RAC Pall Mall Cup - 3-hr Historic Endurance Race // Donington Historic Festival 2021

the 21st

donington

historic

festival

and in many ways we've saved the best for last. We have a huge grid of 50 cars for our Royal Automobile Club Palm Al Trophy

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, it lasts over three hours and we have very, very faces and well-known names in this grid of cars, we certainly have some motorsport royalty in um, we have a huge grid of cars, so we'll go down the order as fast as we can. may first is number 17 shelby dear torna alder cobra and jordan are in the bad position of number 24 wilson harvey and pitchers 15. uh mint shawn keane that's phil king from gt film it's um ah they're not there, that's right, they've retired them, so we're going to continue in order marcus uh einhausen searstov and newell our third uh gerardo and cottingham will start in fourth place in fifth place will be charles jr and childs so that's a father and son moment uh from that little john and evans will start in sixth seventh is evans smith and little and then we have hadden and sean lynn starting in eighth place uh ninth go uh uh goldsmith short and wilds uh mike wells one of the racing royalty that let's mention, willis and jobstal are in 10th, 11th, it's kenton ward, stanley and cook start in 12th, 13th on the grid, then there's the wakeman and, uh, be Edward's car, Peterkin in that car.

Besides calling it Brian and Stanley are in 14th place, I think we're out of time because the lights are out on Piers' car as they are already on the backstretch and towards the chicken so this

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will start three times . hours with two mandatory pit stops, we will give you that information, uh, at a time when we start to get to the pit window, which I must say is now open, you can take one of your Mandarin pit stops right now if It's like that. take your pick and, uh, with 50 cars on this grid, all now heading towards the red git, that might have been discretion being a better mate, the consequences as a choice for first place has become that turquoise e-type with a beautiful livery and the blue stripes that have just disappeared from view. like the rest of this, I have to see Aleister's 50 cars in three hours and the cars of what we are going to describe again choose your favorite impossible, yes, very much, yes and uh, royal, the slade, uh, finding the coupe cobra, the daytona.

Cobra Coupe, a handful as he went down through the multitude of corners, fell from pole position to third place, but a pole position set by co-driver Andrew Jordan and as the rest of the fields flow through this is a tremendous sight. with that. We know the leaders will already be passing mcleans but the last car is still going down the crane curves what a field and we have everything from uh lotus online austin healey's to shelby did tonight the cobras launched 15 Jaguar writes, um, quite an eclectic mix of sports racing cars and saloons for this Royal Automobile Club Palmol Cup and, as I said, the three-hour long leaders are already in the chicane and out of it, all the ones I have to say they make their way. around this first lap very neatly across the line then there's his own house and his sister, I think it's Newell at the wheel starting with the number seven, we'll confirm that as the rest of the field passes by and a spinner that looks like a roulette in coppice, there number two, jaguar number two, they are right at the back of the field, Richard Mines, who is probably rich in minds, in that Chris Livingston Price, who seems to be recovering from a possible turn between mclean's and coppice, the leader who is already in the whole. day for the second time in that bright turquoise jaguar type, who is he thinking he's behind the wheel?

Well, I was just going to apologize for not giving you an immediate answer because my information is quite complicated with three drivers in some of the cars, so who won, who's two, who's three, but up until now we've always had the timers putting our first driver first in the mixed driver pair so you hear house and searstort maybe they would be the driver of that car because it appears on our screen uh as first in front of Andy Newell so we'll try to choose the helmet color yes we can and there is that car passing by the leader who later passes through the chicane already led by the rest of the field and a faster slap that changes very very quickly it is the lotus 15 of wills and hardy that takes the fastest lap of the race are in second place there's number two for that beautiful aston martin project car the DP214 from short wiles and goldsmith and uh just to confirm uh according to the information that they have given us, trying to find the color combination, Duncan helped me with that, so he's home and we looked for him in the car we're looking at now based on the information we've had, instead of Andy.

Newell, but Andy Newell also wears a black helmet in general, so it's very difficult to tell them apart because the car has a roof, yes, absolutely, but looking at it there, that's a white jumpsuit, isn't that a black helmet? So maybe it's the owner marcus owen registered home but he's being pursued uh we know it's roger wills, right? yes, because it's not tim harvey who has no roof, it's easy to see the yellow and blue helmet, so we know it's the owner of the car the new zealand roger wills very fast in the little lotus the lotus 15 chasing the jaguar and that car secondly it will be given to 1992 british touring car champion tim harvey later in the race and maybe it will go back to roger wills for the finish or maybe it will stay with tim harvey for the rest of the race, we'll say it might be appropriate just mention what the pit stop situation is, ah, but I'll stop there because we have a The challenge for leader Roger Wills comes from the inside, he was fully accelerating coming out of Redgate, he lined up that car and it's the little convertible sports car, it's the Lotus 15, another of the creations of Colin Chapman who leads this race and Marcus.

Hoinhouse and Searstop have to get behind him, I'm not sure he has the pace. It took him about two or three laps of that little lotus sp open top for his tires to maybe catch on and we saw him close the gap. gap and I think we're going to see the car now pull away a lot, uh, it went on the inside on the cranial curve, so now we'll see if it can pull away, so that's the classic battle we have. I have been talking all weekend about the power and the in one car versus the light and handling of the other car, that is the lotus, much lighter, there is a lotus lan car number 26, which is actually the 26 r uh, that's the racing version of the lotus elam produced by lotus the type number of the lotus cilan was 26, hence the number 26 r and the car 72 there in the picture nick sleep alex montgomery and joel wickham in the shelby mustang the same carol shelby who was involved in the development of the cobras and the daytona cobras that we see at the head of the field and a battle here two great british brands austin healey against jaguar when they go down to chicago with a tvr behind them and that tv it's another not so well known brand like austin healey and jaguar maybe but there are three big british brands there so with that change of leadership i can tell you it's chris giles certainly icarus giles at number 74 in third place uh two seconds and middle is the gap before We see the fourth place guard pass and that is number 75 of um simon evans and jim's uh little john are the lion lords first of the lotus alliance on the field is junior is junior is and in 75 uh another Maybe I think this will show that the timers have done what yes, Littlejohn is starting in that car, so thanks to the timers we are getting the information on our screens in this quite complicated set of information with three drivers in many of the cars. , two different types of. designs the more traditional fixed head coupe behind and here's Porsche versus Lotus versus Morgan right behind another great original that's one of the first two-liter Porsches that was prepared for a racing series just for those.

It has had amazing success until 2020. it happened because it is a pan-european series and here we have the previous austin healey the 100 versus the morgan versus now we have a mg in our mix and the triumph there is a triumph tr4 it is incredible that all brands are available and the the other Porsche, car number nine, uh, that's Matthew Holm and Steve Winter, at the beginning of the Porsche 911, one of the most well-known shapes, and this time there's another model in the shape of the knot list. We saw a big race by a group of nobles listening yesterday and that car called Knobbly, there is a little story about that Alistair, it's not just about the body shape and you can see the kind of refined air or the kind of smooth lines , curved lines and the other. car in the photo, there is the number 35 of Reina Becker and Andy Prill Porsche 904 in red with the skidaria philapanetti team logo on that car just below the list of knots in the old fork and going up in the order, that is a quite classic shape. reminiscent of the Ferrari 250 lm with that rear window with the buttresses going down there and an early example of a successful racing Porsche as we look at the list of nodes called as Joe just said because the wheel covers the wheel.

The arches go over the wheels and a lady who was related to one of the team members involved in that car said, Oh, that looks gnarly, doesn't it? It's stuck, it's always been called a distal knot, it's a common name now, right? You see those cars, do you immediately think about the name which is obviously started as a nickname for the car and the tr just going through the Porsche, the Morgan following up there and the Milan as well that we have now versus a Porsche versus Lotus The way of the 911 leading the Lotus Elam, one of the road cars of the genius Colin Chapman that was also very successful in racing, very light as all Chapman's Lotus were, but also a great chassis that really handled very well, of fact, the rear-engined Porsche, so the engine. hanging beyond the rear wheels they have a rather ungainly shape and it's an art to drive them quickly, but this one drives quickly and stays ahead of the front engine, just behind car number 84, which is Steve Jones and Robert Barry.

In another of the racing versions the 26 R and there is the Jaguar C-type that is Rudy Friedrichs again and Gary Pearson again. Yesterday we saw Gary race two or three times in the 1953 Jaguar C-Type with the 3.4 liter Jaguar. engine we have a car stop which is a cobra stopped on the side of the road on the long straight towards the chicane so the yellow flags are locally there as the Porsche versus Iran battle continues, although it is a different online Porsche battle . We have several Porsche Moon alarms. Ah, so that's not right. Is car 22 to boot? the front spoiler is part of the hood of the car and it's a whole section that goes up and up like to help me describe it now that they've managed so that the driver can't see anything with anything he just has a big black screen in front of him as the hood of the e-type tilts forward the number 22 michael shared david hall yes and it's michael o'shea behind the wheel michael thank you uh alistair for that now that he took the car out just two drivers stayed in the coppis driveway um it's out of danger and certainly out of the trajectory that I would call racing line um I'm not sure if that was because I think it was caused by the damage that someone hit it on the and that popped out of the hood clip, it looked like the front corner left was pushed in and that had pushed the hood up, so whether it had contacted the barriers or whether it had contacted the rear of another car, we don't know.

I don't know, as we return to the leading battle, this car , in the 214 project car, the blue car is in sixth place chasing fifth place, the number 17 cobra daytona coupe, which took pole position, but with due deference to its owner, driver roy alderslade, got the pole thanks to the former british touring car champion and builder of the car along with his father, mike andrew jordan, so the car will be handed over to andy jordan in the final stages of this race and the project. Car 214, that is not an original car, it carries the number 214, which denotes its dp214 aston martin project type development project and this was an effort exactly like the cobra was to make the car more aerodynamic for the fast straights of le mans and in the United States. races also at Daytona and Sebring and Cobra's response or Shelby's response was to build the Daytona Cobra Aston Martin coupe.

We are building these project cars and the DP214 we saw actually got the fastest speed on the lemon muslin straight. Yes, 199 i. Think miles per hour while you're still touching 200 miles per hour back then, yeah I didn't finish the race, but now we're looking at another icon of this era of racing, the number four of John Miles, Dave Coyne and Mark Wright. I've already seen Mark and Dave racing and John Miles also in that curtain that is the Ford Mustang going down the hill and that car was started by John Miles. Now John wasn't driving the Allen Man Cortina in the previous touring car.

The race was driven solo, but he should have taken the wheel for the start of the race.This race according to our information we haveWe have a pedant among us uh well I said 198 didn't I? you said 199. yes, okay, that's acceptable, I'm fine with that, yes, but the pedant behind us, who would join us, will give you a break in the second hour and then tell you, you'll come back and you'll have to put up with it . Peter Snowden has given us the information that it was actually 198,234 199 for any normal person or Albuster, so I think we'll settle for it not being normal, although we are looking at Roger Wills, who is leading the race in a strong position. he's a second ahead, now we didn't see him in the background, the very obvious turquoise type E should be there, he's just coming around the outside, he's in second place, type E and it was just a second. crossed the line last time, as you can see on your timing panel, there 0.973 um alistair we were going to mention or I was going to mention the pit stop protocol for this race just before we had a change lately, something exciting happened in track, so the regulations are for the palomar cup of the car club audible real is that you have to fulfill two mandatory stops uh, we have talked about the opening of the pit window, there is something like the pit window opens immediately after of the restart, however, that pit window closes With 20 minutes left in the race, am I correcting that?

They didn't tell me about the closure, okay, but we have a different set of rules regarding the actual pit stop, yes, there are two pit stops, and Well, the project, at least we were able to talk about it, yes, before that he retired. It's a real shame, it's a car we would have liked to see more of in this race. The pit stop rules are a minimum of two pit stops in the race. and with drivers, there are three drivers in some cars so you need two stops to do that and one of those stops has to be a fuel stop but the other doesn't have to be and each pit stop has the minimum time The pit stop is five minutes, so it is not the 30 seconds or the minute that we have had in other races as the end of a lap there, I think from what it looks like for the number 11 car of Fred Wakeman and Patrick Blakeney Edwards. and that I'll be Fred, I suspect that's where he nor

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y starts his cars, it seems to stop there, Alistair at number 11.

We're not going to see pbe another cobra now that it's increasing in France, yes, is that connected? That's that um oh and another cobra crossing the grass, yeah, I'm not sure if that's connected now that we see the number 80. Richard Evans, Andrew Smith and Jim's Little Down Two Drive which, uh, yeah, has damage on the back. rear. In the end it was lost, that had a big impact on the rear, now we have work on the bodywork, rubbing against the tire, which is causing the smoke. I would say that he entered the barrier in a very strong way and already lost control and came out. track in and another cobra takes out the marshals there indicating that if you come this way we don't have to have a yellow flag to get you out of the way and another one that is an austin healey that also hit the barriers and that looks like the same place.

That lotus shot up yesterday and that made strong contact. It's cool to see the driver get out and it's nice to have to get out on the passenger side, so at the exit of the old hairpin is the number 500 that's on the outside of mclean's, yeah. um and we have the car I think there's oil down there I would think there has to be something uh oil down the cars are sliding in the view is the trip around the Schwann curve we have a damage we have a damage number 17 uh roy ah, that's it the leader of course it's not right he was saying second place cara should see it we have oil on the Schwan bend towards mclean's and that's trapped and of course the safety car goes straight out to sterilize the field, The jaguar.

F-pace on the track and, uh, it's impossible to be more precise about what's going on. You're seeing the same footage as us and there was clearly a major issue there that caught out a lot of drivers, some of them leading the way. the field some of them no some runs further back I wonder if that's I wonder if that's Aston Martin project car oil we saw the car start first and then we had problems with the safety car or the safety car f- pace jaguar as it is at the moment and there is the oil flag, the flag with yellow and red stripes means slippery surface and the yellow flag means that the safety car came out and there is no overtaking, but the safety car, the jaguar f- pace, it has accelerated. the leader being roger wills in the lotus 15.

That's good, I love it, I absolutely prefer it, yes, especially in such a long race because if I hadn't managed to choose the leader, it really could have compromised a large number. A lot of cars, like Tony Draw did in the race before with Steve Thought, were put almost a minute behind the leader and that gave him momentum, so, yeah, that's good news, the other news I'd like to tell you is that, in a way, confirm whether or not we have a situation. I think I'm pretty sure we have. I'm looking for the red and yellow flag that was displayed at McLean.

Although I think it's early to return. I think that's through the Schwan curve and I'm not sure where we saw the 214 come out uh and they were just cranking it up so yeah it was a little bit of an issue with the engine but we definitely have a little bit of a problem. doubtful track surface, the number is 53 or 93, the morgan, yes it is 93, wenman's morgan, yes, now of course with the safety car coming out, this has given many of our competitors the opportunity to meet at least one of his two stops and I'm waiting to hear back from Andrew Murriet as to whether Andrew Murriet has managed to gather his gear and get down there and maybe he can give us some information.

I think the leader coming there I don't quite see it, it's a long shot, but yeah, the leader is no longer behind the safety car, so Roger Wills comes to make his five minute stop and we look for the yellow helmet and Tim Harvey's blue, maybe floating to get into that car for the second stint or Of course, Roger Wills can stay in the car and then hand over to Tim for the third stint. Yes, I'm not sure what his plan is, but certainly the leader in the pit lane has now allowed it to be time. old corners where we found the problem with the track surface causing all sorts of problems um what are the fastest parts of the track of course alistair absolutely yes not in some way where you don't want to find any grip uh einhards and seistoff and andy newell will take the lead in this race but of course they will have to stop twice.

I'm not sure why you didn't stop under the safety car, to be honest I know we've only had 20 minutes or so in this race, just so you know, there may be teams, let's call them competitors, who have decided to split the times into equal parts no matter what and of course we're just bragging or assuming I should say the oil was deposited by car 214, the project car, I'm not sure where it actually was when it was, ah, it was driven right on the Coppice entry, wasn't it like that when we got a report from Duncan, uh r Duncan? that's helping us, there's oil in the old crane hairpins that we can now see through Schwan too, but those marshals were working in the bush, yes, that suggests that the oil slick has actually traveled much of the back of the circuit.

What was the car that stopped for the drivers and went into a little woods that I mentioned not long ago because I'm not sure it was the 2-1-4? It was a jaguar, right? It was the knee type, oh, with the hood. up you mean yes oh I think no no that car continued yes it did um so come on uh um yes we are going to have to wait we are at that confusing point we are in the process where we have We have cars that have stopped we are still under the safety cars and we are seeing that our team of stewards treats the service of the track.

Well done to everyone on the organization side of this race meeting because as always they have been as efficient as Ever, perhaps it will give us the opportunity to thank our supporters for this race and indeed the hall of the Donington Historic Festival. A big thank you to the Royal Auto Club and the Palomar Club for their support of this race along with DK Engineering and of course Deaky. engineering motor racing legends and the royal car club have supported the need for this live broadcast and hope it will be a comfort to viewers who cannot attend the donor park for this event.

A consolation to bring you the event just by looking at the timing screen. which we have directly from the timekeepers which you can see on the tsl timing website, car number 24 now is tim harvey there he is in the car with the yellow and blue helmet so that's the leading car before the stops in pits, but this, uh, you I know I nor

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y say, "We need a lap or two after the pit stops to fix this, but actually this won't get fixed until the flag because we have another series of pit stops and we have three drivers and not We don't know the relative speeds of them, so it's going to be an absolutely fascinating two hours and 35 minutes because we won't know who's really in the lead until it's right at the end, that's why we have such a difference in skills with our gentlemen drivers and we have some real benefits from this, I mean number 600, uh's mgb mgb has Sam scolded for a touring car and uh, British GT winner, to name just one, Mike Wiles former Formula One driver is. willing to drive, was willing to drive the two, one, four, however, we're not going to see that now, which is a shame.

We were mentioning pit stops and we mentioned that the five minute stop, yes, yes, the only one. Another relevant point regarding pit stops is that the interval between the two pit stops, if you only do the mandatory 2 and don't do any more, is 85 minutes, which effectively prevents someone from doing a lap and then delivering effectively the relay for the fastest driver during the entire race, there has to be 85, a maximum of 85 minutes between stops, so he controls things without having a window. Well, each car has actually created its own window, so yes, when the car rejoins, it has an 85 minute, that's right, the pit window closes until it opens again, there was the race leader before After the safety car came out and before we started this pit stop, the car fizz 24 tim harvey now behind the wheel of that lotus 15 and he will continue on his way and rejoin the race, but he will join the back of the pack that continues driving behind the safety car.

I have a feeling this will be a long cleaning process due to the length of the track we have quite a considerable level of oil, it's almost a third of the way around and the Marshall still encounters traces of a slippery surface. Well, we have information from Duncan, who's been running around trying to collect car numbers. and where are they off and uh do you want to give us that first and yeah we have Andrew I think so so 50 was off on the inside of the curve crane 500 on the outside of the curve crane and 450 are also gone on somewhere and we believe that 93 could be missing, so there are four numbers that we have tried to capture well with our circuit cameras.

The safety car certainly made the pit lane very busy, but the man down there can tell us all about it is Andrew Marriott, tell us all about it yeah, well I've been hanging around too, but unfortunately I had a little problem with the link everything is working again now so behind me you can see the damage to the cobra let's walk in the garage and uh richard evans was driving this cobra and like richard I said a question for you um we think someone else dropped some oil I don't know what it was yeah, it was absolute oh uh yeah, everything After the whole fork was completely covered in oil, two spinners in front of me, when I saw them spin, I started to spin, I spun lengthwise, I fell to the grass and then the red cobra hit me while I was spinning, you don't know who.

He dropped it, do you know who dropped the oil? No, I do not know. Some body work needs to be fixed here. Yes, that's right, yes. Unfortunately, okay, he was reluctant to be interviewed, but in the end, of course, I got my way. with him i was going to tell you before that andrew jordan's plan was to drive the center stick because obviously roy, the old slade, who just ordered this car, it's his first race, he wanted to get a top time and who can blame him because it's i paid a lot money for this car, the Andrew Jordan situation was going to drive the interim period but of course now that you have a situation like this, the whole strategy is completely thrown out the window and there's someone else that maybe we haven't had.

I mentioned, but I don't just want to point out that he is on this street driven by Andrew Keith Lucas. Now, if you're into

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racing, that might mean something to you because I think his father started the CLK business, uh, a big prep business. but his sister is a well-known newsreader and my favorite, well, weather girl, actually, sarah keith lucas, although I thinkwhich is in a BBC studio somewhere, so sadly it's not here today. I'll try to get more views now from the bottom of the well. Lane let's hope this race comes back and runs here in Darlington kids thanks Andrew I can't believe I was reluctant to talk to andrew marriott do you know who he is?

Yes, I must admit that when I turn on the BBC television at breakfast on a weekend when there is a race, especially when Keith Lucas's family are involved, I always think that Sarah Keith Lucas might say and at Donington this weekend yes , she never does it, she is very professional, she gives the family a plug, yes, we can see that the oil starts at the top of the cranes and goes all the way down, it is still difficult to find the k that we are on. We are still struggling to find the culprit. We have our detectives working.

Just out of interest. It is not like this? I mean, the damage has already been done. We have quite a few damaged cars. And you read a list. There are alistair's cars that went missing and we saw quite a bit of damage done to two or three of the racers. Well, the first issue I read was 50, which I think would have been the Austin Healy one that was in the barriers. pretty strong that's david smithers car chris clarkson this is all speculation the 500 i read was ben gill and ian dalgliesh in a cobra we know the cobras were involved uh 93 we think they were missing were andrew and david wenman we saw that car parked at the track side, the morgan and finally the 450 car since these beat up wheels don't work with speed guns here y'all this is how we changed wheels back in the day a big hammer with a copper head and it you hit as hard as you can take the nut off that wheel and do a little inspection there, put the dust cap back on that wheel and those wire wheels on this jaguar c-type and that's, yeah, the c-type that won to lamar in 1951 and 1953, which then led to the D-type winds of the late '50s.

Drum brakes, drum brakes on this car and a little bit of brake adjustment there, a little bit of brake shoe adjustment to be closer to the drum. And they're doing it to both front wheels, so Gary Pearson is on the jack, he jumps on the car and the wheel comes back on and you hear really quite vigorous bangs from the wheel nuts. just to make sure they're as tight as possible and that's why they have those two lugs and in any period footage you'll see pit stops, they're called lugs and I've been told the technical term for them.

And we can see there that the terrain has a stop to refuel, so we can see the driver or the mechanic with the churn, so that is one of the mandatory things about the two stops, one of them must be for refueling, so it must be a review. Well, that's what's happening now, so the alarm is ringing now, the marine tape on the number 20 Jaguar that we saw with that brake tune, the driver behind the wheel of that car, Rudy Friedrichs, is not happy with the performance of the brakes of that car. 1953 um, that car will now hold until the entire field arrives, so I'm pretty sure the team would want to go out ahead of the safety car and you know, they just missed it and, just looking down at our screen, we continue. to find cars that are shown as missing in action, so to speak, instead of in the pit lane and one of them is jaguar number seven, the turquoise jaguar of uh marcus eunhausen shearstort, who should have been given to andy newell but that was in the leading group before all this trouble and was lost on the track.

Let's go over to Andrew, who is still in the pit lane and still very busy. Andrew and he is still very busy. Andrew certainly is and I've got Greg and Fisk with me, oh Gregor, this is all a bit embarrassing, a big drop of oil, an engine blowing up and a lot of people spinning, yeah I mean last time I looked we were in the 18th place and suddenly now we are. six, so maybe it's not bad news, it's not bad news for you, maybe I feel sorry for the guys who obviously had an offer. When you get to oil, you're just a passenger and what happens to this?

These three-hour races, Greg, are a super new Series, right? I think it's fantastic and I think it's really faithful to GT racing of the '60s. You know, I think there were some concerns about reliability, but I love the combination of cars and you know, I love the strategy and I think it's appropriate, 60's GT racing, you are now one of the biggest names in buying and selling some of these great classic cars, maybe the market right now you know the market is surprisingly good, I think in a strange world the People want something tangible. things that want real things and assets, you know, someone told me what's the best return I can get on my investment in a classic car, the number one pleasure absolutely and if I win the lottery next weekend, what should I come to? buy you?

Well, if it's pre-war, I'd go for a nice supercharged alfa 8c if it's war, how about a maserati d type c type 300 and it's a little younger, maybe a mclaren f1? That's enough of the announcement, but Gregor, thanks again, yeah, thanks, great, that's the first person. I would call if, when my euro bill arrives, I don't know what I need to make a lot of money, like something like 200 million or something, because I think I could spend it all, the car in the back. of this field now as we have a lot of ground that has been refueled, just rejoining showing a bit of damage, there is the 24, now this is the car with Tim Harvey now at the wheel and he was the car that entered the pits in the lead . of this race he is 17th overall but to be honest Alistair most of the cars ahead of him still owe us one of their pit stops yes absolutely as I said before we won't really see This pit stop phase will end until much, much later in the race until the last of the leading cars have made their second mandatory stop, so we can speculate where we think people will start, but as you say, the big most of the cars ahead of the previous leader in car number 24 have not stopped yet and some of them are actually fast cars that have made their stops and maybe mention car number 88 which is the first of our stoppers, so to speak and that's car number 88 of richard kent and chris ward we know how fast this neighborhood is and it's in an E type so we'll keep an eye on that when we get back to normal racing and right behind them is Cotingham Bryant Stanley, well what a mix Jeremy Cottinger, Ollie Bryant is. and harvey stanley, all fast drivers in an e-type and that's car number one, as befits a car entered by dk engineering, those three drivers were actually fighting wheel to wheel in our gt40 fares, the idiot is in the pits , we see it there. kent and chris ward kenton ward's car that's his second stop isn't it let's take a look at that no I think I think when you saw that car you'll see that it's now fallen in the field yeah it's now taking his first uh, pit stop, so he was a little bit out of sync with the actual race order that's on the screen, but he hadn't actually come out of the picture quite right, but he's still there, he's among the leaders in the stoppers the current leader according to the timing screens is number 74, it is chris charles and chris charles jr shelby cobra and that leads by five seconds, of course, those five seconds mean nothing because we are all behind the car security um It seems to me that we don't have marshals on the runway now, so marshals have treated the oil slick and the oil slick extends from practically Hollywood, through the cranes and around the runway to at least At least From the looks of things, there's not much dust raised, but that's where we saw cars blow up at mclean's, so at least as far as mclean's is where that oil slick led.

Ah, there it still continues. Yes, through the scrubland, I wonder. If the race director has decided to just let the cars spin for a couple of laps, soak in there, Jaguar F's pace is actually also going down the dust and the lights are off, meaning the safety car is on. March. This time he will arrive and the car behind him is the 55. Now the 55 is a little down the order in sixth place, that is how the Melling Burton Paddle Jaggery low drag type is described and you will see the smoother lines of that number. 55 um, but right behind him, in that light line of cars, again, the 55 has probably been at a disadvantage there by getting stuck behind the pits, the safety car and some cars that choose to pit along with the safety car too, so now they will do it.

I was making that pit stop under green flag conditions and one of them was actually coming out, but it stopped like you described earlier on the pit lane exit, the 144, which was a car that was in the top five in the phase. of the safety car and Those are the three drivers, Paul and George Potiol with James Hansen. Now that's a guy A who is in the pit lane now to make his first mandatory stop. We still have a few cars in front. field as the field moves at racing speed through Schwan's curve and towards mclean's kicking up all that cement dust and dry oil and out of mclean's towards coppis we'll see more, this is going to get our attention, isn't it also?

When we see dust flying we expect to see a car in the gravel, that won't be the case because we are just kicking up dust from the dried oil, that's fine and, don't get too excited, hopefully it will clear up pretty quickly. Like with as many cars on the track as you saw with the E-Type there, it wasn't taking the optimal line, it was off the line letting the faster cars pass, so that will also clear the dust off the side of the track. clue. The 600 car you mentioned before, British GT winner and former British touring car driver, Sam Taudoff, and I think it's Sam at the wheel because it's the pink helmet, in that good place, blue, mgb, there we see it coming towards the helmet beak.

I think it'll be Sam Tordoff driving that car, he always has a 600 number. JCT 600 is the family business, uh, a big Porsche dealership, right? Yes, well, they have many dealerships and they also rent cars long term. They're there, there's Sam Tordoff coming down, they just passed Andrew Hadden and Sean Lynn 1963 land number 60. Ilan, they're chasing another one of the mgbs. I was the first person to direct Sam Tordoff in his first attempt in a car. a track with no cars, one day he had to go with one of robert shaw's racing cleo cup cars and we knew we had talent, we didn't hold on to it so the rest of the field passed and me and alastair go to Este Pay attention to the timing screens and give them a semblance of order.

The car that's in the lead is car number 60 and that's the guy Gregor Fiskin publicly Edwards and that shows in the lead, but it also shows that he hasn't served. pit stops, so with two hours and 17 minutes remaining, that 85 minute gap between the first and second pit stops will start to become an issue as we get to an hour and 20 minutes remaining of 125 to be exact Yes, I wonder. a triple drive car, the number 60 you were talking about, uh, that's in the shot, isn't it? e-type with blue stripes on the hood and soft top driven by uh sam hancock gregor fiskin and patrick leighton edwards gregor fiskin was talking to andrew marriott just a few minutes ago uh and uh that car in the lead I wonder if there are three drivers, now Whether they said one hour each, yes, and whatever happens if the safety car comes out, that's it, you will have to drive behind the safety car.

Yes, now you mentioned that the rear trunk of this car is slightly open, no. It was actually loose, that's loose, yeah, but we've seen it in another yeah, I got a tweet. Mickey Heatherington asked why the heat types on his trunk lids open slightly. Do you know that's what calling the rear brakes is for? There are ducts in the trunk and they open the trunk lid and it creates a low pressure area, hot air, it's all kind of air flowing over it, it sucks the heat in, yeah, great, there's your answer Michael, I I'm glad you asked Michael. because I was going to mention that in a previous race, I think it was yesterday, we had the jaguar classic race and we never had time, it was too busy, yes, a lot of them ran with contraband open, so I sent them a tweet with the hashtag of your queries

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. historical, I'm in brothers 3078 and andrew marriott is in pit lane, andy, so keep those questions going, it gives us, uh, it certainly educated me and a former 1992 British Touring Car champion and current ITV four British touring car commentator along with David. addison tim harvey there in the yellow helmet with the blue top in roger wills lotus 15.

It's certainly a contender for the win that roger was leading before the pit stops but of course as we've said many times it's all mixed up . for a while, but there's no reason why that car can't come back to take the win. He is currently in seventh place, just slippingInside one of those on the list, car number eight, which is getting very sideways, is having fun. Oh, and Tim Harvey thanks him for staying there on the right side as they walk up the copse. I wonder if the driver, even the one who just slid on the inside, knew Tim was there because he was so decisive it wasn't him and then he was completely sideways into the exit curve, probably helped by the dry oil, so the tim harvey we are following here in car number 24 lotus 15 from new zealand's own roger will with a two liter engine, beating out an early porsche 911 and is actually coming in behind the car that appears as the leader on our screen but he is one lap ahead of Tim Harvey.

Now look at the damage to the front of Roy Alderslade's Daytona Cobra coupe, which will be shared with Andrew Jordan and Michael Grant Peterkin, that was one of the cars. That was caught in that incident, but fortunately it has already been repaired. That's a prodigious use of tape. It doesn't hold that car together. I'm not happy about the use of yellow tape on the front of that car, although I would have thought that would be the case. I would add some dark blue tape, I'll talk to Mike Jordan about that, the yellow shows up very clearly on the front of that car, so that car was one of the contenders, Alistair, it's not entirely out of contention.

However, although he is only running 7th and is behind Tim Harvey's Lotto 15, I could only see what the difference was, it's not much on the 1.7 second line and they were first and second before the incident so they really kept their positions relative to each other, right? However, he has the job of catching tim harvey, who just went and set the fastest lap of the race so far. Two hours and 13 minutes is the time we have left and Tim Harvey is in a Cargo, he just passed the Jaguar, a kind of Milling Burton battle number 55 and that has put him in fifth place.

We are now getting to the point where Harvey will be leading this race. chasing the kid's cobra, yes, now it's a minute ahead, a minute ahead, okay, now they've stopped in the pits, but the cars in first second and third aren't, yes, so in evaluating where we are in this race, I would say that The real leader is the car that has already stopped in the pits and it is number 74, Chris Childs Junior and Chris Child Senior at the wheel and they will share that Shelby Cobra. It's a pleasure to follow Tim Harvey. We have followed several drivers over this weekend and they often comment on how smooth they are and Tim Harvey is another example of a yes ok, a retired professional driver now but he is still absolutely on the button in terms of his skills and it's lovely to see the way he just drives that car, there's car 74.

I just mentioned that's the car right in front of Tim Harvey, that's the Charles and Childs Cobra started by Charles Junior, so I guess They already made their pit stop, so now Charles Senior is on board. Although Charles Jr, this is where we don't. I know Charles Jr could have stayed, right? And they've done two stints, we don't know, but anyway, in fourth place overall, car number 74, just ahead of Wills Harvey's car, they've now just taken third place, so there was a position change. as we looked and the car they passed was the Shelby Mustang which was the white car with the blue stripes on the back of the picture, you'll probably see it just driving by, that's it, it just got lost. third place for number 74 who has regained that third place in the meantime with our flappy boot number 60 who leads the race although he owes everyone a pit stop, yes, and let's keep an eye on that battle for fifth and sixth place as the number 55. continues to get pressured by the 60 just trying to pick up that battle that's not a real battle on the track the 55 million Burton paddle car just got passed by tim harvey a couple of laps ago now tim harvey we mentioned the gap between tim harvey now i'm crossing the line and tim harvey is 58 and then he's not quite in the part of his fastest slap we have a car in the gravel at mclean's and it's number 14. rob cool tom smith steve winder in the mgb and that car looks like it's stranded now the question is can we get a starter tractor up there and get that car out of harm's way under the local yellows?

Beautiful, they observed it. Have you mentioned Aleister? And you can really see it working with our great work. work from the number 14 mgb he has achieved now considering how deep it was in the gravel, that in itself was a demonstration of real skill in clutch control to get that car out of the gravel, that's great, avoided any kind safety car and that. The car will now continue, there are so many cars to look at, we are following the knot list, I think number 66 now, but also just behind number 74 is the Charles and Childs car, but car 66, Nile Mcfadden and Ben Mitchell , and then they're passing it on. by or surpassed by the 74 chris charles jr and senior as he continues his way in third place tim harvey oh and we have a retirement on the grass it's a turn down and that's uh we've seen it in conflicts before that's Fred Wakeman and Patrick Blakeney Edwards, yeah, it's kind of a character-building race.

You were about to mention that Tim Harvey had another fastest lap last time. He has the fastest lap in front of a twenty point three eight three woman, so. He continues to charge him and yeah, I mean, he's significantly faster than anyone else on the track, isn't it more than four seconds a lap? That time for each race, so to speak, is in the 74th second place for the kids. who was he currently i'm trying to understand a gap between that car and tim harvey we're about to see what that is alistair when tim harvey passes yes we're on the side now it was about 50 seconds last time passed so we have to wait a bit, but the reason I see that is because the cars are certainly the car at the front of the field, number 60.

We know that car with Sam Hancock, Gregor Fiskin and Pat Blake. Edwards, it looks like they're going to do a lap in about 8 minutes because we think we assume they're going to share the three hour race equally and do a pit stop in the first hour and a pit stop and now we're 25 minutes later, that stops them from making a pit stop every hour, that 85 minute rule, uh, it's 85 minutes max between pit stops, yeah, but the pit stop now, so if you stop in eight minutes, you'll do it later if it is not done. Be at the pit stop for another hour and 25.

No, it's the maximum time between them, it's not the time between them, so you can't, oh, sorry, sorry, so within those 85 minutes, ah , okay, yeah, so they can go 60 60 66. Yeah. that's exactly what they're going to do, yeah, right, that makes more sense, so, Tim Harvey, it's number 24. Now we were waiting for when he's going to cross the line. Now he's coming down the backstretch, so we'll wait just a few moments to see his time come. Meanwhile we follow the Elan and the first Porsche 911 to the old hairpin and you can see that most of the dust from the absorbent material has been removed, which is good, there is Chris Childs 74. car and while Joe was talking about it he went up from one place to second, yes, I have excellent information that comes from josh barrett and thank you very much, the 74 holes of cobra stopped being shown it was a drive-through and therefore it is not a five minutes are required, so the child That's why the kid is out of the competition when the safety car comes out, the safety car comes out, I'm not really sure why, but we're showing the safety car boards and we were about to see our jaguar.

AP. leave the pit lane and take control of this field so from that point then the first car that has made one of its mandatory stops on the field is lotto number 24 15 of roger wills and tim harvey tim harvey at the wheel of the car we'll try to figure out what's going on while we try to figure out why this we have a safety car let's go to the pits for andrew marriott they're just a quick one from me I think there's going to be a lot of action very soon but just before the safety car came out they put the dashboard on Fisking's car for him to get in, so it was the inside for him, so I expect that car to be here any minute, but I saw Gregor. with his helmet on 25 minutes ago so I'm not convinced he hasn't stopped already so we'll have to check this thanks Andrew and the timing screen certainly shows that they haven't stopped and the safety car is . now I'm trying to understand where the chrono curves are, yes he has gathered the field now and the first car on the train, sorry, sorry, he is not the leader at the moment, although no, he has not collected the leader, but Andrew just said The leaders had to go to the pits, so he could have called already.

I noticed that the kid's car now shows two pit stops, so thanks to Josh Barrett for pointing out what we had missed before, which was that it was a walkthrough, so now it's the first one. I'm going to stop. I'm going to test Joshua. Anything else. I'm going to ask Josh. Do you know why they gave you the penalty that will keep you happy? He took care of it for a while. a few minutes don't forget you can tweet brothers 30 70 years in pit lane andy and it's the hashtag donington historicals I'll contact Aleister and I in the booth is the leader, we heard Andrew Marriott say he was waiting for that car With him, if he can describe the hole, I'll probably be able to see a lot more of what's going on during that stop, so we'll wait and see if we hear from Andrew.

It's not Gregor Fiskin coming out and I think Andrew was suggesting that he might. been gregor let's go there andrew yeah definitely sam hancock just got out of the car right now i'll talk to him and i don't see anyone uh gregor fiskin has had his accident for a long time that's what I got confused so Gregory goes Let's get in the car now and we'll grab Sam. He's fine, he just looks to see if he's taking off his helmet. Why don't you go back to the cabin for a moment and then as soon as possible?

Since I have Sam by my side, we can talk to him, but we are having a great race in this Jaguar that is very much in Collins's cut. I remember the Brix coding team ran aqueous for a long time? ago and of course, those are the racing colors of america, white with blue stripes, it's so interesting to see we're just talking about collier, talking about that particular set, um, there are many of its parts in the museum collier in naples, florida and that's what I was trying to say before I held back all my words. I actually visited the Collier Museum in Naples, Florida, Andrew, I know, I don't know why I did it.

I used to visit Naples a lot. In the past, the safety car, of course, is to recover the number 11. I forgot that the car was on the grass and I'm not quite sure where it is in the truck, which just left. from the old hairpin or something, I'm not too sure it's the uh, it could be on the way to the copse, actually, that's the inside road, we'll find out now, we'll have longer chances, I think that could be the path. we are, that car is going to be run out of danger now that the car is shared fred wakeman and patrick leighton edwards who looked like patrick instead of fred because fred runs uh dark overalls let's go back to the pits back with andrew let's go back to the pits, I have some here but I actually have a house just a mile away from that museum so I go there regularly and I'm available for rent Florida part people but look at a lot of the ad let's go back to Sao Hancock he had a great race there yeah thank you very much it was complicated because when the oil went down during the first safety car period it was literally the whole lap on the line and even off the line and understandably the marshals.

Those who worked very hard to cover it with sand did the part that was visual on the line, but then when we resumed the race with a green flag and you moved away from where the sound is, you couldn't see the oil, but you could certainly feel it and what? Is the strategy that Greg will go in the car then and what will you do next? Honestly, I have no idea. I'm not sure we have a strategy. I was wondering why we didn't pit during the first safety cup, but I have another one now to make it all even out.

Don't know. I think we're making it up as we go along. Gosh, they make up the art as they go, but they're not doing a bad job, thank you. You, Andrew, can pay me a commission because I knew you had a house in Naples open for rent. Josh Barrett clarified that he apparently did not misunderstand. The tweet, Josh, and thanks for clarifying it, it was. In a drive-through penalty was that chris giles in the 74 cobra followed the safety car into the pits but went straight through, didn't enter his penalty area and missed one of his mandatory stops, so he basically drove. through the pit lane that's what cost him time and that's what made it look like he was on the screen that looked like he was on the screen I think we could have gone back to Andrew I think we could have gone back to Andrew no, no is the case, well, I can see Gregor Fispin beingtied to the number 60 car he was leading when he entered the pits, but guess who's at the top of the timing screen now as the first set of pit stops starts to wind down a bit.

It's Tim Harvey Carr. number 24. I think you're right, Wallister. I think with this complex two-stop race strategy risk format, we're not really going to know exactly where we are, we're going to try to keep that feeling of where we are and I think we've read it well so far and now everyone's on the same playing field. There are some teams that show two pit stops, but we'll keep in mind that Charles's first one was just a mistake going through pit lane. We will continue. I keep that in mind, but I think you're right. I think we probably won't know where we are until at least the last half hour of this typical

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Actually yes, absolutely yes, and you're watching Tim Harvey making his way through a variety of British brands like the MGB, there the triumph right behind as he makes his way, but, as often happens, the cars that were in the lead. At the start of the race it has now been shaken up and we are once again seeing Wills and Harvey's cars leading and Royal Old Slade and Andrew Jordan's car in second place, 24 of 17 and then in third place we have the number. 75 of littlejohn and evans the elan and they all made their first stop so as joe just said most of the cars now in fact all the cars on our screen have made their only stop so it's a little easier to get to. we have a position established for the moment we are going to control it um alice is going to make her own pit stop for uh 30 minutes or so I will be joined in the commentary booth by peter Snowden who will take over and then it will be Peter who will continue with Alistar to take us to the final hour.

Snowy is getting ready there and this race is starting to get to Snowden and we have. a situation now where we have tim harvey, who's who drives that car with some abandon that he has, he certainly knows how to get the best out of this pitch 15 and he's been very decisive through traffic. I love Joe, how you did the best. The first statement I'm going to make is pretty obvious: Tim Harvey doesn't know how to drive a car any other way. Yes, that's true. Harvey is going to do it, isn't he? there's a there's a reason as my old mentor cod and blair used to say when about someone like that there's a reason why they've won championships peter uh, he won the 1992 british touring car championship, he's two... time porsche cup champion career that hasn't happened by accident, yes, that's a good way to put it, yes, yes, yes, it's not surprising at all and we have Tim Harvey at the forefront of this field, but if you consider it.

Okay, they may not be in cars that are as competitive as a lot of 15s in this field of cars, but we have, you know, touring cars, another touring car champion in the form of Andrew Jordan, we have. somewhat more recently in 2013 too, yes yes yes yes sorry sam tordoff was mentioned but sam is at number 600 mgb so he won't be at the front of the field but he will certainly be at the forefront of his class. I'm sure you and your elders have covered it, but the story of that little lotto there, Bruce McLaren's next car, driven in a period by him and won in a period with him, of course, bears the same name of McLaren cars, but that's why.

It's so close to Roger Will's heart being a Kiwi, you know, it's a car that he's had many, many good cars, he understands it's been a few years, I guess I'm going to say five years or so, but I'm sure that He'll tell us or correct us exactly, but I would have thought it's at least five years and of course it's one at Goodwood and I said it in the comment this morning, in the leaderboard when Alice and I covered this, um, won one of the biggest races, I think I'm not sure which one it was at Goodwood, uh, just two or three years ago in that car and such was the statue of doing it that it actually surpassed Formula One. autosport cover uh , the week in Thursday's edition and it was that car that won at Goodwood because it was the McLaren, it was the Kiwi, it was the story, it was like that and I picked it up at the time, if you haven't I bought a copy of that and they framed it there's something wrong with you you're really not a parody one night you specialized as a graphic artist you've usually done it you're the cover of auto sport no lewis hamilton roger wills in bruce mclaren's next lotto, yeah that's a great provenance, um, that the car that Peter is talking about, I'm going to slide to call you Snowy, so for all our listeners and viewers, if I call him Peter, it means that I'm being very official, if I call him Snowy it's that I'm too relaxed, like this that we were simply talking about the Lotus 15s that currently lead, last time it has been chased a bit by the number 17 that Shelby made for Unicobra Cooper. of older lid and jordan, i think andrew jordan has now gotten into that car, however he just doesn't have the part and as i say, tim harvey has extended that fastest lap to 19, he just did a 19.595 minute lap last time with jordan. car, tornado's seventeen shelby did one minute twenty point eight and the gap was reduced to eleven point three seconds, so with tim harvey, former british touring car champion, being chased by andrew jordan, former british touring car champion, we have a battle of the talents let's look at the front of this field thirdly we have number 75 which is um simon evans jim little j little john loew silan and uh I'm going to say that Snowy really gets a lot of sunlight.

I have a right to be there, it's not just the only line lot where we have Haddon and Sean Lynn Lortzellan s1 in fourth place. I would also have thought that the E types would have been faster, well you would have thought so, but I write in fifth place, so card 88 driven by Kenton Wall, who will be Chris Ward, ex, his chief instructor from the Silverton circuit , knows that place very well and is an accomplished historical runner, and wins at the front. In most things, interestingly, James Little Little John was again a professional driver and raced a lot with Roger Wales.

In fact, they won the spa six hours together in his GT in the Roger World GT40 when he had it. So, it's not strange that way, Roger. wills, i'm sure he'll be very happy to see that james littlejohn is behind him now as his driver coach. I'm sure tim harvey of course wouldn't want a younger british touring car champion like andrew jordan Come on, just wanted a quick thought for you, he's not that far down the order in terms of lap times compared to the rating, uh, because those number 17 cobras had quite a bit of impact and damage, I'm just wondering if a little bit. of steering or tracking slightly off suddenly it only affects that car in the front uh, it's not just the aerodynamics, I mean the goal of the chevrolet uh, the shelby dear torna tornacoop here was to refine the lines and make it less a little bit more road friendly. aerodynamics. when I say aerodynamic I don't mean downforce, no no, I couldn't know it was about cutting the air, I thought in those days it was all about slippery stuff, but the reason the only bit of air I want I mean, they actually had on those cars was that cam tail in the back because they created lyft uh, which started with the project cars, ironically, at Le Mans, in the service cars back in uh '62, when they created excessive lift. at about 175, so they came up with this. cam tail which is particularly seen in this data in the code with the project car, the ferrari 250 gtos, what I wanted to say is more mechanically, it has had a knock on that front corner, yes, possibly just body work, but there is always that guarantee that is not there.

You never know what might happen after you're underneath, whether it's a little toe out or a little toe in or something, and it could be that Andrew Jordan's natural skills as a touring car champion are overriding that, but we don't know how. You may have to work hard to get a minute twenty out of that car, it may be ten percent harder than in qualifying. Well, we know how fast Andrew can drive a classic Porsche, he's done it. He can drive a wheelbarrow. Yes, absolutely, you know. He's also a very fast rallycross driver so he's pretty comfortable at 45 degree angles, except the limits of the truck aren't a problem for him, it doesn't really matter where he goes, they are rules, he has to follow the rules, but It is not like this.

It doesn't really matter what you mentioned about etas. What I thought was fascinating earlier was looking at the number 60, uh, there's two different specs of the E type and they're really obvious to look at, you mentioned the 55 car, which is. Martin Melling's car has low drag which is quite distinctive, just take away the cargo side at the moment, it's completely lightweight and that means it has an alloy block. Road cars had a cast iron block. It has alloy casings. magnesium wheels that kind of thing, it's completely light period period, that's what they used on the very nice number 60 car that we saw a little further a little earlier with gregor fisker or sam hancock driving that first one and cool, then gregor fisk can get on it, it's semi light if you look at it, it has proper chrome door handles, chrome door latches, not leather straps, it's on a steel block on our cast iron block and it's a semi light weight with different wheels and everything, so it's It's much more of a road car with its cloth bonnet and that's why they're so popular, that's why Grace loves the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood because they look exactly like the racing cars of the time, while that completely light weights are that small. a little further a little more developed in the period this is how they work what do you prefer?

I have to see it. I love the look of the lightweights where they have all the bumpers removed and you can see what I know in what context the car was developed. There are two schools of thought. I absolutely understand what you're saying, the idea of ​​having, basically, what I prefer, the fastest, the wind, is the first answer, the idea of ​​a semi. lightweight that looks like a road car or that wolf in sheep's clothing that bit of a reference car just looks like a good car but after that it's really quite fast too in the background and then you have the completely light weights I'm very very lucky and privileged to have raced the car we've been talking about here, car number 55, low drag with uh, martin welling and martin melling, who owns that car, uh, we've done spa for six hours with Rob Hall in that car it's an absolutely fantastic car and I broke a couple of those lightweights and there's something like Joe just said there's something raw about it developed is a good word for really raw yeah it's uh and they're a handful uh and they're , um, they are a complicated car to configure those E types also because they have to be homologated in the period, you have a very strange suspension. set it up as they have a torsion bar suspension, so basically you have a torsion bar, a long bar that goes down from the front suspension to under the chassis, that's how you set up the car. and how you adjust it and it's a beautiful photo of that 55 car that, as we speak now, goes past the number 20.

You can see there's a perfect example there, there's a number 60 E-type Jaguar behind the 55 now. and you can clearly see the differences, the chrome bumpers on the '60, the bumpers have been completely removed on the '55 and you can see the air flowing through those smooth lines, can't you? Yes, and it has the quick force of the fuel tank for the fuel, while the number 60 car is what you say it has it has its chrome trim around the headlight fairing it still has it its hood its bumpers and even with its upper passengers which I didn't need to have is all extra, but It looks exactly like a rock cellar, but dust kicks up there as we pass through the police stations.

If we have someone in Redgate, we don't have a Mustang in Red Gate, is that number 72, is that number 72. uh, the nick sleep alex montgomery jewel uh wickham uh ford shelby mustang um that looked like a harmless outside was that red door that was red through the gravel yeah yeah so it went into the gravel but it's coming out so what exactly is it? different underneath the aesthetics of those two cars because the 55 looks like a pure racing car, while the type A number 60 looks like a street car much more based on the street car, the semi-light car number 60 is much more based on a road car, I have to say it has a cast iron block, a full alloy block, completely light weight, a wide angle head, because in the angle the valves are different, so it is a much more car developed, different gearbox housings, rear axles, all kinds of things, magnesium, magnesium wheels, all those kinds of things take it to a completely different level.

Underneath, it's very much a race car and like I said, I'm very lucky to have raced that real car and I tell you to race that round spa at night uh. What is that car, that car with a couple of wet candles for headlights? Isabsolutely very fun. Yeah, Rob Hall and I had a blast doing that at the spa for six hours. Many thanks to Martin Mulling for allowing us. to do that, and we got a good result for him too, yes, and quite well, as we watched the type 55a that the leader passed by, each of us came out with a 120.1, however, it is not as fast as his lap faster.

Fast enough to still keep Andrew Jordan behind him in number 17, the gap is 18 seconds and then we wait a bit for the third place car, which is number 75, the little John Lauter of Simon Evans, line 26 r in third place. place uh so we have the 88 which is Kent and Ward, a guy they advanced, there was a lot of ground in that fourth place which was Haden and Sean Lynn's car now that car is down to seven, I'm not sure why that happened, but he has lowered the order a little, there is the launch line number six that passes by there in front of him is the number one car of cotting and brian and stanley, in front of that is the red number of gerardo cottingham that appears in the coast of jaguar and the other thing I've noticed is that we have drivers that get into more than one car in this three hour race, yes pb is one of those.

Not happy when he drives in almost every race here today. He is driving two cars in a race. That's just greedy, isn't it? I mean, his cup must run over with one lucky guy. I would like to. driving a car in a race maybe I don't mind two in a race that's cool oh we have more dust action acts uh it looks like the red door again they are copies actually I think so, it was that one with the Porsches running away, yeah, one of the Porsches running into the gravel and out of the gravel at the same time, causing some excitement in the snow as we watched it fly well, it's one of those corners, Joe and Joe, you must have done it. this, but it's one of those corners in the camera angle that we're looking at because we're looking at it from the front, it's slightly forced, they appear over an eyebrow and they rotate and it looks really good upside down from the discs. when you get there, you exit mclean, you go to a drop down, down, down, up, and the break and turn point is on an eyebrow, which is exactly what you don't want the track to do, so you turn and something like that as you expect and you throw some kind of anchor that wouldn't look good.

I think the vertex is in there somewhere. How many times, how many times have you given in and been too far? just the year before, it was delivered too early, it was corrected again and I've tried it twice yes well it's always good, it's always good practice, yes Michelle has a good strong front end on the car I think too and I think looking at the cars here this weekend at Donald's historic

festival

, we've seen the free-flowing nature of Donington Park and there's nothing better than watching classic and historic racing. On a circuit like this, it has a big flaw, right?

It's a boost circuit, isn't it? Even they are tight corners, like the old hairpin, a very, very fast corner, it is much faster than it looks, it is also a very deceptive corner, yes, you arrive because you are using it out of camber, you understand. it's but you get that roller coaster ride from uh people often forget there's another corner people often forget the name of hollywood you go out the red door then you get hollywood then you get the cranes well we're talking about the crainers You get that roller coaster where you don't want to go too far to the right on the cranes, you want to be on the left side to get over the old hairpin well, but the old hairpin has a huge magnet on the left side and it wants to pull you there all the time. and you think you have it and suddenly you're on the grass and it's something else.

We return to Schwanz. I think one of the things that this circuit lends itself to, as you said Joe, it's got slopes and contours, it's very fluid and we can see this as evidence perfectly in the first few cars on the circuit. we have an eclectic mix of cars here we have a lotus 15 at the head of the field here now it's good it's got tim harvey in it and roger wills roger wilson is no slouch he's a gentleman driving tim harvey you're right I know he's old and he He likes cake, but he has won championships.

We're allowed to say that he's gotten so bad now Mike, that he's just, that he's just gone with the cake since he ended his professional career. Well, he has, but. He's gotten to the point where people are making him cake, I know, and tasting it, and today Mike Wilde was telling me with great enthusiasm that he said that Tim Harvey had eaten the first piece of wild cake now there's a but. It's not a euphemism exactly, there's a pit report for you if there ever was one, but back to what I'm saying, the differences in the cards, the lotto is 15, it weighs two parts of nothing, you know the argument, the engine could weigh more, the bigger one. part of the car more than the rest of the chassis, it doesn't have much power, but it's up there in the front, then you have a Shelby Daytona Cobra coupe behind it, which if I say agricultural, it's not entirely unfair.

You know, it's a cobra designed by a chicken farmer in Texas and they put a nice body on it, that's what it really is, isn't it a great front engine car? Then in the next place you have, as you very rightly mentioned, a lotus elan 26r well, there was never much more than a few match ticks for one of those in the first place, then they made a light version called 26 arm tuck racing, then you have an e type, so you have light sports. racing cars, a heavy front engine GT car followed by a light car followed by a GT car and that just shows that it can work, they are all doing the same times yes, but they have done it and they achieve those lap times in such different shapes and there's a great shot of Porsche number nine and Mustang number four, you know, I bought American muscle against European ingenuity.

I think that's a good way to describe that, but what's important is the dynamics of the vehicle as to what that will address. Is this a three hour race? Well, those light cars will use their brakes and their tires are much less compared to the big GT cars as they progress in the race, the brakes become a problem because they have much more. physical mass to stop every time in every corner they do this, the brakes will wear more and it will be very hot and they will be much heavier with their tires because the cars are much heavier physically and they are a real handful, I mean, Tim Harvey has an easy job there, he's light, he's a little thing, he's floating around.

What do you mean physically? You mean he has an easier job physically because the car is lighter, whereas the cars are big and muscular? You have to do it, it's literally a Sunday walk in the park for him, he's had Kate before he goes out, he's just relaxed, it's like he's leading a race, well I'm a racing driver, that's what I'm supposed to do. I must do, that is yours. cv that's doing exactly what it's supposed to do uh there's some running on the 600 I think it's sam tordoff not sure who started that car there's a little matrix uh sorry it's gone um that was uh I think took over richard wilmer's car the mgb in shell blue with the biscuit roof right in front of him there number 71 is the color tr which is light blue with the old english white roof is that what 71 alan ross uh alan ross jones daniel ross jones with mark hills um in that car in the tr4 is no stranger to a variety of cars mr. hales yes to say the least i also mean an accomplished racer in his time i mean tvr toscans etc. uh, just to say the least, but of course I'm very involved with Nick Mason and Ten Tents and looking after his car collection and racing, or driving and racing a whole series of cars there, in particular, probably the most famous one, that glorious 250 gto that was second. at this time in 1962.

I was going to say if you're going to use a Jeep, well only if you're going to have a GTO, I mean, not everyone has such deep pockets if you're going to have a GTO, have one. He finished second right now, which is pretty impressive, but Nick Mason had that car for a long time. We just saw the number 24 that he continues to lead. He has extended that lead to 22 seconds as we watch the battle of the E-types Carnival 2 and Carnival and there is the leading car 24, it is the lotto 15. Now this car has the name of 1958, so this car did not have the number branded.

It came before Mr. es 23, the lost 23 b came after this release 15, but it is very logical. t is yes, very, very similar in probably I'm probably eight models later sarcasm has always been the lowest form continuous snow I know you taught me right yes, it's the definition again yes, it's not the first time that's been done maxwell lin uh andrew hadden in the 911 we've seen some of those porsches and these cars that were largely derived from the transmission of being able to cross gravel continue to go through and out the other side, which is a big plus because I don't then have to take out the safety car.

There's 17 in second place. Andrew Jordan still behind the wheel. That is the car that is suffering damage to the left front of the car. 25 seconds. John just can't keep up with the Lotus. Ahead of him and there is the number 75, the little John and Evans car that is currently in third place, the bright yellow line, I think it is a lap away from the number 17. I will try to get a little more track position from scorp . As for the wise, I actually think the number 75 lotto line has dropped a lap from that car in second place, so now there are only two cars left on the lead lap and the number 75 has dropped a lap, we have around three or four cars might be more until the timing screens are updated just weaving through traffic now slow traffic for andrew jordan porsche 911 triumph tr4 and just cleared a lot of lines and a lot of options to go down the middle by austin healey and the Porsche, just look at that number 17 um cobra on the screen, there's quite a bit of damage.

We've talked about the damage to the front of the car on the front left side and mentioned possible collateral damage if you look a little further down the side, uh, the door trim is damaged and the side exhaust muffler on the tailpipe. The car's side outlet is also quite damaged and you wonder if there is something underneath, say cooling ducts, whatever it is. that's immediately behind that front area they're really obvious but the brake ducts have lost some of that cooling duct their brakes don't work as well and we said you know we're getting close to what Now we're getting close to half the distance, now the GT cars, the race will change as they go through the race, they will start, you know, their tires will be different.

He wasn't tired, oh, he was playing tennis, he was crazy, but his brakes will fail, yeah. and I was going to ask you that about tires and are we looking at any element of tire management? I know we see it as a modern racing thing. We talk about tire management all the time in modern, contemporary racing, no matter what we do. race i, I imagine it's the same there, however it's on tires with tread, you can see when your tires have gone bad because it has absolutely no tread left, but that's okay, it's a fixed tire, it's a dunlop, it's a control tire, it's a fixed compound. same for the entire field yes so you don't have to worry about compounds however what is the most variable chain on a race car? the driver, the component that the driver changes most easily, how the driver uses those tires and that's what you need, you need someone who can change the wheels, we saw it before with the C type with Gary Pearson on the jack there and the two ear-turners doing it all the old-fashioned way, as Asperger's should be classified as, but obviously more is needed.

Now we have reasonably long pit stops here, so it is possible and you will see them potentially changing outside tires instead of an axle, so the front or rear ones will probably change the outside because they are obviously the ones that are most loaded here. at Donaton Park, okay, Anderson, yeah, the big, hairy GT cars are going to put a load on that left rear end, so depending on how tough you and your driver are, you've got a couple of corners here. mcleans and coppers mclean's is putting a lot on that left rear all the time as you go through there at a good pace the old hairpin will do the same the red door will do the same cops there are four big corners there they're going to charge that put on the tires to make it look spectacular, no one's going to drift without seeing a couple of E types just popping out, that's one thing, but if I'm not suggesting they slide, but if you're charging up to the point where you have the car.

That balance alone looks great and is potentially faster as long as the tires are new, but it will shorten the life of that tire very quickly and that kind of performance on these tires is like you've given Sir Lewis Hamilton, etcetera, in Formula One, performance. just falls off a cliff, suddenly disappears and your lap time can suddenly increase three five seconds because I just can't get anything out of it.tire, they just left and they are very strange, but don't forget that they are a crossfire and they are not radial, yes, there is an old crossbar in which we are seeing such beautiful drift driving and time management of those is that, to begin with, you have to warm them up and I.

I've always described them as it's almost like a hydrofoil on the water, it goes out, you can drive it, you can move the boat in the heart, but once you have to warm up the tires, you basically have to put the film on the surface of the tire. at a certain nice point temperature at which the car will then float on that film and not wear down the actual casing of the tire. Wow, and that's the skill too. That's always how that hydrophile lifts it up on its sheets and it's sitting there on the water, uh, it's not like that. use them too much and of course a lock when breaking a big heavy GT car at the chicane or something locks a wheel, we see it, you have a flat spot and that will find it every time, so you have to drive around it. there is a lot of time management on these, you can't change them easily or they cost time so you have to take care of yourself, what you really need is a very careful opening period, that's what you want or a driver who is gentle, kind , considerate with those tires and get that first is almost like we say when we do the qualifying chair, what we often say about a bank lap get that lap it's almost the first hour of the race get a bank hour fix wherever you are The position is and then you can start working a little bit on strategy or whatever, but hey, we'll say we're beyond the window now, right?

Well, we will be at the window to bring the tires. very gently we're, we're getting to, we're approaching half the distance in these 180 minutes, this three hour race that we're in, 92 minutes, just over 92 minutes left, that's, uh, a football game top notch, time is not Tim Harvey still leads, I don't know, wrong ball shape, don't do anything with the times, that little less than 28 seconds is the gap before we meet Andrew Jordan, they are the only two cars that are now on the lead lap, the first car. Just behind Jordan on the road but one lap down is the Little John and Evans Lawless Land Car 75, they are currently in third place, then we have number 88 which is the Richard Ken Chris Ward, a Jaguar type, they are around five.

Let's say six seconds behind in fourth place then 35 seconds more for number eight top uh gerardo and uh james cottingham on the jaguar list that has a hard time giving him his full title and then more, what do we have? ah now, then, then let's go to cottingham bryant and stanley's car plus 18 seconds behind that um so we have uh I think we have haddon and sean lynn lord celine s1 uh in sixth place but I'm not going to do it I'm thinking that that car is a lap down, so we'll do it again when the timing screens update.

Welcome back Alistair, he's joining Peter Snowden now for the next 30 minutes or so while I dive into the pits myself, so Alistair, uh, no changes there as he left for his break, uh, we still have Tim Harvey and if anything that gap was now a couple of laps ago, 27 seconds, now it's just under 30. Well, in my half hour break it's gone from about 12 to 30. So yeah , it kind of doubled, thanks Joe and Tim Harvey continues to do what he does best, which is just drive the car at a constant pace. One minute, 21 was his last lap time. consistently in that uh around that order don't get ready I have to say you're fresh off your pit stop you're back in the commentary booth um and you just did what we shouldn't do the Commentator curse that Tim Harvey is doing what he does best leading the race, it's only middle distance, buddy, don't do it yet, don't curse it, you know what happens as soon as you start talking about it, that's what's going to happen, so let's wait. he stays there, but like Joe just told you at the drop off point, uh, what a gap now we're talking, uh, what are we talking about? 30 30 seconds and it's running away the whole time and that's kind of it. be traffic management um obviously you're finding your way through tim will be a master at that um but you know, three hour race, don't forget this guy Tim Harvey has finished how many lemons he ate, probably half a dozen in his group day. c cars uh, we talk and say he's a British touring car champion, which is relatively sprint racing, and a Porsche Carrera cup champion, which again are relatively short, but we forget that he was also an

endurance

man and drove some of the famous group sea ​​carts spices and stuff and chris hodgetts that was um so he's used to finding his way through traffic and this won't be any surprise to him too, I'm just sure he's sitting there thinking about the trophy and cake, Isn't it mostly trophy and champagne stuff?

He's thinking about trophy and cake. I'm sure it is. There's a reason we mention this so much because Mr. Harvey likes his cake and he's opening it, so we won't do it. We are not being rude or malicious, I am lining him up, he does, he just likes a little piece of cake, well, we still have in the region 36 cars in operation and therefore we talk a lot about traffic management because, with 36 cars on the track, you're always and you're in the fastest car on the track, of course you're always going to run into slower cars, so it's the car owned by Harvey Roger Will.

Roger will start and we assume he will take control. the final stint in the lead car number 24, the lotus 15 and then it's the older roy slade who had this car built very recently by the jordan racing team and uh, andrew jordan at the wheel, yeah, he's done a pretty old stint in that car, tim harvey, but uh yeah uh like joe and I were talking a few minutes ago isn't it uh uh I'm not suggesting that he did say he was taking a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon, which is a little no cuts just as we say that the race leader is in the field, I just saw in the background that we have tim harvey in the pits. our race leader with a very comfortable lead uh 32 over the number 17 car so that's the car uh alderslade jordan so tim harvey is in the pits and uh there's going to be a driver change it could just be because fuel issue, but uh, roger will is there. roger wills is in the garage obviously he will stay in the garage when he refills the car yes tim harvey is. in fact, get out of the car so that Tim Harvey, the race leader, vacates lotto number 24 15.

That car will refuel, no work is allowed on the car or changing drivers while the car is refueling, so that they have to get out of it first, so they open the back deck, we're on that little deck and they're going to refuel the car, obviously, you've probably seen this before and I'm sure you already talked about it, Alistair, but uh, fire extinguishers fires, whatever they are. They, um, are just checking the oil level and you are allowed to check the levels. You're not allowed to work on the car, so you can basically check the oil level, but you can't fill it with oil if you need it in the moment. time, uh, so it's kind of a safety issue for the engine there, obviously, in that car, so the fuel tanks are dry discharge tanks for the fuel coming in and that's why we keep all the crew pits that we can behind the security line in the pits while That's been done and, uh, Roger Wills is actually manning the fire extinguisher there because he has the full face helmet and the full fire retardant items that are required for the designated firefighter make sure that if there is a fuel spill and a little flame that they are there with a small extinguisher, you can see the bigger extinguisher on the ground and the smaller one in your hand, but the perfect logical management of the staff to do that because you say a designated team member has to be able to do that, so why not have an incoming driver do that?

Because at the same time he can talk to the mechanics and the team, but he is in charge, he is there for a reason, so he has a double role, he will definitely become the driver and get in the car. the car he owns, so this should change the order slightly so we can get Andrew Jordan who could pass in a minute and take the lead, in fact, exactly, absolutely, he has, so Andrew Jordan is now the new leader of the race, but of course he also owes us a pit stop, so our race leader, tim harvey, with roger will's lotus 15, is the first car to make the second pit stop , so this is when it all starts to get really interesting, alexa, because we're all going to start Shake it off, we have Andrew Hadden and Sean Lynn Lotus and they land in the number six spot and seventh in the seventh spot that's also in the pits and that's taking his second pit stop, and some of the cars are also a little further down the order, Jones Barry. lotto land number 84 11th uh and in fact chile's junior and shelby charges up in the eleventh so that's what left the card jones murray's car is 12 my apologies uh, they made their second pit stop, like that We really need to see what happens now.

How soon is Andrew Jordan going to bring in what is now the leading card in the race? We have number 66 when the list is taking a little turn. That's what Ben Mitchell said driving, mind you, that's very different from him. a lot yeah so the denial of Mcfadden's car the list of knots that were at mclean's it seemed like he just switched we just saw him come back together we didn't respond but it looks like he just swapped ends so you'd almost hint ? If it's not oil that we had before that had such consequences for so many people, I thought it probably just caught a gear or something just changed the ends there, but it seemed like it was coming back in and the C type comes in number 20 parks. himself because he makes a second pit stop right in front of the 24 car that Roger Wills is now buckling into and there will be Tim Harvey coming out again.

Look, no, that's actually the co-pilot of the C-Type, right? I thought it was Tim Harvey coming out to chat to Roger, but Roger Wills has been roped into the number 24 car, the team is still looking back, the refueling will have been completed by now, but they are still checking levels and making sure. that the car is fine for the last stint of the race, it is now showing as fourth in the order but of course we are now in the second pit stop phase so we have to wait for them to relax. Here's Jaguar E-Type number 60. in the Cunningham colors that Andrew mentioned earlier, that's the most important thing to remember at this altitude, it's a mandatory pit stop, it's 300 seconds, isn't it five minutes, yeah, There are five minutes, no rush, no need to rush and lose the ball? not like formula one or other endurance qualifying that we cover, where you literally have to go and do it as fast as possible, they have five minutes and in fact, five minutes in a pit stop is a remarkably long amount of time.

Alistair, the only concern is that when you get something like this the pits start to fill up, as you can see by looking down the pit lane in that camera shot, now we can't see which was the leading car in the race because now It's the one he has. I have a portal right behind, but there are people who start blocking and that's when you can't get out of the pits and when you're five minutes up, you might have five minutes, but you don't want five minutes anymore. Being there then, yeah, well that's certainly happening right now and some news that we think might be a chain not changing, but maybe a driver not taking a stint in the number 60 car that we were following before. because he was very high up in the order and that's Hancock Fisk in Blakeney Edwards' car, we're questioning whether Patrick Blakeney Edwards will take the wheel, we'll find out later, but the conversation was that it would just be Sam Hancock. and gregor fiskin in that car and the number 11 car that patrick blake shared in the edwards with uh fred wakeman is out of the race we saw that he was towed off the grass earlier here we see the number one car which is james cottingham harvey stanley oliver bryant cart now It's Roger Wills back on the track so the car's owner is now back behind the wheel having replaced Tim Harvey's Jim in the number 24 Lotus 15 and that is now back in the hands of New Zealander Roger Wills is a historic racing driver with a lot of experience and of course his first stint was very impressive and left Tim with a bit of work to do but he took the lead.

We're looking at the pit lane again, there's a lot of activity there. It's cool to see there's the C-type Jaguar with its front wheels off the ground on jacks. I think they may have even changed those wheels because we can see them. Yes, there is a wheel coming off now, maybe they are adjusting the brakes. Again it seemswhich it is, yeah, it's the second time they've had to do that in the C-type garage, so it's with drum brakes, unlike most of the cars here, Roger Wills hasn't left the field in the clue. As we see now, that's our old race leader, I say that because he hasn't had any launches, we have another one of the E-Types that spun again, that's car 14144, that's uh paul poshiel, george poshiel and james don .

I don't actually know who drives that car in this period, but that's a downward turn on the old hairpin, right? Yeah, we've seen some cars turning into the field there and anyway, it's going again, just a momentary spin and skid. through mclean's, the 144, the very traditional shape of the e-type, the fixed head car, as a bunch of cars come down the red gate with the number eight, max, gerardo james cottingham james, driving the number one and Number eight, that is the list of jaguars that cost in our race. The leader, the Shelby Daytona driven by Jordan, has passed the pit entrance this time, so he will complete at least this lap.

Let's keep an eye on that car. Alison and I, just to let you know when that car arrives. and look what's going on right now is andrew jordan's shelby daytona cobra the current leader of car number 17 the kent yward jaguar e type in second place little john's and evans lotus elan 26r is third place rounding out the podium so to speak , maturado and james cottingham in the striped jaguar that costs in fourth place, another game of karting with bryant and stanley, that's ollie bryant and harvey stanley. in another jaguar e-type in fifth place and uh the correct miles coin mustang, dave coyne saw it in uh sierra cosworth a little bit earlier in the touring car race and was very impressed because there's still a lot of activity down below .

In pit lane we're just over the halfway mark, we've got just under a minute and 20 left in this race, so there's still a substantial chunk of the race left and, you know, we're talking about pretty much a big chunk. prize ahead. Normally, if you don't put it in terms of people tend to think that Formula One is the only type of motorsport, well, there are lots of other things and there are racing cars with doors and roofs that are quite incredible. The cost is like that of the cobra. uh, going around again again and I'm just looking at there's almost like there's something on the driver's door, not there, this is a little bit, I think it might be a little bit, I know. it has a bit of perspective this way, it has side wind deflectors on a pillar there so it looks a bit strange, I wonder what was going on there, but it suffered that damage at the beginning of the race, uh, when you were also covering that part then, we're still not really sure which card dropped the oil that caused so many cars to explode and there has been a lot of collateral damage from that oil, unfortunately it can't be helped.

One of those things is racing with Austin Healey having to take action to avoid it there while the lead car, the number 17 Cobra coupe, just slides around the inside of the old hairpin, we have the number 74 leaving the field. This is Chris Charles. chris charles jr's car, the shelby cobra, the more traditional shaped car instead of the daytona cobra coupe shape, uh and uh, it goes through hollywood rumble there, the big front engine v8 and i just realized that the car went down to where it has a broken methacrylate. The rear window is a little bit there too, so I've had that experience before with these cars, it can actually let in a lot of fumes, so a little bit careful with that one and, uh, through the chicane that goes through the boxes. the entry leading that group is the eight four e-type reed gum and andrew keith lucas in the low drag and there's the 72 one of our american muscle cars the shelby mustang nick sleep alex montgomery and joel wickham car 72 that's actually running in 11th place right behind the hancock fiskin 60 e-type and here comes the leading car number 17 with all that damage it suffered way before but word from Mike Jordan when Duncan chatted with him before about that car he said that actually mechanically Alright.

It's just cosmetic damage so we're not too worried about it continuing, there's nothing damaged underneath, it's a shame it's a new car built by the Jordan Racing team, it just looks a bit of a mess right now after that incident. They were fixed very quickly, his last lap was 123, so that's three seconds off his best pace, which could be a reflection of the traffic, uh, and nothing else, certainly nothing to do with the car let alone the Andy Jordan's pace in that car, he said. He seemed to be pushing, but under Jordan he was again the consummate professional.

As we said before, you can't be a touring car champion. For nothing, it is in one of the most frenetic and close-fought series. I would say that in The World he cared about the UK and had won that championship in 2013 and several races before and after, and he will take his time in traffic there, so possibly that is why that time was reduced a little for 123. I'm sure it doesn't fully reflect what the car can do and the uh 44 car on the screen is the mustang george shellgren jeremy cook and again the 4.7 liter ford v8 engine in the front, a very similar type of engine family.

In many of these cars, when the car overtakes you on the inside, we think that after all the pit stops are eliminated, it might as well take the lead again and that's Roger Wills in the little Lotus 15 with the engine. two liters and slides down the inside of another lotus which is the lotus elan just uh, spinning around there as it enters the chicane, but there's george shalgren's number 44 mustang with jeremy cook, you just mentioned the pit stops there , alastair, um, top seven, sorry, top six cars still owes us a pit stop and that's why you were saying very well that we think it's the de facto lead car, it may seem moderate, it's in seventh place , but he has led most of this race so far, we have an hour and 15 minutes to go and I suspect we are going to start to see, as always, with the pit stops, if one continues, starts, continues, we could have a flurry of activity in the next two or three laps, it all depends.

In terms of strategy and what you can do, there is a maximum between pit stops of no more than 85 minutes between pit stops, so those who have done a short race to start with low fuel to get into the rhythm and be above. the front, so that's what it's all about, that's why that's what I love about insurance racing, it develops, you can be at the front and have the glory from the start without putting fuel in it and being a fast driver, it's great, but Then if there's a revenge, you have this in the middle race, you have to put a ton of fuel in it and maybe it won't be your fastest driver.

You may have a very good team of the three drivers in the match. That's ideal, that's great for a team manager, but you have to give it back at some point and, as we often say in endurance racing, this is a three-hour race where traffic comes and goes and that's what can happen, so we're just waiting on those top six cars that still owe us those pit stops and I'm intrigued to see which one will pit first, actually, now that we have the list cost right. Uh, that came and went, isn't that fourth place? Carl, that's in the pits, that's the cut, yeah, sorry, sorry, the grotto cut.

I'm looking at one behind it, yeah, and we also have cars 2 and 66 on it. pit lane right now that's the jaguar or richard mines chris livingston price and the mcfadden ben mitchell car that I think we're looking at we're not 66 yeah and also yeah there's the richard mines chris livingston price so they're actually servicing cars side by side and the car behind slightly hidden from view is also coming to the end of its refueling stop and we can see him very animated, that's Ben Mitchell probably talking about that turn, I think nile mcfadden, the businessman from the north of ireland, and i suspect he is telling you about that quick turn he had much earlier in the career.

We just caught the end of it on cameras and we have Porsches together here, two 911s and the 59. The color of the car and the numbers look pretty similar to the Porsche Brumos in America with the blue and red stripes, but a very early Porsche 911 and it's great to see those two together. It's wonderful and inside is Andrew Jordan in the lead car, the Shelby Daytona. Cobra coupe coming down the long straight and he'll be braking now on the right left of the chicane and the Porsches are side by side the 59 car slides on the inside that's just a sprout, didn't it sink? the interior maxwell lynn and andrew hadden racing guillermo fierro elata's similar 19 then sorry and steve hart race leader in the pits we just missed that in the uh we didn't miss it because the two porsches were fighting in the chicane there but at the same time, Andrew Jordan brought 17th race leader Shelby Daytona to the pits, so he will leave that door open, as is typical of Andrew Jordan.

He has to take a quick look at the door because it's obviously a little damaged, but look. On that, walking out, I'm sure Mike Jordan is everywhere and I see Mike Jordan there in the pit lane and he has a leaf blower directly on the puck cooling it and, yeah, the mechanic on the other side. Well, cooling the brakes, so I just try to keep the car as cool as possible while stopping. A lot of heat comes out of the car and sinks into the surrounding metal and that can cause problems when the cars are turned off again.

Well, that's exactly the problem. The heat soaks and what it does is that it boils all the fluid in the nearby lines and obviously the oil fluid does not work very well like the brake fluid, he said that the driver enters and exits, comes and goes at the end of the pit lane . You accelerate and the first time you need the brakes, there are no brakes, you have to put them back on, so it's again all these things that you have to think about because these cars you know are working extremely hard and as we mentioned before, their big, heavy GT cars stopped pretty significantly, you know, at least three, four, five times around the lap and they've done an hour, they have an hour and 11 minutes left in this race, so let's see how the order changes. let's find out where the lotus harvey of the world is, he's back to fourth place now on the royal road, the road will shake a little because we have the oldest lady jordan daytona in the pits which will put the 88 car in the lead, richard kent. and chris ward in the e type will probably take the lead, although he was quite a ways back before they pitted, but with a five minute stop plus entry and exit time they are more than likely to take control. in the lead for a short time, there's Roger Wills' car going through the chicane and completing another lap, Fabio who's close behind him and of course he's a very, very proud Kiwi, he's got his uh uh, it's all a sort of black feather on the protective helmets looks like it's part of the All Blacks rugby team.

I know he's a big rugby fan too and should play the ball the right way and correctly, a sport to follow and I can see Joe Bradley waiting in the background to come. and take his uh the last one on this road just just smiling we have this uh we have this constant conversation over the years I mean it's been almost 25 years Joe we've been discussing this and the car in third place , the number. a cottingham bryant stanley a car run by dk engineering the jaguar e type in third is again a bit behind so he may not take control at the top but kenton ward does take the lead as i thought he would they would do the jordan all the Slade in the pits so at the moment they are in the five minute field of course which is a pretty long stop so I would be very surprised if they don't take the lead in this race. again yeah and uh 24 the wilson harvey car that we're following now the lotus 15 is quickly catching up with everyone because it's already done it's uh two pit stops now so it's relaxing those five minutes and a little bit that it cost them there's the uh alder slade jordan carr we saw him come into the pits we saw mike jordan and another member of the team with the leaf blowers just keeping the brakes cold it looks like roy alderslade the owner of the car is now on board and we certainly could see andrew jordan there, he's just pointing holding the door is open, there's Royal Slade, he hasn't actually gotten in, he's just getting in, Andrew will now kneel next to the car and help him put his seat belt on and we'll hear from Andrew Marriott for an absolutely fabulous period. the Lotus 15 there and you're out there letting Roger take the car and he can hold on, yeah I mean you know the cars, we're really petting them, looking after them and he still keeps the gap so it's lovely.

We haven't had to work too much with the car, the only thing that might surprise us is that we made our second stop under a green flag and if others can make their second stop under a safety car, they will obviously win a lot, but you know, if everything goes well , you know, we should end up in a good place in the cabin. They saidtwo things. Tim Harvey looks incredibly smooth out there, but he also eats too much cake. Yes, Colin Chapman would never do it. I've been hired as a driver because I'm definitely overweight, but you know it's a real pleasure to drive that car, the Bruce McLaren x car, it's got all those beautiful lotus qualities, touch deafness, light, light sensation, lots and lots of feedback.

Driver, you know, a bit thin steering wheel and it's an absolute thing, you have to really pinch yourself, it's a lovely car, well you're leading a race like that and of course you've got that huge race behind you, do you think maybe ? I should never have retired, well I have never retired, in fact I just stopped competing in modern, ultra-competitive and serious championships, because you know, motorsport is two words, it is the sport and the motorsport side, and there is not so much sport in modern things. So it's really nice to do these types of races, of course you did a lot of private stuff, five or six remotes, which endurance elements help in a race like that, the experience you have, oh yeah I'm sure it helps With the traffic, you know? judgment about traffic, you know how to choose when to overtake cars and when it's safe, you know that all that makes a big difference because one mistake and that's your race and I mean, I must have happened with everything that's going on.

I don't know 50 60 70 cars, so you have to make quick decisions and when you have a lot of experience you can rely on that. I guess well, Tim drives very well and well, you just have to sit on the pit wall and wait. What's happening? Well, many thanks to Tim Harvey chatting there with Andrew Marriott in the pit lane. Tim is wonderful to listen to. It's like we heard from Mike Wilde yesterday and several other drivers. They are really enthusiastic at heart. some of them have had a professional racing career, but really what's inside them is a racer and it's great, you really read between the lines with that comment, don't you think?

There is not so much fun in racing or sports. In racing these days, oh it was poor 65, he opened the door there while the driver was trying to keep it closed, I think it's going to be a pit caller, um, but we were just looking at the car that Tim Harvey was driving, Roger Wills. There it is again, uh, which is now in third place as the other pit stops start to wind down. Andrew, yes, Alistair just went back to the box because unfortunately we can't get the camera link to work. I mean, I think those big birds that we see. in the donation, I gained weight, okay, but I spoke to Andrew Jordan when he came out of the cobra and I asked him.

My speculation was that maybe the brakes weren't as good because maybe and you know, Snowy said maybe they were. the bait ducks have been damaged or something, no the brakes are absolutely fine, in reality you probably can't see it that well on the screen but there is quite a bit of damage to the side of the muffler which is being shown by the exhaust system , No. the engine is running good, he says this car is hard, you really have to concentrate and I go as fast as I can, that's the fastest it will go right now, remember this car is indeed new and the Jordans have never been this good .

A lot of people build those cobras, but they've never bought one before, so I think they're on a learning curve, so I'm sure it will go a little faster, but it's still a big effort. them anyway and we love to see I love that Daytona cobra shape, there's some real ones around, you know, there's one, it was actually still owned by Rob Walton, who is the big king of Walmart supermarkets, owns one and uh there's also a guy in France who owns one of the original ones which was the ats lift company. I remember he sponsored Pescarolo many years ago, so some of the originals are similar, but now we see them on the screen here and, um, a little beat up and battered around the edges, but they still go great, weapons here and they look fabulous, right?

I think I'm right in saying Andrew that six of those were built, yeah, I think so, six originals and, uh, we have a lot of continuations running now and this. It's one of them that was built recently and as I say absolutely flying, I think Joe Bradley will be back in the chair now, so thanks to Peter Snowden for the excellent commentary and chat from him there and a bit of discussion between them. We have Joe and Peter having a little argument here like two drivers arguing when they get out of the car, you know, Alastair, but at the moment that will continue for a while.

Yeah, we've got two E-types up front, but look at the lap times here and Roger Wills, well, he's about four seconds off Tim's best time right now, right? But Roger Will, a very experienced driver from new zealand, travels a lot around the world, it has not been like that. I've been able to do that a lot lately, that's true, yes, and it's been raced in a lot of different cars, but this 15 um load is a great machine and we'll see what happens and see if it gets back to the top of the list here. well we're looking at the timing of the car that's at the top of the list, that's number 88, Kent and Ward, that's type E.

Richard Kent and Chris Warden, Chris Warden, they have a lot of experience, yeah, yeah , because he drove for that. jd classic for a while and then of course it crashed right? And that left his career in a situation that he told me about yesterday, but he has a new sponsor and it is quite strange for Malden, there is a famous Essex salt. and I think it must come from the flats of Essex or something and they've got new overs that look absolutely immaculate for that team, so it's great that Chris Ward is back in the swing of things with a drive like that, long runs like this. getting things like the exhaust, seeing the blackened exhaust on the side, that's pretty emotional, isn't it?

Yes a lot. In fact, some of the teams that have raced at Le Mans leave their cars in a dirty state like they came out of the end of the race and Porsche did that recently with the 919, where they left the car in its dirty state, they all do it, now absolutely They never clean the cars and leave, you know. Porsche would go to the Porsche museum. Audi did the same with its lemon winners. They went to a museum with exactly how they ended up. I fixed Andrew's link, so, well, I'll send him back. I pulled out the Phillips and uh. tweet and stuff, so we're back to Andrew in the pits, a car that looks as fresh as a daisy, actually talks dirty cars and looks great after a couple hours of racing.

Actually car number 24 looks as clean as when it started in the pits it is the leader that took control when wills and harvey came in for their stop, that is car 88 that is currently stopped in the pits and that is the car from richard kent and chris ward and the 24 lotus came through the pits but that doesn't mean he slowed down sorry he didn't drop a lap but he is two laps behind due to the long pit stop so yeah we have a little bit of time to wait before the 24 car takes back the lead, but it looks like it's going to happen because Kent and Ward are going to have to stay in the pits for about four more minutes and we're seeing here how the car behind the 47 performs. cars of Malcolm Paul and Rick Bourne, who have raced together for many years. years and yesterday they were racing the lotus 10 if you were watching our live stream yesterday and they are together again on the tvr the grantura tvr that is being overtaken inside or is it exactly yes, yes, I mean, just take a break there. but uh yeah, he kept the e type at bay, the tbr can certainly be cornered better, he came out of the bush and the e type of the thing about the e type, what number was the e type there?

It's tripping on the tvr because it has more power and that's the uh read gom and uh andrew keith lucas is uh it certainly has the power on the streets but I think the tvr will manage to pull away through the turns and sweeps , the tv is using the mgb engine the uh 1800 cc, a little less than two liters less than the jaguar but a very light body made of fiberglass, I think we called it then, I'm not sure what it's called nowadays , but plastic body, but there is a very steel mgb body on that number 14 car rob cull tom smith steve winter now we saw that on the gravel before uh and I think it was on the other side of the gravel yeah and you said you did a good work getting it out of the gravel and number two e type of richard mines and chris livingston price now that you're sitting, where's that scan down?

The 13 is the black guy with the white stripe, wide white stripe, which is number two, the medium light of richard mines and chris lillingston. Put a price on the number nine Porsche that we were looking at a little earlier and that is driven by Matthew Home and Steve Winter of 1965, being chased by the 71 Triumph TR4 shared by Alan Ross Jones, Daniel Ross Jones and our own Mark Hales, who's one? of those drivers who have been around for many years driving almost everything there is to drive they don't know if Mark is on board right now it's an open helmet they don't recognize it but Mark Hales is an extremely experienced driver uh we saw a Recently, the Porsche 911 number 65, I just mentioned the driver's brand bits, Jim's bits, uh, door flapping, that's been rectified with the old tank tip at this point, well yeah, all time , I just hope it's color coded, I really hope not. not so, in contrast to the color of one of my favorite hits, there is a lack of preparation, I call it the big car 72, the knicks jump alex montgomery joel wickham shelby mustang carol shelby, who was one of the drivers of the winning car in 1959 in le mans for aston martin, but he developed these muscle cars and this is the shelby mustang.

Of course, he was also absolutely linked to the shelby daytona cobra as dd 300, which is a very famous registration number that traces the grass a little bit there, but it comes. Getting back on track must have opened up, that's in front of the cornering crane, probably the safest approach once you get there, yeah, you know? Do not turn sharply to the left and rejoin the track, in the crane curves that continue. the grass and you arrived right at the exit of the old hairpin and out of danger you said he was famous and there is the lead yes, there is the lead the 24 lotus 15 has now regained the lead it has those laps behind uh while the number 88 was in the field, the number remains in the pits, so the lead has been extended all this time while we will be keeping an eye on the pit lane just to see when the e-type idiot resumes from his pit stop and the number 24 now continues.

That's 15. Roger Will is now behind the wheel of the car and what you mentioned is back in the lead now it's going back to the lady yeah just to explain I'm sorry you mentioned the registration number of that car 300. Yeah , what is it? Well, that was an ex-works car that raced for many years in the hands of John Chatham, in club racing and also in some international racing, and had great success among the most famous registration numbers in Austin, in the world of Austin Healey. right, just one of those numbers and it's the original car, so it has provenance.

We are not talking about a sequel or recreation here and this is the real car and Tim Harvey did not refer to it. Bruce McLaren. i drove it and it is very much an original car that roger wills owns and that's why roger is so proud to own and race this car because his fellow new zealand bruce mclaren and you know, i thought i saw a roulette there in coppice in the Edmond entrance to Covis, we'll try to get ID on that, but that's the responsibility, Andrew and I ran into Tim Harvey early this morning in the paddock and he was telling me he was telling us about driving that car, what's the Bruce blue. mclaren car and it really was a big responsibility for tim and roger of course to drive that car and you wouldn't think the car had such a provenance the way tim drove it, he drove it with great enthusiasm, wasn't he sliding the car?

The corners reminded me of a story here at Donington Park during an Aston Martin Honors Club race. We had Peter Hardman in the Jaguar. Sorry, the Aston Martin DBR One. Sorry, Stewie, the lemon winner. And I mean the car was priceless. you literally couldn't put a cost on the car and from the tower we could see Peter Hardman completely sideways at exactly the same angle using the entire corner on the x and kicking up the dust lap after lap after that and he went into pit lane and where I did the interview with the winners and I said to Peter, how can you drive this car to the limit like you did at the very edge of the car's grip when you know it's a priceless car?

And he gave me this answer. that's just the epitome of what we've seen here at Donington's historic festival. He said it would have been offensive to the people who built and created this car not to continue and use it in the city the way it was. Thought instead of putting it in a museum, we are going to race it and we are going to race it to the limit and to the limit and if we crash it we will repair it and take it to compete again and I. I just thought it was the perfect altitude and that's exactly the attitude we're seeing on that lead 15 pitch from Roger Wills and Tim Harvey to the whale, actually, yeah, and it's now, as we mentioned agoa couple of turns, back. in the lead, but what also happened is that the Royal exhibited andrew jordan daytona cobra coupe that was in the pits came back out, went back to second place and the gap between them is 52, almost 53 seconds and then it's in third place in right now, but As a pit stop is the Mustang Shelby we were watching a couple of laps ago on the screen, which is the Sleep Montgomery Wickham car and then it's the Hancock Fiskin number 60, possibly blatantly Edwards, although there are questions about whether Patrick will run in this car number 60. in fourth place and then the number 88 that we have been following intermittently with the 24 also on the screen and that is the john kent chris ward car that is now in fifth place uh but uh that has done its two stops and the two ahead haven't, so we still have some changes in the group, yes, but I think the change is largely due to the aces being held by uh roger wills and tim harvey, who are in the lead at this point and are pulling away because the last lap was 1.7 seconds faster for Roger Wills than for Roy Old Slade.

I think we're at that stage where we have the first, the first and second cars made their second and final pit stop, so that's more or less resolved behind them. There's still a bit of uncertainty about where exactly who owes us a pit stop so behind the top two I think it's a flag race for the top two and then we're still waiting for things to settle down. Below we have a flag of slippery surface shown on the red door and uh, a lot of sawing on the steering wheel and a little bit sideways, I'm not sure what it's raining on, so it's, it's not exactly oil, it's just maybe a little bit of spit , that's disturbing the track surface, so information certainly from our colleagues who just poked their heads outside to get some fresh air and there's a little bit of precipitation in the air.

We've been lucky so far here at the Donington Historic Festival with the weather, it's been a beautiful day, very, very nice temperatures, perfect racing day and we've had some fantastic photographs from our television production team at race television . I have to admit it's the first time I've worked with race television and uh I have to say we have this telepathy, they seem to know what I am and what we want to talk about next, Alistair and we've taken some great photographs and we've just captured the atmosphere of the day. of the weekend with some great shots, the only thing you could improve is a crowd of spectators on this beautiful Donington grass bank backstage while the camera pans around you, you have all the people, which just adds a bit of flavor to uh to The event, but in terms of the action on the track, it has been absolutely impressive and we have 49 minutes and three quarters left for this last race of the weekend and still leading Roger Wills Tim Harvey Lotus 15.

It's a minute and one. second practically now a lead on roy alderslade who is in his new shelby daytona cobra coupe we have a slow moving mustang it's a 72 car we have a little smoke coming out of that exhaust i think nick sleep's 72 alex montgomery joel Wickham to the pits and It's whatever, it's never good when we see smoke coming out of the back of a car and I'm not sure where that manifested itself on the track, but it was very close to the pits and bring that car. right now and uh, that car was pretty high up, wasn't it seventh place?

He actually moved up from seventh and that car now shows two pit stops, so yeah, that's one of the cars that ordered that he was running third, but it was, oh, it was due like a pit stop, so I'm sorry. , yes, it was the net third, but now it is effectively making its second stop, but unfortunately it is not for the reasons that they want and it was going slowly on that street, isn't it, it is very slow, yes, yes. here's how many cars fit on the Donington Park track uh the answer is about four uh and uh this is running away here they come now the four still tied together this is one of the built-in cost listers frank kostin the aerodynamicist, the way much more slippery, there is the similar knobby car under the chassis, the engine, but that is the knobby lister which has a completely different body shape and the car with the front end showing smoother and flatter lines, the more curvy knot curves, where perhaps in full.

In contrast to the cost cutting on the front end, which has a kind of flatter front end that allows air to go through the whole car and the rear end, which was all very important in this period, we had not discovered the downforce created for the wings and the like. it was about making the cars travel as fast as possible through the air and we certainly see that with that number eight and in fact the number um idiot and um we can see in the photos that that mustang is parked under our box, we can't In I actually see it because we can't have a window open like that, but I can smell when you smell I can smell what I think is the smell of gearbox or differential oil, so the smoke was probably gearbox. or differential and that we can really smell it. in our box, can you smell the difference between gearbox oil and engine oil?

Yes, yes, so I don't have the feeling that there is anything different. I also received a message from Duncan, who has been helping us as I mentioned. he's in pit lane wandering around giving information to Andrew as well and he's telling us that car number 60 which was now a car that we were looking at earlier that is in the pits has lost its fan belt so it's possible that They may be able to install one or it may have caused some damage to the engine, but let's hope not, that's the number 60 hancock fiskin e type that we focused on a little bit earlier, especially when andrew was talking to gregor fiskin and then sam hancock, who got out of the car and, of course, gone are the days when you would find the first lady wearing nylon stockings and the quick fix for the truck seat belt back in the '60s and early '70s was some nylons. nylon wrapped around the pulleys, um, I'm.

I'm not sure how they'll want to fix it, that's not a quick fix, although the number 60 is still shown in the pits, so we have the car that was on the display there, the older Slade car with the dented front end. The number 17 car is in second place losing ground to the leader and we see there again the number 144 e-type, which I believe was registered as a type c, but obviously, Paul Poshiel, owner of this car, has just exchanged it for one of his other cars. We had a quick shot of the dd 300 again, that's the green healy that has a period in Le Mans history.

In fact, he raced in the big 24 hour race when he was part of the factory team and here he is on the track driven, uh, very. Well actually I doubt it's going down the long straight, we have an E type, we have a lotus eland right behind it moving under the brake, uh how would any lotus land drive differently than that absolutely on the limit So a mgb alone? Overtaking the runway a bit, I just have to take a little extra runway and then the cost lister incarnate appears with lights on at number 74, which is Chris Charles Jr and Shelby Cobra Senior making their way past one of the other helicopters. and behind that, max gerardo james cottingham's number eight car that is racing that car on the screen is now running in fourth place and I noticed that right behind it is the 88, it was actually ahead of the number eight on the road that is in third place. number eight in fourth place, so 88 is about to turn around and lap number eight, from which I can gather that yes, they are one lap away at the moment, so we are 44 minutes left in the race and there's still a few races left to do, I think certainly, as Tim Harvey told Andrew earlier, if everything goes well and they don't get a safety car where everyone steps up and makes it, although all the pit stops have already been made so it's uh a race to the flag for them but there's a lot of racing behind them it's been a while since i heard from andrew marriott let's go to the pits where andrew has someone to talk to it's been released andrew I think that's the best way to describe that you were struggling with the car at Donny's apartment, yeah, it was a difficult period, I think about an hour and 20 minutes and we don't want to spend much more time on it, certainly with the tank full fuel, it's quite difficult, so you get a feel for the car and that was the pace the car wanted to go, so she's been in the wars with the oil going down.

Roy had a little contact with some cars and the oil, so she looks a little sorry. but I keep driving straight, breaking straight, so the oil temperature was a little high, so I told it to drop some revs because that made a big difference when I got out, so yeah, so far so good when I enter. These saw the crew lift it up and take a look underneath, just a visual inspection, yeah, we put a couple of left tires on it, uh, what was the plan. The plan initially was to do a pair of left tires at each stop, but obviously, Roy.

He needed a short first place because of the safety car, so we put two left tires on him to give him a little more grip and a little more fuel and told him to go and have fun. You have done many different careers. cars from your era, but the Daytona cobra is brand new to you, hats off to the team that built that car, it's cool, you know, it's a long golden run for these cars, three hours, you know, and yeah we're driving at a bit of pace but the cars are still having a really tough time so yeah it's great that we've had the car on pole and we're up there in contention so yeah yeah Roy You can leave your first experience at Daytona happy today I will be very happy because you don't have much experience.

He is very new to racing. He has worked a couple of years in genetics and gave the historic bug a lot of shades with us. um yeah, I got the bug, I wanted a Daytona building that we've done and wanted to build for years and uh, yeah, the opportunity came up. Actually, it was during the lockdown. Roy called me and said I think I'd like to see a Daytona Cobra built, so that was it. Obviously, about that, yes, it looks a little worn out, but we hope it continues and we get to the end. You put a lot of smiles on people's faces today.

Thank you very much Andrew and we will keep our fingers crossed. Thank you very much, Andrew, thank you very much. So my question is: are they really going to take that car to Daytona for the classic? Because that's your home, isn't it? That's where I should be, so I'm sure Andrew and Mike will be there. putting that in the car zone and I'm sure that's a box to check, why wouldn't you do it with the Daytona classic at the end of October? This year is actually a little earlier than normal and you never know. Maybe we can get there fingers crossed there's 41 minutes left so we're at that point where we thought we might be at this stage, Alistair, with everyone showing on the timing screens that they've made their two mandatory stops and now.

We're in a race to the flag, not much of a race at the front so to speak, with that huge gap left between the 24th leader, Lawless 15 and Andrew, uh, Jordan and Alder slipped Shelby Diatonic Cobra into second place . I'm not sure what the gap is, it's about a minute last I looked, yeah, and I think we certainly have a battle for the bottom step of the podium, if not the second, it just depends on how well, uh, Roy . alderslade, who andrew jordan has just explained is very new to racing, has worked for a couple of years in genetics, which i mentioned because that series supports the british gt, so we have seen roy out in racing and he is a true enthusiast and he really has the bug, as Andrew put it, he built this lotus curtain and now the Daytona Cobra coupe, but how well can he follow through to the end of the race?

There is a long way to go. It's a difficult car to drive. It's probably pretty hot there. well, and then we have car 88 kent and richard kent chris ward and also max gerardo in number eight, uh, sharing with james cottingham and, in fact, they go very fast and they will have time, it's a long way, 39 minutes to come on, we'll keep an eye on that, it could be a battle for the tops, alistair just clocked 54 seconds there, okay, that battle for third and fourth yes, so it's quite a long way, they are running at a similar pace, but the The car behind is a little bit faster, which is always nice to see, so the gap is closing and they can, and then they're both a lot faster than well, they're a lot faster, a couple of seconds a lap. faster than Royal Order Slade.

It's time for them to bother the second step of the podium, maybe while we look at the 74 cobra, I think coming down the hill, yes, the 74 car that is in eighth place, it is the car of Charles and Child senior and junior, and it is We will return Andrew. in the pit lane, well, we've been talking a lot about thelovely little 26r lotus cylinder, cliff gray is one of the men who has been in that car, you own the machine, i don't think cleveland, it's actually owned by a friend of mine, stephen. Bond, so he's out there right now, but I have the privilege of sharing it with him when we do events like this.

It is an absolute delight. Always a lovely little car, I remember back in the day run by ian Walker Racing etc. I don't know about your story, I don't remember it personally, but I absolutely know the stories, it's wonderful and there are some great drivers out there, you know, really great drivers, who have a pretty good career, I was actually very happy. I was just trying to achieve the same nice, fluid timings. Respect that the car got into a routine. I had an 85 minute period, so I knew I had to keep doing the same thing without putting too much strain on myself or the car.

Obviously in racing I'm not sure if it's an iron race, it's ian and they'll obviously do a fantastic job. They run uh Cooper, the live race too with a friend of mine said they do a wonderful job preparing the car. Not bad. the same street vendor as you probably know we are not going to let him get in the car because he will show up that's why they give you everything because we just saw them giving you a massage well that's Seb who actually takes care of me and he's a Physiotherapist and he does all these things reiki.

It is a wonderful service they provide. I think I'll probably need it after three hours of this quickly. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. In fact, have a great day. Thank you so much. Thank you for staying with the news of the Lords. and landed in the world, number 75, John and Evans' little car that was in fifth place in the pits and looked like a retirement. uh it's the information we'll see that by receiving the broken rear fork, he has put that car out of this race by all accounts. and that car already lost two places while it was in the pits, so that was the car that was behind gerardo cottingham's car on the road and we were mentioning that alistair there and uh while we were talking toAndrew, who came into the pits with a problem and it looks like a broken suspension fork in the back of the car is going to shut that car down, it's one or two.

We've run the fan belt, we've sniffed the oil, it's just one or two problems in the tracking areas, not surprising that old cars are long runs, but I notice James Cottingham is now fourth and fifth, yeah, I know it'll be interesting if you get the second and third step, the poor ones, the steps, well, it's one less interview. For us it's going to be a lopsided podium at the moment, we don't have that problem with them being third and fourth, fourth and fifth, still, although I mean for us when we get to a three hour race and this is, of course, for the Royal Car uh club palm oil cup uh, with 35 minutes to go, a kind of complacency starts to set in and we think we have the result that we can see right now, it's not 35 minutes like you just said this. it's when the cars are tired and snowy, I mentioned earlier about tire wear and how the cars have been used and remember there are no paddle shifters, they are all manual gearboxes with, you know, the dexterity of a ballet dancer with healing and toys.

Revving the engine and shifting the box up and down, it's a completely different game to today's contemporary racing, where the computer does the work for you, so the fatigue, of course, yeah, I think that's it. certainly the case in some of the smaller coupe types. cars like the type c eh but you can see the window down on the mustang just to keep the airflow going but these cars get very hot inside and I know daytona cobra coupes get hot in the cabin and that can affect the drivers who are not the fit professionals that we sometimes see on television, fatigue is certainly a very good point and also the brakes and the perfect timing of our producer because that car works with drum brakes, we have seen them adjust twice in this race by team pearson and the drum brakes are much less efficient than modern cars with disc brakes, they are less easy to call and the car is really uh towards the end of the race, they are really going to struggle and In fact, yesterday we saw a car here doing the demo, it was a C type like that, but it was the first car to have disc brakes installed and Sterling Moss was the one who said that it was necessary to put these new types of brakes on this car and Of course, the rest is history, as they say, and brake performance across the axle can be very different with a drum brake, whereas with disc brakes, you tend to get the same efficiency, uh, from the rotation, you know, slowing down the rotation of the wheel while with drum brakes.

You can end up with a very unstable car and that can be very, very complicated. 71 is a car that I believe was owned by Pete Foster at some point. I think that's the car, the tr4, without a doubt, the same car he raced, I don't know if it's the same thing yes, I'm not sure if it snows, could you tell us what that is, Alan Ross Jones, Daniel Ross Jones and mark hills, that's the one with mark hills, I'm not sure who that is, so auburn fierce, helmet, we might be able to recognize him there in terms of what's going on in the second third quarter and fifth place that we're watching closely, It is still true that the lap times of the kent and wardy type number 88 with which he has a white car With the damage to the front and Gerardo Cotingham's number eight car, both are running at very similar times 121 7 121 um and They are separated by 50 or so seconds, so that's probably not going to change in terms of their positions, but they are lapping three seconds, much faster than Roy Alderslade, certainly on the last lap, anyway, Roy has been around of the 23 5 24 5 mark for a few laps, so depending on how far apart those cars are, it could be that second place could be under threat, let's try to pick the number 88 and get an idea of ​​the position in the track, there is the leader who just passed mclean's, roger will is now driving the 24. the second place car, the older shelby daytona cobra driven by skid and we lift the tracker we are looking for the 88 and there it is just passing by the corner crane and now we're with the idiot there just going through the corner crane now the car that's catching him is number eight and he's one lap down, we think, so he should be right in front trying to get him back on the track. .

We have some great photos of that car, a little damage to the front end as we've seen and we're not sure. where those plastic corners with just cars whizzing past the pit lane exit come from, I think using our I think we call it a snake, right? or something like that where the tracker, yes, that's where we can see all the The numbers of the cars that run on the track that are used in the television coverage sometimes we have access to them up here and I can see that the 88 car that we have been following we can see that he is about to cross the line and complete another lap and I think if I read this correctly, he is now on the same lap as Roy Old Slade, which is car number 17, and I can tell you that all the Slade It's going down the long straight to the chicane and car 88 is coming in, as we can see. on our television screens as we arrive in Hollywood, so it's just over half a lap, but the difference in lap times between them is on the order of a second on the last lap, but it has reached four seconds; the difference is 55 seconds.

I think it's like that and there's about half an hour exactly to go so there's time for this gap to close, it's not there but it depends on how consistent the 88 car can be, yeah let's see it's 55 seconds uh , on the other side of the line. The number 17 car has just passed, then we look for the 88, there is the number eight behind them, 51 seconds further back, there is the 17 just coming out of the old hairpin and heading towards Schwan's curve towards mclean's. It's a car that also looks pretty good. a bit of damage last time up to minute 26.9 welcome to our live stream we've got a few people watching we know feel free as we get closer to the end tweet and tell us how you've enjoyed Donington's historic festival this year.

We would have preferred to have you here next to the drag as Alistair mentioned a five second gap between uh, sorry, five seconds faster on the last lap. 50 seconds is the gap now, yeah, this is, yeah, we could see this building up quite a while ago, um with uh. Roy Orderslade, who will freely admit that he is not as fast as Andrew Jordan, has just started racing, not many people are fair, but I thought the interview with Andrew Jordan was very interesting, that Andrew did it because our Andrew did it , because you could see it there. totally professional andrew jordan is not there to try to win the race in this car he wants roy aldersleigh to enjoy his racing he is the client who was paid to have andrew jordan's totally professional uh car built there so roy old slate is whoever is doing it the best they can do is stay in front of the car we are looking at now, the 88 e-type that is going down to the roy chicane, the old slade at the moment is in the Schwandt curve, so now we are like looking across the track at each other now with one on the high side of the track car 88 there's the Royal Slade car coming towards the highest point of the circuit at the Coppis corner we have a couple of pieces of land to pass, let's take a look A look at what the stopwatch was saying said the stopwatch said 48 seconds, so just under three more seconds were subtracted from those almost three seconds. 2.9 seconds were taken out of that gap with 27 minutes remaining.

I'm not sure if we'll have time, I guess. Do you know that people our age will understand what I mean when I say a goal on the stands? That Saturday afternoon sports extravaganza, we may be about to have a goal in the stands for that second and third place. There's the idiot, chasing jaguar number 17. type blue roof white part of the front and damage this is the car we talked about before showing signs of this length of the race you really see the type of battle scars that a car leaves in a drag race like this and the exhaust The black exhaust spot shown on the left side of the car is coming out onto the pit straight to complete another lap.

Let's see what the gap is. This time it was 49 seconds. Let's call it 46. It's going down. Isn't it, right at the end of Darlington's historic festival? We have a great finish in the Royal Automobile Club palm cup. Both cars we've been talking about show significant damage from incidents, as far as we know, neither. that they were on their own, which made it such a terrible situation with that oil slick that caused cars to spin everywhere, so we're not looking at cars that have been thrown off the road by their drivers and crossed the line. Once again there goes Roy Orderslay which is a camera shot from the pit wall as you can see them coming down the pit straight towards Redgate and Royal Dust Layed completes another lap which was 123-7 which was a good lap from Royal Orderslade who is going to be in the region of the time Kent and Ward's car will run and I think it's probably Richard Kent.

The information we had was that Chris Ward would do the middle period and then the final period would be taken by Richard Kent, so let's go. Let's assume that's what happened. Richard Kent's time on this lap we will arrive at a moment when he crosses the line and there is a gap between the third and fourth of Richard Ken and the type E behind them, they have Gerardo Cotingham on the list of Jaguars costing and There was more 54 seconds back in fourth place when the number 88 passed to complete another lap. It is known that we have confirmed that he is behind the wheel, there is the 66.

He is not a little further down the field, the 55 is in the gravel with a little spin, I think that is from mclean, in fact, now it is if he can keep the car running, it just made a harmless spin under the outside of the circuit and just went off the track, it's not on the gravel, that's a good sign when the marshals give you the finish line ahead, it will give you an idea of when the traffic has passed at this moment. He is pointing in the direction he doesn't want to be. Now the last thing he wants to do is back away in any direction. gravel trap so you're trying to get a little better angle it's nice to think you don't want to turn on the track but it's a scary position but it will be covered by yellow flags waved by the marshall to let the drivers know there are one incident later but he's up and running again that's martin melling mark burton graham's battle car he's lost one place he's lost at least one place to 14th and can lose more as more cars cross The line gap between second and third was reduced to 42 and a half seconds, with only 1.3 taken off the actual order eliminated that time.

I said that Royal Roy had a very good lap time last time and yet Richard Kent wasa little faster, there's 74. of the kids chris junior and chris senior is crossing the line there they are in 8th place and they are 10 seconds behind willis and job still laura silent is currently in 7th place just ahead of them another alarm of lotto this time the s1 and that's 57 seconds in sixth place shared by haddon and shawn lynch and then of course the father of professional driver alex lin, as what i call superstar, i'm really impressed. Everywhere I've seen Alex Lynn drive, he's really impressed me.

I'm sure he is in form this season after the Aston Martin program stopped. He has been an official Aston Martin driver for the last few seasons in the WEC and other series. Here it comes, now, what will be the gap? It was 42 seconds, I think Alistair let's see if he slowed it down, no he actually went, that was another good lap from Roy, the older Slade, I wonder if Mike and Andrew Jordan are on the pit wall saying, come on, come on, I think it was more a case of the 88 being held back slightly overtaken by Marcus, yeah, and so it will be, it will be Evan Floor, uh, 22 minutes left, 22 minutes left in the Royal Automobile Club Palmol Cup and the second 17th place just stumbled a little bit now it's been delayed this time yeah it's been delayed so it leveled off with ebb and flat again in favor of uh from Kent in the jaguar which was a 1 24 8 so which was a slow time and that was pretty much all there was to it.

The last corner, wasn't the victory's fault at all? He's nowhere I could go. He was already committed. You find that cars with smaller engines are even more committed to the corners and the fact that Roger Wills is there, he's going to take another one. one lap off the Royal Slade car, so the leader could well win by two clear laps, which is an absolutely impressive performance. It's really both drivers driving this car really, really, really well, there really hasn't been a weak link there while they're in their driver lineup here's the 88 on the other side of the line now let's see what the 22-6 gap is, like this which is another two seconds taking off, we're back to 42 and a half, yes, 42 where we were last time, absolutely yes, time is running out, although that's the lotus elite there, not sure we saw much on the screen in this race, uh, mark gordon nick finborough lotus elite car, which was the precursor to colin chapman's lotus elan in the lotus company, a very nice car indeed and that is following car 88 to the old hairpin and this It could very well mean one of the defining moments of this race because the 88 has a lot of slower traffic to get through, and some of it isn't much slower than it, which is even more difficult and caught them right at the point on this circuit. donation where you don't want to trap them through the old hairpin all the way to mclean's.

He would have liked to have cleared this traffic on the straights where the car is faster, he has still passed maybe half of them, now he still has about four cars left to go to the back straight, he lights up to warn those who have Slower traffic when I say slower, everything is relative, the other one waves at him. type A and goes on the inside, which has not cost him as much time as perhaps if he has had to fight against his strange bite using all the way, he has another time to check that battle for second and third place, it is again the moment. 44.

Yes, that was a slower time from Richard Kent and a spin off the list to cost number eight from Max Gerardo and James Cotingham, that's the car that's also in fourth place, yeah, and we also said that the number one greeted. The number one car of 88 is actually in fifth place, so it doesn't challenge the 88 for a position, but it just shows the respect between these drivers even though they are both in the top five. The driver of car number one is james cottingham and holly bryant. or harvey stanley waved at the other car as we look at roger wills, our 24th leader, totally metronomic, that car has been, hasn't it, yeah, yeah, and it just has to continue being metronomic for about 18 and a half minutes and then we'll see where.

That car has absolutely been driven with such finesse and with such speed. I mentioned that there is very little difference in the skills of Roger Wills and Tim Harvey. Tim Harvey is known slightly for the amount of Roger Wills so if you're a fan of historic racing and that lotto 15 is not far from the number 17 car in second place so I'm not sure I caught it straight on screen from the TV, but we might take a look at the tracker if the time comes, but right now You're more focused on the oh and it's gone up to 46.

I was about to say I think Andrew or Mike or both from Litter Fire under Royal Slade because he just did a 122 zero that is only a second and a half behind Andrew. Jordan's best time in that car in the race, so it's an impressive performance by Roy and he knows he has to continue at a decent pace and he just went 24-0, so he was a little bit slower, but he's doing enough to keep Richard Kent back. There's Richard Kent in the 88 e-type and ahead of him on the circuit by about 40 seconds 45 seconds is Roy Orderslade and he's doing enough to maintain that gap.

He will receive signals on the pit board. There are no boxes for the car radio or anything like that. than on these cars, but the teams will hang the board with space 2 number 17 in the case of the pits for this car and number 88 in the case of the pits for number 17. Here it is on the other side of the line then let's see what the gap is, it was 46 to 44, he hasn't really progressed much in the last three laps, but now that he's cleared all that traffic from the back markers we now see that e-type really finding its rhythm. again and well I'm sure we'll see some fast lap times from the idiot and of course Richard Kent is behind the wheel of the car and I must say he drove very well through that traffic.

He didn't panic, he knows he's chasing a second place but after all it still looks good for a third place on the podium and it's the Royal Automobile Club's palm cup and he was right, car 24 crosses the line. and right in front of it on the road is the second place car, yes, and that second place car is already one lap behind, it looks very much like our lead car is about to go two laps ahead of the aisle, it slightly failed in two laps around the entire field. worrying moment for roger wills because the austin healey with the dd 300 registration we were talking about earlier just went a little bit into the chicane to break but the driver was aware that roger wills was there so he kept to the left side , but all kinds of things are going through Roger Will's mind right now.

Every little bump and scratch will break the car, of course, of course, he'll be thinking about all kinds of things. things are going through your head, but great driving from both Roger and Tim Harvey, that car has continued to spin, it's not hitting the curbs hard, it's not pushing the car to the edge of the track and now you can see the second . Place the car, the Daytona Cobra coupe and then in the background you can see Roger Wills in second place in the lead car, so almost two laps up now in the number 17 car, so it's quite majestic, really that It's the only way I can describe how both drivers are.

I have driven this car for these three hours, we still have 15 minutes to go so we are approaching the last stages of this race and a spinner there causes some consternation at Redgate, that's number 144. paul's partial and george poshiel james hanson in the jaguar and a dead car maybe it's fitness coming in we've seen some cars making mistakes turning harmlessly that's steve winter and matthew hall's number nine porsche taking a little turn what it looked like at the exit of the old hairpin excursion across grass rejoined no damage, no foul call there, 600 going through the shot, not sure what progress that car admitted to, oh there it is just on the screen.

Place 24 drive out of Walmart driving that number 600 and it's the mgp of course there's the leader the leader is now blending into that back marker traffic and there's that second place card right in front of the leader I don't see no problem. de roy alder slipped when he saw that white car, launch 15 behind him in his mirrors, they have a lot of room between them, roger will just cross the track, yes, he managed to pass that porsche, now he has the Lotus inland, which will pass easily inside and is now right behind Royal Order Slade, who is stuck.

It would be interesting to see Royal Slade's 27-6 laptop that time he was stuck in that traffic for more than a lap. Now and still there is a balance, isn't there, Joe, between pushing and trying to pass and an inexperienced driver in a big car that is difficult to drive? Andrew Jordan said that and he's trying to weave his way through traffic and he doesn't want to make any mistakes and that's where the urgency and panic can set in. He knows he has to get away from traffic. He knows that he has to stay calm because he knows that the car he is racing has to. clearing the same traffic and I guess the art is getting through traffic better than your opponent, that's what it's all about and sometimes it's just all about looks, just stop in time and just be in the right place at the right time and now you're .

He will have the lead car in his mirrors, so as he overtakes, he is overtaken and, if anything, it has cost the leader a bit of time because the leader, Roger Wills, is still behind the second player's car, but even more than Roy. Slave Roger Wills is well aware that he has some time on his hands, so he doesn't need to rush, but the gap has been reduced between first, second and third, to 35 seconds, because Roy has been caught in that traffic for a lap and a bit now, so we're going to have a close finish, but I think with 11 minutes left it's probably too much to ask to take Richard Kent's car to second place.

I thought so, but you know, I'll stay. in the entertainment business we were just trying to create a bit of excitement, we're not and it's not over yet, although there's still 11 minutes left and all it takes is some misjudgment, a bit of breaking point and that. 35 seconds can disappear in the blink of an eye, well, now it's 33, aren't they still going down? So there's still a little bit of intensity. I'd like to think that, with just under 11 minutes left, there's still a chance. I've got a few laps of racing, oh, and there's number eight going very slowly towards McLean's and that's the car that's currently fourth and it's coming out to the inside and that's not good at all, that car is very much in contention, it's the list of jack coston from cottingham bryant and stanley the three very good drivers another one sorry it's gerardo and cottage that's right yeah and they're both together in fourth and fifth place on the list so when you first look you see cottingham and you think that there it is.

There's a lot of trouble getting that car out of the way and it looks like it's way out of this race, that's hard to take with 10 minutes to go, isn't it? And there's the other cottingham car, and a twist of the lotus. elite too, uh, there are some weaknesses, is it coming to the latter part of this race? uh the elite is making a quick turn there too, let's turn our attention to you, the gap has narrowed to 31.9 and there's Gerardo Cotingham. That James Cotingham helmet. I was going to ask you no, I'm not 100 sure it looks similar, but I don't know who's in that car.

If it looks similar, it probably is, so I don't think Harvey Stanley would have copied it. James' helmet design is so good, no, it might as well be maximum because James was doing it for the interim period, that doesn't mean he didn't stay until the end, you know, they can change their mind, but yeah, he had to go. Back at full throttle for the final stint is the 88 car we've been following for a while as it chases the Royal Slade car which has just completed another 123.8 for Alder Slade that time, that's probably enough to keep the gap at around 30 . seconds, 30 seconds when he just crossed the line there, ah, sorry, I got the wrong e-tay, I thought that was the year, years and I'm thinking it's not 30 seconds, it's half a turn, we're on the top. uh that car is now running on uh what will it be four four yeah then cottingham will take cottingham's place yeah cutting them requires cottingham yeah yeah jim is part of gk engineering and part of the support for this event and many thanks once again to motoring legends deaky engineering and the royal automobile club now you're upset aren't you?

Did you see the Porsche, the one with the door open? Oh, it doesn't, the tank has been sealed with duct tape tipped with the wrong color. It could be. You could say it's bright red, not the same maroon red that's the color of the stripes or the off-white type or whatever, whatever Porsche's official name is for that off-white color, but the bright red tip just catches your eye. That and, uh, Roger Wills hasn't actually surpassed Roy Slade, so he's happy to sit behind. They haveafter two or three turns. Now that she's been there, he's practically two laps ahead.

She's doing almost a turn right behind him, so she may as well choose. to pass him, you can choose to stay back because Roy has put that low 22 seconds back, uh, on the lap time, one minute, 22 seconds, here's the gap to third, yeah, with this here just across the line now as you click on the line, we'll see what the time is, it's pretty much the same right, it's 23 seconds, yeah, he actually lost a second on that lap with a little bit of lappery to do it, so yeah , it's very sustained, uh, and we have uh, we haven't mentioned how many laps it's been 111 laps for the leader in this three-hour race which is quite a bit for these cars and 110 laps for the cars in second and third place, we're getting to the final stages certainly.

There's a full last six minutes left in the Royal Automobile Club's Palmol Cup and it's been the kind of endurance race we've come to expect, certainly with some wear and tear and some incidents, and we've had cars that have certainly dealt with Nadine's adversity. repairs and none saw more than the number 17 currently in second place and that car just took another lap down. He followed it for about three or four laps I think, and uh, the leader, Roger Wills, in the lotus 15. he just passed the older number 17 slade car, Roy, but the older car is second two laps behind the leader and then car number 88 is the car that is chasing that car by Richard Kent driving the 88. waiting for Richard to cross the line is that a five second difference in lap time 28.1 between first, second and third now, so that's the first time they've been in the 20 seconds that he's nibbled, they brought it down to the 30s, but now in the 20s with five minutes left, so there's not much left for everyone now, but like we just saw there with number eight, Gerardo Cotingham, uh, listed Jag starting with a problem, it's all nuts and bolts, it's all pieces of glue nuts. and balls, bits of rubber, bits of fiberglass, all put together in a way, and anything can go wrong at any stage, and especially in historic races, maybe it's an element of endurance racing that we've lost these days, it seems, regardless of the duration. of the race is a sprint with modern machinery, computers that manage the gear changes and things like that eliminate that element of driver management and the drivers can caress and care for the gearbox as a wall, what do you think it would be when Audi reached the world? endurance racing that the element of keeping the cars going for 24 hours and now it's a 24 hour sprint, probably in that land there was the early 2000s, I mean you even know when you think about the adversity that endurance racing mixes endurance.

They even cut that and narrowed that field with fully modular rear ends that I've witnessed many times in the American Le Mans series in Le Mans uh I think the fastest time I've ever seen was four minutes for a gearbox change and I want say that caused a rule change at le mans where you had to finish the race with the same gearbox housing and what was the design of the audi r8, that the rear of the engine was a large modular unit that took it to the rear of the engine and gearbox had the suspension and all the bodywork, the tree underneath, everything attached and a rear part. came off and the new rear end came on and yes a gearbox problem like that would mix things up and Audi even took seconds off it and changed literally minutes and eliminated that wear element so I think you're probably right so Unfortunately, it was there.

At that time Audi upped the game and now it is common for not even the gearboxes to be affected by the drivers so there were three minutes left and Roy Old Slay just completed another lap and that lap time he won 22-5 , which is a good time and gap to third place with Richard Kent completing his lap in 25.9 seconds, so we're still slowly going down, but with only a couple of laps to go, I think that load It will be in vain, although it has been a great race. It was a great race to the flag for those last two steps of the podium, second and third, I think, however, coming into the final laps, I used the word majestic to win. car the 15 of mr roger wills tim harvey the way they used the traffic and the way they had the car moving around the corners it was a pleasure to see really yes, of those two guys there is the 66 oh oh and there is a problem that was saying, right?

It's just nuts and bolts and there's alarm number 26 that's dropping a lot of fluid onto the runway. That's a good point, actually, at a point where we don't want to. fluid in the old fork, you know, hand-to-hand driving of whoever is behind the wheel of that number 26, it's Chris Fox or Nick Pink because he started the car before the apex of the old thing happened if he had turned the old one around fork. at the apex that would have caused absolute chaos and looks like a catastrophic engine failure, if you ask me, yeah the only kind of semi-good thing looks like it's water vapor instead of oil smoke, so it could be that that was a uh. maybe it was water that was falling instead of oil, it looked like a trail, yeah yeah, so it's not as bad as it was, so we have a minute to go around all the cars everywhere going through the chicane, maybe Let it be just a minute away but they are still racing these, the two Porsches and the E-Type, between them, are moving towards their final lap.

We have 48 seconds left. Where is our leader? The moment he just crossed the line, yeah, so he just crossed the line, so that's the move to the last lap, now yes, the last lap, then for Roger Wills and he will continue. I'm waiting for the fluid that was. leaving it at the old fork hasn't become a problem for anyone and there is another spinner at the old fork which is the entrance to the old fork uh tire smoke which is right in front of our leader here he comes now roger wills that's exactly it where that car exploded, yeah you can see the trail actually right when it crossed it, it's on the inside and like I say the alarm went off right before the inside turn so it didn't affect the track surface there and the leader is free on the 24th. the car the lotus 15 of roger wills and tim harvey is already at mclean's for the last time as he continues and he is just moving that car now he is not even using the curbs, alastair, you know that the track sorry, the flag, the checkered flag is going to be great, next time you'll be greeted by that checkered flag because you're down the stretch for the last time and the second place car right behind you, but no, of course, actually , Roger lets it slide and that could be something.

It has to do with letting Royal's older Slade pick up a lap back because now he's not going to cross the line with the checkered flag out, so Roy is going to do another full lap as long as he doesn't go wide on that lap, But that is the idea. and I think we should have the flag, yes, yes, we have had the flag, yes, Roger Wills will raise two arms in the air to acknowledge that and yes, I suppose it is important that Alder Slade and Jordan finish just one lap behind the leader or Whether he was conscious remains to be seen, I think they're actually going to end up in the same lap, aren't they? um because yeah, yeah, I think I thought he was just I thought he was two laps behind, it's showing like one now he did it.

It looks like before on the screen, you and I saw it and thought it was going to be two laps less, but now it's showing as one lap less, that means Roy Orders will finish later on the same lap, but it also means. That Richard Kent can't catch the Royal Dislode car because it will have taken the checkered flag, so he finished the race now one lap down at 116 laps, the leader at 117 and Roy Alderslade also at 117. Oh, and a Porsche . on the last turn on the last corner, yeah, keep going straight and keep pushing so we're waiting now.

Royal Slate should be one of the last cars to take the flag because he was just ahead of the leader who took the flag, so here he comes, he'll finish on the lead lap, what a great drive, a very, very limited amount of racing experience. Royal Order Slade driving a car that Andrew Jordan himself said is difficult to drive and came second. There's our winner, there's our winner and it was a great race. It was Snowys. He just told me a story about how he used to team up with Jim's Little John and when he said he was going to race the Lotus 15, James Little John said "yo".

I'm sorry, I already got engaged and he said, "Okay, mitt, I'll find someone else and who did he find?" He found Tim Harvey. It's like a great position. Do you really think Tim Harvey needed to ask twice? Probably not, no, I don't think so. So now it's a nice shot, what a beautiful shot, really close to Roger Will's face with the full face helmet, so we have Roger Wills and Tim Harvey on 117 laps and actually Roy Old Slayden and Andrew Jordan on 117 laps, the gap between them a minute 24 and the gap back to the car in third, although there was a lap down at the end, it was within the 22nd mark after that charge from Richard Kent and Chris Ward, the team is happy to stop in front of the selection. garage for that team, he's congratulating tim harvey, he just showed up and shook hands with roger wills and that car is headed to fermi park and a big win for those two characters it looks like they're actually um it looks like they're right in the garage exactly yes, I'm not sure what I'm not sure why we don't see any cool cars to do it yes, I think we'll get it, hopefully we'll get to see the top three andrew, we'll see the results on the screen, some cars go into the garages, others pass, so here we are with our results for the Royal Automobile Club Palmell Cup and it was Roger Wills and Tim Harvey who took the victory. the lotus 15 with 117 laps completed royal slade and andrew jordan in second place also on 117 laps just one minute 24 behind at the end in the shelby daytona cobra in third place were richard kent and chris ward in the jaguar e-type one lap down and then there was james cottingham ollie bryant and harvey stanley in another jaguar e-type a couple of laps further back then it's in fifth place andrew haddon and sean lynn in the first of the lotus lands what a surprising result for little elan There weren't any seen coming, I excused them and then in sixth place another Inland Willis and Jobstill came in sixth place, then it was Charles Junior and Senior, the carpool in seventh place, Shelby Cobra, in eighth place, it was Mines and Lillingston. price in the type e and then the miles right and currency num in ninth place in the mustang and completing the top ten muir head and welsh in the austin healey 3000. in position 11 jones and barry in the lotus elan 26r and in 12 it was gom and keith lucas in the e-type another e-type in 13th place for melling burton and patel in 14th place it was bond and gray and we saw ian gray uh interviewed aren't we and lotus elan then in the place 15 mcfadden? and mitchell on the Knobbly list in 16th place pearson and Friedrichs in the c-type jaguar in 17th place bourne and paul in the tvr grantura in 18th place ross jones salutes in the tr4 and in 19th place the bates's uh and in his 911 and in place 20 hanson potion and potiol in the jaguar e type in place 21 fox and pink in the land 26r in place 22 was lin and hadden in his porsche 911 in place 23 winter coal and smith in the mgb and the similar car of sam tordoff and richard walmar in 24th place in their mgb and then in 25th place, gerardo and cottingham wonderfully named the list, the jaguar coast is actually a cost and in 26th place tuthill and paul and butcher rory butcher actually in the porsche 911 and then in the 27th place harrison wilmoth in the austin healey 3000 hart fierro aletta and smith in the 911 in the 28th place 29 house and winter in the 911 and in the 30 shellgren and cook in the ford mustang and we still have a few more cars left to tell you about gordon and finborough in 31st place in the lotus elite leblanc and van lanshot in the austin hilly 3000 that's the registration number dd 300 we were talking about ended up in 32nd place In '33 it was Malik Malet Clark and Clark in the MGB and Little John and Evans and now we're in retirement, right? e-type pekka and becker and pril it's a shame the car is retiring 904 porsche really nice car and wacom blakeney edwards in the cobra or home and drive short and it was andy newell wasn't he in the jaguar e type and evan smith? and little in the cobra and just to complete this and we'll go down, I think we're going to move forward with this is uh david wenman and uh in morgan plus four and then it's uh gill and dal gliesh in the shelby cobra smith it's clarkson and pangborn in austin healey 3000 the mortimers in their austin healey 104 the aston martin dp214 that blue car short wilds and goldsmith retired early and two early retirements are stanley and cook in cobra and in 47 we had 47 starters in that race o'shea hall and smith in the e-type well done alistair that's a failed 47 car you just read down there you can go and lie down there because the royal automobile club pole ball cup we're ready with our winners on the podium and andrew marriott is there, yeah, in fact, and let's move on to roger willis, nowroger from new zealand with a very silly face mask, what a fabulous trip on your part, of course, with tim harvey and what you've had. many wins in your career roger but this has to be considered one of the best, it was fabulous, I mean such a great race, Tim did a fabulous job on his duty car, we stuck together, this year we had a gearbox on the last lap and I passed the Daytona and I thought, "Okay, he can go, I don't care, now you know I have a lead on the lap or something, so we just got over the line, I mean, that's a big ask." for a small car like this, a delicate one." small thing, but you know, we got there in the end and we are rich and the guys who have had a fabulous job uh beautifully prepared as always great day how do you float from New Zealand for this?

No, no, I live in London, not all. right, okay Tim, come here, I'm still a winner, well yeah, thanks to Roger and the guys and a fantastic car. You know this is a race. I will really remember it. It's great. You know it's a long race. It is a great request. a small car and it has a little touch of magic, this car and it's a real pleasure to drive and thanks to roger for having me, I really enjoyed it, congratulations to you two, let's get back to the rest of the area here. Actually, we're going to go down the road a little bit to find the other cars, and I hope so, well, I might see Mike Jordan down there and here we are.

We spoke to Andrew Jordan earlier, but let's talk. to roy order slade here that's the camera called roy two years ago you were rating a little ginetta now you're winning a three hour race and a big cobra it's a different game i must say i'm absolutely exhausted and there's a lot of pressure on you Of course, because Andrew gave you the car, there were people you knew coming and you just had to put up with a car you didn't know well, yeah, I mean, we've had quite a few tests on the car and, you know, give it a good run. this season, but you know experiencing a race was absolutely fantastic, you know, doing drag racing was something new for me and completely enjoyable despite all the damage, we still think you could get a bill for the Jordan crowd for that, yeah that's the bad part but we'll worry about that next so definitely your career highlight is my career highlight did you say yeah this fantastic yeah I mean what could I run first ?

We did it on the show uh we got to a paid one so we couldn't ask for more really brilliant right very good don't worry thanks Jordan Andrew did a great hard job Andrew we had a great time. mid-race interview, but congratulations, he's very happy because it means a lot that you built this car and it's not an easy task, but then you drove it magnificently, yeah, and I really give credit to the guys who put it together for doing it. at the end of three hoursLike I said, it's a long race for these cars, so I'm happy for Roy, we'll have to take it to the factory next week, I think because it's taking a bit of a beating, but for Roy to get a win in his class. and second overall in his first long-distance race.

I am very happy and very happy that the car came to the end absolutely brilliant. Oh, that's all from me here in the Darlington Marshalling area. We have had two fantastic days. Very fun job with wonderful people, so from me, Andrew Barrett, goodbye until next time and we'll get back to you on the move. Thanks Andrew. I know you enjoyed it and you loved every moment of it. I know Alistair and I. I've got Alistair there, it's the conclusion of Donington Historic Festival

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, we couldn't have spectators here but I hope everyone at home who would have been at the track has been able to enjoy exactly what we've seen on the live stream, yeah, absolutely, and it's a different view for me, this is my fourth Donington Historic Festival, but the previous three were from the tower, a very different view, but it's been a real pleasure to work with the team, they've done a fantastic job . everyone here, the marshals, the historic promotions, the people who organize the events, they are motoring legends who put together the grills, uh, the other, the historic Grand Prix cars, the juniors, all bringing their grills here, what an end to such a wonderful week we've had and that was really the icing on the cake that race I love I love long distance racing I think it's brilliant and to see those drivers and a real privilege to work on an event like this absolutely coincides with that, once Plus, many thanks to dk engineering and the royal car club, as well as the deadly legends of racing and of course the entire team at race television who have brought us some wonderful images of what we have seen today, so the major bradley allison douglas andrew murray and peter snowden will say good night to us and we.

We're already looking forward to the next Donington Historic Festival, so, so,