RussellT
04-07-2012, 11:54
2 events last weekend with a function on the Saturday night has made for a very blury start to the working week.
1st up was the Aintree sprint and for this I car swapped and drove a home built single seater :eek:
she has a 1100 Kowasaki bike engine and revs to 12K. My first time in anger on slicks and wings and you can imagine I was understandably nervous.
After my first run the data was down loaded and I was told that I took the first corner 20mph slower than my co driver! :laugh:
Anyway after 3 runs I was 0.25 sec off his pace but to be fair he is a very senior competitor.
His car was amazing very stable and neutral handling in my view it could have done with more throttle travel as I found it impossible to feed in the throttle ending up with a Sennaesque see saw on and of the throttle through the corner as I alternatively tried to accelerate and frightened myself with the sudden rise in revs.
On the other hand his daughter was driving Doris and running well in the midfield until she didnt make the last corner and took out a concrete post :cry:.
Anyway much duck tape later I retreated to Liverpool for my reunion dinner with the cooling fan wailing like a banshee as it rubbed on the bodywork. Up at 7 spent 90 mins with just a screwdriver and adjustable wrench trying to sort the fan out and finished with it still noisy but effective.
Arrived at 3 Sisters for a late sign on quickest in first practice which was treachoursly wet then well down the field on the second run. Full boost and dry setting for first timed run saw me a second up in class but than I couldnt improve and on the 4th timed run my rival Keith beat me by 0.02 second!
A great day and I fell asleep watching Spain destroy Italy.
4 weeks to fix her so wish the pit crew luck.
1st up was the Aintree sprint and for this I car swapped and drove a home built single seater :eek:
she has a 1100 Kowasaki bike engine and revs to 12K. My first time in anger on slicks and wings and you can imagine I was understandably nervous.
After my first run the data was down loaded and I was told that I took the first corner 20mph slower than my co driver! :laugh:
Anyway after 3 runs I was 0.25 sec off his pace but to be fair he is a very senior competitor.
His car was amazing very stable and neutral handling in my view it could have done with more throttle travel as I found it impossible to feed in the throttle ending up with a Sennaesque see saw on and of the throttle through the corner as I alternatively tried to accelerate and frightened myself with the sudden rise in revs.
On the other hand his daughter was driving Doris and running well in the midfield until she didnt make the last corner and took out a concrete post :cry:.
Anyway much duck tape later I retreated to Liverpool for my reunion dinner with the cooling fan wailing like a banshee as it rubbed on the bodywork. Up at 7 spent 90 mins with just a screwdriver and adjustable wrench trying to sort the fan out and finished with it still noisy but effective.
Arrived at 3 Sisters for a late sign on quickest in first practice which was treachoursly wet then well down the field on the second run. Full boost and dry setting for first timed run saw me a second up in class but than I couldnt improve and on the 4th timed run my rival Keith beat me by 0.02 second!
A great day and I fell asleep watching Spain destroy Italy.
4 weeks to fix her so wish the pit crew luck.