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10th June - Opgrimbie
From Midget Memoirs by Frank Boyles, Oval News
magazine
Getting back to the racing, it was off to
Opgrimbie in Belgium on Sunday. This is a rallycross circuit
with a half mile tarmac kidney oval on a hillside. Absolutley
ideal for Midgets - how I wish we had a track like it in England.
I managed to win three heats here, the final, with it starting
to rain, going to a very rapid Malcolm Brokhurst. The only
thing that spoiled it for me was having two 'wet' wheels and
tyres stolen from outside the hotel on Sunday night so I had
to hope that it would not rain for the European Midget Championship
the next day in Germany at Kaldenkirchen.
Southdowner from Spedeweek no19
Day two was the turn of the Belgian circuit at Opgrimbie
which meant some hard traveling for the drivers to get here
(having raced at Tilburg
the previous day - webmaster). There they found an entirely
different circuit with tight bends, downhill and uphill sections
and a wrong way camber coming again downhill. Frank Boyles
won the three heats easily but in the final it was Malcolm
Brockhurst who went over the line first.
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