Updated 17th August, 2005      

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V de V Championship: Magny Cours 8th - 10th July, 2005

An incredibly long week - travelling to the Spa 25 hour VW Fun Cup race from Magny Cours V de V and back again, Woody had to remember exactly why the series was called ‘Fun Cup.’ With RSR drivers Adrian Mardlin, Rob Croydon and Phillip Harris doing the 25 hr the team was split between 2 countries - two Bens and Jamie spannering in Spa the rest of the team were in the rain ( and the sun, eventually) at Magny Cours.   Simon Phillips shared his newly delivered Norma with Tony Holdich, while championship leaders Jono Coleman and Nigel Greensall raced their orange Norma.  Steve Lord partnered Lee Foster in their SR3.

The rain cleared up and the sun came out for the beginning of the 4-hour race. The race was stopped after about 2 hours when the fuel pipe from the tanker came off, flooding the fuelling just as the majority of the cars were due to stop. As cars queued up and waited there was no sign of a yellow flag or any more fuel from the pumps until the race was eventually stopped with many cars, including race leader Jono, out of petrol. Finally the race was restarted from grid positions at the two hour mark in.

Simon’s new pride and joy, the white Norma, was delivered and run in on Thursday ready for qualifying and racing over the weekend. It finished the race in a very respectable 10^th place. Steve and Lee finished in 31^st place taking home a few buckets of gravel to play with. Nigel and Jono suffered huge disappointment when they pitted, from P1, with 8 mins to go with what was thought to be a flat rear tyre but was actually a badly damaged radiator. The car ended up 6^th overall.

VdeV: Magny Cours - Pictures