Joomla! site syndication http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:48:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk Joomla! site syndication http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/content/view/106/48/ The May 2008 issue of the BRSCC newsletter has a full double page feature on Mighty Minis, focusing on the girls who are increasingly making their presence known on the grid. There's a great photo of Caroline Gilbert, Verity Philips, Louise Inch, Lianne Norfolk, Christine Holmes and Jo Polley posing on the grid at Silverstone a few weeks back. You car read the full article in the May issue, available from the BRSCC News Archive page (http://www.brscc.co.uk/news-archive.html) . Rhubarb Racing News - 2008 Season Fri, 16 May 2008 13:47:19 +0100 http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/content/view/105/48/ This weekend Mighty Mini 13 went off to its new home in Northamptonshire. As we're not going to be competing in 2008, Lianne stepped forward to give MM13 a home while Matt's out of the country, and take the car out for a few track days into the bargain. Lianne has been a long-time Rhubarb Racing team buddy and part-time tea wench to Ade Hollis' Team Trouble Racing, so is well known in the Mighty Mini paddock and has been itching to get behind the wheel of a race car for a while. If the plan comes together Lianne will be helping to get the car track-ready and then using it to learn the art of track driving, hopefully hooking up for a joint track day with Matt when he pops back to the UK later in the year. The first thing on the agenda was to get MM13 loaded up onto the new Brian James trailer and delivered back to Lianne's Mum's place near Northampton. Typically it wasn't all plain sailing as one of the light units on the trailer didn't want to behave due to corroded bulb terminals. Fortunately Lianne's driver for the day, Paul Ridley, tows cars for a living so soon fixed it up and MM13 was off to his new home. Rhubarb Racing News - 2008 Season Mon, 05 May 2008 19:44:24 +0100 http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/content/view/103/48/ Due to some exciting work opportunities resulting in Matt clearing off to Canada for a while, Rhubarb Racing won't be actively campaigning in the 2008 Mighty Mini's championship. That doesn't mean it's the end of the line though, as MM13 is still safely tucked away in Matt's workshop. Hopefully Matt will be back in the UK over the summer and will be able to give the car a couple of track day outings.Good luck to all those competing in 2008, particularly our main partners-in-crime thoughout 2007, Steve Wheeler, Mark Burnett, Ade Hollis and Dean Peach. If the first race of the season at Silverstone is anything to go by, it will be an incredibly hard-fought season with any one of about 10 drivers capable of taking the title. It's a shame we won't be there to join in the fun, but who knows what 2009 might hold? Rhubarb Racing News - 2008 Season Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:45:40 +0100 http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/content/view/102/48/ As expected, the 2007 Mighty Mini's end of season piss-up dinner dance was fantastic fun, and a great way to round off the season. Surprisinginly I can remember the vast majority of it, and didn't come home with any drinking-related injuries. Highlights of the evening were Dave Yardy doing his helium-powered munchkin impression, trading witty banter with Peter Bonas, and the alarming number of people arriving for breakfast on Sunday still wearing their posh suits/frocks from the night before having not gone to bed yet. Hardcore! The best and worst of the pictures can be found in the Gallery (/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,56/?g2_itemId=2870) . Rhubarb Racing News - 2007 Season Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:19:25 +0100 http://www.rhubarb-racing.co.uk/content/view/100/48/ So I've completed my first season of racing in Mighty Minis, and I thought it would be a good plan to review the highs and lows of the season, as well as how I've fared against the objectives I set myself earlier in the year. First race: Finish the race with clean overalls and no significant damage to the car. - Achieved By mid season: Consistently finishing somewhere other than last, and ideally on the same lap as the leader. - Achieved End of season: Somewhere vaguely in contention for the novice championship. In the top three would be wonderful, but that's probably a bit audacious. - AchievedSo I think that's a pretty fair performance really, well above expectations, and we'll definitely set ourselves some tougher challenges for next season.What's been goodThe teamwork and general vibe at the race meetsThe friendliness and helpfulness of the other competitorsThe racing!The car - it's behaved really well all seasonCadwell Park (especially the Gooseneck and Hall Bends) Oulton Park (especially running in 2nd place)What's not been so goodThe trailer being unreliable Working on the car without any protection from the weatherCamping when the weather's crumby Mid-season blues when I ran out of time and money and the car looked a wreckRockingham - lousy track, lousy facilities, lousy race, lousy resultI also thought I should take a moment to recognise all those people who've helped me out during 2007 - cos there have been quite a few of them!Anton and Nick for following me around the country, fixing the car up, reminding me not to bend it, and giving up god-knows how many weekends for the love of motorsport.Laura for giving up most of her weekends through the summer, making a bazillion cups of tea, and soaking up my tantrums when things don't go right.Tim Harber for always having the right spare parts at hand (especially the steering rack at Cadwell), giving endless good advice, and generally being a complete diamond geezer.Dave Yardy for setting the car up, sharing his hard-earned trade secrets, and always putting a grin on our faces with his never-ending supply of obscure catch-phrases.Sue Norfolk for use of her garage and for awesome hospitality when we're tinkering with the car, not to mention the loan of the trailer to get us home from Snetterton. Neil Fearnley for holding an umbrella over us for god-knows-how-long at Pembrey, when we were trying to change an exhaust manifold in the peeing rain. You wouldn't believe how valuable a bit of moral support can be.Andi Hluszko and Calum Law for helping us get the car fixed up in time to race at Cadwell. We'd have still been in the paddock when the race started if it weren't for you two. Mark Burnett for helping out with spare parts at Snetterton, and providing me with some of the best racing of the season.Kean Shearwood for loan of the spare trailer wheel. Would have been a looong night without that!Rich at Mini Spares North for making a fool out of me each and every time I call him up. Stuart Coombs for helping me realise that no matter how much agro we have with the car or how dented it gets, it could be a LOT worse. Rhubarb Racing News - 2007 Season Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:21:58 +0100