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  1. very sad news indeed, another great guy lost

    to me, tim was the epitome of budget racers, what he lacked in budget he more than made up for in enthusiasm and entertainment, he showed those who didnt have the best how to go out and mix it with the big spenders, it could be done!

    all classes of oval racing need guys like tim

     

    thinking of his family and friends at this sad time

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    Behind turn’s 3 and 4 of the raceway, and beyond the speedway track is the Health and Safety Laboratory. They bought the site in 1924. At the present time they do testing and evaluation on a huge range of hazardous items. Fire, explosives, crash testing, hydrogen and alternative fuels, batteries and energy storage etc, etc. The list is endless. They basically have the largest and biggest of anything to do with safety testing. A railway line has been constructed, and they used to have some old London Underground trains that were used to reconstruct the 7/7 tube bombings.

     

     

     

    during the week in daylight hours you can hear explosions which are controlled to test various things in and around the bunkers between the racetrack and the HSE place, along the Dale Head Road coming from the A53 you will see flagpoles, on the day of testing there will be a red flag flying, and a couple of mins prior to an explosion taking place there will be two sirens or horns blasted to warn people of a pending blast, and another to signify that testing has ended.

     

    for the tube trains look up "tube trains harpur hill" on youtube...

  3. I like these pictures especially the Buxton shots. i don't know if it's still around but there used to a website with pictures of the Buxton rock festivals held at Booths Farm in1972, 3 and 4. I attended 2 of them, the stage was built on a large brick bunker, which may have been where the stand is now? but I may be mistaken, it was a long time ago. I have no idea if the raceway was already up there then. I remember it was bitter unsurprisingly, although I think it was in September. Did get to see Rod Stewart and the Faces,Nazereth, Steppenwolf, Wizzard and Alex Harvey,a few years before I got into Stock Cars.

    http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/buxton.html

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