The Place

With this being the penultimate round of the 2013 Ace of Aintree series all was set for a great days racing with nice weather to complete the day. The F2 sidecar championship could easily be sewn up provided the crew of Alan Founds and Tom Peters completed the points race in front of Craig and Kirsty Hauxwell.

The F1 championship was still to be decided between Robert and Phil Biggs and Aintree stalwart Dave Holden passengered by Heath Fairbrother.


Craig Melvin and Stuart Christian chilling out during the lunch break.


Pete and Steve Founds had an early bath after their motor lasted just 5 laps of the meeting.


No 36 Marianne Walford and Claire Duplock who's technique on the left hander is awesome.
Here they are getting some moral support from Joey Heyes (just out of shot).


Machine No 15 crewed bt Tony Thompson and Jack Jones.


Dave Molyneux and Patrick Farance.


John Holden's F2 LCR.


Dummy grid line up for the start of race 2.


No 36 Marianne Walford and Claire Duplock.


No 89 Craig and Kirsty Hauxwell.


Dave Molyneux and Patrick Farrance on their stunning machine.


No 48 Mark Berry and Dave Clark who were over the moon to be on the same grid as John Holden and Dave Molyneux.


Tony Thompson on his T+J racing outfit.


Robert and Phil Biggs No 5.


John and son George Holden having his second ever ride.


Dave Holden and Heath Fairbrother outfit No 1.


Vince Biggs and Guy Scott, machine No 57.


Tony and Martin Cunliffe No 15.


Darren Hope machine No 9


The new F2 Champions (Ace of Aintree) 2013,
Alan Founds and Tom Peters.


And finally the money shot taken from upstairs in the commentary bus, Dave holden leads Dave Molyneux and John Holden out of club corner ,in the back ground are the grandstands for the horse racing circuits.

Regards


Fritz,,

Fantastic Fritz

Thanks for those kind words, Fritz!

As I'm only in my second season as a passenger, I'm still not REALLY sure whether I'm doing it right. I owe a huge debt to Mr. Founds Senior for his advice last year on how to take that particular left-hander. We had a great day, but I felt over-awed to be on the same grid as Moly, John Holden and Darren Hope. Please introduce yourself if you're there in September, we may have cake! (Actually, we will definitely have cake).

Claire.

brilliant Fritz, great to have the names too, makes a big difference

Great to meet you Fritz, thanks for making yourself known and great photo's too.

I was happier to stay the right way up and I didn't realise till I got home but I did my fastest lap and got a new PB and considering how my day started off and how I felt thats pretty amazing, very happy.

Many thanks to my passenger Dave Clark, not just for getting on with me but also for his advice on how to take the corners giving me that new PB.

Well done Mark,

Congratulations on your PB! We had great fun scrapping with you, and the improvement between your first and last race was fantastic. I'm glad you're feeling happier now, see you next time.

Claire

Thanks Claire, I was definatly lacking in confidence at the beginning of the day and lots of people helped with that, thanks to everyone that spoke to me and thanks to Joe Heys for his support once again.