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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">PRIVILEGE INSURANCE BRITISH GT CHAMPIONSHIP</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">16/11/2000</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">David Addison Sums Up</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">“So Why Was He So %&*^ing Slow”</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/s%20Uplow”PRI.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"> Forget bungee jumping or bull-fighting. You try sitting in the assembly area before a motor race and then you’ll know what scared is. <BR> <BR> It's early November but I’m still sweating as I set out onto the grid for my first ever race, in a round of the Dunlop Winter Mini Challenge. To everyone’s astonishment, I’m not last on the grid - but I may as well have been after the car creeps on the red lights, I brake and spend an enjoyable ten seconds trying to block Silverstone Sid away from the line! By the time I got to Copse there was one car in the gravel and by Becketts there was one spinning in the middle of the road and one in the wall. And Sid was still looking for a way past.<BR> <BR> I never saw the opposition again until they lapped me, but I had a very pleasant time playing on my own at the back.<BR> <BR> Race two was better. I held onto the pack for longer, until I missed third gear a couple of times and fell away. Instead I concentrated on trying to remember just whose fault it was that I was doing this! <BR> You don’t realise, dear reader, just how brave and committed you have to be in any sort of race car, nor how quick you have to be even to be one of the slow ones. Seldom have I worked so hard for such little achievement.<BR> <BR> New admiration? Definitely. Repeat performance? Get stuffed!</FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>