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Britcar Rockingham Motor Speedway 02/05/09 (56k no way)
- Thread starter theduck
- Start date
:< poor Matts car.
Was going to go to day but got a little whine on the car so didnt want to travel down.
photos are decent though
Cheers mate. They got it going again just about!
i am legend, the end, thanks
Does Mary Poppins not miss her bag?
Shutter priority at between 1/50th and 1/200th of a second and continuous auto focus
RS 200
Nice pics Stu, mine aren't quite that good
Turned up just at the right time eh Fred, saved the day !!
Adrian Newey was there too, racing the Red Bull livery Lotus too, hope he's finished work on Red Bull F1's new diffuser to have time to go racing :rasp:
Turned up just at the right time eh Fred, saved the day !!
Adrian Newey was there too, racing the Red Bull livery Lotus too, hope he's finished work on Red Bull F1's new diffuser to have time to go racing :rasp:
RS 200
My Pics
182cup & 172 racecar
Fred you are the only person I know who would keep an old Aux belt in the car that just happened to be the the right one:star:
Great photos chaps!!! Good to meet you all!
It tooks us three hours to fix this:
and we got it out into the race with literaly seconds to spare. Total damage was:
- Bumper
- Undertray
- Rad
- Head Light
- Front Wing
- Front Wing mount
- Bumper mount
- Wishbone
- Lower upright
- Lower ball joint
- Upper ball joint
- Damper
- Damper Tube
- Aux Belt
- Cam Belt (gravel injestion had shredded the belt)
- Rear diffuser
- Rear diffuser mounts
The team had to pull a massive effort to get it done - changing a cam belt on one is never easy - it's much harder when theres four other people on the car at the same time all fixing different things!
Fred saved the day by having a 70K mile old Diesel Megane Aux belt in his car. It wouldn't have been out without that!! Fred = Legend!
Cheers
M
It tooks us three hours to fix this:
and we got it out into the race with literaly seconds to spare. Total damage was:
- Bumper
- Undertray
- Rad
- Head Light
- Front Wing
- Front Wing mount
- Bumper mount
- Wishbone
- Lower upright
- Lower ball joint
- Upper ball joint
- Damper
- Damper Tube
- Aux Belt
- Cam Belt (gravel injestion had shredded the belt)
- Rear diffuser
- Rear diffuser mounts
The team had to pull a massive effort to get it done - changing a cam belt on one is never easy - it's much harder when theres four other people on the car at the same time all fixing different things!
Fred saved the day by having a 70K mile old Diesel Megane Aux belt in his car. It wouldn't have been out without that!! Fred = Legend!
Cheers
M
Oh and P4 in class, 14th overall from 21 starters with a no setup at all on the car! Literaly no time to do it so chucked it on and sent it out.
Race 2 at 3PM tomorrow so it's all hands on deck tomorrow morning to get a setup on the car and optimise as much as we can to get a podium from this weekend.
Cheers
M
Race 2 at 3PM tomorrow so it's all hands on deck tomorrow morning to get a setup on the car and optimise as much as we can to get a podium from this weekend.
Cheers
M
Thanks for all the comments guys
Thought it was. Dropped him a PM last night just incase.
Worth Pm'ing Englebert on here in case he's interested in some high res pics, thats his blue and orange elise motorsport you've taken a few of.
Great pics mate
Thought it was. Dropped him a PM last night just incase.
What a busy weekend!!!
We got the car out on Sunday setup properly and with a good chance of taking a first in class as the S2000 had retired and we suspected the Accord may well break down.
Unfortunately the lower pulley had other ideas. It had taken a lot of damage in Saturdays off and whilst it made it through the first 90 mins okay it failed very shortly into the second, which in turn took most of the load of the crank timing gear pulley and resulted in zero compression fairly shortly afterwards.
Real shame but thats racing! Getting the car out for either of the races this weekend after that smash was a serious achievement. The team worked very, very hard and scraping a finish on Saturday has maintained our points position reasonably well as the Accord DNF'd on Sunday.
Big, big thumbs up to our Class 2 mates Honda Synchro who got their first 1st in class on Sunday with a great drive. They've got the reliability issues sorted and are pushing hard for Spa now and of course our 24hr team mates GAMA Racing who placed 4th overall on Sunday with a stunning drive from Gary and a seriously tight fuel strat from the team ;-)
Cheers
M
We got the car out on Sunday setup properly and with a good chance of taking a first in class as the S2000 had retired and we suspected the Accord may well break down.
Unfortunately the lower pulley had other ideas. It had taken a lot of damage in Saturdays off and whilst it made it through the first 90 mins okay it failed very shortly into the second, which in turn took most of the load of the crank timing gear pulley and resulted in zero compression fairly shortly afterwards.
Real shame but thats racing! Getting the car out for either of the races this weekend after that smash was a serious achievement. The team worked very, very hard and scraping a finish on Saturday has maintained our points position reasonably well as the Accord DNF'd on Sunday.
Big, big thumbs up to our Class 2 mates Honda Synchro who got their first 1st in class on Sunday with a great drive. They've got the reliability issues sorted and are pushing hard for Spa now and of course our 24hr team mates GAMA Racing who placed 4th overall on Sunday with a stunning drive from Gary and a seriously tight fuel strat from the team ;-)
Cheers
M
Turbos.
Whenever i was passing that S2k it was smoking so no surprise it didn't make the second race!
The Honda team with the Accord were next to us. Supposedly it went up the back of a white E36 which had no brake lights. I noticed that car on Friday, makes me suspect it is deliberate considering its something the scrutineers check...
Shame you didn't make it past the warm up lap. Fortunately we covered enough laps to be classified, think we got 10th.
The Honda team with the Accord were next to us. Supposedly it went up the back of a white E36 which had no brake lights. I noticed that car on Friday, makes me suspect it is deliberate considering its something the scrutineers check...
Shame you didn't make it past the warm up lap. Fortunately we covered enough laps to be classified, think we got 10th.
Turbos.
Engine is OK, although will be inspected as my dad over revved it on Saturday. The Quaife sequential broke in the week so we were running a 5spd dog box, but it was the alternator that went which caused our retirement, and we only replaced it on Saturday night!
We won't get too excited about Spa, we'll take it easy. At the weekend we were ragging ourselves and the car to keep up with the Clarke BMW, whereas they always seem to have something in the bag when they need it. We managed fastest lap with a 1.25.4 but are overall consistency is not there. I'm pretty sure we will win at Brands once the sequential is back and and the aero is fettled though.
Making any mods for the Spa race, besides loads of lights?
We won't get too excited about Spa, we'll take it easy. At the weekend we were ragging ourselves and the car to keep up with the Clarke BMW, whereas they always seem to have something in the bag when they need it. We managed fastest lap with a 1.25.4 but are overall consistency is not there. I'm pretty sure we will win at Brands once the sequential is back and and the aero is fettled though.
Making any mods for the Spa race, besides loads of lights?
182cup & 172 racecar
Matt,have you had chance to have a little look at the engine yet is it terminal?I really enjoyed my weekend with the boys,nice bunch.
182cup & 172 racecar
Sounds good to me,why no compression though?
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