Sunday, February 04, 2007

Tinman takes first Team Oldie podium

Last Thursday Tom"Tinman"Cooper capped a momentous year by recording Team Oldie Racing's first online podium by finishing 3rd in the UKGTL league race. Having recovered from a heart bypass operation in October the curmudgeonly old bugger went from painting the cars to painting the town as he swept to the podium at Donington. Donington holds a special place in his (albeit) new heart as this is the only real life track he has driven (and it scared the crap out of him LOL). His team mates Young Martin and Oilseal finished 7th and 9th pushing the fledgling team into tying for 1st place in the league

In a tearful ceremony his wife was overcome and was heard to mutter "Oh great" while his cynical sister in law asked if that was good then and how much does he get. The mercenary.

Tinman is already back behind the wheel for the next GTR2 race at Hockenheim and pushing his new protege Young Martin and the mentally fragile Mike "Oilseal" Cooper to follow suit.

Oh these are great days to be in Team Oldie Racing.

On the downside Tom has been seen to be morphing into a Ron Dennis lookalike and has been heard referring to his team mates as Cooper and Mason and Mrs Tinman says she's heard him talking in his sleep about buiding new headquarters (Gulp)

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