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April 3rd
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Donington Park saw the return of Maxwell Alexander
Frazer (as they kept telling us on the radio). Maxi Jazz dusted
off his race overalls, found the helmet, bought new gloves and went
racing. In a very large field of 40 cars all qualifying together
he started to relearn the circuit and how to race a rear-wheel drive
car. All was going well until he was passed at speed by another
car who then proceeded to spin at the Old Hairpin. The novice infront
braked early and heavily and Maxi ended up hitting him. End of qualifying
and a time yet to be set so he started race 1 in last place. 3 laps
later he was looking at the Old Hairpin from the wrong side after
misjudging the speed versus the grip. But all was not lost as he
had another race on the Sunday morning.
This time the tyres were warmed up and Maxi started racing but then
the ECU played up losing him power. He pitted twice and finished
2 laps down. Luckily the organisers allowed him to join the final
so he got to race for a 3rd time but sadly the gremlins were still
there and he had to contend with a misfire.
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