Saturday afternoon had died down to a breeze, with lots of sunshine between short bouts of light cloud. Overall, a long-awaited spring day!
Because the parking on Saturday had been a little out of the way (and hidden behind a transporter), John's request to relocate the AC stand resulted in our 3 MKIV's and Mike's Greyhound finding new parking on the Brooklands banking at the end of the driving test stage just beyond the bridge - a perfect spot from which to enjoy the action and display our cars.
When the time came to take our turn up test hill, we took up Steve Grey's invitation to joined in with the 4 Heritage Cobra's (who were in turn closely followed by the Mustang club). Egged on by the organisers and crowd, we gave the spectators an enthusiastic demonstration of Cobra's doing what they do best - being loud and going fast! The organisers did a great job marshalling everyone around and in their efforts to to keep the atmosphere going, encouraged us to enjoy multiple turns up the hill, resulting in us all enjoying at least 7/8 turns up the hill.
Following the Cobra's & Mustangs were a variety of other vehicles and motorcycles or varying ages and sizes. Some very impressive vintage machinery did a good job entertaining the crowds with spirited runs up the hill, many accompanied by smoky exhausts and rich octane vapours! An unusual test hill competitor was a Sinclair C5 that did the hill remarkably quickly (and in near-silence!).
The only wrinkle on the day was an unfortunate half-shaft failure on one of the MKIV's mid-way up test hill. Hopefully it will be fixed soon and be back on the road in time for the Le Mans Classic.
No doubt photos and videos will appear here and on the internet in due course.
