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Trs At Snetterton (Yet Again) 19/20Th October


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Alleluyah, I managed to get a new topic started without being "invited" to attach non available "tags", whatever they are, even if it did change my title TRs to Trs. I'll now elaborate a little.

 

Classic Sports Car Club 2 day meeting features following TRs, all in Sunday races:-

 

Swinging 60s Group 1 - Steve Chapman in TR4 SLR, a beautiful car, Dave Bailey, Phil Britten and David Ferry/Guy Heath in TR4s.

 

Swinging 60s Group 2 - Chris Edwards and yours truly in TR6s

 

Classic K (more or less FIA cars on Historic Dunlop L or M Section tyres) - Roy Chamberlain in his TR3

 

Future Classics - Martin Adams and Alan Price in TR7V8s, oh and there's a TRiumph Dolomite Sprint as well.

 

Any support from Club Members (or anybody else frankly) would be appreciated.

Last race meeting of the year with any conceivable chance of there being many TRs out competing.

Dave McD

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I know this is a bit of a late report but I’ve been away most of the week with work – sat under a B747 in Paris CDG (Don’t ask !). However on my way to the airport last Sunday I managed to catch part of the CSCC meeting at Snetterton and the following pictures show the various Triumph cars (mainly TR’s) that took part. The weather was decidedly changeable with everything from bright sunshine to monsoon proportion down-pours which made for challenging conditions on the track. As there were quite a lot of cars and hence pictures I’ll split things up and make separate posts for the different races.

 

CSCC Swinging 60’s Group 1

 

Car 10 – TR4 - Dave Bailey, qualified 5th and finished a very creditable 3rd.

 

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Triumph TR4 - Dave Bailey - Snetterton - 20Oct13 064 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR4 - Dave Bailey - Snetterton - 20Oct13 757 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

Car 15 – TR4 SLR – Steve Chapman, qualified 15th and finished 9th. I must admit I would never have realised this was a TR4 based car. It makes me think of a Pontiac Firebird Transam that has shrunk in the wash – but it’s still a great looking car.

 

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Triumph TR4 SLR - Steve Chapman - Snetterton - 20Oct13 416 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR4 SLR - Steve Chapman - Snetterton - 20Oct13 3043 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

Car 29 – TR4 – Philip Britten, qualified 11th but unfortunately crashed out on the 4th lap of the race.

 

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Triumph TR4 - Philip Btitten - Snetterton - 20Oct13 142 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

The track was drying after earlier rain and coming down to Murrays Philip seems to have got slightly off the dry line and gone almost straight on. Although there is a fairly wide run off area once on the grass he had no control of the car and hit the tire barrier pretty hard.

 

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Triumph TR4 - Philip Btitten - Snetterton - 20Oct13 3108 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

The car finished up almost beside the Marshal’s post and although a little shaken the driver was otherwise none the worse for wear. The same can’t be said for the car and it may take a little bit more than T-Cut to sort out the damage.

 

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Triumph TR4 (May Need the T-Cut) - Snetterton - 20Oct13 3633 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

Car 888 – TR4 – David Ferry & Guy Heath. Not their day. Regrettably the car only managed 3 laps in qualifying and did not start the race. Not sure what happened but I think it was a breakdown rather than any sort of accident.

 

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Triumph TR4 - David Ferry & Guy Heath - Snetterton - 20Oct13 125 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR4 - David Ferry & Guy Heath - Snetterton - 20Oct13 129 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

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CSCC Swinging 60’s Group 2

 

A brace of TR6’s took part in this race.

 

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Triumph TR6 - Christopher Edwards - Snetterton - 20Oct13 919 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

Car 12 – Christopher Edwards. Qualified 9th but went very well in the race to claim 2nd place.

 

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Triumph TR6 - Christopher Edwards - Snetterton - 20Oct13 916 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR6 - Christopher Edwards - Snetterton - 20Oct13 4004 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

Car 78 – David McDonald. Qualified 11th but unfortunately retired from the race having completed only 2 laps.

 

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Triumph TR6 - David McDonald - Snetterton - 20Oct13 910 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR6 - David McDonald - Snetterton - 20Oct13 1297 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

However both car and driver did get a lift back to the paddock :rolleyes: !

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Triumph TR6 - David McDonald - Snetterton - 20Oct13 4011 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

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CSCC Classic K

 

Just one Triumph in this race. Car 53 the lovely little TR3 driven by Roy Chamberlain which qualified in 19th spot and finished 15th. I wasn’t able to stay to watch this race but the conditions in qualifying were not great with a very wet track.

 

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Triumph TR3 - Roy Chamberlain - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2088 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

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Triumph TR3 - Roy Chamberlain - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2159 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

 

CSCC Future Classics

A TR7 V8 and a Dolly Sprint were entered in this race but although qualifying went ahead in bright sunshine on a fairly wet track I understand the race was cancelled. Again this was after I had left but the weather was deteriorating and as this was to have been the last race of the day it would also have been getting decidedly dark. The pictures below are from the qualifying session in the morning.

Car 7 – TR7 V8 driven by Martyn Adams. Qualified in 18th position.

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Triumph TR7 V8 - Martyn Adams - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2571 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

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Triumph TR7 V8 - Martyn Adams - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2710 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

Car 24 – Dolomite Sprint driven by Tony Crudington & Adrian Vincent. Went well in qualifying to gain 10th spot on the grid.

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Triumph Dolomite Sprint - Tony Crudington - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2590 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

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Triumph Dolomite Sprint - Tony Crudington - Snetterton - 20Oct13 2794 by norfolkjohn, on Flickr

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