Inappropriate Drag Racing Cars?

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Went up to Crail on Sunday to do some drag racing- I took my Octavia Tdi up, but mine was not the most odd car there..

Blog post is

Mod note: please stop pushing your blog.

What odd things have you seen running down the strip over the years? I've got the taste for it now, so need to work out how I can go faster..

Edited by Bill on Monday 6th July 10:19

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RobinBanks said:

"You were drag racing...in a Prius?"
"I don't win a lot"

I imagine the slug of torque from the motor helped a bit off the line?
got to be a good effort-and likely faster than my Octavia..

the BMW i3 seem nippy off the line-I wonder what they'd do on the 1/4?

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Lowtimer said:

15.3 at 86 mph. Range extender is a couple of tenths slower.

that is pretty good- I'll need to aim for that then;)

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darrenw said:

We've had a few Octavias race with us over the years as part of the VWDRC. We had a stock Sharan with us at the Summer Nationals the other week! The joys of bracket racing

sounds good- link to the vwdrc if possible? 60+mpg makes it cheap to head to various venues!

i was just RWYB rather than bracket racing (thats where you try to get as close to a target time without running faster?)

cheers

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Axionknight said:

http://insideevs.com/video-bmw-i3-versus-bmw-m3-0-...

Bit of a lame start though.

will watch that when I get to a pc-cheers!

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darrenw said:

The VWDRC

Our next round is in a few weeks, Bug Jam at Santa Pod. I think the RWYB is on Friday? We'll be all set up in the pits from Thursday lunchtime onwards. If you come then you'd be more than welcome to look round all the cars (we've got some lovely stuff racing with us) and have a natter etc

Cheers for the link and info-will see how things line up for heading down.

certainly enjoyed myself doing this so far

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there were a fair few corsas and civics etc running yesterday-giving some good times and speeds.

I think the "redtop route" in corsas is pretty well known and popular as a conversion.

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Cotty said:

I always though the Ford Model A was an odd choice. Must have the aerodynamics of a brick.

I'm sure an LS 1 laughs in the face of aerodynamics;)

though you are right, small frontal area and low drag would certainly make shoving the car through the air as easy as possible.

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aka_kerrly said:

A V8 with a Fiat 126 wrapped around it.

superb!

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R8VXF said:

was there not a club for sub 16sec type 1s at one point?

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darrenw said:

Yep, they have a few that are down in the 12s now, which is scary quick!

http://www.buseswithattitude.co.uk/

"Our" bus is still in the top 20, the Sambasaurus at number 15. Dan the previous owner ran 15s in it but we have a bit less power now and were running consistent 17s at the Summer Nationals, which is not bad with 21 windows worth of heavy glass and a roll cage! It's not mine but I crew for the team and drink all the beer... Once we've scrubbed the new eco-tyres in (via big smoky burnouts) we're hoping for high 16s at Bug Jam.


Sambasaurus - 1965 VW Type 2 Split Screen 21 Window Samba Deluxe - photo by Retro-Motoring

Summer Nationals isn't a VW-focused event so we got a lot of surprised public and competitors in the other classes gawping and asking questions. It's also the only race car I know of that I can comfortably sleep in

Edited by darrenw on Monday 6th July 18:55

sweeet! Glad I wasnt imagining it

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emicen said:

Either he meant to write "teens" or that's mega BS.

I'll 2nd that- my stock 320i touring e30 ran 16s all day long at York- and my reaction time was not 5 secs;)

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whysub said:

At North Weald on Sunday, a bog stock 1950's Ford 100e with the 1103cc side valve engine. Covered the quarter mile in 58.16 seconds who says small 1930's cars can keep up with modern traffic?

Edited by whysub on Tuesday 7th July 02:21

sounds superb

where can I find a list of when North Weald Has sessions on?

cheers

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whysub said:

North Weald event dates are shown at www.maitlandracing.com

Only one car and bike date left on Sunday 26th July, and bikes only on 9th August. £10 to spectate, £25 to run the track.

Some really good vehicles there (plenty of sub-10 second quarter mile times from road cars), including (this time) quite a few Transit vans too. Top day out!

The 58.16 second 100E:

Edited by whysub on Tuesday 7th July 13:53

thanks for that- will see if I can make the 26th July..

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this TVR Vixen was running last time I was up-sounded lovely and went very well.

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405dogvan said:

This thread is Thread-of-the-Day - linked from the front-page - so I guess the formula of posting based on your blog works ;0

Nice of them!

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here are some pics from my most recent outing to York Raceway..
Both cars were driven by mates of mine, and I attended in the Octavia (As per!)

Volvo 740 2.3 turbo Auto- fastest time 17.05


Peugeot 106 1.1 5speed- fastest time 19.37

Edited by 320touring on Wednesday 23 September 23:18