The Whittaker's Classic meeting at Manfeild is always an excellent event, run by the Wellington MG Car Club.

We ran the Saker Sprint in the Super GT and High Horsepower class, so were able to run race tyres. (The only change from road trim.)

With this type of event, the competition varied greatly, everything from Porsche 911 GT2, Viper, TVR Tuscan, Tranz-Am Camaro, Mustang's and many more.

Our placing's weren't to bad for this type of field, a 2nd. 4th and 5th and a best lap time of 1m13.18sec. This time was 4th fastest out of about 250 entrants. (Not official.) The cars that were quicker were the Porsche 911 GT2 by 2 seconds and the 2 Tranz-Am type Camaro's by less than 1 second.

I believe we can improve our speed considerably when we start developing our engine to produce more power than its current standard form.

We had made some small aerodynamic changes for this meeting, but with so much traffic in each race, these being mainly reversed grids and handicap races, I only had 2 or 3 clear laps and was not able to fully evaluate these changes. Perhaps a little more grip in the rear would make the balance pretty damn good.

I thoroughly enjoyed the close racing and have postponed retiring from racing for at least another year.