NEW SERIES, MX150R TRIAL AT BRANDS

[Stuart Mills]

Great to see the MX5 based exoskeletal cars running at Brands last weekend. Coming 2nd and 3rd in the Nippon event. They will be at Croft this weekend on the MX5 MK3 grid.

[anonymous-user]

Oh god, don't tell JonnyFive about these, he'll be championing them as the great alternative to the Caterham 7

[djroadboy]

They are seriously ugly cars though.

Will have a poke about them at Croft on Saturday.

Dan

[Stuart Mills]

Following on from an amazing 2nd and 3rd for Jonathon Blake and Alec Livesley last week at Brands Hatch (Nippon event) they travelled north to Croft this weekend. The race is for MX5 MK3 cars but the Exocets were allowed to enter on special grounds. It was clear from the qualifying times that those who doubted the performance figures we expected must eat some humble pie. The MK3 cars are stripped out and tuned to 180 BHP. The Exocets (MX150R's) are around 140 after a head skim. However the MEV's went so well that the race organisers decided that they should start from the back of the grid and be held for 10 seconds after the green light. What a long 10 seconds that seemed to me, poised with my little video camera. We later checked the on board camera on one car to see an 18 second gap before they were given the green flag. We then witnessed what must have been totally unexpected to everyone. Within 2 laps they had caught the back markers and by the end of the race they finished in an amazing 5th and 6th.
More good news followed too as whilst the noises we heard in the pits were to the effect that these kit cars were no match for the MK3 cars we dicovered after the race that Jonathon recorded the fastest lap time of the race. This suggests that he would have been 1st if he was not delayed somewhat at the start. Alec also achieved very quick lap times, the 2 were separated by only 3 hundreths of a second. Again going to show how close these cars and drivers are matched. The same thing happened on Sundays race too. This time a delay of around 10 seconds seemed to be correctish. Again Jonathon took the fastest lap time with Alec nono seconds behind. Michael Pearson also had a great race and managed to catch and take a few back markers.
Fantastic to watch and a great demonstration of what we have achieved in a very short time.
Shakey video showing race progress here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvwve2HGWK0

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Next weekend the 3 cars will be in action again. These hard working/hard driving trio will be at Mallory on Sunday 18th Sept. I seriously recommend a visit. This time they will be competing against the best Jap cars on the UK circuits. We are not expecting a win due to the 500 bhp some cars in the race will be running but we have already seen them show a clean set of heals to 7 type cars on many occasions as the Exocet corner exit speed are far superior. It will be great to see them next week as some of the cars they will fly past have far more power but drive front wheels