Silverstone Next Weekend

Cater_Racer · May 4, 2014

I've a couple of spare tickets for next weekend's meeting.

Neil racing Porsche Dunlop Cup Saturday (with 4 other 944's) and Tom & I in Future Classics (with 6 x 944's) on Sunday.

Neil Haughey · May 4, 2014

Yeah I have been pumping myself up for weeks looking forward to this meeting. Its really the start of the season for me and my race buddy Andy Duncan. Worst hay fever I have had for years but I am pumping myself full of every drug going to head my clear in time, there you go got my excuses in early (racing drivers handbook rule 101 [

]).

I am there from Thursday evening onwards, anyone is welcome to come and say Hi. Andy and I have a garage for Friday testing, out in the Paddock for Saturday in the same place Porsche Club used to be on the Britcar weekends. There will be plenty of familiar front runner faces around there Saturday for anyone who knows the Eacock clan (EMC Motorsport).

Cater_Racer · May 5, 2014

Tickets gone.......................

Andy97 · May 5, 2014

Sadly I'm going to miss this one. I may be working the weekend so didn't enter the MOdern Classics race. If the work requirement disappears then I will go on the Sunday in my MC Drivers Rep role but next race for me and the 924S is Brands Hatch on 1 June.

majorporsche · May 5, 2014

ORIGINAL: Neil Haughey

Yeah I have been pumping myself up for weeks looking forward to this meeting. Its really the start of the season for me and my race buddy Andy Duncan. Worst hay fever I have had for years but I am pumping myself full of every drug going to head my clear in time, there you go got my excuses in early (racing drivers handbook rule 101 []).

I am there from Thursday evening onwards, anyone is welcome to come and say Hi. Andy and I have a garage for Friday testing, out in the Paddock for Saturday in the same place Porsche Club used to be on the Britcar weekends. There will be plenty of familiar front runner faces around there Saturday for anyone who knows the Eacock clan (EMC Motorsport).

Just be careful that what you are taking is not on the prescribed list, very easy to fall foul of the regs here and you will be treated the same as an olympic athlete who fails a drug test. You can get a thereputic excemption from your GP in many cases.

944 man · May 5, 2014

Quite right of course, but has anyone ever been drug tested in club racing?

majorporsche · May 5, 2014

Yes ! Here in Ireland they do it regularly. Not I though. They test for Alcohol and other drugs.

Neil Haughey · May 5, 2014

I went through all that stuff with the doping list a few years back. Technically the asthma inhalers I used where on the list with a note about dosage in that it is feasible apparently if you went crazy with them you might fail a test. Back in 2010 I ended up filling out a Declaration of Use, something the MSA didn't say anything about in their guidance but something I got from studying what UK sport and athletics say. I talked this through with the MSA at the time and they where OK to receive the Declaration of Use with my license application. The WDA guidance has changed since then and you don't need to do anything other than be aware of course of the potential for test failures if you emptied a whole inhaler down your throat in one go etc. At the moment I am just using a standard glucocorticosteriod nasal spray and antihistamine tablets so even if I was tested I don't expect any issues.

Man I really do get terrible hay fever these days though, its one of the things that puts me off racing in the future as its taking me away from my beautiful south Dorset coast up north where t'hay fever is worse.

Neil Haughey · May 5, 2014

Ohh oh I love it when they say stuff like this;

"The use of Mometasone Furoate 50 micrograms/dose Nasal Spray, suspension may produce positive results in doping controls."

Taken from the drugs data on t'internet of course the leaflet won't mention this stuff just the same as it doesn't state its technically feasible to do the same with standard asthma inhalers, ISTR reading somewhere 16+ actuations in a day could do it but that is pretty serious Asthma to be using it that heavily.

I am reducing the dosage this week anyways, always a good thing to do if one can.

Andy97 · May 8, 2014

Big grids in both Future Classics and Modern Classics including 911, 944,968, Boxster, and 928. Something for all Porsche fans.

spyderman · May 8, 2014

Sadly nothing yet on the TSL website - but it is listed in their calendar.

Weather's going to be crap!

Chris.

OLD_ian · May 11, 2014

I went today and had a wander around. I know Andy from Ninex, but didn't see him around, and don't know the other 944 drivers who were there. Cold and windy is my main impression of the day! Some very cool cars there. Seeing the Lotus Cortinas on three wheels was nice, the Camaro and Corvettes made an excellent noise and were rocket ship fast on the straights (not too shabby in the bends either), and loads of 944s as well!

I'll definitely go to catch some of the races in the series - hopefully in the summer when the weather's just a bit nicer.

ORIGINAL: Andy97

Big grids in both Future Classics and Modern Classics including 911, 944,968, Boxster, and 928. Something for all Porsche fans.

I am there from Thursday evening onwards, anyone is welcome to come and say Hi. Andy and I have a garage for Friday testing, out in the Paddock for Saturday in the same place Porsche Club used to be on the Britcar weekends. There will be plenty of familiar front runner faces around there Saturday for anyone who knows the Eacock clan (EMC Motorsport).