Dutch Supercar Challenge at Silverstone
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After 12 months of further development the G20 gt coupe that originally appeared a few years ago will hopefully be taking part in the silverstone rounds of the dutch supercar challenge on the weekend of September 7th, as long as it is back together by then and everything is ok. A friend of mine used it for a couple of rounds last year, the images below were at pembrey last year. Since then there is a new duratec 4 cylinder fitted, power about 300 hp, fitted to a drenth sequential box. So if you're free come and have a look, there is testing on the thursday, qualifying in the friday morning, one race in the afternoon and second race on the saturday before the britcar 24 hour race which starts at 5 pm.
oh well!! and it's _very_ local to me as well. Any other dates?
If any of you are heading down to Silverstone you may want to buy your tickets at Dunlop in Birmingham and get a free breakfast, with all ticket proceeds going to Birmingham Children's Hospital
Calum Lockie, Le Mans driver and GT Champion, and Rob Huff, Dunlop BTCC and WTCC winner will be on hand at TyreFort on Saturday morning to talk about their racing experiences
We love Ginettas at Dunlop - it would be great to see a few on the Brumball rally tour to the Silverstone race. Register at....................
www.driversknow.co.uk/tour24
Calum Lockie, Le Mans driver and GT Champion, and Rob Huff, Dunlop BTCC and WTCC winner will be on hand at TyreFort on Saturday morning to talk about their racing experiences
We love Ginettas at Dunlop - it would be great to see a few on the Brumball rally tour to the Silverstone race. Register at....................
www.driversknow.co.uk/tour24
Where shall we start. In three days I think we only completed a handful of laps, very expensive. But we did have a good laugh and we ironed out a few problems.
Testing thursday morning, car kept cutting out loose cable on battery, oops!
Qualifying friday morning, more power and heavy right foot combining equals snapped drive shaft, didn't do the mandatory three qualifying laps so it was touch and go whether the car would be allowed to race even though we had been there the day before, so the solution was to do two solitary laps before the race and use the warm up lap as the third. Everything seemed ok until no car appeared on lap 2 during the race. After a bit of time the car appeared in pit lane with fuel spraying everywhere, one of the alloy tee fittings on the fuel rail had fractured but luckily it could be discarded and the scrutineer was happy to let the car go back out. After settling down for a few laps it disappeared yet again, snapped driveshaft again. Talk about lightning striking twice any way returning home on friday night two drive shafts were fabricated to get over the problem.
Returning saturday morning setting the car for the second race, everything seemed to be ok. Completing over half distance of the race and everything was ok, then suddenly no clutch, race weekend over. But like I said everyone went home happy even though the car made us work more than normal.
Testing thursday morning, car kept cutting out loose cable on battery, oops!
Qualifying friday morning, more power and heavy right foot combining equals snapped drive shaft, didn't do the mandatory three qualifying laps so it was touch and go whether the car would be allowed to race even though we had been there the day before, so the solution was to do two solitary laps before the race and use the warm up lap as the third. Everything seemed ok until no car appeared on lap 2 during the race. After a bit of time the car appeared in pit lane with fuel spraying everywhere, one of the alloy tee fittings on the fuel rail had fractured but luckily it could be discarded and the scrutineer was happy to let the car go back out. After settling down for a few laps it disappeared yet again, snapped driveshaft again. Talk about lightning striking twice any way returning home on friday night two drive shafts were fabricated to get over the problem.
Returning saturday morning setting the car for the second race, everything seemed to be ok. Completing over half distance of the race and everything was ok, then suddenly no clutch, race weekend over. But like I said everyone went home happy even though the car made us work more than normal.
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