Brighton Sprint

[mercedes34]

Anyone going to Brighton Sprint on the1st September I have been going as a spectator for years but have entered my Chimaera this year.Its a great old fashioned motor sport event .There is usually 1 /2 TVR’s down at the event.I thing there is still some spaces .

[jesfirth]

Go say hi to Dave Morris. He runs his LS powered Tuscan racer each year, it's a very very quick car especially when he fires up the nitrous

[chrisgtx]

I thought the sprint had stopped running, what with the greens being in charge and all that?
I’d love to make a weekend of it.

[TwinKam]

chrisgtx said:

I thought the sprint had stopped running, what with the greens being in charge and all that?
I’d love to make a weekend of it.

They did their best! They stopped it for one year following a fatality, but popular demand brought it back. However, many see their decision to allow the tiered promenade viewing areas to fall derelict as a backdoor way of stopping the event; it's no longer possible to view from there.
The longest established motor sport event in the world. Fact.
http://www.brightonandhovemotorclub.co.uk/

[ofv8g]

Rather late response - but my "69" TVR Tuscan came 2nd by two hundredths of a second at Brighton on 1st September 2018. 10.22 standing quarter at 156 mph with 60 coming up in 2 seconds at the 64 ft mark.

[phazed]

Absolutely outstanding time!

Makes my N/A Chim at 11.83 seem arthritic!

What was your 0 to 60 ft time?

Edited by phazed on Monday 26th November 23:14

[Matthew Poxon]

That is crazy fast. Well done sir

[rev-erend]

I raced my Focus RS this year and will be in the SEAC for next year.

[TwinKam]

ofv8g said:

Rather late response - but my "69" TVR Tuscan came 2nd by two hundredths of a second at Brighton on 1st September 2018. 10.22 standing quarter at 156 mph with 60 coming up in 2 seconds at the 64 ft mark.

Nice one, Dave! Any more in car vt?
We keep missing each other, will try to see you there next year!
All best,
Rik

[spitfire4v8]

I suspect brighton isn't very grippy (?) so even better ! How much Tuscan is left though to get performance like that? It's hypercar-slaying acceleration!

[phazed]

7.0L engine, what is it?

[TwinKam]

He doesn't post much so I'm sure he won't mind me chipping in... I ran around with Dave in the Purley area in the 70s & 80s and we were all incredibly jealous of his '69 V8 Tuscan, everyone else was in Escorts & Minis at that time. He modded it over the years and has always been a regular at Brighton, I have some grainy pics somewhere of it in its original form, it's always been on that reg number, spaced thus:
OF V8 G.
It eventually mutated into this 7 litre LS, nitrous shiffing, sequential shifting monster in Tuscan Racer clothing, I don't recall what happened to the old car.
Here's an in-car vid from Brighton 2015: https://youtu.be/smE08MdaCug

Edited by TwinKam on Tuesday 27th November 09:30

[spitfire4v8]

Is it road legal? The IVA tester must have had kittens when that rolled up at the test centre Guessing it doesn't qualify for MOT exemption either

[phazed]

TwinKam said:

Here's an in-car vid from Brighton 2015: https://youtu.be/smE08MdaCug

Here's a video which gives a flavour of the event. Dave's car is about 3/4 the way through.

https://youtu.be/n6UiVKY2BZo

[TwinKam]

Found this vid of top 6 shoot-out, 2018.
Preceded by the glorious orange Allard 'Old Fella' that has run at Brighton since Nelson lost his eye, the Tuscan spins up at each gear change and sets ftd, followed by any number of anodyne grey Japanese things, one of who's electrickery enables it to shave off 2/100s

https://youtu.be/fIvKU_U4kdY

[spitfire4v8]

phazed said:

Here's a video which gives a flavour of the event. Dave's car is about 3/4 the way through.

https://youtu.be/n6UiVKY2BZo

That's a great video!

[jesfirth]

love dave's car - its an absolute monster. he ran it at Coventry motor fest this year which is also a good day out. we will be sprinting there next june. its the first closed road sprint in a city centre for about 40 years I think...

[Rako]

Fab Vid, really enjoyed it!

For info that green MGB has a full Wildcat Rover V8 in it, north of 400 brake...few on here doing TVR wildcat mods

[phazed]

Rako said:

Fab Vid, really enjoyed it!

For info that green MGB has a full Wildcat Rover V8 in it, north of 400 brake...few on here doing TVR wildcat mods

I thought it was the one that was talked about on here.