I went along to this to support Steve Fitzpatrick and Dan, who were racing in the club-class and pro-class respectively, and although Steve couldn't make it due to his car not quite being ready, but Dan put in a good performance for the Fords .

This was despite the fact that each wheel had a different camber (after measuring on a borrowed gauge) and toe etc , it turns out that it was still on Martin's "set-up by eye" settings when the beam was originally thrown on , the car scraped through qualification again (thanks to the demise of a couple of cars) and Dan manage to improve on his qualifying time by several seconds .

Unfortunately, he finished tenth (on a 1m05.528s - 0.06s behind 9th!) and with just over 4s covering the fastest to slowest, shows how close it is. The yellow RC Developments Evo won with a 1m01s (what a machine - you need to see the detailing on this, rear mounted radiator, paddle shift gearbox, turbo big enough to swallow other cars ).

The drifting was also closely fought and was as entertaining as ever, with the popular Pole taking the win .

I was surprised at the lack of spectators, given the amount of top flight machinery that was there - in fact, this actually made it better, as it was just like being at TOTB I .

However, having watched it has got my feet itching again and I'm going to try and organise a Ford team for the club class (which was won by a Skyline). If anyone is interested in showing the Jap cars that old Fords just get faster, let me know .

Martin should be taking part soon (so he says ), and I want a go again, and Warren is going to give it a shot as well (aren't you Warren!? ).

 

Thread on this here...
https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=273348

 

Master rainbird.. i might be wrong but is this you taking a look at Simon Norris's evo??

 

Yep, that's me (with bored other half beside me ) .

 

Looks at Mr Norris's arse more like....Dunno about the car...

 

Well given that Simon is nowhere in that picture, I don't see how that is possible .

I was actually seeing what fuel they were putting in, as it certainly smelt "fruity" .

 

If its the same stuff its was run on to achieve 841hp! then it would have been Klotz 118 Race Fuel

But the rules state no Exotic fuels to be used.. wouldn't that be classed as an exotic fuel? or would that only apply to running methanol

 

I saw Clive's car at Oulton Park last week, the detail of the work on all 3 RC cars was awesome.

 

Who owns the blue one?

 

Was an great day out took lots of piccys ,got a great view of the drifting from the top balcony

 

Not sure Mike, Clive just told us it was a customers.

There's a nice pic of Dan's car here http://www.lancerregister.com/showth...0&pagenumber=2

 

Kevs MAD Evo was second in club despite having a collapsed wheel bearing during the lap. It destroyed the disc & hes a very lucky lad to finish with 4 wheels.

 

Kev did well, some nice pics of his car on MLR too

 

a lad called shane, used to be decked out with a load of tv's, subs, and a 500bhp powerplant and Rage paint

 

Looked a wicked day out!

When and where is the next round?

 

lol .....these 3 cars look like they be long to "POH" "DIPSY" and "LA LA"

tele tuby crew


marco

 

Next round is at Knock Hill on the 28th of July, if that's to far then you've got the final round at Brands Hatch on the 2nd of September

All you need to know is here

http://www.timeattack.co.uk/home.asp

Marco, you couldn't say you never seen them coming, these cars are awesome

 

see you all at KH

 

Ahh spot on! Thanks for that KH will be too far but Brands sounds good!

 

Only Time Attack at Brands tho, no EDC.

And tho the cars are soooooooooo amazing, its not exactly super exciting to watch.

 

Ahh cheers for that Steve, i'm more into the Time Attack than the Drifting anyhow

 

Might change your mind after spending the day watching it

 

GT Battle at Rockingham was ok!

 

hi warren

i know mate im just having a laugh i cam imgine how much they spent on them aswell

fair play it's all good

marco