Martyn Lyell tests Legends at Knockhill, August 2008

This series has grown into an amazing success story with grids at Knockhill of 20 - 30 cars more often than not. These bizarre looking cars are 5/8 scale replicas of 1930s American saloon cars fitted with 1200 or 1250 cc motorcycle engines and a sequential gearbox. Their stiffened suspension makes them handle like karts in the dry, and everything about the series makes for overtaking and excitement as the cars' miniature size encourages three-wide racing through the corners and last ditch overtaking attempts. Also mixing things up is the random grid order for the first of the three races that makes up each Legends Championship round. The grid order is then reversed in the second race and for the final the day's fastest drivers start from the back. All of this combines to make for some very exciting opening laps! The first two races of each round are 8 lap sprints with the final taking place over 10 laps. These tremendous compact cars are the best fun to drive; they are highly responsive and just love to go flat out!

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[grahaml07]

Martyn is sitting his ARDS test on 1st September '09 to get his racing licence - so hopefully he'll get a chance for a real race soon. Maybe even this year (2008)

[alt101uk]

That looked great fun, always thought about taking a day on the legends, nice one.