Well done to Danny and the team at MK Sportscars for his race wins at Croft over the weekend, finishing 1st in Class and 2nd overall in his first race, and 1st in class and 1st overall in his very wet second race

results can be found here;


http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc=club&season=2012&series=BARC&event=club&source=ed_BARC&eventid=121721

[Edited on 19/05/04 by PAUL FISHER]

Congrats to Danny, nice to see the 2012 race car is performing well!

Any pics from the event?

Nice one Danny,glad you got the engine rebuilt intime!

Yep, congratulations Danny. I watched the race on Saturday, but wussed out on Sunday.. it was looking very wet! (Danny I spoke briefly to you as you were heading out to qually and popped in the MK gazebo later on, but you weren't about)

I saw Danny Bird's accident at Sunny out.. was quite a clout into the tyres.

What happened to Garry Watson on Sunday? it looks like he never started the race?

Congrats to both the team and Danny!

Nice one Danny great job, thanks for the update Paul,

Hope it's a dry race at the next meet

Sean

Well done danny and mk sportscars i did not see the race but well done

Well done Danny! Not surprised considering how quickly you drove me round cadwell though!

Well done lads!

Found a few pictures of the day here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dazjw/archives/date-posted/2012/04/29/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edbookless/archives/date-posted/2012/04/29/

Also Danny Birds crash, in Danny Keenan's old race car, shame he looked to be going well up to that point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ce5fkB3Uk

what a video, but what an awful ending

Yes that westy had some grunt down the straights, compared with the busa powered Indy

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So what was in the westy then??

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Yes that westy had some grunt down the straights, compared with the busa powered Indy

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Not any old standard Indy Busa either.
From memory, Danny K's car was pushing out around 230 bhp, which really puts the Westy's straight-line speed into perspective.
175 bhp at the wheels is quite swft enough for me thankyou.
I would guess Danny B's expletives immediately following the 'off' were followed by those of his wallet saying, "Ouch! That's gonna hurt."
Good to see he walked awy from it though.

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The Westy belonged to Cam Forbes, not sure what engine is fitted, but I am sure someone on here will, its got a sequential gearbox fitted though

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The Westy belonged to Cam Forbes, not sure what engine is fitted, but I am sure someone on here will, its got a sequential gearbox fitted though

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Cam's car has a Duratec fitted, probably 260bhp .. or maybe a bit more..

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I think Garry Watson's car is more impressive. A live axled Zetec Westy doing 1-26s round Croft. OK.. it's some special 2.1 Zetec mated to a sequential box, but the rest of the car is nowt special.... Of course it could be the driver..

Is Danny Bird's car repairable, do we know? He was going well up to the whump.

Yes Garry Watson looks a top driver, he had car problems on the Sunday, but I think Danny would have give him a good race on Sunday in the wet, I know he likes it when it rains.
Not sure on whats required yet on Danny birds cars, but I am sure they will have him back on track for the next race

hi andy

gary watsons cars even more special now.hes fitted a paddle change to it and he is running 280bhp+.thats what he told me when speaking with him at the weekend.

after saturdays race he was having trouble with his clutch so went home.

you should have come to waqtch sunday the racing was good.i would not recommend doing 130mph in them conditions i must have been mad

thanks danny

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you should have come to waqtch sunday the racing was good.i would not recommend doing 130mph in them conditions i must have been mad

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no andy sorry no video from the race.it would have been hard to see anything it was like someone was jet washing me all the time.

il make sure i have some for the next race at oulton in 3 weeks

thanks