BARC meeting at Cadwell Park - 7 Sep 2003

[Chartman]

Can anyone please tell me what the timetable is at tomorrows race meeting at Cadwell Park?

I'm especially interested in the times for the Toyo Tyres Mod Prod Saloons.

Cheers

[Pete Howarth]

Mod Prod saloons
Qualifying approx. 10:55
Race approx. 15:50

timetable is on www.barc.net

Hope this helps

[Chartman]

Thanks Pete that's a great help. Foolishly I'd been looking at the MST site instead of the BARC site

[Hobson]

Any results yet?

[blackx]

Cant tell you any results but can say it was a fantastic day.........
Stacey had a good race in the RX7...........
Long may Cadwell continue

[Pete Howarth]

I'll agree, good racing and weather and as usual friendly atmosphere.
Roll on 750 at the end of the month.

[Gizmo]

Totally agree dude...Stacy did indeed have what you could call a "spirited drive" Great to watch as were so many of the races on sunday.

[Stacy]

Originally posted by Gizmo
Totally agree dude...Stacy did indeed have what you could call a "spirited drive" Great to watch as were so many of the races on sunday.

Thanks for the sentiment, but it wasn't where I wanted to be.. Car was as sick as a dog all weekend and we just couldn't sort it, despite swapping every spare we had.

The boys worked really hard all weekend to sort it, just a shame I couldn't deliver the laurels - they deserved them.

I couldn't even get it off the grid for the green flag lap, so had to sail a bit close to the wind with "practice starts" to make sure it would go when the lights went green. Didn't fancy being rear ended by the field when I pottered and bounced off the line.. ;-) It seemed to clear a bit on the green flag though, so I decided to take the start and just wave everyone through..

I'm still not sure how you can wheel a car onto the trailer in A1 form (race winning), and wheel it off and it's sick.. We currently suspect contaminated fuel or two stroke mix - it is at the rollers now, so will keep you posted!

The main problem with a sick engine isn't so much having to rely on a tow to keep up with people, it's that I run quite a slack diff and without the pick up and power from a big misfire it affects the handling balance too.

Still on the other hand I still won my class despite being 4s a lap off what she can do around there, it's been the only malady in two years of running her, and I'm a firm believer you make your own luck in this game. In this case I decided to be clever and store the car at my mums to save journey time after Pembrey, in hindsight a damp garage may not have helped..

That's racing..

Stacy

[Stacy]

Originally posted by stacy
I'm still not sure how you can wheel a car onto the trailer in A1 form (race winning), and wheel it off and it's sick.. We currently suspect contaminated fuel or two stroke mix - it is at the rollers now, so will keep you posted!

And the answer is, contaminated fuel in the lines and then fouling the carb jets. Nothing terminal. We blew them out, but not thoroughly enough. Like I said, you make your own luck.

On the bright(!) side the power reading was 170 at the wheels, so it would seem some of the oppo shouldn't be hiding behind their cars so readily..

Stacy

[spnixon]

Still better than the 133 at the flywheel us class D boys survive with.

Anyway - the club web site has been updated with Chris Bray's lap record but not all the points. And MST is not listing the Cadwell times and results.

Does anyone know the results? Who won? Second? Class B, D winners? Any incidents?

My cylinder head is at an engineering shop now, as Stacy says you make you're own luck in racing and hopefully the Golf will be better put together for 2004. Looks like I'll have Andrew Guy and Rick Kerry to contend with once again.

[Stacy]

Originally posted by spnixon
Still better than the 133 at the flywheel us class D boys survive with.

Anyway - the club web site has been updated with Chris Bray's lap record but not all the points. And MST is not listing the Cadwell times and results.

Does anyone know the results? Who won? Second? Class B, D winners? Any incidents?

My cylinder head is at an engineering shop now, as Stacy says you make you're own luck in racing and hopefully the Golf will be better put together for 2004. Looks like I'll have Andrew Guy and Rick Kerry to contend with once again.

It wasn't the 1600's I was talking about, and if you remember I've been there too..

Results will be on www.smart-timing.co.uk

MN carries the race report today, but Steve Keating won, Chris Bray won class D and was driving really well. You'd have to to put that time in..

Stacy

[JR Ewing]

There is no MST beacon at Cadwell (or Anglesey).

[spnixon]

Thanks for the link.

Thats two race wins for Keating in two meetings, he's going really well. And the next quickest class D car was over 2 seconds slower than Chris Bray. Presumably he'd never been to Cadwell before either. Gulp.

[Mike Holmes]

JR are you getting confused with Pi Beacons? In fact there is a Pi beacon at Cadwell on the pit wall, but obviously that is only of use when you are doing the full circuit. MST usually put their beacons out on the morning of the race and the transponder ground loop is under the track surface on the start/finish line.

[spnixon]

Just heard from the engineering shop - head was warped.

But its taken them longer to find that out than I had between Silverstone and Pembrey.

Good luck to everyone at Oulton Park.

[Stacy]

Originally posted by spnixon
Thanks for the link.

Thats two race wins for Keating in two meetings, he's going really well. And the next quickest class D car was over 2 seconds slower than Chris Bray. Presumably he'd never been to Cadwell before either. Gulp.

He is, but on the other hand the real attainable lap time round Cadwell is 44/45's and the fastest actual race lap was a 47. Nothing wrong with the grip level either. I expect it might motivate the Rovers to be a bit busy over the winter so here's hoping.

As for Chris B, he was on it, but remember he's got a fair bit more than Golf poke and if I remember rightly he's very likely to have set that time after getting a tow down the straight and/or up the hill. Well worth a chunk I'd say.

Stacy