Gosh... It's year fourteen of Ixion@Cadwell and with the desertion of the Beezumph to Anglesea, I guess we're the longest running motorbicycling event at Cadwell Park. Hurrah for us!
So once more huge numbers of Ixies and their friends shall spit in the face of Global Recession, dare the Weather Gods to do their worst and gather together at Cadwell Park in sunny Lincolnshire to gratuitously dent the World's hydrocarbon reserves by riding their motorcycles round and round the racetrack.
Editor's Note: Yes I know that September is later than our normal August dates. This is entirely due to the kerfuffle at Croft over noise issues and the lack of tarmac at Donington Park. Both of these have put huge pressure on the availability of track hire dates and we were fortunate to get a Thursday/Friday combination at all (Thanks to Ian@MSV for looking after us).
Anyway, in the ages old traditions of the event, new faces will be put to email addresses, acquaintances will be renewed, old chums remembered, hands shaken, bikes looked at, bikes fixed, urine extracted, beer consumed, gizago promises fulfilled, intersession bull dispensed and those much loved, even on the fourteenth telling, trackday excuses regurgitated (mainly by Orb).
Ho Yes Indeed, Ixion@Cadwell.XIV will be the usual fantasmagorical two day funfest of first class friendship, frolicks, food and all the other bits that make Ixion@Cadwell just so good but don't begin with an 'f'.
How can you even contemplate not being there ?
These pages should tell you all you need to know about the event; if they don't then please tell me what's missing. I most strongly suggest that you read all of the pages - especially the ones on times, clothing and Safety Check (previously known as scrutineering and which now includes a bit on the new noise testing regime), to avoid turning up on the day and finding that your gear isn't up to scratch, your bike is too noisey, you've missed signing on or you've forgotten something important.
As in previous years, we hope to run a no-extra-charge evening two-group session on the Thursday just so that you really can have your fill of tracktime; and all for the total price of £170.
On the Friday evening there will, hopefully (the Masons Arms has had another change of ownership and the new people are proving hard to pin down), be the traditional gathering for a group meal with prize-givings, mis-givings and a whole pile of bonhomie.
ObAnd on Saturday the 25th there's SOB racing@Cadwell (the British Historic Racing mob which is the racing arm of The Vintage Motorcycle Club so you could delay your trip home, watch a host of SOBs hurtle round Cadwell far far faster than their designers ever intended. Should also mean there's some interesting stuff turning up on Friday to have a gawp at.
Driving Licence:
Well whaddayaknow? the rules got changed a bit in 2005 but MotorSport Vision
didn't bother to tell me until some muppet tried to sign on with a borrowed license because they'd forgotten their own.
Anyway, while it's still important to bring your driving licence with you, if you should happen to forget it then it should be possible to get the circuit management to ring DVLA and get confirmation of your licence details (unless
the rules get changed again).
Cadwell do make a charge for this (£10 AFAIR) a portion of which gets donated to the Air Ambulance fund.
Of course, phoning DVLA and doing all the paperwork will take a while and you will lose track time as a consequence. So, please take every effort to remember your license but don't abandon all hope if you have mislaid it or wreck your entire house searching for it <waves: Hi Katrina>.
The booking is controlled by the most excellent Mallard Booking System;
written and maintained by Adam Curtin
and Robin Szemeti to whom I
owe a great deal of thanks.
For the Thursday evening session (which won't be costing you a penny extra) the two groups will be Tiglets and Pigores - you can probably work out why ;-)
For anyone not familiar with the attributes of each group, the following explanations might, or might not, be helpful.
| Eeyores (Slowest Group) - Pleasant, Convivial, Relaxed folk who enjoy a nice ride in the Lincolnshire countryside whilst admiring the well maintained shrubberies surrounding the circuit. Often heard to say 'No, after you' on the approach to corners. Eeyores have no known predators - their survival rate and longevity being legendary. |
| Piglets (Medium Group) - have occasionally been known to be overcome by a pink mist. Not very interested in the Shrubbery surrounding the circuit... until hard on the brakes into Hall Bends; when the attraction of playing to the gallery can overcome their normal sensibilities and their sudden but consuming interest in the grassy patches can be fully appreciated. Piglets main predator is schizophrenia - they don't know if they're Piglets because they're too fast to be Eeyores or too slow to be Tiggers. Piglets are easily confused. |
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Tiggers Fast Group - Bouncy and full of fun. Tiggers are intimately familiar with the Shubbery at most race circuits; indeed they have an almost sexual attraction towards grass, trees and bushes - especially when the aforementioned vegetation is clad in an alluring layer of rubber (in the form of old tyres). Tiggers are often seen playing in sandpits or adjusting their gloves to avoid unanticipated bunching. The major predator of Tiggers is a small planet that occasionally collides with them. |
Russell's UK Trackdays Page might be worth reading if you're a newbie and need some general tips on trackdays or just want to read some, now very very outdated (it was written in the nineties), reviews of trackdays.
...and of course, there's the Team Ixion pages for the truly tarmac obsessed and generally insane.
finally... I guess my own homepage should probably appear too!
