Fighting Torque

[Cerberowner]

What an excellent day. Thanks to longbow for arranging it and for all the folk at Javelin for a really well organised event. Am looking forward to seeing some pictures and videos - and hopefully to a rerun next year.

[BLUETHUNDER]

I second that.A big thankyou to Longbow and the rest of the crew for pulling this altogether.I want to also thank Amazon for keeping me fed and watered during the afternoon.What a day

[cerbfan]

Come on then share some times.

[Cerberowner]

I'm sure the results will be posted on the Fighting Torque website, but I think the quickest car was an Ultima @ 170mph. Cerb seemed to be about 150 - 160.

[BLUETHUNDER]

I thought it was the Noble 171mph.Me personally 115mph race 1(Its a long story) 144mph race 2 143 race 3.I wasnt pushing the revs to the max, and changing the gears around the 5500 grand mark.

[Cerberowner]

152½ was my best - but then I also stalled it off the line once

[satman]

Cerberowner said:

I'm sure the results will be posted on the Fighting Torque website, but I think the quickest car was an Ultima @ 170mph. Cerb seemed to be about 150 - 160.

My quickest time was 26.57 secs for the 3/4 mile...fastest 153.73mph, which i was pretty pleased with...I can also boast that I beat the Murcelargo on my second run... ..think the driver cocked the gears up!
Nickcc was quickest Cerb with a terminal speed of around 160mph, but he then went on to blow 5th gear in his box...

Well done Windsor (longbow)and Javelin for a great fun day out, very well organised Roll on next year...

[BLUETHUNDER]

Here,s a couple of pics.Me and MadMark

[BLUETHUNDER]

MadMark got a 155mph.I think the Cerb,needed that extra bit of runway to get the most out of them,then you would have seen a different stack of figures.On my second run,i got a better start of the line than the Porsche Turbo i was up against,he went past me mid way,but as i banged the power down more,i started to reel him in.But by this time i was going past the chequer board,so it was game over.

Edited by BLUETHUNDER on Sunday 12th August 18:16

[cerbfan]

Sounds like some good terminals there, so was Nickcc quicker than the Boss, Harrys and Brummiewedge then. Very impressive if he was.
I can't believe you all got beat by a Noble, mainly as my mate has one, hope it was heavily modified.

[Byker28i]

My pics are up - http://www.pbase.com/byker28i/fightingtorque2007

I had to leave about 2pm. I couldn't face ragging my car any more or driving back 200 miles through M25 sunday rush hour.

My best was a 26.78 - 152.22mph - but I wasn't beaten in any of my races.

[Byker28i]

Oh and my thanks to everyone who organised it - and longbow looked like he was fastest 4.2 when I left. I was happy being 13th fastest cerbera at lunch out of 38 Cerberas. Not bad for my standard 4.2

[BLUETHUNDER]

cerbfan said:

Sounds like some good terminals there, so was Nickcc quicker than the Boss, Harrys and Brummiewedge then. Very impressive if he was.
I can't believe you all got beat by a Noble, mainly as my mate has one, hope it was heavily modified.

Boss never made itI would have like to have seen what one of his cars would have done.Brummies best terminal was 159mph(ithink)

[BLUETHUNDER]

cerbfan said:

Sounds like some good terminals there, so was Nickcc quicker than the Boss, Harrys and Brummiewedge then. Very impressive if he was.
I can't believe you all got beat by a Noble, mainly as my mate has one, hope it was heavily modified.

Dont quote me on this,but i think one of the Nobles was pushing out 700bhp.It had a specially developed Roush lump in it.And did it go.

[cerbfan]

BLUETHUNDER said:

cerbfan said:

Sounds like some good terminals there, so was Nickcc quicker than the Boss, Harrys and Brummiewedge then. Very impressive if he was.
I can't believe you all got beat by a Noble, mainly as my mate has one, hope it was heavily modified.

Dont quote me on this,but i think one of the Nobles was pushing out 700bhp.It had a specially developed Roush lump in it.And did it go.

Bloody eck, not suprised it won then. I guess people did well to get within 15mph of it.

[satman]

I also noticed that all the Nobles seemed to get much more grip of the line, maybe due to the engine being over the rear wheels...I had problems with spinning wheels in 1st and 2nd till i got to the tarmac bit...

[XTR2Turbo]

Great day. Thanks Longbow

From memory reading the final list after the official runs fasted cerb was BrummieWedge and he was about 10th fastest overall

Top 5 were Highly tuned Noble, 997 Turbo, Tuned 996 Turbo, Corvette Z06, Lambo Murci and Ultima.

David

[Byker28i]

Nah a slight wheel spin at the start but feathered the clutch & throttle to deal with it. My problem was as I got quicker and people were close to me, I didn't dare change gear from 4th to 5th so ran it it 4th to the line at just over 7k revs.

[BLUETHUNDER]

I think a big thanks should also go out to the owners of the other marques of cars who (DID)turn up on the day.

[housemaster]

What a bloody great day, well done everyone, and good to meet up with such a great bunch. Felt the GT3 held its own really well, and better than I had expected as I was not beaten on the track, even by an 997 GT3

Race 1 25.58 @ 156.80
Race 2 25.59 @ 157.02
Race 3 25.59 @ 158.02
Race 4 25.83 @ 155.71

I think it is fair to say I was Mr Consistent and god the 911 does lauch really rather well. Thanks for putting on a great day, lets have another soon, and great to see everyone behaving themselves too on the tour backs, top performance.

Edited by housemaster on Sunday 12th August 19:35