Eunos Chump

It's Mrs B on her first track event!  With the luxury of a support vehicle (t'Berlingo) we'd brought along the old 14" rims with illegal rubber, plus other niceties such as a trolley jack, overalls, and all the other useful stuff that won't fit in an MX5 boot (including Monkeyboy).  However, there was thick slush, fog and light rain which resulted in little rubber actually being burnt.  Mrs B didn't really get into it either, she was the only female driver and couldn't bring herself to deliberately lose control of the car, like everybody else was.  I soon got bored of going round on my own, so we left at lunchtime. It was valuable as a shakedown test for the car though, there were no problems and it lost virtually no oil.  Mrs B says she enjoyed it, I think she feels a little disappointed with herself though. I do have video of a single lap, but it's not very good; instead, enjoy this excellent '70s car chase:

The MX5 is going to another Mazda-on-Track car control day on Wednesday, and this time Mrs B is going to drive too!  She went out in it today for a short spin, I've had it almost 4 years but I think that's the first time she's driven it alone.  Despite there being quite a bit of ice about, it went 'OK' apparently. Here is a photo of a dog, possibly wondering what happened to the gravy:

Brands Hatch is off tomorrow... looks like I'll have to stay home and play Forza , watch Star Trek and get intimate with a packet of chocolate digestives instead. I had to go to the Waterlooville office today, though it was ultimately futile as neither the engineer nor hardware I was expecting turned up.  I had some fun in the deserted car park with the traction control switched off though... diesel+automatic+snow=GR8 DRIFTN