Day 10, Snetterton and Harwich

After yet another disappointing breakfast at De Vere Horwood Estate (how hard could it be to get some staff for the breakfast???), we drove up to Snetterton Circuit. The objective was to watch MSVR Elise Trophy (https://www.msvracing.com/cars/race-series/msvr-elise-trophy/). The weather was still a bit wet, but more drizzle than actual rain. There were also other clases racing during the weekend. Among them GT Cup Championship. That turned out to be quite entertaining. There was one Evora competing among the GT cars. unfortunately it didn’t finished the race due to some mechanical failure.

There were 15 cars competing in the MSVR Elise Trophy, three in the Forced Induction class. The rest in the natural aspiration class. the track was somewhat slippery and some cars ended up visiting the grassy bits. Luckily there was only one crash into the barriers. The driver walked away but the car would need some tender, love and care by the mechanics. Entry list available here: https://www.msvracing.com/media/4039/snetterton-27-28-july-entry-lists.pdf. So far we haven’t found any results online at the MSVR site.

The Snetterton track seemed to be in a good nick. The lunch restaurant was ok, for being on a track. While reading about the track on the internet we learned that Lotus F1 (the real one, not the rebadged Renault team) used Snetterton as test track back in the days. Apart from the Lotus on track, we saw a couple more in the paddock and one Exige V6 on the parking area.

After watching the races, we drove off towards Harwich. We met up with the other three cars, or rather the drivers and co-pilot, in the bar onboard the ferry. They had been on different other events during the day.