PH team for Birkett six hour Relay Race ?

[Graham]

The Entry Went Off on monday so we'll see what happens

from Here


Graham

[Graham]

The Entry Went In with the Following



Graham :- Tasmin
Dom :- MG Midget
Ed Hasler :- Westie
Stig :- Locost
DDreamer :- G20 R
Griff2be :- Tuscan (*provisional on engine)


Keep everything crossed


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[Graham]

daydreamer said:

But have been promised brand new chassis this week, so should be testing again in a month. Rich

B*gger so the chassis was toast then ouch...

[Graham]

THE 750MC have Cashed the Entry Cheque Today So it looks like they have accepted our entry.

I'll Post as soon as i get confirmation


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[Graham]

Well I got the confirmation through from the 750MC today

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We're In
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The PistonHeads.com Endurance racing team is a go...

The Drivers are


Graham Walden :- TVR Tasmin
Dom Mooney :- Mg Midget
Richard Burgess :- Ginetta G20R
Ed Hasler :- Westfield
Chris James :- Locost
Andy Holden :- TVR Tuscan ( come on TVR let him use the engine)

[Graham]

Mine's violet (pink)
Dom's is bright Green


Anyone care to donate some removable paint ( and i dont mean removable with paint stripper and sand paper )





I've got a spare 2.8i that would fit

and even a 2.9 24v with a t5 bell housing

>> Edited by Graham on Tuesday 3rd August 13:51

[Graham]

daydreamer said:

Any suggestions as to colours are more than welcome however as we're still a bit undecided.

I quite like Violet it does stand out well and all the girlies watch the pink car.

I think whatever colour you go for you need to make sure it stands out, and is different to all the other cars running. You can allways make a sponsors logos stand out by making the car multi coloured...

[Graham]

I've not had much time to sort things formally other than the main entry at the moment but im still working on it. The entry has changed slightly as stig has gone and got himself entered on 2 teams.

the current entry is

Graham Walden :- TVR Tasmin
Dom Mooney :- Mg Midget class A
Richard Burgess :- Ginetta G20R
Ed Hasler :- Westfield
Gareth Penn :- MG Midget class B (ex ingear test driver )
Andy Holden :- TVR Tuscan ( come on TVR let him use the engine)

I have a couple of offers for team manager at the mo.

What i suppose i need to find out now is what support each driver will be bringing with them, and then check on the number of other support we've got.

SO if everyone can let me know that i'll start from there.


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[Graham]

Im getting back to finalizing the details, i'll contact all drivers and supporters over the next week. Im just working out roles ect. Im also working on a hospitality unit for us to live in whilst were there (ok a bus) failing that its me mum and som sarnies..

Cheers

G

Ted you going to come, and we can do a live update to ph and if so id better check the pie and guiness budget

[Graham]

Hi All, Time is marching on and the Birkett will soon be upon us..


Can everyone who has offered help please drop me an e-mail on

[e-mail]

and let me know

what they would like to do and, any experience ( as driver or team) what if anything they can bring with them.Plus when you can get there.

I'll be taking my car over on the friday lunchtime and probably staying at the track on friday night.

that way we can get the car scrutineered before the saturday.

The basic jobs are

1) Pit wall (signalling and someone to run it)
2) Driver babysitters ( making sure they are in the right place),preping them and the car ready to go out.
3) Spotters ( a couple of peeps around the track with comms to team manager)
4)refueling,tyres,checkover crew
5)damages/problem crew
6) Team manager
7) Food - (possibly my mum :0 )
8) PR,( I know its only small but it would be nice to be able to issue hourly bullitins on ph and to any spectators..

The outline plan is to split the sessions equally between the 5 or 6 cars we have ( depending on fuel capacity)

at all times we should have

a) 1 car on the track ( with transponder!!)
b) 1 car in pits with driver strapped in, warm engine and ready to go ( with Transponder)
c) 1 car 2nd inline in pits, ready to go, with driver in pits or on pit wall
d) the other cars should be checked over and tyres/ fuel done as soon as they come in and be ready outside the pit garage. Driver location should always be known.
as soon as a car comes off the track the transponder need to be swapped to the waiting car.

Things that will adjust session time( team manager will decide on this)

1) Saftey car periods.
2) Car Problems
3) Lap times dropping off significantly
4) changes in weather i.e. rain

The handicap assumes each car does an equal share of the running, if it doesnt then they adjust the handicap.
2)

[Graham]

I've Just spoken to the 750mc.. looks like this year is going to be a goody. they have 3 teams on reserve waiting just in case so that means 40plus teams... tats a lot of cars in the paddock !!!


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[Graham]

Confirmed


Me - TVR Tasmin
Ed Hasler - westfield
Dom - mg midget Class C
Richard - Ginetta G20 R

possible

Andy - TVR TUSCAN
Gareth - MG Midget class B

i should have the final line up and driver profiles with pic by wed

Ed, when can you get your motor to silverstone, im looking to scruit the other cars on friday afternoon if poss

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[Graham]

Its a real shame, but the sad fact is that in the end motorsport comes down to money every time.... or more usually the lack of it

AN 04 challenge car out there would have been somthing to stick one over on the Morgan plus 8's and the radicals.. but hey ho...


there is one tuscan but it nearer a 64 than an 04....


interestingly the car with the lowest lap time isnt a radical but a TR7 V8 !!!!

I' can't think of anyone that might be interested in the tuscan :countingpenniessmiley: does it come in pink...


TEAM DETAILS

Team Number :- 35 ( make sure this is on the car on a white background before you get there)

garage = 11A

Timings

Friday

Scruit : 14:30 - 20:00

Saturday

Scruit : 07:30-09:30
quaifying : 09:00-10:20 ( all drivers must do 3 laps)
1st car to assembly 10:40 ( no later than)
race start 11:00
race finish 17:00
awards 18:00

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[Graham]

Its says violet on the tin "violent violet"

[Graham]

Munter said:

If I read the timings right theres 1:20 to qualify the cars. Now if we say 3 cars per team, isn't that going to be fairly tight/cosey out on the circuit?

yep qualifying is quite fraught.. the average is nearer 5 cars per team and 42 teams... so thats a min of 210 cars...

they limit the total on track at any one time to about 42 as they would in an open pitlane day.

all you do in qually really is get your 3 laps in per car/driver and then only go out again if you need to check for a problem.

the start positions are all decided on the handicap so no point in going for a banzi lap... in fact last year i got told off by our team for going to hard in qually..

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[Graham]

Right just got the word from gareth, hes had to build a new sprint engine for their last race the weekend before, and as that now needs to last next season he can't risk it in an enduro..


Soooo

the Team is now 4 cars ( pending last min change of heart by tvr)

tasmin,westie,mg,ginetta.

now if we can get fuel capacity up and run consistant times with no problems we are actually in with a shout for a reasonable result.

anyone got a number for fueltanks-r-us...

[Graham]

Yep We'll be out


The team is 4 cars so the pit we'll be busy...

there are plentyh of Phers comming out to help and to watch.


The race is from 11:00 till 17:00

we are team 35 and garage 11A

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[Graham]

Well its almost time for the 1st Pistonheads.com

race team outing.

The flag drops at 11:00 on saturday morning for 6 hours


The tasmin is almost ready. the engine fixed and the diff changed.

The Midget still needs a little work after its race last wekend, but nothing a few tins of filler and some paint can't fix

The Westfield and the Ginetta just need some PH stickers


See you all there

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[Graham]

Munter said:

Those of us comming to help out? Do we just park up in the "public" car parks, or should we put them somewhere else to avoid them being locked in if we leave a bit late?

Drive in through the main gate and head towards the paddock.

provided its not to stuffed enter the paddock and find us and well park you in the outer paddock from there..

if the paddock is to stuffed to get in. park by the diner and walk in to the pit garage

cheers

G

[Graham]

Were taking the old chaps caravan as the hostility suite

so i'll make sure we have some bacon buns and some pies for ted...


100 octane sounds yummy im sure we can find a home for that...

CHuck the romper suit in you never know... you could even get to find out what its like to drive a real tvr :heheh: power is nothing without control and in a tamin there is no power and no control