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All the best.

Keep it on the sticky stuff.

rsfruitbat

Have a good one Tim.

Good luck at Donington Tim, glad to hear the car is ready to go.
A race at 6 gives you plenty of time looking around the F1 collection

Have a great time Tim.
Perfect weather for it.
All the best,
Simon

You have a real mix of cars in your series Tim.
Were you pleased with your times?

I was pleased with race, enjoyed it. I knew I needed a good start to get past the louts and Tvr 3000 as they are quick on the straights, slightly slower on bends.

I got great start and in front of both but the car in front missed a gear and I had to back off hence they came either side.

Enjoyed chasing them down though .

Lap time target was to get into 1.29's, so I need to find 1.5 seconds. Kraner I was one of the slowest on speed traps.....need to grow bigger gonads and keep my foot in rather than lift off too much. I'm also keeping the revs down for engine life, up to another .5 of a second per lap if I used max revs perhaps.

I want to look at a brake upgrade as I don't like the pedal travel on the standard set up.

However, excuses to one side, we had a great day and race. As you say a real mixed bag of cars, lotus, Tvr, spitfire, GT 6, midget, lancia beta and Monte Carlo , e type, Ferarri and Bertone coupes. I'm the quickest of the baby engined cars, albeit the 1600 twin cam lotus have their own class and are very quick. The Tvr 3000's have Ford 3 litre v6 engines and are plastic so lightweight and 200bhp, see how quick the yellow one comes down the start/finish straight. Nice clean racing also, the chap who punted me off last year was encouraged not to come back by the series chairman

Keeping your foot in at Craner Curves is worth more time than folk realise i think Tim

The extra momentum if held together at the old hairpin carries on all the way up under Starkeys and Schwantz.

Could actually be the vast majority of the 1.5 seconds you're looking for Tim



But yes, large Gonads is a big plus, and the near perfect set up of course!

Is it really just 6 or 7 weeks until the season starts Not sure if I enter the CTCRC at Silverstone end of March, or the HSCC Donington early April for my first race.

for the Northern contingent, the CTCRC is at Croft in mid April (20th ish) - I plan on entering.

New big end shells fitted, finally got the twin Dellorto 45's on but not sure on the difference between them and the 40's as used different rollers - they sound awesome at least.

A bunch of maintenance needed, nothing huge just a thorough check over.

Need some new tyres, air filters and possibly an extinguisher as the MSA regs have been updated and I need to read them 10 times to understand them ! The money making machine never ends.

Hi Tim
My first event is at donnington on Mar 4th.
Hogg the same problem as you with extinguishers. Lifeline have a bit of a real on new if you send them your old one.
I a!m thinking of lifeline or fev as at least they are in the UK for servicing which is the other aspect of this new money out the msa have opened up.
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All the best

Rsfruitbat

A bit late sharing this after the event, I raced at Donington on Sat just gone by, a good day overall, damp qualifying went better than usual for me at 13th out of 33 cars. A couple of quicker cars came thru in the dry in the race but I managed to sat ahead of all but one of the 2 litre and below cars. Still didn't hit my target time, and most is lost at Craner.

Blown the sump gasket so some work to do to reseal.

if you page thru this you will see a small video clip of the 70's Roadsports coming onto the grid, very varied set of cars

https://www.facebook.com/historicscc/

Assuming no major issues sump wise, I'll be at Snetterton Saturday 21st.

https://www.facebook.com/historicscc/vi ... 311578580/

Going out to qualify.

That is a great mix of cars Tim.
I will have to try and get to some of your events.

Well done Tim. Good result.
All the best
Simon

Some pics from Donington and Snet

https://www.charliewooding.co.uk/v/phot ... orts?ppp=0

https://www.charliewooding.co.uk/v/phot ... orts?ppp=0

The next race should have been Cadwell Wolds trophy may 19/20th.

Unfortunately the entry is currently over subscribed and I run in the invitation class so at this stage looks like I won't get on the list. Preference is quite rightly given to those that run to the regs and score championship points, and while it's really positive that the grids this year are better than the previous 3 seasons, gutted not to race at cadwell.

Cadwell is limited to 28 starters, yet strangely Croft which isn't that much wider can run 40 starters.

I'll have to think about Mallory instead, which I've never found that interesting to race on.

I've noticed that msvr do all comers races at a number of circuits including cadwell later this year, the entries have been low historically, but maybe we can drum up 10 or so Alfa (and golf) racers for a one off ?

Hi Tim,

Cadwell is a great circuit. Got to get the Golf on song for that.

Brgds
Simon

Gutted you might not make Cadwell Tim

Just had some good news, we will be racing at Cadwell after all , the HSCC have moved myself and a few other invitation class cars into the Historic Touring Cars race, so in with the Imps, Mini's and Cortina's

We are on early, qualifying at 9am Sat, race 1 at 1pm Sat, race 2 11am Sun.

Have a great time Tim!

Brgds
Simon

Good news Tim, not sure yet what day but determined to get there.

Great news Tim, see you up there Sunday, work Sat am so you'll probably have packed up and gone by the time I get up there.

Great weekend at Croft nostalgia meeting. Probably 2 of my best races for a while.

Down side is I have a recurring head gasket issue, but the sprint was running very well.

Delayed start in race 2 hence this race starts at 8 mins....very happy with my start on the left of the in car video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-qImFWZq18

Found this nice photo

Great photo Tim.
Great to see you kept the 308 behind you. Nice of Mark to film your race.
Cheers.

That's a cracking photo mate, real sense of speed

Yes, it’s that super slippery paint you put on it for me Kev....

The 308 had a power issue, it was quicker on some corners tho. I might have just caught the Porsche and tvr if I hadn’t had to defend on the back of the circuit.

Racing at Silverstone this Saturday , qualify at 9;30, race at 1:30.......32 cars, 8 Alfa’s, 1 lancia and 2 Ferrari’s in the Italian camp.

Good luck Tim, I'll try and follow on TSL timing if not busy at work

Half a second separated 8 cars in qualifying at Silverstone, nice end to the season. Couple of pics from Croft earlier in the year, managed to finish ahead of the Ferrari in pic one and pulled away from the pack in pic 2.

That's a big gaggle behind you there mate