anyone at brands hatch wed 6th april? (evening session)

[irf]

Gonna be there with a mate in my accord and for some reason am pooping myself, in a good way though

anyone else there?

[Emagine]

Me and my dad will be there during the day testing our MR2 race cars. Looks like the test dayers and track dayers should have some good weather!

[itsallyellow]

We are also testing up there during the day. Although may well stay on for the evening session if we need more time. Have lots of suspension settings to tune in!

Mike

[irf]

well, that was fun!

may have had a brief word with you emagine? was your MR2 being trailered by some big ole american truck? (loved the sound of that)

slightly ruined by a couple of people not moving over but all in all, absolutely brilliant fun

[itsallyellow]

It was a great day. Weather was perfect. To top it all off the car went well!

Mike

[Emagine]

irf said:

may have had a brief word with you emagine? was your MR2 being trailered by some big ole american truck? (loved the sound of that)

yeah that was me irf.... fire away with the questions or drop me a PM.
And yeah, the Harley F150 pick up is quite a beast

As for the test day it was a truly wonderful way to spend a Wednesday. I just wish we had even more time to test between now and our race at Brands on the 17th. Managed to dial in some good settings though and iron out and test a few parts on my dads MR2 too.

[itsallyellow]

Was it the blue mr2 with stickers you were in? Or the other one?

[irf]

didnt have any questions, just spoke to maybe yourself as you were trailering it away but stopped by the store.

saw the yellow TVR on track, was brilliant, saw that being trailered away afterwards as well, had a 'volk racing' sticker on it.

highlights for me when i arrived were watching that white porsche and what appeared to be a WTCC chevrolet, the blue one without any stickers. was stupid quick.

another highlight was watching this thing, iirc i timed it at about 51 seconds!!

[T5NYW]

irf said:

didnt have any questions, just spoke to maybe yourself as you were trailering it away but stopped by the store.

saw the yellow TVR on track, was brilliant, saw that being trailered away afterwards as well, had a 'volk racing' sticker on it.

highlights for me when i arrived were watching that white porsche and what appeared to be a WTCC chevrolet, the blue one without any stickers. was stupid quick.

another highlight was watching this thing, iirc i timed it at about 51 seconds!!

Yes that was one Kin quick and well driven Escort, it took me back my good with my RS2000 Mk1 bigwing certainly wasn't 1600cc pushrod or 2.0ltr pinto though LOL

Tony

Ps

I was there 6th doing my ARDS Nat B Test and Passed, (ok no big deal but at 56 I was very cuffed) I was also there on 7th having a days Trackday tution with ARDS element

[Emagine]

itsallyellow said:

Was it the blue mr2 with stickers you were in? Or the other one?

I was in the one all vinyled up and my dad was in the more plain one.... due to be stickered up next week.

[itsallyellow]

Was going to come and say hello but we were really busy with different set ups etc. Looked like the cars were going well.

Mike

[darren no 7]

hi mike i here you where doing some good times, whats it like on fuel as i am trying to work out what size tank to put in (john thinks he is only getting 1.5 lts a min out of his !)thanks darren

[itsallyellow]

Yes car is running very well. Would love to get her down in the 46's.

For a 25 minute race we put 35 litres in. Allways take some out after. I think it's closer to 1 litre per minute. Will let you know more acuratly after next weekend.

Mike

[darren no 7]

thanks for that mike ,go and show them what a tvr can do!

[Emagine]

itsallyellow said:

Was going to come and say hello but we were really busy with different set ups etc. Looked like the cars were going well.

Mike

Cheers Mike. Yeah we were pretty pleased with the progress. My dads car (the plain one) was built over the winter so this was the first real chance to put it through its paces. I performed really well though it moaned about a couple of things. Its done over 100,000 miles as a road car and a day at the track made the gear box / diff a bit noisy. And just at the end of the day when we were going to scrub in a new set of tyres a wheel stud snapped!

I was pretty happy in my car too. Knocked another half second of my lap time from last year. Just need to replicate that in quali now on Sunday.

I'll be uploading some in car footage from the test day sometime this week. I'll keep an eye out for the Yellow one and post it up here for ya.

Stu

[Emagine]

Just a pic to show a nice spacious garage.... wish our home garage looked so clean!