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Well, here it is at last, folks! The write-up for Revival 2023! This will be word-heavy and pic-light, as I can't be bothered to take lots of photos at the events and perhaps more importantly I can't be bothered to organise all the photos when I get back. Plus I don't have a camera with a long lens and cars on track generally come out like little coloured dots in the distance. Our story began months ago, when I started work preparing my cars to race - for further details see Hotshot Custom Chassis Build and SRB Superlight Vintage Restomod, but this particular chapter began on the morning of Friday 28th August, as I loaded the very last things into my van and set off on the 3+ hour trip through the middle of England to get to Bingham Model Raceway near Leicester. I was an hour into the journey, and in fine spirits, when a message arrived from my wife informing me that the new airbeam for my awning had arrived, and my pillow was still on the dining room table. I would survive without the airbeam, since in preparation I had cut a piece of wood to replace it, but I wouldn't survive two days sleeping on a rock-solid pull-out bed with no pillow. My back is bad enough as it is, and not even my prescription supply of industrial-grade codeine was going to get me through that. What followed was 90 minutes of back-and-forthing around Leicester trying to find somewhere that sold pillows. That's not as easy as it sounds, especially when one's smartphone is around 8 years old and rather slow and the data speed in the industrial backwaters is unreasonably poor. Eventually I found joy at a B&M, after several detours to "superstores" that turned out to be glorified mini-markets. A few pennies lighter (and foolishly resisting the urge to buy some cheap wrestler figures for scaler drivers from the toy section) I got back on the road and made the last hour to Bingham without any further mishaps. The weather was dry when I arrived, but it was a somewhat soggy July here in Britain and the ground was soft and damp. Perfect for putting up tents, but threatening bad if we got more rain. My van is low to the ground, and has road tyres and an automatic gearbox. Although I've never officially got it stuck (the live rear axle probably helps) it's probably only a matter of time. Despite my later-than-planned arrival, I was surprised to find our usual camping spot (right at the far end of the site, well away from that noisy raver lot) still empty, and none of my camping buddies around yet. So I pitched up alone and started carting my stuff over to the pits to get in some practice. View of the site, as seen from my pitch: Ornamental lake. The blue orb is either a manifestation of the Spirit of Bingham, or an aberration caused by the sunlight landing on the scratched coating on my camera lens: