Great Season Ahead

I spent most of yesterday at Shelsley Walsh with the annual MAC working party getting the hill and the facilities ready for the forthcoming season.

I was one of 65 members who turned up to 'do their bit' towards making the venue look it's best for it's 101st year. This was my fifth or sixth working party and there seems to be more helpers each year, so more people to chat to and more work gets done. The only constant is the beer, which could not be any more welcome than it was the first time I went!

To be able to walk and drive up the oldest motor sport track in the world is a delight and I have found that getting involved in the pre-season clear up really adds to the pleasures of the competetive meetings. It is much easier to understand why some drivers lift off at certain points on the hill when others don't when you know that the apex of a bend is invisible to a driver on the track even though it is quite obvious from the spectator enclosure. The raw gradient of the hill is also much more apparent when you are walking up it.

The first meeting of the season is May 13th & 14th and I'm really looking forward to it!

Categories: Hillclimbing, Motoring