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Gerry H wrote: You and Kim have proved it's not just down to power. I reckon I'd pee all over both of you on a 1/4 mile run.

From watching the way your Evos recovered from some very twitchy moments, through that complex of turns by the clubhouse yesterday, it's far more down to the handling capability. I know I keep on about tricky diffs but there's something inherent in the Evo that the Scooby lacks. Get your RA fixed and do a couple of sprints in that and we'll see how well you do.
I'm sure you would, but that's boring :!: :wink:

I think the Evo is less twitchy than the Impreza so inspires more confidence, well it does feel that way for me anyway. I have Sprinted the Impreza and it was also on the pace, I won Bentwaters last year in it and also was pretty much on the tail of Mr Adams at a couple of other ones as well.

What we should do is swap at a sprint, usual rules apply etc :wink:
You are quicker in the Evo mate. We were about honours even last year but I havent been able to get near you in the 6 despite having an extra 70hp. As Gerry says , alot of it is in the diffs. The difference between the blue wagon (Quaife ATB) and red wagon (stock) is astonishing.
Not wishing to harp on too much but, look at the Bentwaters results for this year. Bentwaters being a power course with its longish straights and fewer tight turns:

Logan: 89.44
Kim: 90.21
Mike: 87.27
Me: 88.61
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Okay, counter arguement :D

Bentwaters 2007:

Me: 95.41 Impreza 320bhp
ESL: 95.93 Impreza 300ish bhp
Kim: 96.01 Evo 9 300bhp
John Start: 97.36 Evo 6 360bhp

Richard Grimes: 98.88
Mike Blackmore: 91.13

Kinda messes up your Evo and Subaru issue! Looks to me you and Richard need to eat more Weetabix on race day :wink:

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That's cool Logan but Kims is 330 as we discussed at the weekend (the only change from 07 to 08 is brake pads IIRC ;) )
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Sorry, thats a typo, I ment to put 330bhp :roll:

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blacky wrote:Okay, counter arguement :D

Bentwaters 2007:

Me: 95.41 Impreza 320bhp
ESL: 95.93 Impreza 300ish bhp
Kim: 96.01 Evo 9 300bhp
John Start: 97.36 Evo 6 360bhp

Richard Grimes: 98.88
Mike Blackmore: 91.13

Kinda messes up your Evo and Subaru issue! Looks to me you and Richard need to eat more Weetabix on race day :wink:
That's all very well but everyone but Kim had different cars for 2008.

John Start, for whatever reason began going backwards compared to earlier in the year whilst Kim suddenly adopted rocket power and went from mediochre to being the one to beat.

Richard Grimes doesn;t count because his car was just too slow.

ESL which car did he run? Probably the low power red 4 door with possibly new KWs he was still trying to set up.

You were the only real contender on the day with a well set up car. And of course the untouchable Mike B :-D
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Sent an email requesting access to the hi-res pics and it came through 30 mins later. :D
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Gerry, Kim had the same car last year and won 5 championships :o :wink:

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How do i get the hi res ones lads??

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Send an email to chimpusmaximus@me.com and ask nicely for access to the site.
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