• The Ferrari classics continue to attract newcomers and it was good to see Ferrari nut Chris Rea in the paddock checking out what was going on. He's already bought a 308 GT4 and may do a race or two this season before joining in for a full season next year. He did well in the old PMFC and won a race all the way back in, er, when was it, Anne?

• The Goodwin clan had mixed fortunes. Poor old Jon, as a pedestrian, had a mix up with an elderly gent trying to park a car in Penzance and in the ensuing confrontation came off the worse with a badly twisted ankle. Because of the various painkillers he was advised not to race but nevertheless came up by helicopter to watch PG achieve a great tenth place on the grid and race strongly to finish 12th - surely the highlight of her racing so far.

• 50 kilos is an awful lot of weight and that is how much the fibreglass 308s were allowed to knock off their minimum. It was probably designed to help William Jenkins a bit but didn't seem to make an awful lot of difference. Well-sorted 328s continue to be the way to go with, of course, the odd bit of driving skill thrown in.

• It was certainly a well-run meeting, with most things happening on time, but did the organisers really have to keep the drivers waiting at signing-on until the precise minute as printed in the Final Instructions?

• The Club's hillclimb series is beginning to serve as a good feeder for the classics but even in the former series the 328 no longer forms the backbone and things are moving much more towards the 348 and the 355. So when are the classics going to allow 348s? If the 328 is a 'classic' then the 348, which was introduced no less than 17 years ago (!) may deserve the same fate.

• Speaking of hillclimbers, Swifty had another real good race, finishing just behind hillclimb supremo Richard Allen. It was postulated whether Swifty's form is due to the iron discipline of hillclimbing, which he has recently revisited. This is obviously why Gary Culver is going to follow the same route and do a hillclimb later this season.

• One of the things that did away with the PMFC was that some of the drivers couldn't handle the car-to-car contact that was going on - unfortunately part of the modern BTCC-infused idea of what motor racing is all about. Now that the classic series is beginning to get more serious there's inevitably a bit of it creeping in, some of it handled with a quick apology afterwards but at Oulton at least one incident was very unwelcome by the 'recipient'.

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Chris Rea was at Oulton and will be back in classic...

...but it was the Gooders' who arrived like rock stars

Jon's entry for the Norah Batty lookalike competition needs a bit more work

"Now was it 50 or 500kg we were going to allow the fibreglass 308s?"

RA was proud that his hillclimb chaps provided about half of the classic field

A young fan thought Gary was Schuey - an easy mistake to make

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