I am entering my car in the NSCC this year…

[I]The National Street Car Challenge is the UK's premiere street and strip series for the rod and custom scene. In 2002 we made the series national and plan to keep it that way. We will still be out and about at the cruises and getting to all the shows, but we have drag events at Santa Pod, Shakespeare County Raceway and York Dragway.
Whether your car is a 9-second car or a 19-second car, cost twenty grand or twenty quid, bring it out and have some fun with the friendliest, most laid-back competition in Britain. You may join in at any time during the season and attend as many or few events as you like. If it is rear-wheel, has MOT and tax and you are prepared to have some fun with it, you're in! No MSA race licenses necessary. [/I]

The calendar has just been announced and I am glad to see that all their race dates are to be held at York starting Easter Sunday. It would be fantastic to see some TVRs come along and support. Why not have some fun in RWYB while your there?

I will also be grabbing points by attending the Preston riversway cruise on a regular basis.
There also some great hotrod shows and weekends not to be missed including ‘Hot Rods & Hills’ in June in my home county of Cumbria.
Hopefully my own little ‘hotrod’ can make it to all these events and perform well on the dragstrip.
I will be trying to update on twitter as I go. I had problems with any kind of an internet connection at York last year but hope I can post my progress better this year. So follow me @dbv8 and lets see if a humble TVR can prove its worth in what is a fantastic club with a great set of guys with a wide range of fantastic cars.

Great Stuff Derek. Keep the Chaemaera forum closely informed. Not forgetting us Griffs.

Humble TVR my arse

One dictionary states as follows.

1. Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
Doesn't sound like dbV8 to me.

2. Showing deferential or submissive respect: a humble apology.
Possible, but unlikely.

3. Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly: a humble cottage.
Definitlty not a TVR then.

I know you'll do well Derek and I wish you all the very best but you have to drop this 'humble' shit

Apart from Brummmie perhaps

I never made it to the first Riversway cruise this year as my gearbox was out getting a new release bearing fitted that it didn't need so I missed out on 300 points. Despite nasty gearbox noises I drove to the first race meet at York 7am last Sunday and things turned out very well for my birthday on the Monday.

Here's the race report from the NSCC website......


After a whole winter of anticipation, round one was held on Easter Monday at York Raceway. Many of the handful of participants took advantage of the open RWYB on the Sunday to put in a few shakedown passes and, as it turned out, the Sunday was to be the better of the two days weather-wise.
Class record-holder, Andy 'Fadster' Hadfield was back out with his insane Fad T freshly weighed down with about a hundredweight of metalflake. It seems that anything that stayed still long enough to be metalflaked chez Fadster was given a dose of 'flake over black, including the bodywork, the seats, the steering wheel and apparently, rather puzzlingly, his third member and helmet. Make of that what you will. Perhaps Fadster should be renamed Gary Glitter? Proclivities notwithstanding, Andy set the pace on the Sunday with a 9.4 at 155mph.
Returning to the ranks after a long, long layoff was Russ Pursley in the Chevy-powered Dutton. Slated to run way below its true potential due to a few safety rule compliance issues, it was all academic as the car didn't run in the end, but it was damn good to see Russ back again – it's been a long time. Another car back out and looking good was Simon Boot's freshly-logoed 'Bootlegger' Camaro, the new graphics adding a whole new dimension to an already tough-looking car, but mechanical gremlins would piss on Simon's chips before the qualifiers.
Sunday night was a damn good piss-up, with many folk getting bladdered as a first line of defence against the fact that it was sodding cold and throwing it down with rain. Some people had started as early as Saturday afternoon before they'd even got in through the gates, with an early casualty being Simon Boot who stepped out of his wagon for a late-night waz, temporarily forgetting that his door was about five feet off the deck. He had a nice lump on his head to show for it, and insists that he was pushed... we reckon 'pished' is nearer the mark.
Monday dawned cold and wet, and despite constant reassurance over the Tannoy that it would clear up and we'd be racing any time soon, not many people were convinced. It came very close to being abandoned, with a show of hands from the drivers tipping the balance in favour of sticking around to race the round. American Super Stock had all but packed up and pissed off before we got called for our first qualifier at lunchtime.
When we did line up, Boot and Pursley were already out of the running, but Derek Beck had the TVR set to stun after some emergency clutch surgery just a few days beforehand. He wasn't out to waste any nitrous, running a 13.6 at 107mph on a cold, damp track to take first spot. After a winter's intensive work on the Cortina that included... erm, hoovering it, James Murray wasn't out to waste any nitrous either because he'd forgotten to turn it on, but still ran a 14.0 at 98mph to take second. Work continues apace on John Peace's little red Fox, but he wouldn't see the benefits of it today, carding a 15.4 at 94mph in third. If John's Fox Mustang is Dorien Gray, then Dave Smith's Mustang is the picture in his attic, the crusty Fox just behind on a 15.6 at 89mpg. This was particularly galling for Dave as, the previous weekend, Nancy had taken it out in RWYB at Shakey and carded a 15.2 on her second ever run up the strip. Dave did point out that Nancy had a glorious weekend on a prepped track whilst he was racing with his wipers on, but it just sounded like sour grapes.
A full six seconds later was fifth qualifier, Scott Presland with the crossflow Pop, 21.6 at 50mph, whilst running an almost identical time for sixth was Andy Hadfield, who had suffered a serious meltdown in the valvetrain and would have been out of the rest of the meeting anyway. Bringing up the rear with a 25.8 at 47mph was newcomer Rick Swain in the stock 1300cc Viva.
Then the rain came down. Again. We never got a second qualifier in, and, after a couple of hours of watching the hot hatches running laps in the rain, we were told by Des on the start line that we may as well forget it. The meeting was called at 3pm.
It's been a long time since a round at York has been called because of rain, but that's the way things go at the beginning of April. We had a lot of laughs, got clattered in the Osbornes' hospitality suite, and raced on a mightily twitchy track. John Peace has taken an early lead in the points, with Dave Smith just behind and Derek Beck biting at their ankles. The next round is a double-header on the first weekend in May – let's make it a blinder.

Thanks, it never got to race rounds and was sad to see the awesome Twister having problems but a wins a win and points are points. Looking forward to May 5th already.

See how bad it was....

Yeah wet and very windy

The cars all set and packed ready for an early getaway in the morning.
I have a replacement Helix clutch courtesy of Neal1980 and no real excuses as yet.

The weather looks like it should behave better than Easter which is great for racing but will let the big boys run as they should. Hopefullly i wont get drawn against the quickest cars too soon.

Its round 2 tomorrow and round 3 on Monday with 4000 points up for grabs. I am currently lying in 4th place with 2300 points after attending the Preston riverway cruise last night.

I have 3 bottles full of gas at the ready and am looking forward to playing with suapension settings and getting the car to hook up better on launch.
I fitted new CL pads today and went for a test drive and a bed in.... I have to say they were much better than the yelllowstuffs i had before from the off and i am very impressed already, Maybe they will hold me steady in the bleaches and i can achieve a longer burnout and finally get some real heat into the Mickey Thompsons.

But overall i am looking forward to a great 2 days at York raceway with all the good people there, racers, marshals and hopefully a few TVR buddies.

Ran a PB of 11.58@ 119.6.
So my day is made already

Well done that man.