5.30am start

freezing -2 snow everywhere so glad loaded car up night before got 2 donny 7.50am roads were a joke no gritters a42/m42 was like an ice skating rink went through 2 crashes 6 car pile up then a van on its roof covering both lanes,
unloaded car signed on ,briefing all the norm,

had walk round checked out the competition some very nice bits of kit no expense spared carbon this carbon that, plastic windows mechanics running round everywhere,and theres me bag of spanners, 1 set of spare wheels and a halfords jack

9.00am warm up session

went out on r888's mega slippy did 3 laps 6th overall out of 29 runners

11.30am 1st practise

dried up a bit now pace certainly picked up, all the fastboys are out
sector 1 -car felt good,
sector 2 -losing out topend needed my 6 speed gearbox,was flatout in 5th as entered main straight out of coppice hitting 124mph,
sector 3 - front end struggling for grip

fastest lap 122.7secs 16th overall, 19th fastest- fastest speed kev atkins 138.9mph


14.20pm qualifying for superbattle group a

still dry ,cars everywhere did a few laps get some heat in tyres then pushed on for a fast lap cars still everywhere, so for 1 lap held back 2 make a bit of room then on lap 5 went for it
sector 1 - as fast as i could go
sector 2 -flat out revs well out of powerband down dunlop straight,
sector 3-going well then shit boost pipe off start of main start/finish straight

back in pits for repair

as only top 15 forced induction/5 normally aspirated drivers go through then had to wait for group b qualifying to finish

my time was a 121.8secs

just made into superbattle placed 15th yes!!!!!



16.00pm superbattle

snowing,snowing,snowing

decided to put on a set of road tyres while waiting for snow to stop

16.20pm superbattle starts

sliding everywhere did my best finished 11th overall 5 points


roll on knockhill 18th may

 

Well done mate. Great pic, cool car

 

nice one!

 

Any further pics/specs on the car?

 

Nice little write up mate, car looks fantastic!

 

Nice write up. Car looks lovely in the pic

 

hi richard

400bhp/450lb/ft,1200kgs,2.7twin turbo,turbos are only little kkk04's powerband is 2500rpm -6000rpm, 5 speed box (6 speed in repair at bara) ,ex dialynx car won castlecombe saloon car championship 2005,2006 and 2nd 2007

cheers

 

Ive got some more pictures of the car steve which I took down at Dialynx if you want them posted up?

 

nice write up

 

Remember this @ Donno last year, Think I have some pictures myself

 

good luck for the next round.

 

well done mate.

 

 

 

Good result Steve


Good luck with rest of season

 

Nice one Steve! I take it there were no thermos flask breakages this time? Oh yeah, i forgot that was the other half of the "dream team" that did that !!

See you next meet down the greyhound !

I take it the 6 speed box will be in before our trip to Spa in the summer?

Matt

 

Looks lush mate

 

Brian

 

had walk round checked out the competition some very nice bits of kit no expense spared carbon this carbon that, plastic windows mechanics running round everywhere,and theres me bag of spanners, 1 set of spare wheels and a halfords jack

Taking part is the main thing, the car looks good, nice pics. And in what sounds like tricky conditions, you survived with no incidents. Respect.




kenny.

ps, I've got 2 bags of spanners, a srewdriver and a pair of pliers.

 

nice one,

Liking the rs4 archs on a saloon, but standard ,tho widened front bumper

and 1.8T sticker on the boot

 

nice one!!! wondered why i saw the Scooby clinic car just outside chesterfield... was on my way to the VK road rally at the time! i know what you mean about the snow! it was amazing! dead slippy! great fun aswell! not a bad result on road tyres! good luck at knockhill!

 

See you at KH!

 

when is the KH round??

 

17th-18th of May...you want a lift?

 

Are they not standard S4 arches??

 

no got proper rs4 front bumper, arches and skirts

 

thanks for all comments everyone see u up at knockhill if going cheers

 

Does the arches include the rear Ľ?

Looks awesome

 

nope s4 aint got no flared arches over a bog standard a4