End of Season Party & 2007
Despite it being the close season it has been a busy couple of weeks for the Vee fraternity. Last week’s Vee Centre party was a great do, and thanks to everyone who was involved in organising it. It was great to get to meet everyone away from the stress of a race weekend, even if, much to my Mum’s disappointment, do nothing but talk racing. However, I’m not sure what was more fun, the party, or trying to equate number of pints to obvious size of hangover at breakfast the following morning 
On a more serious note the hot topic of discussion has been around the 40th anniversary race next year, which I have volunteered to help out with (as i feel it’s important to give something back following a great UK season and an awesome time in germany). At present it looks like we’ll be at Brands in July which will be awesome as I love Brands, its near my house, and it always produces great racing. Furthermore with some good promotion and an innovative meeting we should manage to have a large entry, and a big crowd. Also having spent last Saturday afternoon walking round Northampton (main activity for the locals? looking menacing in the shopping centre), I have to say London is probably far more attractive for the foreign drivers.
Unfortunately all this is no substitute for driving, and already I cannot wait for the first test of 2007. In the meantime the only driving I get to do is on the A1, which is unfortunately as far removed from a Vee race as you can get (even if I do involuntarily shake with fear every time I pass a vehicle with WG Tankers on the side ). To console myself I did get out to watch the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch, and I have to say Vee is so much better. Whilst the Formula Ford will almost be my first love and remains a cracking spectator sport, from a competitors point of view Vee is easily the better option. The Festival was littered with unncessary accidents (even by the standards of some Vee drivers) and extremely questionable driving standards. Peter Dempsey and Nick Tandy are both extremely quick drivers, but both would still succeed without their obvious desperation to win regardless of consequences. Even the 1600 Kent Class occasionally resembled a destruction derby, with a couple of avoidable accidents that in a 750mc meeting would have seen a licence endorsement. Even so the Festival remains my favourite day’s racing of the year (execept for the one’s where I’m driving) and it would be great to see Vee as one of the support races one year.
