Castle Combe 4th May

[77racing]

See's the mighty car 77



up against the ex Winstanly Sagaris in Castle Combe GT. The race will be live on Motors TV channel 71 on free view or 447 on sky. Angus the new owner is a fairly good peddler so should make for an interesting race. The car has had a lot of work done to it over the winter and this will be the first race in new hands.

Thank You Jon, for the use of your Fantastic Photograph

Edited by 77racing on Friday 17th April 20:27

[77racing]

Thanx Darren, your a good sport and i'm pleased u won't have to do the coffee shop in your local garden centre for at least that weekend . Still looking into why the belt came off last time out. strange one, all looks ok the only reason I think a belt can come off is a massive over rev on the way down the box as far as I know. I already know what the consequences of that are so I can rule that out I recon , do you have any idea's ?

[77racing]

As it is supposed to be a serious quick car I would expect the GT lap record to fall easy this season. Ian Hall in the wildcat Davrian did a 1:08.5 in qually last time out so I recon that will be the car to beat this year.77 is capable of mid 1:08's but probably not until I have got the new sponsors Airtabs working well. The new resurfaced track will be slow until it has worn in a bit. it is very slippy in the damp and not that grippy yet until the initial oil has worn off.

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Flyin Banana said:

cannot wait ill be there !!

Rob

hi Man,

Looking at the time table you won't have to get up early and you may want to pack an evening meal as our race is down for the last of the day 6.10pm. I will call you once I have the gold bars !!!!!!!

[77racing]

no problem I have a private pass spare but you might have to park on the left as you go through competitors entrance then move up from there.

[77racing]

This is the new look Castle Combe, note the new track surface from just after start line.

[77racing]

55 acres supplying a whopping 4,000 homes so far, area's left out are archaeology and some field mice have nested. The MD of combe hopes to get an all electric race going some time. the village got 65k for local causes and the circuit got 900k of tarmac not quite enough to do the whole circuit. It was a really cheap job , when I walked round it the other week it looked like patching would start by mid summer no joke. looks like just you and me on forums now G. it will be gone soon enough .

[77racing]

Hi Maureen,

Debs and I were sorry we missed you surfing at the weekend. Was looking for a cuppa tea and a biscuit.

[77racing]

Morning Chris,

GT race is the last of the day 6.10pm , Just to note that Angus has had his Sagaris dropped from class A to Class C that's just because of regulations for each class.

[77racing]

Probably because it was a production road car conversion, it has had a full rebuild on engine and rest has been gone through. It is supposed to be very quick round Combe testing last week. certainly quicker than I have gone round. I can only hope for a top five finish

[77racing]

Thanx for all the positive comments. It was proper wet , my best lap time was a 1:32 I have never before being that slow round Combe a full 22 seconds off dry pace. We broke a drive shaft on lap three of qually strangely changing into 6th gear so did well to qually in third. Thank you very much to Jonny Greenwood for his sage advice with a drive shaft that was 10mm short of ideal as well as Richard Hay who proberbly pulled the strings to get the on board camera and really look forward to seeing him in a TVR some time with luck.
It will take a while now to dry out all the kit ex winstanly sag still has issues with a bent steering rack now so will be out at the end of the month.

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Thanks again for the thoughts,it was a cracker for TVR coverage considering the weather which made the car look good. just watched it myself, the new track surface certainly holds the water. Martin it is been repeated fairly regularly over the next month or so. next showing is 4pm tomorrow afternoon. I will post up the onboard video in a day or so.

[77racing]

This gives you an idea how wet it was & also shows my aero working fairly well u-hum u-hum .............................

[77racing]

onboard video link but to be honest not that interesting this time ......................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-6ENlqc2GY

[77racing]

Thanks Phil for update . No over heating problem, we have thought brittle fatigue. I use the GKN Tuscan factory upgraded shaft. Got some spares so just trying to sort a CV joint. Car not out till end of July next so have loads of time to sort.