Richard
and David Parrot in Pit Lane at Sandown
"I took over student David
Parrot from MG Racing Register Captain Jim Hall after Jim wasn't feeling
well mid morning... I wondered what David did?
... Did he scare the crap
out of Jim? ... or was Jim just feeling a bit 'off' this morning?"
By the end of the mornings
defensive driving exersises David had got most of the sets right, and was
gaining confidence.
Scutineer Ken Price had
found a problem with a bit of movement in the left hand front suspension,
and on further investigation by
Neil Hopwood turned-out
to be just a bit of play in the wheel bearing and within tolerance... So
we were able to proceed with the
all important 'High Performance'
part of the day in the afternoon.
David's MGBGT was a late
model US model and had been well sorted by the MET MG Racing Team (MET
stands for 'Minimum Expenditure').
Robert Haywood and Peter
Reid (MET Racing) had set-up the brakes and suspension and also built a
new engine... the fresh engine
had only 500 miles on it,
so we decided to limit the RPM to 4000 and use this session to finish running
the engine in.
Short shifting through the
gears using only 4000 RPM really was'nt a problem as the engine was smooth
and had plenty of power in the midrange.
This MGB had overdrive,
so we were still able to get good speed at the end of the straights without
having to rev the engine.
We were able to get 90MPH
(4,000RPM) out of it at the end of the front and back staights!
... This was fine as the
organisers had limited everyone to 140KPH.
Richard... "I did a few laps
mid afternoon and found the car to be very well set-up, so I was feeling
comfortable and very confident
that David would do well
by the end of the day.
David was probably a bit
nervious at the start... I had heard that he was tought to be cautious!
... But by the end of the
day he had learned a lot about himself and his MG and had improved out-of-sight!
This will certainly help
him to do well when he gets involved with the MGCC Club Events in 2007."
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Driver
Training at Phillip Island May 2004
Driver
Training at Sandown November 2003
MGB
at Phillip Island September 2004
MGB
at Historic Sandown November 2004
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