MAD matt-sab

No doubt they are all queued up ready to kick off.
good weather for it too !

Christian and Beccy

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If the weather is like it is here, its too hot for it really. I remember the 50° heat soak on the start line of TOTB back in the day when I thought it was a good event.

Steven_RW

I remember having to drive the car with full heaters on, with a long sleeve black t-shirt, crash helmet etc. Sitting on the line car stewing its ass off.

UGH

RW

Lloyd

you are all correct,high charge temps didnt do the fords any favours.
best run i had was the first 11.9 at 110 mph.then it just got slower and slower as the temps went up.there wasnt much time available to race,i didnt get noise tested till 11.15 first run at 11.30.then it closed for lunch at 1pm,
re-opened at 1.45 .till 3.30.got 7 runs in ,and the que for handling was too long for me to wait.
still had lots of fun,and meet some great people.

Lloyd

polly_x

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Anyone seen the full set of results yet?

Well I went flying to Westfield/Ford flag Cossie Power flag.

I had a nightmare as I blew my diff on the Saturday evening scrubbing in some new tyres!!! Got a replacement (Cheers Martin and Austen) delivered Sat evening and then fitted it Sunday morning. 3 hours for old out, new in.

Managed to finally get out for some runs just after lunch.

I managed to get to the handling shootout final of the top 4 cars overall. Was just happy to get there so didnt do a mega lap as I did not want to get disqualified. I was up against Olly Clarke, Gavin Renshaw and Duncan Cowper so playing in the big boys leaugue! More than happy to just be in the same race as those more experienced and team backed guys. Managed to come 3rd, but more down to Duncan blowing the dax engine I think. WELL HAPPY OVERALL!!!!

Not seen my official 1/4 and KM times but defo did an 11.3 qtr and think I may have done a 11.01 on the last run.

My car was launching like a absolute beast on the day with new tyres and diff!!!! Anyone see any of them?

Did 3 standing KM runs which according to my speedo (which is pretty accurate) I was pushing late 150's to 160mph.

Overall really pleased as I think the car was down on power due to the serious hot day and heat soak......not forgetting the car was still up on axle stands at noon having a new diff fitted!

Big thanks to Drakey and Andy (my pit crew) for helping change to diff, and Martooon for supplying it. Also Austen Ward who picked it up in Birmingham and provided the few tools that I did not have to complete the job. Also Diva who helped make sure the car was all sorted and checked over for the finals.

Cheers and well happy with the results.

Stu

Roosie

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good work lads

Maria.

Was a great day!!

I was on the only one who didnt catch the sun!!!

Stavros

Results here-

http://www.redlinemag.com/page/redli...totb_7_results

The heat was deadly, but im mentally brown now, so not all bad.

SNP

Any results for the D class cars ?

Stavros

Both Skylines ran 8.7s in the 170s. Keiths had minor problems all day but is mentally fast so should be a 7 soon.

Neither Doran Fords turned up.

polly_x

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Cheers Stav.

Well pleased then with my results considering the problems and heat on the day. Dont forget mine is a non tuner back home build too!!!!!

2nd in class handling
5th in class 1/4 mile
8th in class standing KM

Is there a ful listing of the overall points results?

Stevies Granada is just awesome over the KM!!!!!

Stu

dunketh

Amazing.
Amongst all the big money plastic fantastic jap stuff in the 1km category theres one immortal line ..."Ford Granada"

Bloody fantastic!

To think a big old barge like a grany would be competing with the big boys.
Does anyone know the car?

DangerousBryan

andrew specks 11.6 seems to be missing from that list? did andy nichols not run?

chris-m

full results have been sent to redline now so all questions can be answered via their website.

some interesting results :-

demo bike - jack frost on a hyabusa turbo did 230mph in 1km!
paul norris 7th in class handling lotus sunbeam
nick hedley 8th in class handling in mk1 escort!
stevie ross 2nd in class 1/4m granada !
stevie ross 181.9mph in 1km 3rd overall top speed and 8th overall on points
andy speck 169mph fwd tigra, 9th overall top speed out of nearly 100 cars plus an 11.6s 1/4m
olly clarke rcm impreza- 9.23s 147mph 1/4m, 194mph in 1km and 48.4s handling, scored 34 points out of a total possible 37 if you won every event plus the two shootouts!

Stavros

Stu- We are waiting on the FULL results, they should come soon, they better do anyhow as I need them to write the feature by the end of the week

You did fucking well mate Esp as you got no room for big cooling! Everyone was slower than should be due to charge temps, but fucking fast still

Was that your 888s in the skip? Idve had them! Rich tried climbing in the skip to get em for his Impreza, but the stench of shite overcame him and he failed

Stevie on here.
Supercharged LS V8.
Mental car.
Was fastest non-tuner top speed.

Fastest non-tuner on the quarter was Jeff in the RIPS built R34. First time he ever drove it too.


LOTS of mega impressive cars, way more impressive than just simply reading the results would have you think!

EDIT- Chris has beat me to it

Smoker

what a great day! llods car was amazing and has to be given full credit for representing the ford crew! as did the granada which was running a shocking 800bhp!!!
the sun topped it off for the spactators tho,and made up for any summer we have missed out on!
roll on next year!!!!!

jb fletch

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The RCM Imprezza is jus in a league of its own !! Its almost 3 wheel drive in that pic on RedLine's site !!

Was hopin for more from Andy Forest, and Simon Norris didn't do too great this year did he ??

Well done to all involved tho, especially the Ford Boy's !! Lee (Tib) never fails to put in impressive times !!

jb

Porkie

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he wasn't in the SWB green car mate. Just his Combe race car.

Stavros

Norris wasnt in the SWB, was in a normal Evo8.

Lee/Tib was fucking mega entertaining on the handling circuit Smoking the tyres up everywhere.

Fords on the whole was VERY impressive, fuck the times, nobody really sees them on the day anyhow, the Fords were impressive. Stuff like the mental red van fucking off WAY faster than it looked like it could, the Sitech Escort beating 4wd jap stuff, etc etc, was all very good.

Its not about winning, its about putting on a good show and having fun, and the ones there did. Jus wish more people thought like them

rossco22

Well done m8 , car seemed to be really really flying on the handling circuit, Car was spitting flames off the start line b4 you lanched it!! I didnt see you do all that many runs either 3/4 perhaps ? With more time you may have been able to get to grips with the circuit even more ?

chris-m

stav- sent renton copies of every file we have now, can you double check and let me know if he hasnt received them all? went on 2 seperate emails late last night.
cheers

Stavros

Chris- Yup, seems to have them all now.

Currently updating the site event by event, class by class, starting with handling.

If everyone wants to keep checking here-
http://www.redlinemag.com/page/redline

You will see the complete results class by class being added

TiB

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Was pleased with my results from sunday.. esp the 163.1 top speed as i ran OFF gas for that on std road tyres and didnt get grip till about 80mph so was only crossing the qtr line at 114mph on that run,

Was also pleased with the qtr time considering i've bent my beam slightly so the back wheels aren't quite straight and couldnt get under 2 sec 60ft.

No idea what my handling time was? only had std falken road tyres for that too as the r888's blistered and werent safe, had fun sliding half the course and not doing a sighting lap i had no idea where i was going lol, still had a laugh though.

Lee

rapidcossie

was a good day out!

im burnt to a crisp tho!

polly_x

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Yes mate, we binned them at the end of the day as I could not be bothered to take them home. Still had plenty of track life left in them.

Although the new ones were way way more grippy as the diff found out on Saturday night!!!

RickyLee53

Was a good day, considering i changed the turbo on the way there in a layby, mapped it in 10 miles, got there late, failed sound testing and couldn't finds any1 to test me. My first run was about 1 o'clock,

The shed did 8th in drag and 4th in my 1st attemp at handling.

I never managed a top speed run.

Stavros

Ah man, idve fucking love them

RickyLee53

How much tread did they have?
Road legal or illegal?

Stavros

Some, but not much, not road legal I dont think, but free tyres in a decent size to use for drifting is like gold for me as im poor theydve lasted for ever on the fronts I bet.

Lloyd

you have missed off my 11.96 run?or you havnt found it yet lol

polly_x

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Had about 1mm (if that) left on them. 235/40 x 17's so yes would have been perfect for your drifting!

Porkie

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I have some r888's in 295/30-18 if you want em?

mk3cosworth

i seen you all there was cheering you on
lloyd was that you with the tash, some said you looked lke burt renolds lol, i was hoping you were guna break into 10`s

Lloyd

i to have a tash , but burt reynolds?.
car launched well,0 to 60 should have been good,but lost too much power in 3rd and 4th.

jammy86

I was impressed by the efforts of Lloyd and Polly X. Well in for representing some blue oval.

As much as times got worse as the day went on due to ambient temps, it is the same for everyone so I dont see much point in complaining.

Great day, but poor show by the Ford lot (appart from those who ran).

JAmes.

Lloyd

not complaining mate,you cant do much about the weather lol.
but its a big difference being on your own as to being part of a big team.
ie you join a que on your own .and you have to keep stopping and restarting your car to move forward. in a team 3 or 4 peeps help push you to the line,= less heat soak.
somebody to spray a fire ex onto the intercooler before you run. ect ect ect.
i need a bigger intercooler,and water injection.and a race fuel map.

Lloyd

or only race in the winter.

Drakey

Stu u done fucking wicked in the handling course seeing u only did 2 laps and made the final. You was only .734 secs of fastest time in any class all day. A new set of front tyres and u may of got 1st

Porkie

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Can see Stus Westie being a massive threat next year at TOTB. sticking 200bhp of NOS up its ass from third gear onwards is gonna make it fly on the 1/4!

cant believe how fast you went with only one practice go!