Hi the timetable will be up shortly for the Snetterton race on the 27th&28.

It's not the full listing as usual yet but it will be up in a week or so but it gives a list of races at the mo.

PDF LINK here.

Cheers Matt

I should be there, am looking forward to it as I haven't been to Snet since 2006!

I'll be there, Second last meeting, Where has the season gone.

Cheers
Rich

Hi

The finals are up on line with all the info regarding the timetable paddock plan and entries Etc. LINK HERE.

Racing includes: KITS - LOCOST - BIKESPORTS - HOT / STOCK HATCH - SAXMAX - GOLF GTI - MR2'S - FORMULA VEE - FORMULA 4 - 750 FORMULA - 750 TROPHY.

Drivers from the forum include.

LOCOST: #4 aligarratt - #14 TMC - #21 gib1et - #25 Richd - #28 blackie - #39 stevetzoid - #43 simes43 - #47 Rob palin - #67 ernie - #68 Pointy - #73 Robster.

KITS: #71 MAWMAW - #21 steve lansley - And myself. #57

Anyone from the forum attending will always be welcome to have a chat with the drivers and a talk over the cars Etc.

Videos from the locost and kit race will hopefully be up after the weekends racing.

Cheers Matt

PS Apologies if i have missed any drivers of the list above. SHOUT up if i have. I usually miss someone.



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As its only a couple of miles up the road I may well come up on the Sunday. Must get all my chores done on the Saturday

- Paul

Hi Paul hopefully see you on the Sunday. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be ready.

Just a thought would it be worth taking the car on the trailer with a FORSALE sign on it.

Cheers Matt

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Good luck to all the racers! Go on Matt, give em hell

HI Rob. "give them hell " Not likely. It's been at least 12 months since i have driven a car competitively. Track days and testing just ain't the same.

I am hoping for a bit of fun and bring it home in one piece whilst having a play with some new damper and suspension settings. Plus it will be my first real drive of the cars with the new spec engines.

But saying that i have MAWMAW in my sights . Although i dont think he will slow down to let me catch him up so we can have a race. I will have to nick one of his wheels before he goes out. ( That will slow him down )

When you coming out to play.

Cheers Matt

Don't put yourself down so much!!! Sounds like you'll have a great time & probably be more competitive than you think.

Another house move scuppered any plans this year, so next year i will be on the grid at the back no doubt.........

Cheers, Rob

Arse! Just realised that the race is not this weekend but the following weekend! Unfortunately will be going away 26th-28th (wife's BD) so will miss the racing.

Good luck Matt - didn't see you on the finals are you a late entry? I want to see sub 1.20 second laps please otherwise you aren't trying....

- Paul

Hi No it was a late entry as i was hoping to get out in the BIO car in locost but they are now onto reserves for the race.

So Darryl kindly said use his car as he was not racing at snett. He did not need to offer twice .

lapping in the 1.20's shouldn't be a problem. Famous last words .

Cheers Matt

Sub 1.20 implies 1.19.xx !! Should be easy for a man of your calibre

- Paul

Shame its not this weekend - its actually going to be dry for a change.

Hi

Quote " Shame its not this weekend - its actually going to be dry for a change."

Except some of us like it wet.

Cheers Matt

hmmm its been a few years since i went well at snett! Also feeling very rusty as car has not run since Mallory in early August! just started new engine about 2 hours ago so should be ok for Friday. Unfortunately the !st motion shaft is fouling the crank so could only start with a loose bellhousing. Tomorrow engine out, grinding and back in, 100 miles over the weekend, rolling road tuesday and testing on Friday!!! Got new rear springs and a front ARB as well as a new engine so should be interesting, will you be there matt ? If so can you bring the scales. Mark

Hi Mark

I will be there from Thursday night. are you testing Friday. As it would be better to set car up on Friday rather than Saturday being a double header short on time Etc.

New engine new rear springs new ARb. Are we up for a win.

Cheers Matt

PS Yep i will bring the full setup obviously

Set the car up for dry weather boys its going to be a warm, dry weekend! Lucky B*st*rds.

Have a good race(s)

- Paul

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Have a good race(s)

- Paul

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Pleased to say we will be there from this evening, making a proper long weekend of it!
All being well tomorrow you should see the debut of Bio-Fuel in Locost with the Biotech Motorsport/Coventry University/TMC Motorsport car making its first appearance! We have to get through testing unscathed first though....
Looking forward to it!

As the weathers looking good we should be there Sunday

At last count five of us in sevens so far would be nice if we could find two more so its "seven sevens"

Dose anybody know if we will be able to bring the cars into the circuit not keen on leaving them in a public car park!

Dave.........

There will be plenty of parking inside the circuit, not far from Russell's - the main spectating point.

Cheers

Paul

car ready, did 2 laps on friday car felt FANTASTIC until cam belt skipped, exhaust valve hit piston, valve bent and broke and killed engine!!! end of my seasonffice to say my engine and gearbox are already out and on their way to the right people. may even do winter series as long as the engine builder admits his mistake!

Hi.

Well for myself that was also a bad weekend.

Thursday morning started off bad with an oil pump on a new locost engine going wrong by not blowing off pressure creating 120 + psi at 5k revs. So a bit of working out and a pump borrowed from an other engine sorted that out. Got started preparing the car i was using for the weekend Thursday afternoon. Tried to get LPG for the truck but non available so meant having to leave Friday morning when we could get LPG on route. Fill up with LPG and get 20 miles down the road and the trucks misfiring badly. Eventually get it sorted and continue.
Get to within 1/2 an hour of Snetterton and receive call from MAWMAW about his bad news with engine. But he very kindley ( Thank you for that Mark ) offers me his two pre booked testing slots. So i get out for the last few laps of the first session but a car has let all it's oil on to the track so end of session. The last 50 min session comes round and i get out and find the new breaking points with the new quicker engines and find a line that's good. Start having a play with a couple of the other kit runners and find i am about 1-1.25 secs a lap quicker. Then 2/3 rds down the back straight the engine drops to 3 cylinders. It felt as though it was electrical so hoping it's just a plug lead or coil pack gone down. Get back to the paddock to find that it is actually another set of Kent cam follower gone wrong and taken out the valves on cyl 4. Playtime over And had to watch the kit race knowing i would have qualified 4th or 5th on the grid.

There where also a few others that had a few minor problems over the weekend also. The Biotech locost of TMC would not seem to run properly and eventually holed a cylinder. Matt had his wheel come off in qualifying on his own car. Simes43 qualified in pole for the first locost race but had his gear lever pull out of the box which put him out of the race. And in the second race rob palin had an oil issue and has knackered his bottom end either main's or big end's. So all in all not a brilliant weekend but at least the sun was shinning. However there where some good racing in both the kits and locost races. i and hopfully some of the other s who races will give some more detail later. Out of time at mo.

Results for LOCOST can be found here.

Results for KIT'S can be found here.

Cheers Matt

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Unfortunately as Matt says the Biotech car suffered an engine blow up of the major kind. Its unclear if it was as a result of a weak casting in the block or localised heat from a blown head gasket, but either way the engine was left with a hole in the lining of number 3 bore. Fortunately it doesnt seem to have done a lot of other damage lower down, so we will be able to swap the internals into a new block and be back out at Mallory. Friday testing was spent ironing out the usual new car faults, but the final session went quite well, with Jon managing to get into the mid 1m30's on a regular basis. With a little setup work on Friday evening to get the car more to his liking we were looking forward to Sunday, just unfortunate what then occurred!

For me it didnt go much better, fortunately the wheel came off after the red flag when I was travelling slowly, otherwise it could have been a big mess! Left me 29th and 26th on the grid, and from there I was pleased to make 8th and 5th in the two races, with fastest lap in the first, which gave me a new lap record until Simon Wood went quicker in the second race!

Congratulations to David Bartholomew who has been untouchable recently while closing out the championship, capped off with two fine wins yesterday.

My car is still up for sale, and I have now replaced the worn tyres with a new set, which have been run in at Snetterton so are ready to be used straight away. The engine is now three races old, and seems to be as strong as ever. It's not being raced again this year so if anybody is interested in trying one of the closest and most competitive championships in the country get in touch with me before Mallory!

With Dave and Scott doing a Plato and the Italian bloke impression in front of me and having only finished one race since Brands in June, I decided a lap record would be a fine result for the weekend.

Dec and I have discussed the Snett record for ages.

Anyway, well done to Dave for a well deserved Championship and to Scott for great drive in the second race.

Hi.

Indeed a big WELL DONE to Dave on his championship win. He has driven some superb races recently to give him a championship victory.

Just leaves the 2nd and 3rd to be sorted out. At the moment Declan is still in second but having sold his car that now leaves Simes43 and our Allister to fight it out for 3rd in the championship And possibly over take declan to fight it out for 2nd ( not looked to see how close it all is yet ). It looks like it will be as good as ever for the Mallory final round.

Mallory is the last round for the Locosts on Sunday October the 12th.

Cheers Matt

And to continue the weekend from myself further down the pack.
My engine has now got the power after a 2nd build was finished late friday after noon due to the main bearing shells and crankshaft welding themselves together in what has been described by all the locost racers as the most amazing shells ever seen !!!!
Racing was much better qualifying 23rd after bettering my last vist by 7 seconds, however my exuberance at russels proved my undoing performing a pirouette in front of a much welcome large crowd, that said the car ran very well with no problems and the weekend was thoroughly enjoyable.
Confidence is now returning and the plan for mallory and next year is to set the car up and loosen my nappy.

Congratulations to David.

Andy p

Some of my photo's of the weekend.

I somehow managed to take 780 photo's on the weekend so as you can imagine I'm not going to upload them all. I just picked a couple that may be relevant. I didn't get to watch much of the locosts unfortunately as I was setting up my mates Vee in the morning and stripping the engine in the scrut's for most of the afternoon.


Some of the orange one's





My fav car of the weekend. An awsome MNR Vortex with a Rover V8. Sounds immense!



A Fire spitting Indy Spec R with a 4AGE engine.



Kit car winner taking a short cut and celebrating after the race win.



3 Wheeled Locost, Same car as mentioned above???


Mark.

So did he win only because he cut the last chicane? Surely the FIA Stewards will be giving him a 25 sec penalty?

Hi Tart.

Andy Sterling won both the kit races. There was some good racing between Hiley and sterling. So much so that they where both pushing the cars to the limit and both had moments. It was another good old big V8 V 4 pot type scenario.

Although Andy sterling's attempt at a doughnut where less than impressive. I dont think he received a higher score than a 5.5.

Cheers Matt

Sorry to hear about all the mechanical woes in Locost and Kits. At least you weren't fixing stuff while it was pissing down with rain.... Looked like there was some decent racing nonetheless.

And there are people telling me BECs are supposed to be unreliable (famous last words...)

Cheers

Paul

Sorry to hear your probs, gonna have to get you out in mine, at least for some testing

BTW. do you still need an engine, I'm desperate for some cash so I can get on with getting a Duratec

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Hi Tart.

Andy Sterling won both the kit races. There was some good racing between Hiley and sterling. So much so that they where both pushing the cars to the limit and both had moments. It was another good old big V8 V 4 pot type scenario.

Although Andy sterling's attempt at a doughnut where less than impressive. I dont think he received a higher score than a 5.5.

Cheers Matt

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As i couldn't make it this year, is there any videos of this round of the locosts and the RGB's also what about the Kit cars?