After Andy had a run out on a two stroke at Mallory Park with the inevitable seizure, he was pleased to be back on the Ducati.
The Nurburgring is a new track to Steelcraft Racing and with its fast flowing turns over 5.137Km, Andy wasn’t sure how suited it would be to the 22 BHP Ducati. This was the spare engine as the quick motor was still not finished due to broken bones hampering garage time.
The weekend was an historic racing festival incorporating the ADAC Eifelrennen and the Jan Wellem cup, with cars and bikes dating from the 1920’s
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| There was a nice selection of Italian singles including Ducati, Motobo ,Morini and Aermacchi |
As is quite usual on the continent meetings of this nature are called regularity runs with trophies going to the most consistent lap times. Steelcraft were there to race and so it seemed were most of the others.
Practice was a very wet affair as you would expect with the track nestling in the Eifel Mountains. This was no barrier to good lap times and saw the Steelcraft Ducati on pole for the “race”
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| An interesting Ducati Fairing |
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| Gilera Saturno San Remo |
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| We thought Sarolea made cakes |
The Ducati was Third overall on track and first in class (250cc 1950-1967) Lap times on the dry track were steadily increasing so put the score down to 20th in the regularity Andy had an excellent race with a 250 Aermacchi swapping places every lap with the final result coming down to who got through the backmarkers best and as Steelcraft take no prisoners Andy was first to the flag.
Some clips of solos, classic F1 and sidecars from the ring
Sunday was also a dry race and slight gearing change saw the lap times drop again finishing with a best lap of 2.53.2
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| This shot is worth a "double click" to see it full size - see how many famous names you recognise |
All together a superb weekend well organised and with an amazing variety of historic machines at an iconic venue definitely one for next years calender.
Next outing Cadwell park - BHR 24/25 September
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