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John sucking keys

Purely from a marshalling point of view I would have liked to have seen a few more marshals posts, some were very widely spaced (ie between posts 1 & 2) and would have taken the marshals a long time to get to the scene of a serious incident, and yes I do realise that the rescue unit would have been deployed if needed and it would be more posts to man.

I hadn't really planned on using the car until NMS have set up the suspension geometry properly in a couple of week's time as I've only set it up quickly with a spirit level and some fishing line on my non-flat garage floor...but the weather was so nice and the Northants Group had arranged a blat out to the Earls Barton classic car evening, it just had to be done. I left with a list of "debug" jobs to do. Re-route the throttle cable as it stuck once, fortunately only at a fast idle. Calibrate the temperature gauges. My instinct is the oil is about right but the water is showing higher than it's actually running. Set the water pump threshold a little lower as the fan thermostat is coming on before the pump. Calibrate the speedo - can I really have passed everything on the A45 just doing 60??? Look forward to NMS sorting the geometry, it wasn't bad but a little loose, a bit sensitive to bumps. Brakes need bedding in. On the good side everything else was fine, nothing actually fell off even after a quite spirited drive home, I only stalled it twice... and the homemade digital fuel gauge worked an absolute treat.

Pity the chap who put the flag on the screen didn't know that.