Andy D
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| posted on 3/8/09 at 10:57 AM |
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Oulton park NSSCC
My son, Pete will be out racing again this Saturday, 8th Aug, at Oulton. He races a Honda Civic in the 1600cc class (class D).
At the moment it's looking like a long old day. Sign on at 9-30 and racing at 6-07 pm!!  I'm fairly confident that, as has
happened the last two meetings, we'll be bundled in with the bigger classes, so should hopefully race at 14-45.
Feel free to say hello. 
Race timetable
This is the car:
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Andy D
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| posted on 5/8/09 at 08:18 PM |
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Just had a new timetable confirmation. We're quallifying at 9am, and racing at 2-45.  The last race slot we think is an all comers
race. Will decide on the day about that one...
Nice looking weather forecast too.
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 07:17 AM |
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Hmmmm, not the best of days! Basically, the Civic quallified very well, 2nd in class, but got punted off in the first corner. Pete explained
he'd missed a gear going off the start line, and someone ran into the back of him. Fair enough I thought. But, having seen the video
footage, yes he missed a gear, but it was nothing more than a momentry blip on the throttle, then whack!, he gets an almighty thump from the
rear, and went backwards into the tyre wall.
He inititially thought it was game over, but on his way back to the paddock, the car felt OK, so he gave chase. There were only 7 cars in his
class, one crashed out, he caught another, so got a fifth.
At this stage, I'll say thanks to Richard and Adrian for lending out with the battle repairs. Allways nice to meet folks.
The second race was a non championship round, Pete was going really well, when the car started to lose power. The water temperature was sky
high. Pulled out and called it a day. We think it was a user error, as in no-one has checked the bloody water level for ages!  Remains to
be seen if we've been lucky.. or not..
Pete will no doubt get some video up soon, and here's a few pics;
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adithorp
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 07:51 AM |
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"...We think it was a user error, as in no-one has checked the bloody water level for ages! Remains to be seen if we've been lucky.. or
not.. "
I did wonder about that, given the signs of small loss around the bottom hose, but didn't like to say. I recon you'll have got away with
it. Only time will tell.
adrian
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 08:10 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
"...We think it was a user error, as in no-one has checked the bloody water level for ages! Remains to be seen if we've been lucky.. or
not.. "
I did wonder about that, given the signs of small loss around the bottom hose, but didn't like to say. I recon you'll have got away with
it. Only time will tell.
adrian
We'll have to get a bit more serious with the car prep for next year. Big clip board and check list eh?
Have you got those titanium road springs fitted yet?
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 11:28 AM |
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Pete's put round 10 up on youtube. It was never going to be a legthy epic!
Oulton crash.
There should be some more footage from the second race at some point too.
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eccsmk
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 12:19 PM |
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the poor honda
im sure the olde V_TEC will be fine
BTW pete has got some good reactions
he was correcting the slide while still being pushed out
[Edited on 9/8/09 by eccsmk]
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 12:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by eccsmk
the poor honda
im sure the olde V_TEC will be fine
BTW pete has got some good reactions
he was correcting the slide while still being pushed out
[Edited on 9/8/09 by eccsmk]
Hope you're right about ye olde V-tec.
I think the op lock thing's probably instict kicking in. He's got a bit of a stiff neck today..
It's a real shame he got pushed off, cos there was a cracking class D battle on the track, he should have been among em!
Roll on Cadwell.
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PAUL FISHER
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 12:50 PM |
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Looks like he was a bit unlucky there getting pushed off like that,what date is he at Cadwell Andy.
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 01:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by PAUL FISHER
Looks like he was a bit unlucky there getting pushed off like that,what date is he at Cadwell Andy.
Cadwell is a double header, 12th &13th Sep. Gives us a few weeks to get it sorted.
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Andy D
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| posted on 9/8/09 at 09:10 PM |
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Footage from the second race is HERE
And a bit of outside footage from the quallifying session is HERE
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