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jeffw

posted on 4/9/16 at 06:47 PM Reply With Quote
Brighton Speed Trials 2016

BTS over the weekend with two Sylva cars, both Phoenix. Dave Edmunds was there with his MkIV Clubman Cossie engined beast with 650BHP, drag slicks and 109 octane race fuel and my little old thing.

Dave did a best time of 11.1 secs and I had to make do with 9th overall on a 11.37. Great fun as always....line locker to do the burn out correctly and slicks for next year.

Mark Chandler was there in his DB7, there was an Exocet, a few Caterhams, a very fast Westfield, Dax Rush, Tiger Avon and a Locost.








full results are here
http://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=sprint/2016/163581.pdf






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sonic

posted on 4/9/16 at 06:53 PM Reply With Quote
Looks great, I always wanted to go to this but something gets in my way every year
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jeffw

posted on 4/9/16 at 06:56 PM Reply With Quote
First weekend in September next year....be there.






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mark chandler

posted on 4/9/16 at 09:08 PM Reply With Quote
Heavy 21 year old DB7 managed 13.93 in practice that placed me third in the handicap, spun the wheels in my timed run which put me back to 7th.

Qrtr mile is hard on my car due to gearing both runs had the same terminal speed of 106.52 as I do the last 50' bouncing on the Rev limit, maybe I need to up it a tad for next year.

Cracking day never the less and faster than a couple of caterham's !






[Edited on 4/9/16 by mark chandler]

[Edited on 4/9/16 by mark chandler]

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ashg

posted on 5/9/16 at 04:44 AM Reply With Quote
its amazing when you look at the 64ft times. there are two Porsche's there in the single seater leagues, which i guess is achieved with launch control and pdk transmissions. have you got launch control jeff? i reckon if you can get your 64ft time down you will move up the ranks.

[Edited on 5/9/2016 by ashg]





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jeffw

posted on 5/9/16 at 05:15 AM Reply With Quote
The 4WD 991 Turbo S times where very impressive. Joe Eagle in his 650S less so, although he had issues last year in his Aventador & Hurrican (!).

My 64ft times are the result of cold Avon ZZRs on 7" rims, warm A15 slicks would drop that down from 2.3-2.4 to around 2.1. So, as I said, line lock for the burn out and either A92 or A15 big slicks on 10" rims.






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mark chandler

posted on 5/9/16 at 06:13 PM Reply With Quote
Some of those other cars were out to win, those hosier drag tyres must put incredible strain upon the mechanics.
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jeffw

posted on 5/9/16 at 07:13 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ashg
its amazing when you look at the 64ft times. there are two Porsche's there in the single seater leagues, which i guess is achieved with launch control and pdk transmissions. have you got launch control jeff? i reckon if you can get your 64ft time down you will move up the ranks.

[Edited on 5/9/2016 by ashg]


If you look at the 0-64ft times it is the Rear Engined and/or 4WD which get away quickest plus stick slicks help (a lot). I've got a launch system but I've never used it (or set it up)






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ennten

posted on 9/9/16 at 06:05 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by jeffw
BTS over the weekend with two Sylva cars, both Phoenix. Dave Edmunds was there with his MkIV Clubman Cossie engined beast with 650BHP, drag slicks and 109 octane race fuel and my little old thing.



109 octane race fuel, really?
Interesting.
I didn't realise that was permitted.

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Ugg10

posted on 9/9/16 at 06:33 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mark chandler
Heavy 21 year old DB7 managed 13.93 in practice that placed me third in the handicap, spun the wheels in my timed run which put me back to 7th.

[Edited on 4/9/16 by mark chandler]

[Edited on 4/9/16 by mark chandler]


That's my mate's blue duratec Elise in front of you, he had throttle cable issues on one run and an OK second.





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