RossSport Evo VI- First UK Evo into the 8's!

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:45 pm

Perfect conditions at Santa Pod today for Ross to have a final shot at showing the full potential of his car, and he wasted no time in breaking records- first casual run to warm the transmission, no launch or NOS, gave a 10-second quarter.

With that completed it was onto the first 'proper' run of the day, Gary and I up in the grandstand, Luke recording from the strip itself, no camera in the car (well, didn't think he'd do it on the first bloody go!)-

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8.75 @ 163mph!

Great to catch up with Matt Woods on the day, plus the other photographer there managed to get some slow-mo footage of Ross' launch, flames an' all, so I'll add it when we get it.

john B · Post by **john B** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:41 am

Good work........

Reaction time need work though.... Lol

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:11 am

Fk, 8 seconds !! Awesome work you guys !!!

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:27 pm

Awesome time, well done to all involved:thumbs:. Di9d I miss something as I thought Ross's evo was silver?

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:45 pm

Yes Pablo; you missed that he got it painted

Great work lads and great to see the car get the numbers that make it Europe's quickest Evo in this discipline

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:24 pm

john B wrote:Good work........

Reaction time need work though.... Lol

LOL- Ross isn't known for his punctuality!

Still beat the Mini to the end though.

pablo wrote:Awesome time, well done to all involved:thumbs:. Di9d I miss something as I thought Ross's evo was silver?

Yep, look hard enough and you'll still see the original paint in certain areas.

Stuart wrote: Great work lads and great to see the car get the numbers that make it Europe's quickest Evo in this discipline

Cheers guys, it certainly made our day to do it on the first run, and confirm the recent tweaks (to cure the rpm trigger issue we found at 30-130) worked perfectly. Beating Si Norris to the first 8 sec 1/4 was the silver lining, though he took it well- especially as Ross' was still running a semi-'Sprint' suspension set-up, so not maximising the grip available.

That's it for pushing the boundaries now- "Silvia" is returning to full Sprint spec from now on.

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:40 am

I couldn't find anything about this on MLR mate.........did Norris get an 8 too then Dan?

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:13 pm

Stuart wrote:I couldn't find anything about this on MLR mate.........did Norris get an 8 too then Dan?

There's a couple of threads on there, Stu. No other times were put up though, but Norris managed a PB of 9.1 when he showed at lunchtime.

Post by **Ben** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:05 pm

Amazing, well done guys!

Danny@APT · Post by **Danny@APT** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:20 pm

As promised- the Slow-mo launch footage