Yes I was correct look at where the start was in those days (2nd map down),…when Redgate was a left-hander 
Look at the one at the bottom from 1937, it’s basically a straight (ish) from Coppice all the way through to pretty much today’s entry to the circuit 
Modern cars would be doing about a gazillion mph and braking for a 30mph hairpin,…and there was probably trees at the end 
You’d also have to pretty ballsy to take Craner’s flat when you’d had a run at it from basically where the Melbourne Loop is today!
He had probably just been black flagged for noise looking that exhaust … 
So … where’s the next pic … did he flip it or not ??
I thought ‘old hairpin’ when I saw the pic… But not sure the gradient looks steep enough for Craners? I guess it could have changed over the years though…
Haven’t you seen his Heath Robinson exhaust tip… I reckon he got done for noise regs during the sign on and decided to squash the tip together to get past the noise police…
Good research Ben. Crazy how much it has changed over the years!!
Bother can’t do this now, Jacqui has booked a weekend away for us…
Booked! 
You getting a Caterham, Tom???
Booked and Paid…
Almost certainly at the Hairpin. Car is an Austin 7, No: 52 Drivern by B Sparrow. This race meeting preempted my birthday being run on 13 May 1933 (I was born on 13 May 1952)
From Motor Sport June 1933…
“Sparrow was badly placed at the start and a hectic moment at Coppice corner put him still further behind.He determined to make up ground and came past the paddock at a fast pace approaching “Hairpin” bend much too quickly. He might have got round, or at any rate averted an accident, if the left hand rear wheel had not collapsed under the strain. Some women in the crowd behind the pailings screamed when it was seen that the little car was going to turn over. With a sickening lurch the Austin lifted onto its left hand wheels, and the ridge of soft grass at the side of the road finished the story. Up went the car, throwing out the mechanic. Then it rolled right over with Sparrow still clinging heroically to the steering wheel, crushed beneath it. So fast was the car going that it came up onto its four wheels again, leaving Sparrow half in and half out of ther car. Sparrow himself suffered a nasty cut on the head but was otherwise unijurd. The mechanic was not so lucky and suffered a broken thigh.”
Is that good enough, Rob?
A couple more Motor Sport images from the same meeting…
Mike - you’re an amazing star, a total “one off” 
Are you still in for this Ben ?
Its looking a bit dodgy tbh 
I might come anyway. I thought about taking the M5 on circuit but decided that would be an error.
Reason I ask is that I was thinking of hiring a BAT caterham for the evening (just because I quite fancy it!) and wondered if you want to share that instead ?
Done 
I’ve not driven something other than my own car on circuit for years, should be fun!
I reckon it would be ruinous to track my M5, its a properly heavy old thing. To be honest the clutch would probably call time before I killed anything else. Its far too nice for any of that nonsense anyways.
I was cleaning the Exige before Chatsworth last Friday. The M5 was there next to it in all its pristine shiny loveliness as I was trying to chip clag off the wheels of the Exige Very different vehicles.
Will probably pop up fellas.
Shall I book a table at Gandhi’s?
Can do Ben.
Fchu it I may hire a Caterham too, will call Jonny tomorrow.
Call Bicknell too, see if he wants to go halves. About time I was out on circuit with the ginger 
