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5.30am start

freezing -2 snow everywhere so glad loaded car up night before got 2 donny 7.50am roads were a joke no gritters a42/m42 was like an ice skating rink went through 2 crashes 6 car pile up then a van on its roof covering both lanes,
unloaded car signed on ,briefing all the norm,

had walk round checked out the competition some very nice bits of kit no expense spared carbon this carbon that, plastic windows mechanics running round everywhere,and theres me bag of spanners, 1 set of spare wheels and a halfords jack

9.00am warm up session

went out on r888's mega slippy did 3 laps 6th overall out of 29 runners

11.30am 1st practise

dried up a bit now pace certainly picked up, all the fastboys are out
sector 1 -car felt good,
sector 2 -losing out topend needed my 6 speed gearbox,was flatout in 5th as entered main straight out of coppice hitting 124mph,
sector 3 - front end struggling for grip

fastest lap 122.7secs 16th overall, 19th fastest- fastest speed kev atkins 138.9mph


14.20pm qualifying for superbattle group a

still dry ,cars everywhere did a few laps get some heat in tyres then pushed on for a fast lap cars still everywhere, so for 1 lap held back 2 make a bit of room then on lap 5 went for it
sector 1 - as fast as i could go
sector 2 -flat out revs well out of powerband down dunlop straight,
sector 3-going well then <beep> boost pipe off start of main start/finish straight

back in pits for repair

as only top 15 forced induction/5 normally aspirated drivers go through then had to wait for group b qualifying to finish

my time was a 121.8secs

just made into superbattle placed 15th yes!!!!!



16.00pm superbattle

snowing,snowing,snowing

decided to put on a set of road tyres while waiting for snow to stop

16.20pm superbattle starts

sliding everywhere did my best finished 11th overall 5 points


roll on knockhill 18th may




since found out this problem welded diff to give 50/50 split,weld had starting cracking and had starting cutting through inner casing not good






definetely a case of losing power,6 speed will be back next week thank god

thanks for looking steve

Glad to see one of my favourite cars is being used as it should be Steve.

Good luck at knockhill.

Jarv wrote:Glad to see one of my favourite cars is being used as it should be Steve.

Good luck at knockhill.

cheers jarv i am now considering coming to rs246 live for a few hours in morning before setting off for knockhill if im still invited

Well done Stevey of course you're invited

DavidT wrote:Well done Stevey of course you're invited

cheers david will contact u in due course for arrangements on tickets, parking etc, decided on not doing any events as dont want to break anything before knockhill

No worries mate, we'll sort you out

I've just noticed you're back on the original user ID

rs4steve wrote:

Jarv wrote:Glad to see one of my favourite cars is being used as it should be Steve.

Good luck at knockhill.

cheers jarv i am now considering coming to rs246 live for a few hours in morning before setting off for knockhill if im still invited

Yeah, that would be great; turn up, set fastest time of the day, and leave. Only joking, be great to see you and your awesome car.

Steady Jarv, he's a bit of a tart you know

He's allowed to be, he drives Keith's old car, lol.

thanks lads

That car needs a pair of Hockenheim RS246 stickers on it.

PhilT wrote:That car needs a pair of Hockenheim RS246 stickers on it.

certainly does phil