R2 Knockhill

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Sun May 17, 2009 4:59 pm

i see duncan only managed one lap for a result and i cannot see any sign of pablo and bart

TrackScotland · Post by **TrackScotland** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:03 pm

yup, reading duncans threads from before he was nursing a problem. Looks like he was doing the best he could with minimal 'exposure' to save the car long term. Still decent 1 lap times though!!!

Fords - The warmup was red flagged for a broken down ford beached on the track. Not sure if it was them, or the blue Escort.

TrackScotland · Post by **TrackScotland** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:59 pm

:twisted:

TrackScotland · Post by **TrackScotland** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:04 am

GO Go Go!!!! hehe

looks like you had heaps of ruined laps... must be hard making space!

VIDS

right click, save as....

Warm up
http://www.trackscotland.co.uk/vid/time ... warmup.wmv

Practice
http://www.trackscotland.co.uk/vid/time ... actice.wmv

Final
http://www.trackscotland.co.uk/vid/time ... _final.wmv

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Mon May 18, 2009 11:09 am

Sorry for spoiling your warm up session :oops:

A brief snippet of how our day went :x

prolex-uk · Post by **prolex-uk** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:07 pm

commiserations

DunkRA · Post by **DunkRA** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:49 pm

a few pics

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:43 am

TrackScotland wrote:yup, reading duncans threads from before he was nursing a problem. Looks like he was doing the best he could with minimal 'exposure' to save the car long term. Still decent 1 lap times though!!!

Fords - The warmup was red flagged for a broken down ford beached on the track. Not sure if it was them, or the blue Escort.

Cheers Guys.

Had a fantastic weekend although things didnt quite go to plan.

Oil pressure issues started on tuesday and despite and oil change, changing a split oil pick up pipe on saturday in the rain as soon as I went out in warm up I knew there was a serious issue with the car.

Paul and I decided to nurse the car through the day and go just for the most points we could safely get.

Did very few laps in practice at low boost, then 3 hot laps in qualifying (again at lower boost) but still 3 seconds quicker than last year... and enough to get me 30 points for qualifying in 3rd place. I asked the car for one more lap for the final... just one. that is all I wanted.

Gave it that 1 lap (still only at 1.6 bar) but giving all I could through the twisties to claw back time I was losing on the straights from being down on power compared to the 750 bhp and 850bhp cars I was battling with. The car was immense. It flew through the corners - literally and up the straight to finish that lap and then just killed itself. Big ends are gone big style and it is rebuild time.

Still 3rd place is great and I loved it - it puts me into 2nd in the championship.

Dropped the car off at Zen's tonight on the way back after partying quite hard last night with Zen and have already taken the engine out - it will be ready for Silverstone - fear not 8)

mike-payne · Post by **mike-payne** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:49 am

well done Duncan!
Keep up the good work....

TrackScotland · Post by **TrackScotland** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:43 am

good stuff duncan - not so good with the car, but brave decision to just go for it! Let us know what the problem was if it can be tracked down

Oil Pick up pipes - is this being caused by the baffle tray, or just shitey pickup pipes? I'm considering a tray for mine.