15th August - Silverstone

[coxm]

Puff is going to be at Silverstone on the Gold Track evening event on 15th August. GP circuit. £135.

Anyone else fancy joining? I'm going with a mate in a Crate.

MC

[atom120]

Atomless at the mo, but may well come along and try and blag a passenger ride!

Or if they're not full, I could always give the Transit another chance to stretch its legs ...I'll go get some new rubber fitted to it, just in case...

[coxm]

Good chance for you to have a go on Puff if you can.

MC

[ross.mcw]

Is it the full GP circuit? What's it like in the Atom?

[atom120]

What's it like in a Transit more to the point...

I should think the full circuit'd be awesome - especially in a supercharged Atom. Would be interesting to see how far off an F1 car it would be (I'n guessing quite a lot).

[benyeats]

The Maserati 'trofeo' race pole time was 2:01 at this years GP, the F1 pole was 1:19.

The massers put out about 415bhp and I imagine weight around a ton, possibly more, so more in the atom 220 power to weight zone.

thus my guess is the atom 300 would be less than 40 secs behind an F1

Ben

[atom120]

benyeats said:

thus my guess is the atom 300 would be less than 40 secs behind an F1

...and the Transit?

75bhp ...and 1174kg last time I weighed it...

[datasafe]

They put a F1 car around the Top Gear circuit - I can't remember the times but the difference was quite staggering.

JC

[benyeats]

datasafe said:

They put a F1 car around the Top Gear circuit - I can't remember the times but the difference was quite staggering. JC

I think it did the TG track in under 1 min 'vs 1:19 for the Atom (all from memory) so 40 secs round Silverstone seems realistic.

Ben

[datasafe]

I'm sure you're correct Ben. I had 19 secs in my mind but wasn't sure.

JC

[ross.mcw]

I'm going to try and book a place for this evening today Meyrick so hopefully I'll see you there.

Cheers, Ross.