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Well fans, you’ll no doubt notice we’ve been mostly silent this year, but all that is about to change! Partly to blame has been the Team Neaves Shop, we have literally been inundated with one order… Welcome to the Silverstone Pre-Race Report. (more…)
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Tags » Barry Holmes, Ollie, Rob Spencer, Silverstone, Simon Cripps
Welcome back to the Peter Best Insurance Challenge for what promises to be another fantastic year of racing. The Team Neaves crew has been working feverishly hard over the winter to increase the size of their beer bellies, in pre-season girth-testing the hard work seems to be paying off…
The list of group C reprobates entrants has changed a bit this year, but still looks very well represented when compared with recent years. It seems the usual suspects will be there for the season opener, the V8 clan and Simon in the mighty midget followed by 2/3rds of Team Neaves. (which is incidentally usually the order on the track…) Dan will be MIA for most of this year while he concentrates on his web design business – shamelessplug.com. (more…)
Catagories » Racing
Tags » Barry Holmes, Brands Hatch, Dan Ludlow, K Series, Rob Spencer, Simon Cripps, Simon Hutchinson
See the proposed regs below…
The intention was that we could get just the Class C boys chatting on here – so as not to p*ss on Joneseys chips, but FYI there are the Class A and B regs too…
All classes ( sporting, not technical )
Class A
Class B
Should any form of differential other than original be allowed? Currently the MGB and V8 are allowed limited slip but not locking differentials, should this continue, should it extend to other models?
Class C
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Tags » Regulations
What a weekend! The last races of the season at Snetterton were two of the best – a great and fitting end to the season. So what happened I hear you ask?
Following a couple of failed attempts on track at Cadwell Dan and Ollie had some work to do before Snetterton. Ollie had a problem with a throttle sensor which was easily rectified but Dan’s problem was more fundamental… a short time after Cadwell Dan discovered a heavy box in the corner of the garage containing odd implements. What could these be? These conspicuous metal objects seamed to fit nuts and bolts, that’s right, Dan got to grips with the spanners in an effort to stop the gearbox cross member falling off again! More on this later… (more…)
Catagories » Racing
Tags » Barry Holmes, Simon Cripps, Simon Hutchinson, Snetterton
That’s right it’s that time of year again, next weekend we’ll make the trip to Norfolk for the season finale of the Peter Best Insurance challenge at Snetterton. Blaine, Dan and Ollie all had reasonable pace at Cadwell and are hoping to continue in the same vein at Snet…
In preparation for the race Team Neaves Racing have fitted rudders, anchors and compasses to their cars so that navigating around Snetterton will be that little bit easier. However, this will all be in vein if last year is anything to go by, as you may have guessed, it was a little too wet to race. 
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Catagories » Racing
Tags » Blaine, Dan, Ollie, Simon Cripps, Snetterton
It was a day of mixed fortunes at Cadwell Park on Saturday for the penultimate meeting of the Peter Best Insurance Challenge Championship, but certainly a day to remember!
The usual suspects chose to confuse us all with a bit of a switch around for this meeting. Rob Spencer was waiting for his group C V8 to be straightened, and chose to bring out his group B V8. Barry ‘Vic Reeves’ Holmes switched to Simon Cripps’ group B 4 pot, leaving Terry Holmes to peddle his group C V8. Another interesting entry was Peter Andrews in Rob Huff’s group B 4 pot. With all this chopping and changing and the sun god smiling the scene was set for a great days racing!
Catagories » Racing
Tags » Barry Holmes, Cadwell Park, Dan Ludlow, Dave Brooke, Rob Spencer, Simon Cripps, Terry Holmes
The next race on the Peter Best Insurance Challenge calendar is Cadwell Park on Saturday 5th September. They don’t call it the ‘Mini Nurburgring’ for nothing, Cadwell is a mighty track that sorts the men from the boys – or should that be sorts the fathers from the sons…
Its worth mentioning that the title of this post is no coincidence as the best driver at Cadwell is awarded the coveted ‘King of the Mountain’ award at the end of the season. But with defending King Simon ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson AWOL it’s anyone’s to take! Top contenders are Simon Cripps, Dan Ludlow and er, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. (more…)
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Tags » Cadwell Park, Racing
Mr Alan Brooke has kindly invited Team Neaves Racing to join a K Series only team in this years 4 Hour Race at Snetterton. Naturally Team Neaves are flattered and will be accepting gratiously.
Initially the idea was to try and make a team comprising one of each of the K Series engined cars in the Peter Best Championship, there are however a couple of gaps in the model range and hopefully enough people interested to get a couple of teams together.
Any K Series MG is welcome, no matter how big or small. If you’re interested then please leave a comment or use the contact section of the site and let us know!
Team Neaves
PS. There is a rumour that a ‘team talk’ will be held in the nearest pub on the saturday night before the race 
Catagories » Racing
Tags » K Series, Snetterton, VHPD
The Mallory Park circuit in Kirkby Mallory was the scene for some great racing with the Peter Best Insurance Challenge Championship over the weekend. The most noticeable achievement for Team Neaves racing was that we all finished this time!
Driving up on the Saturday night the weather was looking decidedly iffy; the rain was truly torrential. But it cleared for our arrival to the circuit, which meant we would be able to make our way to the circuit bar in relative comfort. (more…)
