Who's Racing Where.

[pete.reeve]

Next weekend (Sunday 12 April) I will at Snetterton in the Vixen doing the swinging 60’s.
There will be two other tvr’s in my race both V8’s. Tims there in his Tuscan on the Saturday too.
So come and say Hi. We will be in the Garages.

Pete

[davegt6]

I'll be there in the Classic K race in my Grantura. Racing colleague Jon Wolfe will be in Swinging '60s in his V8 Tuscan.

[pete.reeve]

I look Forward to meeting you there.

Pete

[Dollyman1850]

davegt6 said:

I'll be there in the Classic K race in my Grantura. Racing colleague Jon Wolfe will be in Swinging '60s in his V8 Tuscan.

Is it all mended Dave? assume just a wishbone bracket and a tad of welding? Plus the ubiquitous bonnet repairs?
N.

[davegt6]

Dollyman1850 said:

davegt6 said:

I'll be there in the Classic K race in my Grantura. Racing colleague Jon Wolfe will be in Swinging '60s in his V8 Tuscan.

Is it all mended Dave? assume just a wishbone bracket and a tad of welding? Plus the ubiquitous bonnet repairs?
N.

Just back from the garage. Jon's done all the wishbone bracket repairs. Needed new rack too. Bonnet ready for primer tomorrow morning. Eeh the fun you have!

Thanks for asking.

Dave

[Dollyman1850]

davegt6 said:

Just back from the garage. Jon's done all the wishbone bracket repairs. Needed new rack too. Bonnet ready for primer tomorrow morning. Eeh the fun you have!

Thanks for asking.

Dave

Good to see it mended without too much difficulty.. Hope you all have a great race. I really enjoyed Snet. I will be looking for a cal lender day to mix it with you guys shortly.

Neil.

[Fiscracer]

Hockenheim. Followed by Zandvoort May Bank holiday weekend

Enjoy Snetterton.........if that is not a contradiction in terms ;-)

[madsvlund]

For the Danish guys, I'm racing in Støvring on 18'th april, and the big national classic track and sprint eent 2/3 may.

[pete.reeve]

All ready and packed.
will report on Monday.

Pete

[Dollyman1850]

pete.reeve said:

All ready and packed.
will report on Monday.

Pete

Have a great weekend Pete.
See you at the next one!!
N.

[griffdude]

There's some quick Vixens entered in the Gurston Down hillclimb this coming saturday.

[oliverb205]

Yes, I am planning to go along to spectate. Hope to see some other pre 80s owners there.

Oliver.

[madsvlund]

1'th Hill-climb of the season, in Denmark tomorrow. The M is partly ready and the new engine have done aprox 3 hours / 60 miles of driving. So it will be a soft start. But the new brake and steering setup is promising, so it will be fun to test it out.

Report to follow...

[pete.reeve]

madsvlund said:

1'th Hill-climb of the season, in Denmark tomorrow. The M is partly ready and the new engine have done aprox 3 hours / 60 miles of driving. So it will be a soft start. But the new brake and steering setup is promising, so it will be fun to test it out.

Report to follow...

Good luck. My report & vid this weekend.

Pete

[pete.reeve]

The day went ok for a change qualified 27 out of 43. 4th in class there was hope for at least a trophy.

The brakes were getting worse though the race and after lap 4 I had to pump the pedal.

There was a oil leak from the oil pump. Oil on the back tyres does not help.

Finish 22nd 4th in class. Will get better so looking forward to Silverstone.

Pete
Here is the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3HJDyw3Tc

[Dollyman1850]

pete.reeve said:

The day went ok for a change qualified 27 out of 43. 4th in class there was hope for at least a trophy.

The brakes were getting worse though the race and after lap 4 I had to pump the pedal.

There was a oil leak from the oil pump. Oil on the back tyres does not help.

Finish 22nd 4th in class. Will get better so looking forward to Silverstone.

Pete
Here is the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3HJDyw3Tc

Great vid Pete. Good time had by all.
N.

[madsvlund]

Then I had more luck.

Even that I had to be friendly on the engine, with a low rev.limiter setting and very conservative ignition advance and knock setting, detuning the engine to around 200 hp.
The track was horrible and very technical. Bumpy, down hill braking, narrow cone section, 2 tricky bridges and a very stony surface.

2'nd in class in first pratice session, beaten by 5 sec. But 1'th in second session. Ready for race, and bang, 3 run's fastest of all 60 cars in each of the 3 sprints. total time 2.51, 2'nd place for a saab turbo rally car at 2.55, 3th for a BDA escort 2.56

So that was ok for a soft running-in day :-) what will happen when the engine get full power ?

And I'm very pleased with the brake and chassis modification and setup I have now. The brakes have a very nice feel (high pedal pressure, but controllable) and the combination of -2.5 deg front and -2 deg rear camber, together with the steering quickner make it a gocart around the cones. The front and reat toe is set at 0 deg rear 0.5 deg toe in front, and it make the car very quick on entry and as soon I get of the brake do the front take control, and the rear is drifting very nicely thou the S sections.

The bad news on the day, was a girl in a 205 gti rally, that got one of the concrete bridges 6" wrong, the car war parted into 3 pieces, tumbled and went into flames, but the driver was ok.

Edited by madsvlund on Saturday 18th April 21:40

[GTRene]

nice pictures, als good looking escort.

[pete.reeve]

Will be at Silverstone on the Sat 11th and have a spare pass for Sat/Sun if anyone want's it let me know and I will post it to you.

the race is at 15:30 and Qualifying is at 10:30.

Pete

[madsvlund]

All the classic car's are racing at Jyllandsringen this weekend. I qualified 1'th (with a little luck), and ended 2'nd in the first race (2 round track sprint). And rally'ing on a racetrack is not as easy as it might sound. We have to do a 4600m sprint on cold tires, and the thack is feeling like covered with soap, but at least the TVR can do some crowd pleasing with the backend beeing all over the place :-)

I'm adjusting a bit on the camber tonight (going fron -3 front, -2 rear to -2 front. -1.5 rear) and giving it a bit more ride hight and damping on the rear.... we had only one practise session today (and one race), tommorow no practise, only one race. So it's a bit of guesswork to get it right.

And I'm not happy to admit, that I'm behind a vauxhall ascona B, and beating a fiat uno and a x/9 by a couple of seconds. Even mine is the only "sports car" of those, I must admit that those cars perpahs have better drivers :-)

Let's see what happens tomorrow