Stu's smile was even broader than from the sprints in the Golf.
Beamer sums up the car and his grin
I'll sit back and await his report. I'm knackered!
Well done all :thumb:
Hethel 3rd August
Home after a great day, in great company and great results all round.
Stu's smile was even broader than from the sprints in the Golf.
Beamer sums up the car and his grin
I'll sit back and await his report. I'm knackered!
Well done all :thumb:
Stu's smile was even broader than from the sprints in the Golf.
Beamer sums up the car and his grin
I'll sit back and await his report. I'm knackered!
Well done all :thumb:
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or hump it, piss on it and walk away!
Bloody hell! What a day, what an era 
After several weeks of very hard work from several good friends (thanks guys) the M was ready, ready for a good scrap. I had waded from the toddlers end of the pool in B2 to the shark infested depths of D8. Things had gotten serious all of a sudden.
Just the time to take your entirely untested rear wheel drive ditch magnet to a dangerous test track on minty treble 8's in changeable weather Deep joy!
As this round was only down the road from the Shire, I left the house at a sensible time and arrived bright and early, to an already packed car park, trailers everywhere and not much room for swinging a cat, let alone a 16ft badly driven car transporter.
The guys arrived and the banter started. Fortunately the lairy graphics and 'Phat Rimz' were enough slight of hand to distract passers by, who mainly deemed that the M was cool :thumb:
Even the scrutineers liked the car and decided that they would let me out to play, with the note that the splitter was gay/made of wood/stuck out too far/gay again, so that had to come off. Interesting that my times improved massively without it on!!
The event was packed with over 100 entries (sounds like a night out in Southend) and the organisers had a brain fart and restructured how people got on and off of the track; this took twice as long so everything was running severely behind schedule within an hour. Not good. Our alloted schedule of two practice runs and two timed runs looked under threat, and this was at 10.30am!
We had some interesting match ups from BP. Logan vs Kim in B3 (standard road going), Gerry vs Mr Grimes in D8 (modified production) and myself just happy to be there, astonished to be there and ready. No shows from several of the old guard although we did have Slarty, Darkstars and TK in attendance which was great.
Brett, Andy ESL and Andy 916 missed out on a belter of a day.
Back to the slugfest between the runners and riders
Kim was quick throughout and showed great car control on the sweeping bends in front of the club house. Logan was ballistic but hit the cones TWICE which killed his practice times stone dead. The first and only timed run proved to go in Logans favour with an even faster run, and so damned smooth, with Kim coming out of the roundabout low grip section too hard on the gas which wrecked his exit speed and angle. A real shame as that put paid to his lap and in turn, put paid to the fight as Logan romped away winning his class with some ease. Well done Logan :thumb:
Mr Grimes, he of the 17k engine and gearbox build, is arguably one of the quicker characters in D8 and his Impreza produces over 500bhp at the pub (no idea on wheel numbers, I did ask) He and Gerry and like Dastardly and Mutley at each round.....I'm sure Gerry has the upper hand in the championships. Anyway, Grimes was on form and Gerry was matching him punch for punch. Sods law (me? biased?) Grimes nicked the win by a little over a tenth to take the class win. Gerry drove very well by all reports. I was behind him in the queue ( and results) so I cannot comment on his driving other than to say it launches very well, but we all know that anyway.
I was delighted with several aspects of the day. Due to a bizarre mix of fatigue and adrenalin I fucked several things up, lots of oversights...silly things but my mates just mopped it up. Gerry, Logan and even some of the guys that I don't know very well were more than happy to help. A great spirit at these events, always has been.
I was also delighted with the car. In those three short, delightful, fun filled, rev hungry laps I glimpsed the potential of the car. It is every bit, I mean 100% what I had hoped for and this was with raw tyres, no seat time, no bottle and 318 brakes with properly wrecked pads. How good will it be with a few bits ironed out and loads of confidence in the car and my abilities?
Roll on Cadwell on the 28th. We'll find out.
Thanks again guys :thumb:
PS- In my three laps I went from 94 seconds, to 85 seconds to 81 seconds. The last lap included the gear knob coming clean off on the approach to the first chicane. That was fun!
I know I can go a lot quicker with time and confidence and the 81 something today still made me quicker than a well seasoned sprinter in his GT3RS :thumb:
After several weeks of very hard work from several good friends (thanks guys) the M was ready, ready for a good scrap. I had waded from the toddlers end of the pool in B2 to the shark infested depths of D8. Things had gotten serious all of a sudden.
Just the time to take your entirely untested rear wheel drive ditch magnet to a dangerous test track on minty treble 8's in changeable weather
Deep joy!As this round was only down the road from the Shire, I left the house at a sensible time and arrived bright and early, to an already packed car park, trailers everywhere and not much room for swinging a cat, let alone a 16ft badly driven car transporter.
The guys arrived and the banter started. Fortunately the lairy graphics and 'Phat Rimz' were enough slight of hand to distract passers by, who mainly deemed that the M was cool :thumb:
Even the scrutineers liked the car and decided that they would let me out to play, with the note that the splitter was gay/made of wood/stuck out too far/gay again, so that had to come off. Interesting that my times improved massively without it on!!
The event was packed with over 100 entries (sounds like a night out in Southend) and the organisers had a brain fart and restructured how people got on and off of the track; this took twice as long so everything was running severely behind schedule within an hour. Not good. Our alloted schedule of two practice runs and two timed runs looked under threat, and this was at 10.30am!
We had some interesting match ups from BP. Logan vs Kim in B3 (standard road going), Gerry vs Mr Grimes in D8 (modified production) and myself just happy to be there, astonished to be there and ready. No shows from several of the old guard although we did have Slarty, Darkstars and TK in attendance which was great.
Brett, Andy ESL and Andy 916 missed out on a belter of a day.
Back to the slugfest between the runners and riders
Kim was quick throughout and showed great car control on the sweeping bends in front of the club house. Logan was ballistic but hit the cones TWICE which killed his practice times stone dead. The first and only timed run proved to go in Logans favour with an even faster run, and so damned smooth, with Kim coming out of the roundabout low grip section too hard on the gas which wrecked his exit speed and angle. A real shame as that put paid to his lap and in turn, put paid to the fight as Logan romped away winning his class with some ease. Well done Logan :thumb:
Mr Grimes, he of the 17k engine and gearbox build, is arguably one of the quicker characters in D8 and his Impreza produces over 500bhp at the pub (no idea on wheel numbers, I did ask) He and Gerry and like Dastardly and Mutley at each round.....I'm sure Gerry has the upper hand in the championships. Anyway, Grimes was on form and Gerry was matching him punch for punch. Sods law (me? biased?) Grimes nicked the win by a little over a tenth to take the class win. Gerry drove very well by all reports. I was behind him in the queue ( and results) so I cannot comment on his driving other than to say it launches very well, but we all know that anyway.
I was delighted with several aspects of the day. Due to a bizarre mix of fatigue and adrenalin I fucked several things up, lots of oversights...silly things but my mates just mopped it up. Gerry, Logan and even some of the guys that I don't know very well were more than happy to help. A great spirit at these events, always has been.
I was also delighted with the car. In those three short, delightful, fun filled, rev hungry laps I glimpsed the potential of the car. It is every bit, I mean 100% what I had hoped for and this was with raw tyres, no seat time, no bottle and 318 brakes with properly wrecked pads. How good will it be with a few bits ironed out and loads of confidence in the car and my abilities?
Roll on Cadwell on the 28th. We'll find out.
Thanks again guys :thumb:
PS- In my three laps I went from 94 seconds, to 85 seconds to 81 seconds. The last lap included the gear knob coming clean off on the approach to the first chicane. That was fun!
I know I can go a lot quicker with time and confidence and the 81 something today still made me quicker than a well seasoned sprinter in his GT3RS :thumb:
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Congrats Stu, sounds like a belter of a day...
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Built 2.5L, custom heads, GT35R, T-Logic, Tial, Fuelab, Injector Dynamics, GT-Spec, Exedy Compe R, Innovate, APS, KW, AP Racing, Whiteline, Noltec, Sparco, Speedline & S.R.E.
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I knew it would be worth the wait Great write up Stu and I'm in awe at how accurately you remember the various highlights.
Unfortunately, being in the same class, I didn't get to see your efforts but by the way the tims tumbled it was surely a sight to behold. Who knows what a second timed run would have produced?
Ditching the yacht ply wood was the best un-mod possible yeilding a 9 second improvement. Reliable and competitive on the first outing, you must be delighted but let's not do too much more or Mike Blackmore will be lucky to come second on his return. :-D
What a pity you won't be at Curborough next Saturday. Still, roll on Cadwell :twisted:
Great write up Stu and I'm in awe at how accurately you remember the various highlights. Unfortunately, being in the same class, I didn't get to see your efforts but by the way the tims tumbled it was surely a sight to behold. Who knows what a second timed run would have produced?
Ditching the yacht ply wood was the best un-mod possible yeilding a 9 second improvement. Reliable and competitive on the first outing, you must be delighted but let's not do too much more or Mike Blackmore will be lucky to come second on his return. :-D
What a pity you won't be at Curborough next Saturday. Still, roll on Cadwell :twisted:
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Was going to mention it yesterday, but it looked like you had enough on your plate(s). Sorting that out has to be worth a good few seconds!