Well done Richard and Paul
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adrian w said:
Richard came 4th and Paul 11th 
:
Oh.........and after 30 minutes of racing Richard in a Noble M400 lapped a Fiat 360 CS
: Oh.........and after 30 minutes of racing Richard in a Noble M400 lapped a Fiat 360 CS
Results here, in fact Adrian I lapped it as well. So the Fiat was lapped by both Nobles.
www.msttiming.com/result.asp?table=64054rc1ive&round=natdonington.gif
Richard did fantasticaly well, coming 4th in his first ever full race and that after a "Loeb" manoevure and still finishing in front of Dean Lansante - a professional career racer. I had an absolute ball starting 18th and finding myself 34th out of 34 after the first corner. I got beaten by that bloody GTI again but happily I managed to overtake the 360 Sradale twice in the same race (driver changes) and all of this captured on video. I'll post asaic.
Regards
Paul C
Edited by paulcundy on Sunday 8th October 00:20
well done noble boys beating the ferrari 360cs [fiat] after all it was designed for girls being automatic and having power steering and only 8 cylinders let me know the next time you are racing and i will bring a proper ferrari with 12 cylinders in the rear and no electronic driving aids a proper mans ferrari the F512M and i can guarentee you wont pass me[ as its so wide only a grass tracker will pass me]
paulcundy said:
adrian w said:
Richard came 4th and Paul 11th :
Oh.........and after 30 minutes of racing Richard in a Noble M400 lapped a Fiat 360 CS
: Oh.........and after 30 minutes of racing Richard in a Noble M400 lapped a Fiat 360 CS
Results here, in fact Adrian I lapped it as well. So the Fiat was lapped by both Nobles.
www.msttiming.com/result.asp?table=64054rc1ive&round=natdonington.gif
Richard did fantasticaly well, coming 4th in his first ever full race and that after a "Loeb" manoevure and still finishing in front of Dean Lansante - a professional career racer. I had an absolute ball starting 18th and finding myself 34th out of 34 after the first corner. I got beaten by that bloody GTI again but happily I managed to overtake the 360 Sradale twice in the same race (driver changes) and all of this captured on video. I'll post asaic.
Regards
Paul C
Edited by paulcundy on Sunday 8th October 00:20
8ollocks if i had of known about this at donnington i would of come down as its only 50 mins for me
Dear All,
I've got a 10mb file of the first lap, up 5 places on the start, down 21 places at Redgates and then up 6 again by the end of the lap. But how do I get it uploaded? It will be hours on my laptop dialup and my webmail says its too big. Come on how do I use my broadband to get it to someone who can host it? Justin where are you?
Regards
Paul C
ps by the way Richard going into Redgate I was within a whisker of your tail......
I've got a 10mb file of the first lap, up 5 places on the start, down 21 places at Redgates and then up 6 again by the end of the lap. But how do I get it uploaded? It will be hours on my laptop dialup and my webmail says its too big. Come on how do I use my broadband to get it to someone who can host it? Justin where are you?
Regards
Paul C
ps by the way Richard going into Redgate I was within a whisker of your tail......
Here's how the day went from my perspective, I hope it's of interest :-
With no time to test, qualifying in the morning was rather "scary" ...
At the previous meeting at Oulton Park we suffered with long brake travel, albeit with braking working. So for qualifying we'd opted to change from DS2500 pads to DS3000's, as the DS2500s simply didn't dissipate enough heat.
Along with the new pads we decided to run on Corsas (this was the endurance race so didn't need the Yokohamas and we reckoned the Corsas would be better).
I hadn't time for a test day so, no testing, guess the tyre pressures and get on with it. We set them too high unfortunately.
Qualifying started and braking and cornering were definitely not fun; it was like being on marbles all the time! Then on lap twelve there was a pop and I lost boost and as I continued on my enfored cool down lap now running in normally aspirated mode just hoping it was just one of those bloody hoses coming off or splitting again. I curtailed qualifying and Plans confirmed that the rear Turbo hose had split.
Hmm, oh well, ended up 5th on the grid on the second row so not too disastrous. Adrian kindly lent me his rear turbo hose and then we sat and waited for our one race ... the last one of the day ... Paul gave me some Red Bull
.
So on to the race ...
Good grief what a nervy long wait just before the start. I had it easy though as Paul being a bit further back on the grid couldn't even see the start lights from where he was (
).
The red lights went out and I got a slow start, but miles better than the last one at Oulton Park when I only started after seeing Paul shoot past me (doh). Anyway I got going and booted it a bit more with some wheelspin and held the inside line going into Redgate but already I'd lost 2 or 3 places. Then going into Redgate someone on my left hit someone else and went airborn and on the way out somewhere going into Craners there was a spinner and a collision taking out a the Exige which had started in front of me ... all a bit of a blur really and Paul has hopefully got this on Video so maybe I'll find out what actually happened.
Anyway, phew, I'd got through that then. Then through Craner Curves for the first time and as I got around Old Hairpin I discovered that I wasn't driving on marbles any more and the tyre pressure and damper rebound adjustments were proving worthwhile. Great, the brakes weren't locking up like before.
And the rest of the race was overtaking, overtaking, overtaking and a bit of overtake-spin-and-overtake-again (I must stop doing the spinning part).
So thanks to Plans for doing the repairs to clutch, flywheel and slave cylinder (an engine out job) and for putting it all back together again, Adrian for lending me his rear turbo hose which looked better that the one Plans had available at the time, Justin for his usual level of enthuiastic Noble support and Paul for getting me involved in the first place.
ps. someone help Paul to get the video posted ASAP as I want to see how the start should be done and how close he got!
--
Richard
With no time to test, qualifying in the morning was rather "scary" ...
At the previous meeting at Oulton Park we suffered with long brake travel, albeit with braking working. So for qualifying we'd opted to change from DS2500 pads to DS3000's, as the DS2500s simply didn't dissipate enough heat.
Along with the new pads we decided to run on Corsas (this was the endurance race so didn't need the Yokohamas and we reckoned the Corsas would be better).
I hadn't time for a test day so, no testing, guess the tyre pressures and get on with it. We set them too high unfortunately.
Qualifying started and braking and cornering were definitely not fun; it was like being on marbles all the time! Then on lap twelve there was a pop and I lost boost and as I continued on my enfored cool down lap now running in normally aspirated mode just hoping it was just one of those bloody hoses coming off or splitting again. I curtailed qualifying and Plans confirmed that the rear Turbo hose had split.
Hmm, oh well, ended up 5th on the grid on the second row so not too disastrous. Adrian kindly lent me his rear turbo hose and then we sat and waited for our one race ... the last one of the day ... Paul gave me some Red Bull
. So on to the race ...
Good grief what a nervy long wait just before the start. I had it easy though as Paul being a bit further back on the grid couldn't even see the start lights from where he was (
). The red lights went out and I got a slow start, but miles better than the last one at Oulton Park when I only started after seeing Paul shoot past me (doh). Anyway I got going and booted it a bit more with some wheelspin and held the inside line going into Redgate but already I'd lost 2 or 3 places. Then going into Redgate someone on my left hit someone else and went airborn and on the way out somewhere going into Craners there was a spinner and a collision taking out a the Exige which had started in front of me ... all a bit of a blur really and Paul has hopefully got this on Video so maybe I'll find out what actually happened.
Anyway, phew, I'd got through that then. Then through Craner Curves for the first time and as I got around Old Hairpin I discovered that I wasn't driving on marbles any more and the tyre pressure and damper rebound adjustments were proving worthwhile. Great, the brakes weren't locking up like before.
And the rest of the race was overtaking, overtaking, overtaking and a bit of overtake-spin-and-overtake-again (I must stop doing the spinning part).
So thanks to Plans for doing the repairs to clutch, flywheel and slave cylinder (an engine out job) and for putting it all back together again, Adrian for lending me his rear turbo hose which looked better that the one Plans had available at the time, Justin for his usual level of enthuiastic Noble support and Paul for getting me involved in the first place.
ps. someone help Paul to get the video posted ASAP as I want to see how the start should be done and how close he got!
--
Richard
Paul, bloomin heck - just seen your vid ( www.cundy.neptune.com ) of the first lap, absolutely fantastic, talk about getting on with it when the red lights go out. See you got fastest lap in your class and I can see why.
Love the overtake on Swantz curve.
More please.
--
Richard
Love the overtake on Swantz curve.
More please.
--
Richard
Everyone,
Just click on this link
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~noble/v
As it's a WMV it will stream directly into Windows Media player (or right click and Save As... if you want to save a copy to your harddisk)
J
Just click on this link
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~noble/v
As it's a WMV it will stream directly into Windows Media player (or right click and Save As... if you want to save a copy to your harddisk)
J
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