The old livery was based on a 1967 Eagle Weslake which in the eyes of many was one of the most beautiful Formula 1 cars ever made. It also featured in the racing simulation Grand Prix Legends which is responsible for my addiction to racing. To keep in with the Eagle theme my car also bears

I’ve posted a couple of entries to the blog over the winter, which were mostly silly things to be fair, but each little thing that was done didn’t warrant it’s own post so I decided to clump them all together. So what’s new, what’s changed and what broke? Thankfully nothing broke, apart from the starter

Once we had endured the very long process of changing the gearbox oil using the worlds thinnest tube, and then replacing and bleeding the brake fluid in the MR2 it all needed bottling up ready to be taken to the recycling centre. Predictably we filled up the spare bottles and still had some left, so I grabbed

Don’t let anyone put you off fixing something with glue, but not Pritt Stick obviously – you’d struggle to fix an origami model with that stuff. The amount of stick I got (if you excuse the pun) about attempting to fix my front bumper after the Brands Hatch argy bargy was quite considerable. Ian thought

During the last outing at Mallory when the engine temperature went off the scale we discovered the problem was a large number of holes in the radiator, which were successfully patched using chewing gum, gasket paste and some more chewing gum. The cause of all the smaller overheating problems previously suddenly explained. Instead of using a scrapheap radiator

You know you have some damage when you can’t open the passenger door without it fouling the front wing. This was the result of contact through Gerrards at Mallory Park when someone on my outside squeezed me to the inside against the grass, and then tried to squeeze me more. The grass at that speed

I’d never done anything with repairing body work before, but I guess you can’t race without it happening sooner or later. Just be thankful it’s only minor damage! In the morning we set about sorting the cooling system out after it got a little hot at Cadwell Park. Basically we were just bleeding and refilling

Many years ago on holiday I remember dad saying (quite loudly) in Tesco that everyone down here sounds like Farmer Giles. This comment came to the front of my head pretty much as soon as I arrived. The security guard, clerk of the course and a marshal I was chatting to for a couple of

Cheesy titles aside, after Snetterton when we were packing up Mo came to talk to me about exhausts after my Janspeed failings. He suggested one of his racing exhausts which give good power and are significantly lighter, and cheap too. The weight was something I noticed with the Janspeed when we fitted it and added

Before the first race of the season at Mallory Park next weekend Matt Smith from the MR2 series had organised a track day for anyone wanting to shake down a new car, learn the track or have an excuse to go for a drive. For me the excuse was to learn the track, so off