Honda Yuasa racers team up with Bailey of Bristol, taking a Bailey Pursuit 550-4 on a mid-season trip with a difference
There’s nothing like taking a break in a caravan or motorhome – we know that only too well. However, it looks like many more are recognising that too, as our glorious summer continues, including Honda Yuasa racers, Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal. During a break in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship, the two team mates decided to make the most of their travels by teaming up with Bailey of Bristol and taking along a Bailey Pursuit 550-4, towed by their Civic Tourer replica race car, for good measure.
The caravan, fully decked out to the nines in Honda Yuasa colours, looked quite the picture and, ironically enough, both Shedden and Neal looked quite at home in the vehicle, despite usually travelling at a much faster velocity.
Speedsters, Gordon and Matt, stopped for picnics and barbecues, and traded in their four-wheelers for much smaller mountain bikes every once in a while, which made for a much more relaxed journey and one completely different to their usual need for speed.
The boys may be great teammates on the racing track, but put them in a caravan and it’s every man for himself. And, despite working in unison on the race track, we get the impression that, when it comes to caravans expeditions, it was every man for himself, with Sheddon declaring, “Matt’s map-reading is atrocious! For somebody who’s been racing at Snetterton since 1800-and-something, you’d think he’d know his way here by now!”
On a more serious note, however, Neal began: “Beyond all the squabbles, it’s been a great trip. Bailey has done a superb job with this because it’s a mega-comfortable caravan, and our friendship is still just about intact.
“We’re both feeling relaxed, refreshed and ready to race again. Bring it on!”
