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Round 14 - 3 Sisters, Saturday 30th July

3 Sisters for 3 Brothers

Roll Call – Mike “Magic Micro” Roe, Ian “Blaster” Horsfall and Richard “Blower Boy” Bream.

Wigan is famous for a few things, being an inland town with a pier, being a 70s and 80s mecca for Northern Soul all-nighters (long before the term “Rave” was used in that way), but most of all it seems, Pies.
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Blaster Horsfall declined the offer of taking on the editorial from R.B. reasoning that he sometimes struggles to remember all the driver’s names, quite understandable as there were three of us after all, it would have been a real struggle on that score!

The number ‘3’ was key to the TVR Speed Competitors: Blower Bream, Blaster Horsfall and Magic Micro in a three-way battle, should be some good points available here, maybe 22 or even 23 (or so Blower Bream naively thought).

After the first practice runs it seemed that Blaster Ian must just be a bit rusty and Blower Richard still just wet behind the ears, we’d be closer to Magic Micro as we got our eye in, tyres and track warmed up a bit, etc, etc………..wrong, very wrong.
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There was a nasty rumour that Blower Boy tried to recruit Blaster and persuade Magic Micro to back off a bit in the competitive runs to still win, but allow the mere mortals behind him to close up the points gap a bit! What an outrageous, and totally unforgiveable suggestion!! Anyway it didn’t work and Micro just went quicker and quicker….. pesky Vixens.

Micro resumed his private battle with Matt Eady in his even peskier (and equally lovely) Ginetta G4. But despite a valiant effort Micro came off second best by just over half a second (0.56s).

We even had our own J.C. (not sure about any religious significance, but John Carter does have a beard!) roll up to join us with Dave Wilkins in tow.
Amongst other pearls of wisdom Mr Carter declared “no matter what you do you won’t beat a Vixen around here”. Pesky blighters!
We welcomed two local visitors from Wigan (Clive and James) in a lovely Chimaera 450 and Ian’s Mum,  Sister & Daughter who came along to support us all.

Blower Boy hoped that blending in with the natives by indulging in the local holy trinity of pie, chips and gravy at lunchtime would give him some sort of local instinct (and a bit more traction) for an improved time after the break, that tactic failed miserably.
The rain just about held off for the day and the cloud cover came and went. A couple of offs overall during the day (no TVRs though), no injuries, just some pride and panel damage.
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3 Sisters is a tight and twisty (karting) circuit, fast back straight, with a kink and blind crest over the finish line into a downhill braking area. A bit too twisty for Blower Boy. Ian thought he was in a drifting competition. Magic Micro was in a league of his own, totally dominating the day, leaving Ian and yours truly to fight over the scraps, and a good scrap it was too as the times demonstrate…….pesky Vixens…….pesky Micro!

Damn fine drive though and thoroughly well deserved.

Blower (Pictures: Dave Wilkins, Horsfalli)

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