Which, again, makes sense, because I think it's a fair assumption that you'd have more trouble getting off the line than Gary does, but more power to the wheels made up for it. Times are almost identical.

The first year we did it with 600bhp, thinking we were going to be right up there, Gary managed a paltry 14 seconds.

Turned out to be that we had the gearing slightly wrong. Better gearing and only a little more power saw a sub 10 second run. The MLR event is in about a months time, will be interesting to see what it does this year. A sub 8 would be nice, since we are hoping for to up to 700bhp on pump fuel and high 700's on race fuel.

Remember that Norris is 5.* and Andrew Mercer was in the 6's IIRC.