Yet another Locost racing website!

www.vaspracing.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

I am still adding content, and will soon add pics from my crash at Mallory 1st race out this year.

Presumably you got copies of the excellent pictures in Autosport and Motorsport News?

Didn't know there was any in Motorsport News, but I would guess they are the same set that I have. Jakob Ebrey sent copies to me and has agreed for me to put them on the website, but I am waiting for the ones without his name all the way accross! In the meantime I may well post what I have, as they are pretty good (proved to be somewhat expensive though!!!).
Hope to see you at Donnington or Cadwell

added to my favourite folder! tx. hoping to be racing you by sept, she's almost finished!! hope i dont meet the same fate as your first time out!!! pumpers!

OK. Got round to writing the rce report for mallory, so the pics of the crash are on there.
Pumpers, if you see the car in front of you swerve, dont wait to see why, just follow!!!! Thats my advice!!!!
Look forward to meeting you later in the season

lol, swerving it is then !! only problem is there won't be any cars in front of me!!!



( thats only cos they'll all be queueing up behind, ready to overtake as they lap me!!!! )

pumpers.

More pics added of the build up - we hope to be at Cadwell still, all being well.
Dont be shy, take a look at the site. Let me know if you want link to your sites
Cheers
Phil

Yes please to a link:
www.TeamDickie.co.uk

I'll add yours to mine when I write up Donington after this (hopefuly glorious) weekend

Cheers
Dickie

Dickie
Added link. Good luck at Donnington - look forward to catching up (and passing you at Cadwell
Phil

Hi Phil, watching your re-build with interest. I'm still trying to get parts etc (& money) together to start my build. Just like Pumpers, I hope I don't end up doing the same as you in my first race... don't think I can afford that!

Being a bit cheeky, are there any racers going to Donington this weekend got a couple of spare entry tickets? I am aiming to come along and have a look at the cars.

Good luck to you all!
Rob.

So for those of you have been following the build, there are more photos on the website. It is looking likely that we will make cadwell, and hope to even get a test day in before then. Car is looking very good, so big thanks to Andy, who has done the bulk of the work. Also big thanks to Arrow Engineering (give me a shout if you want to contact them regarding chassis or chassis components, or almost any fabricated metal part),to West Cumbria Sheet Metal Works and to Camskill. (Details of them are in the links page).
Look forward to seeing many of you again at Cadwell.

Good effort!
I believe the record for re-chassising a race car is 3 days - Tim Gray in 2002 after a prang at Cadwell. But then he works at Stuart Taylor!
See you at Cadwell
Dickie

My re-chassis-ing took 5 weeks but is still ongoing. juuust before every race i find something that i rushed at the time has now gone wrong. Ooops.

Keep at it Rob, it's worth it. And this year's colour is sooooo much better than last year's!
Dickie

Whaaat? You mean you didn't like the old swamp, i mean 'British Racing', green?

The brush strokes were not aerodynamically lined up.

Aha, now you see i was actually being sneaky. The poor paint finish was deliberate so that i could emulate the golf-ball dimple effect and reduce my drag. Honest.

I realise now that i should have painted it go-faster red...

Everyone knows red is a faster colour.

I suspect that your nosecone and bonnet should be smooth for laminar flow, whilst the rear panels and perhaps rear of the rear wings should be dimpled for turbulent flow to delay the separation of the boundary layer. I guess the rear of the front wings should be dimpled too.

Ok, ok. Smartarse.

Now you've gone all technical i've got to don my anorak and clarify that there's no benefit in putting any dimpling on car surfaces because the length scales are sufficiently greater than those of a golf ball for the Reynolds number to be high enough to ensure transition from laminar to turbulent flow after only a few inches of flow along the bodywork.

By the time the flow would reach any area of significantly adverse pressure gradient it would be fully turbulent and therefore provide more mixing of the energetic freestream air with the tired near-surface flow and thus prolong attachment.

Which, of course, is why i went for the £5.99 Hammerite brush-on option


[Edited on 27/5/04 by Rob Palin]

OK OK OK

Try Hammerite spray can instead - it's a much better finish