Barry Passingham's Scooter Racing Photos 2

Author, not clear where, my guess is just off the start line of a sprint, because the photographer has chosen a straight to do the picture, very difficult if bikes were moving fast – but did we have numbers at sprints? Come on folks, any guesses?		 Author at the club hairpin, Cadwell Park.
Author sitting on his bike with lunch, Snetterton. Also note bike 25, George Pearce’s 150 Special; two bikes with number 22: Chas DeLacy’s standard bike, looking as though Alan Jupp was the rider that day, and Alan Jupp’s JJM 200 Special. Bike 30 looks as though it was Nick Barnes’s, and at the back bike number 1 looks like Colin Hart’s very fast and well-ridden Vespa. All barring the Vespa look like they were JJM prepared to some degree. JJM must have been at it’s height around then. I recall the chap in the foreground but can’t remember his name. Come on folks, you can help here!


Author with determined body language, this may be Lydden, turning left into the hill, or else it’s Castle Coombe.

George Pearce, at the bottom of the hill at Cadwell Park - you can see by the graphics this was lifted from C&C and stuck in my album all these years

Author at the club hairpin, Cadwell Park.
Castle Coombe. This grainy picture is highly significant to me. For the only race ever I had a 200 engine in my special, so was in the same race as my team-mate Alan Jupp. For reasons I will gloss over, he was utterly determined to beat me at any cost, and made sure I knew it. I got ahead at the start, and laps later this picture was taken at a flat-out right hand curve at the back of the circuit. Only a maniac would put an overtaking move on around the outside – enter the maniac. The bikes were cranked over, inches apart, and I got out-psyched – I absolutely knew he would rather crash than lose to me. He beat me of course. So glad someone took that picture, I remember the moment vividly.

 

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