I dont know what mine was as i wasnt given a transponder for practice, but would have been nice to know!

 

i think your fastest speed on the sector was a couple of tenths slower (in mph) than mine (in your final timed lap), you must have had some exit speed though with that little VF35 to get there though!! madness! i think stu was 2mph slower and terry 5mph.

 

You may like these pics Paul
https://www.scoobynet.com/japfest-ii-2006-t547899.html

 

Exit speed did land me on the grass a few times though

 

Thanks for the sentiment!

The most time I had on track at any of the timeattack events was at knockhill, where the car was handling less well than any of the other events. Curiously I pushed more there than anywhere. At Donington we weren't able to string more than one lap together without being called in or yellow flagged/lighted for a large portion of the track. The guys that already know both their cars and the track half well just got right down to business. I was just starting to find my way round in the first session and it was halted. The laptime was 1.26 something and I was just going round at quarter-half throttle mostly and changing at 6k RPM.

From a safety point of view, drag racing has cost me much more than a few trips to the gravel have this year!

I know it's within the car and myself to be competitive, but I need time to setup the car and myself prior to the TA event days. The way it's worked this year, the "practice" is just a little test to make sure the car is doing what it should and then straight into the hotlap. Turning up and expecting to get any sensible tracktime prior to the hotlap is not realistic.

If the car is good and properly competitive at the start of next year I'll consider doing TA again. But for the money I would rather go to some quality track days and do competitve sprinting and/or hillclimbing.

Paul

 

Paul, it was dissapointing to see what happened yesterday, which is why i helped you and David to try and get ready for another attempt. Your car was really the only one i was interested in (sorry to the other scoobs), as i witnessed so much of its develop, very close hand.

Mayeb, just maybe, we will see what happens next year.

Our attempt to run, ending up costing a fortune!

Did you mention Farce somehwere?

 

Cheers for the help. I was gutted yesterday. Pissed off with myself, pissed off with Timeattack, pissed off with busybody neighbours of Donny that can hear a performance car over cat A aircraft noise. Just generally pissed off.

Next weekend had better make up for it!

Paul

 

good luck next week Paul

 

Is Phil that old !!! eveyone looks soooo young nowadays or is it just me getting toooo Old

Tony

 

Thanks for the comments Well done to everyone taking part.

We'll have a full write up and hopefully some great video footage on the website soon.

If anyone has any good pictures of our cars drop me a email as it's the one thing were missing

Regards

Iain

 

Iain,

Bet the Party only just finnished LOL

Tim still there trying to get his Phone back

Tony

 

It's not started yet Tony.

 

I think everyone was to exhausted to party much over the weekend but we're going to take everyone out next week

I thought the day was going to go horribly wrong when at the Driver briefing they mentioned the 98db noice limit Taking it easy around certain parts of the circuit meant that Phil ran a blistering 92 mph down the straights in practice and avoided any Black flags Still the final went to plan but I was getting a little worried about the rain clouds coming especially as we were one of the last out.

The mods to the car seem to work perfectly as well so there was a double sence of achievement. It was also good to be able to compare the car to the fast open wheelers as well.

Stew did really well in the Club class considering his car is in such a mild state of tune.

Regards

Iain

 

Well done to Litcho & Phil & the Powerstation boys for consistent running from day one, Many thanks again to all of you guys who competed and took the time to make the events as good as they were.
Bit of a downer that we had to share the finals with another event but we had no choice and rather than have no show we managed to do the best we could given the tools at our disposal, the noise limit was a bit of a bitch but I think everyone got to do their hot laps ok.

Thanks again, thanks to Shaun for allowing me to contact you all via the board and roll on 2007!

Rob

 

Iain,

I'd love to come (like i was invited) but might be popping over to Turkey Sunday for a week to watch the WRC

A well done to all the crew, as you said a lot of efforts been put in over the last year



Rob you've done really well For the first year TA it was excellent and looking forward to next years

Agree was better than nowhere at least you know where not to go next year Japest2 would have been Total rubbish without TA and drifters, cr4pped intheir own nest really. BTW somebody ought to fix that PA/Tannoy system

today game, Please put in the correct order -: Brewery, in, Organise, couldn't, P1ssup, A,


Tony

 

Iain - please get this footage up pronto fella - I love these videos and check your site every 48 hrs for up dates. You know it makes good business sense !

Rgds
Cal

 

The video is being worked on I believe. Does seem to be taking an age though.

Andy