The past weekend saw #262 at Northampton for an Incarace Open meeting – the team very much looking forward to trying the new front brakes for the first time... which had caused us considerable problems in the lead up to this meeting as we found our old wheels would not actually fit over the new brakes. Even after moving the callipers further in onto the brake disc to create more space for the wheel it was still a job finding wheels that would fit but we managed it in the end!

Work underway on #262 to change the diff before race 1

So, out on track for practice then and Brian complained of a lack of drive out of the corners as a result of a pretty slack rear diff. Fortunately we’re getting more prepared these days and the spare diff (set much tighter) was fitted to the car in quick time. All was going well until we went to refit the left hand half shaft which we discovered had a broken bearing, unfortunately we don’t seem to be prepared enough to carry spare half shafts! Dave Fry came to the rescue, lending us one of his spares, the team finding it highly amusing that we had to borrow spares from the Classic Hot Rod drivers!