Not heard of that one Dave, even though it's local to me. Who's organising that? What sort of cars are we talking here?
There was recent talk of restarting the drag races there that I remember from my youth. Anything to do with this meet?
MM Sir, interested to know what info you have about the rumour to have some drag races there as hadn't heard if this.
Be pretty cool if something could happen.
Anyone else heard anything??We run a lot of vintage/historic (and newer) drag/sprint bikes at our club. Some of them may well be interested in running.
Looking at googlemaps of the airfield
http://maps.google.co.uk/ , the long runway (parallel to the A30) appears 'live' as the runway doesn't have a painted cross at each end (my understanding is painted crosses indicate a runway that is not available to aircraft).
That only leaves a couple of relatively short runways. Assuming the surface is suitable, these appear long enough to run an 1/8th without too much problem.
Personally, I couldn’t see the event allowing vehicles running towards the live runway (in case there was vehicle trouble), so the running direction would be either S to N on one runway, or SE to NW on the other.
If that’s the case, that means there’s no service road to the ‘start’ area, so I’m guessing they’d have to drive down, turnaround and be held as a batch. It looks like the runway’s the best part of 150feet wide, so that shouldn’t be too difficult (unless your in a rail!
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Wouldn’t it be good to go back to Blackbushe and catch some draggin’…………..
