Thanks for the advice, appreciated. I will try and stay out of trouble and race my own pace and see how I do.
To let you know what experience I have; I raced a Club Sport in the Race of Remembrance (ROR) last year (about 2 hours racing and an hour practice) so thought I should buy one and race a Morgan more often. It was fun and very different to what I race currently.
I race Fun Cup endurance series currently. I have a 4 hour race at Oulton Park on the Saturday. Silverstone is on the way home so why not race on the Sunday?
Silverstone National hosted a 4 hour race last year for Fun Cup and I have tested on the GP circuit and taken veterans on passenger rides around the International, in the very wet, earlier in the year. I am familiar with the track and so I think I should be OK on the lines.
Without calculating I probably spent about 60 hours last year practicing, racing and on track or test days on different tracks and in a variety of cars.
I have little experience of starting races as I have only started one race, which oddly enough was a rolling start at Silverstone, my race partner normally starts and I finish. I have practiced the start on the simulator!?! If that helps.
I need to get to know the car but my lap times were competitive at ROR. I think the 20 minute format is also a bit like a sprint compared to what I race currently.
So I think the challenges will be:
1. Getting a good qualifying lap with little seat time in the car
2. Making a good start
3. The short race format
4. Getting comfortable in the car. I am 5 foot 7 and 59 Kgs (I have asked them to fit small tilletts and seat runners)
5. Being the pit crew and driver
Cannot wait LOL. I will report back ......
