 “To bring it, or not to bring it, that is the question". This was the Shakespearean situation facing the Oxford Universites Motorsport Foundation on Saturday, May 2nd 2026. With the clock ticking on when we had to leave the HQ for the Donington Historic Festival, much deliberation was occurring. The weather forecast of potential rain had thrown a spanner in the works. Do we bring the closed top, race-proven and winner, Sebring Sprite? Or maybe stick to the original plan, bring the open top, development car, which has pretty much entirely new systems, an Elva Courier? While I’m making this out to be a very difficult and strenuous decision, it is not lost on me how lucky we are to be in this situation! We have the opportunity to protect our driver from the elements (which were forecasted to be biblical at the start of the week) with the Sprite or, with the help of all of OUMF’s supporters over the last 2 years, take and study the dynamics of an original Goodwood racer.
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 Some race weekends begin with excitement, this one began with urgency, exhaustion, and the quiet hope that all our late-night efforts would finally pay off. On the evening leading off a sunny October 18th Saturday, the last race of the HRDC season approached, we set off for Silverstone Circuit with two of our race cars in tow. The drive toward the massive Silverstone complex carried routine for regular members and an insightful look into what OUMF does for the 2025 freshmen.
 0. Introduction
Data Logging... a 1950’s sportscar... Top gear... University?! All these seemingly unrelated things have come together for us lucky members of the Oxford Universities Motorsport Foundation over the last 2 months. My last report/update was written just after the Donington Historic Festival where the extremely kind people at Haltech and Race Winning Brands sponsored the team with a Haltech Nexus S2 and the climb up the Data Logging/Race Engineering learning curve began. The push to install sensors and study the produced lines has not slowed any. But I will pick up where we left off and even though this story starts quite similarly to the last one it definitely does not end the same.
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