March 84S

[gfm]

It won't let me print another piccy, but try this link for another shot of the March, laeding off the grid at Mallory. I think Mike Taylor went on to win.http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/show...threadid=31740 page 4

[Junior Senior]

My memory wasn't fading, then!! Nice picture John, was the March a nice car to drive as against a Lola or Shrike/Aquila?

[gfm]

Well it was some time ago, but I remember running into a sort of plateau of performance with it. On the limit, it didn't respond to anything imaginative from the driver (obviously of limited capability in this case) so we seemed to get stuck at 1.5 secs off a decent time; something of an aero problem running a tail that long and high.
Whereas the Tiga which I had for a year in a US Pro Series actually went better as you really gave it a really stiff talking to. You could get away with some brave stuff with the Tiga. Very much the same with the 2 litre version; drive it at 9/10th - fairly dopey; drive it 'large' and it really responded. All very much down to Howden Ganley I thought.

[MarkR]

Which year car did you drive ? was it an 83 or 84? I think the rear body work on an 84 started to dip downwards behind the rear wheels ?

[gfm]

Sorry Mark, can't remember.

[Dan Rear]

From memory, and programmes, I think John was in the 82S, run by Dave Benbow. In 83 and 84, John was in Thundersports as I recall.