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Probably the last visit of the year to Shuttleworth. I wasn’t intending to go to start with, but a space in the car became available at short notice, and the weather forecast was promising. However on arriving at Old Warden at 11am ish, we were greeted by the usual overcast sky. Wearing shorts and not packing a warm top suddenly seemed like an ill-fated move.

However the display started on-time, and part way through the sun appeared and brightened things up considerably just in time for the arrival of the BBMF Lancaster.

More photos: Shuttleworth Pageant – September 2010

We’d been planning this long overdue visit to Castle Combe circuit since the beginning of the year having missed it for the last two seasons. Fortunately the weather behaved itself and we had glorious sunshine for the majority of the day, and a bit of cloud cover later in the afternoon.

Today was their Sportscar raceday, so we were entertained with a plethora of cars from Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin, along with more mundane marques such as Nissan, Subaru, and Mitsubishi. We sat on the banking on the outside of Quarry Corner as normal which is usually a good place to see a crash or three, and we weren’t let down. Most were fairly innocuous, however one involved a rather nice Aston Martin which destroyed the tyre wall, the Armco behind it, and most of the car itself. This caused the race to be stopped, and the track closed for about 45 minutes so they could recover the driver and car, then rebuild the wall.

One of the races features a pair of BMWs which were superbly entertaining, on most laps they were taking Quarry sideways in perfect synchronisation.

The rest of the days racing was superb and passed without any major incidents.

More photos: Castle Combe Sportscar Raceday, August 2010