Round 1 3 Sisters Sprint at Ashton in Makerfield near Wigan on Sunday 15th April 2012.
Received the Suplementary Regulations yesterday along with the entry list, 129 Entries and 12 in the same Class as me 1b Road Modified 1600-2000cc. A mix RS Clio's, Pug 205's, Bmw's, R5 GTT, 306 GTI's & Capri's make an interesting mix and some very tough competition.
I think my RS will be the least powerfull car in the Class but hope that the Fantastic setup and Chassis work done by Chevron Motorsport over the winter will even things up on such a twisty Circuit lasting only 1 mile on this occassion and shortest of all Circuits being visited this season.
Results for how both myself and John get on will be posted asap or Live Timing can be watched here http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc=club&season=2012&series=SPRINT&event=club
Well where do i start ;D.................1st practice run i span at the bottom of the mountain but managed to do a 360 and carry on and got a time of 63.89 seconds, really struggled with rear tyre grip and played about with tyre temps for 2nd practice run, the run was again troubled with tyre grip or lack of it ;D and finished with a time of 54.71. 1st Timed run again changed tyre pressures which felt better but still struggled for grip but had a respectable time of 53.89 which put me in 4th place. 2nd Timed run Tyre pressures changed again but definately went the wrong way but was a better time again of 53.46 but this included a bit of grass tracking breaking my corner splitter oooooooooooops, bit of Gaffer Tape and Tyre pressures increased to where i started and the best run of the day with 53.33.
It gave me a 4th in the Northern Speed Championship and a 2nd in the C&LMC Speed Championship. I was still a bit perplexed on being 1.3 Seconds off the leading 3 cars until i had a chat with them after and found all of them were running 'trick' diffs. So basically i was quickest 'Non Trick' diff which are good for around 2 secs a lap.
Anyway really enjoyed today and Massive thanks to TC, Brian & Karen, Trigger, Willo & Barb for coming along and giving your support, it really does mean alot to share with you guys :)
Round 2 is 12 Days away at Aintree and looking forward to it already.
Hopefully John will do his own write up and also did a cracking job all day long today :)
Here is a few pics that Alex took of me giving my tyres some real pain ;D and a Video of one of the runs
And Video
did some conservative figures for winners car against my Clio:
Winner:
Power to Weight: 280 bhp/ton
0-60: 5.0
0-100: 11.9
60-100: 6.9
1/4 Mile ET: 13.09
Mine:
Power to Weight: 175 bhp/ton
0-60: 6.6
0-100: 16.8
60-100: 10.2
1/4 Mile ET: 14.77
Guess that says it all when i'm over 100bhp per ton disadvantage, feel better now
