Mugello 2nd historic festival

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After one day going to school i went to Italy for the second historic festival in Mugello.

First we went to Antwerpen, Belgium to pick up three exclusive race cars.

Lola T70 (see rest of post)
Ferarri (short wheel base)

Maserati

we only had to bring this cars safely to the circuit of Mugello.

On the road to Mugello everything went ok but when we saw some snow on the mountains we got a little bit scared. We had to cross the Brenner pass and if there is to much snow it is impossible to go there.

When we arrived in Mugello we unloaded the cars and we went out looking for a restaurant. Because we where with a big truck we decided to go to the city center by moped. The only problem is that the moped is not suited for 2 big guys and mountain roads. With a little bit of flinstone power we managed to go to the center everyday.

On Saturday the corvette stingray roadster was ready for the free practice. only one small problem, the driver was not there in time. With a lot of smooth talking to Olga my best Italian friend in Mugello i managed to let peter drive in an other practise session. They race controller sad that he should drive in the GT90’s group. It was a funny view because he was driving together with a Ferrari F40 and a stealth B6.

Peter didn’t knew the circuit so i was on the track to find out how he has to go round as fast as possible.

Saturday the time practise was on the schedule. After a view laps peter drove around 2:24 and didn’t go any faster. I decided together with David Hart to get him of the track. This turned out to be the 8th position on the grid.

Sunday morning the race started at 9 o’clock. It was cold in the pit lane but walking to the timing monitor keeps u warm in a two hour race. During the race i showed peter the pit board every lap to show him what time he was doing and in which position he was. He went quickly to the 7th place and it was easy for him to stay there. After 40 min we did our first regulated pit stop of 1 min. Peter was relax and managed to do laps of 2:24 constantly. After the second stop at 80 min his lap times went up a little but after 5 laps he was back in his old pace. When the clock was all ready on 2 hours peter came in because there was now gasoline any more. I told him to try to finish the lap but i think we didn’t understand each other. At the end of the pit lane he turned to the paddock. Because he crossed the finish line in the pit lane he became 8th in stead of 7th. After all it was a nice result for the first time peter drove the corvette. And maybe next race we can climb a little bit in rank.

After the race i drained the tank and there was only 1 liter left so the corvette used about 130 liters in 2 hours. next time we have to do a Little bit of refueling to make it.

When i finished packing our stuff i helped Phillipe our Belgium friend to change the brakes on the Lola T70 and to get the play out of the rear wishbones. We searched the entire paddock for some parts without any result. After that the driver Mark Devis went to one person and arranged the part we needed. With some adjustments the rear wishbone was safe enough to drive the car. The last thing we needed to do was getting the air out of the brake system the car was ready to go for the last race of the day.

During the afternoon there was some time to make some pictures at the paddock. There where some really exclusive cars in Mugello.

Ferrari 250 GTO

Ford GT40

Old F1 Cars

After a tour around the paddock we loaded the three Belgium cars so we could go back to Holland again.
when we where at the Brenner Pass again we where driving behind the snow patrol. And we made some nice pictures in the snow.

When I’m back in Holland it is going to be a race against to clock to build-up the Morgan for the second test at Zandvoort.