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[Nigel Conniford]

Does that include my AA membership form ??

[Tim C]

Originally Posted by Nigel Conniford

Does that include my AA membership form ??

Yep, full coverage, apart from the clutch .

[Rally43]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Roy, in the evo, predictably got his act together and beat both of us by more than a second. Which was a relief, as I didn't really want to hang around even longer to collect a trophy .

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Yeah those trophies are over rated, heavy, and take up too much room on the shelf.. Not to mention dusty etc.....

[tttoptotty]

Hi Tim - Cracking pics as usual tup: but just one thing less of the old girl she's fabulouse if she can keep up with evo's then evo's boys should be worried. I get goose pimples everytime I see pics like these it just puts a smile on my face I love it thanks for posting them.

[Nicky C]

Last Sundays Gurston photos...

[Tim C]

Back to Castle Combe this Saturday (6th August), looks like it might be a warm one !

http://www.bristolmc.org.uk/EventRegs/wesxregs_new.htm

[Rally43]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Back to Castle Combe this Saturday (6th August), looks like it might be a warm one !

http://www.bristolmc.org.uk/EventRegs/wesxregs_new.htm

Good Luck and post up some more photos... Videos would be even better

Tim

[Tim C]

The weather at Castle Combe started as what no seems to be a typical British summer day - cloudy, windy, a bit chilly and threatening to rain .

Andy returned the car from his first run and handed it over to me. As the marshalls tried to roll it forward to the start line, it appeared that the brakes were binding on slightly .
It slowed me by a couple of seconds on Andy's time and on returning to the pits, the front wheels were a little too hot to touch. Having jacked the car up, the front wheels were difficult to turn and the rears less so, probably due to the reduced rear braking on the manual bias adjustment. They gradually free-ed off over the next 5 minutes of their own accord.
It all points to a sticky master cylinder, it didn't happen again during the day but we will have to investigate .

Andy returned the car from his second run, and once again handed it over to me. When I restarted the engine it sounded like a bag of nails. Lifting the bonnet revealed that the hyraulic pump had lost it's locking nut complete with the belt tensioning assembly . The slack belt dragging on the pump causing a terminal sounding noise was quickly fixed with an M8 nut and bolt .

My second run turned out to be the quickest of the day between the both of us, by a good second, but it was unfortunately just practice .

The sun came out over lunch and it got quite warm. With Castle Combe being fast and long corners, it works the tyres quite hard. We found that the tyre pressures were increasing by a good 4 or 5 psi over the run and it was difficult to find a balance. We couldn't drop the cold pressures too much as Andy would enter the first corner with underinflated tyres. But by the end of the lap they were over inflated.

We must be getting faster and closer to the limit, to experience the car drifting through lack of grip in the middle of a 100mph corner .
So much for 4 wheel drive and 235 soft, sticky Toyo triple 8 tyres .


Looking forward to Oulton Park now. Only a couple of weeks way .

[Tim C]

With a quick clean up, check over, slight repairing of bumper and front CV boot change after Oulton Park, we're off to Wiscombe Park this weekend.

Near Seaton, east Devon http://www.wiscombepark.co.uk/


In fact, it's a bit busy from now through to October....

2nd/3rd September - Wiscombe Park
11th September - Gurston Down, Salisbury
18th September - Chivenor Sprint, Barnstaple
24th/25th September - Manor Farm, Charmouth

2nd October - Clay Pigeon, Yeovil (maybe)
8th October - ADI, Castle Combe
15th October - Castle Combe Sprint

[Tim C]

Some catching up to do .

Our return to Wiscombe Park the weekend before last saw some reasonable weather on the Saturday. Although some old woman like driving put us a couple of seconds off the normal pace. Until my last run, when I crunched 2nd before going into to the sharp left hander immediately after the start. It must have riled me as I went on to record my second fastest time ever, just over a tenth slower than my previous best! Enough to put me into 2nd place and for a trophy .

Overnight rain ment that Sunday started slippery making it a bit frustrating not being able to build on the previous day's pace. It gradually dried and the rain held off for the rest of the day. Again my final run of the day was good'un, apart from a lock up into one of the hairpins and a loss of momentum. 0.17 of a second seperated me in third place from the winner, damn that lock up ..


Last Sunday's Gurston meeting just about stayed dry (which is not how it was forecast) . As usual, we couldn't catch the regular class leader in his 650bhp Mitsi Evo, but Andy and I battled it out for 2nd and 3rd. This time Andy just piping me .


A trip to north Devon this weekend for the Chivenor airfield sprint, near Barnstaple.
http://www.ndmc.org.uk/