Wednesday 1st August 2007

Time Attack Results from Knockhill

The Japanese race series is in town

---

Think about car modifications for one second and you'd probably compile an inventory that reads like a power obsessed street-racer. But hang on, isn't there more to building a fast car than simply loading up more bhp with the help of a turbocharger or two? You're damn right there is, which is why some very clever people in Japan have come up with The Time Attack Series, designed to test a car's blend of power, speed and agility.

Here's what the Time Attack website says:

“The Time Attack Series is a circuit based calendar of events whereby competitors drive hard against the clock to set the quickest lap time around a circuit. Not only do they have the task of doing this but they will be one of 55 cars and drivers, specifically invited with pedigree to fight it out alongside the industries finest, even including some belonging to private individuals.”

Sounds like quite a challenge, and the good news is that you can now have a go - the series has just moved to Blighty. Here are the results from the 3^rd stage at Knockhill.

The winners were:

N/A Class

3^rd: Dixon Cheng

2^nd: Simon Miskelly

1^st: Nadine Geary

Forced Induction Class

3^rd: Kevin Atkins

2^nd: Kevin Horsley

1^st: George Orr

Pro Class

3^rd: Jimmy McRae (yes, of WRC fame)

2^nd: Olly Clark

1^st: Phil Glew

For more information and a full race report go to: www.timeattack.co.uk

Want to go to the next one? Read this!

See, not all racing is boring

[edb49]

Shame that the news item didn't say what cars were competing, and the times they set

[clicdallara]

Congratulations to Phil Glew!

[Bizzle]

http://www.timeattack.co.uk/2007%20round%203%20report.asp 

All the results are here, however the cars people were driving were...

Club N/A Challange -


1st Nadine Geary - Dodge Viper

2nd Simon Miskelly - Honda Integra DC5

3rd Dixon Cheng - Honda Integra DC2


Club FI

1st George Orr - EVO 6

2nd Kev Atkins - CP9A Evo 6

3rd Kev Horsley - GC8 Imprezza


Pro



1st Phil Glew - Zen Performance Impreza

2nd Olly Clark - Roger Clarke GC8 Impreza

3rd Jimmy McRae - Tein Imprezza

[jon-]

That Viper is awesome in the flesh, bit of a farse with it being in the same category as cars like mr2s and dc2s, it's a full GT car. She was rubbish at Silverstone so I'm really surprised she managed to sort out knockhill. I wonder if she was running proper wets.

Dixon in the DC2 is a proper nice bloke.

[Slooby]

The story of TA doesn't end there though...

TA finished at around 9pm on Saturday, where most of the competitors packed up and then headed south to compete in TOTB the following day...which was won by 22b.com Team Subaru the individual title going to Olly Clarke in the RCMS Impreza

The TOTB Team was managed by Steven Darley, who not only competed at TA in the Lateral Performance Impreza but also drove the same car at TOTB, a car which was driven back from Scotland arriving at home at 3am on Sunday only to arrive at Elvington for 8am.

At TOTB the Zen performance car scored points for the team, as did Kevin Horsley in the Scoobyclinic car...oh and Andy Forrest ran a 9.27 quarter to win that side of the event too

The team won with 59 points, 9 clear of the second place MLR, the points coming from:

C71 Olly Clarke (RCMS) Impreza 22b.com Subarus 25
C68 Andy Forrest (Andy Forrest Performance) Impreza 22b.com Subarus 10
C70 John Stevenson Impreza 22b.com Subarus 9
C69 Paul Blamire (Zen Performance) Impreza 22b.com Subarus 7
C73 Singh / Horsley (Scoobyclinic) Impreza 22b.com Subarus 4
C74 Dale Howard Impreza 22b.com Subarus 3
C72 Steven Darley (Lateral Performance) Impreza 22b.com Subarus 1

All in all a damn good weekend for Imprezas

[cptsideways]

The time attack teams up with the EDC drift stuff, so we get to see what goes on at most rounds. Some properly sorted fast cars out there with some equally talented drivers. Fair play to Nadine in the Viper

[zed sump]

"the series has just moved to blighty"???? (last year) -was with Nad at 2 of the Silverstone rounds






ps. should this really be in the Speed (as in breaking the road speed limit?), Plod & the Law forum?

[Bizzle]

I would have thought motorsport would have been a better place to put it? Or maybe trackdays.

After spending all year with Team Driftworks last year (when we won the championship none the less) i spent a lot of time with the T/A boys. Wow. What a great bunch!

[anonymous-user]

You got the club FI runners in the wrong order. The real result was...

Club FI

1st George Orr - EVO 6

2nd Kev Horsley - GC8 Imprezza

3rd Kev Atkins - CP9A Evo 6


The Zen Impreza won the event with some of my roadcar gearbox components in there, as we stripped it in the padock to replace a set of broken drop gears and centre diff in the race car.

Phil's was stunning.

[Bizzle]

Ahh!
Good work there chap!
It's always a mad rush isn't it - great buzz tho

[teamHOLDENracing]

Do these cars run one at a time and the fastest lap time wins?

If so, what on earth is the "See, not all racing is boring" caption doing in the story?

[cptsideways]

They'll run 10 - 20 cars on track at the same time, bit like qualifying, though having watched them this weekend most of em seem to have forgotten you'll faster if your not all together So its like a race.

Don't forget lots of amateur drivers out there, I know of one team who put a professional driver in their car in testing who took 4 seconds off the owner-drivers time at Silverstone.

Its really a buy-it, build-it, race-it competition, a great concept. I'd love to have a go in my drift car with the suspension re-dialled I have no idea how fast it & myself would be but sure would like to find out

[Bizzle]

cptsideways said:

They'll run 10 - 20 cars on track at the same time, bit like qualifying, though having watched them this weekend most of em seem to have forgotten you'll faster if your not all together So its like a race.

Don't forget lots of amateur drivers out there, I know of one team who put a professional driver in their car in testing who took 4 seconds off the owner-drivers time at Silverstone.

Its really a buy-it, build-it, race-it competition, a great concept. I'd love to have a go in my drift car with the suspension re-dialled I have no idea how fast it & myself would be but sure would like to find out

Im with you there Dec old buddy,
I would love to have a go at throwing the S14 around silverstone with a set of slicks and differnet suspension and alignment setup. Would be cool.

[anonymous-user]

teamHOLDENracing said:

Do these cars run one at a time and the fastest lap time wins?

If so, what on earth is the "See, not all racing is boring" caption doing in the story?

The practice sessions are all as an open pit group.

For the club competitors the final timed session is done with 1 out lap, one timed lap and one in lap, just like the F1 qualy was done until recently.

For the Pro runners, post practice they have a 20 minute open pit qualyfying session, the top 10 fastest lap times get into the final. The final is then another 20 minute sesion where your fastest lap time counts, with all 10 cars on the track at the same time.

The knockhill Pro Final was stunning to watch, although not racing for position, you still have to posses some racecraft to work through the traffic and get the quickest lap in.

[vetteheadracer]

Congrats to Nad (N GTS here on Pistonheads) well done