Lloyd

sunday 26th july 2009,at elvington airfield.
tickets 15 quid in advance,20 on the day.
entrants,100 tuner entrys 175.

if anybody with a quick fwd ford would like to enter,then drop me a pm.
people likely to attend.
lloyd
luca
crazycage
neil
will
cochyn

people who have expressed a interest
pat
rst-g
cressy
SZABYK RST

benni, our professional driver.lmfao

known cars who i hope will attend
karl nms
tim nms
sitech.
christian
jamsport focus

there must be lots more,isnt somebody building a cossy powered fwd escort?

timrud

That will be nobody as usual then

Lloyd

thats a very negative attitude you have,

there will be some very quick fwd fords this year. karls from nms will be awesome.

jemis

Do you have a contact number to call for tickets or can you get them online.

JonnyBravo

Ł10 says Vauxhall do better than Ford will at the FWD group !

I'd like to be proven wrong but most of the Vauxhall lot have obviously upped their game from last year which is kind of worrying being that 3 cars (maybe more) all ran in the 11's, 2 of which doing over 130mph on the 1/4

If Karls built something that goes round corners he could do very well as a all rounder though as thats something the Vauxhall team haven't cracked yet

timrud

It was only banter Lloyd!

Must say I think vaux will shade it this year, but who knows. TBH I don't care who wins, just as long as there are plenty of cars doing quality times

Lloyd

http://www.totb.co.uk/home/

you can buy tickets online,when they get them on sale.

Lloyd

i know mate,lmfao. but probably very close to the truth.

Lloyd

with the ammount of people who would like to place that bet,i would soon be bankrupt mate,
iam trying to get a overall winner in the fwd, 1/4 ,handling,top speed.if chris mann cannot do this,then we could do our own unofficial version.it would just need somebody to record the times,and work out who the winner was.

timrud

timrud

I have a stopwatch and a calculator, I;ll run things

JonnyBravo

DanW@FastFord

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But it will unfortunately turn out to be true! As ever we'll get our asses handed to us by Corsas and Tigras because no one can be arsed to fly the Blue Oval flag!

Lloyd

not quite true this year dan,my fiesta will be there,and hopefully the nms fiesta.

rst-g

would love to enter mine if it was runin but i would get my ass kicked lol

crazycage

so what mate im going ! you get to kick the shit out of your car all day and not get banned what more can you ask for.

Lloyd

its the taking part that counts,

rst-g

just need to pull my finger out then lol get the feckin thing done

DanW@FastFord

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Well a big to you then!

It's a fantastic event and I'd love to see some Fords higher up the leaderboard. With all the big power Fords doing the rounds it's sad that it's left up to Stevie Ross to uphold our honour! Although it's awesome to see a Granny battering a Viper down the quarter mile...

Rich_w

I can remember when on the day of TOTB1 and 2 there were regular updates on this and other sites.

Seems to me that the "cheque book winning" that a lot of the entrants do has made the event lose some of it's lustre. Shame.

rst-g

dont u need to do a certain time 1/4 to qualify to enter

robp-tt

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what time would a fwd car need to do to stand a chance?

Lloyd

the cars do need to be competative in at least 1 of the 3 events.

DanW@FastFord

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I've never understood this point of view - Having big bucks cars in the contest is what makes the event what it is! I don't want to watch a load of cars doing 14 second quarters. I want to watch the fastest cars in the country getting doing 180+ and sub 10 second passes!

Also there is scope for the underdog to take the honours - If you saw the little purple Corsa take on the 1000bhp MG you'd know what I mean.

What ruins the event IMHO is the people who only do one discipline. Like the Evo boys spending all day on the handling circuit - That ruins it for the REAL competitors who want to do all three.

It's a great event, and would be even better with some more fast Fords taking part.

Mr C

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I would think running any times and actually turning up would do as it seems the turnout of Fords at this event in previous years has been terrible . It would be nice to enter a competetive car trying to win the event- maybe spending Ł50k+ on a car would help but I would enter to see how my car does against others rather than the overall win

Good luck with this year Lloyd et al

Luca

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Well I intend to make a nice weekend of this, friends , banter and maybe the occasional run in the 3 events if the car wants to play game!

There are quicker cars out there for sure than mine, but you learn from experiences IMO so i want to see what, where and HOW you do it!

Whats the current Vauxhall times on average (CHIP bring on the scoreboards please).

J1mbo

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ill probably be going to this, its 2 and half hours but oh well lol

its right near york right ?

is there a hotel near by ?

jim

Big Will_

Whats the top speed run over this year? I've just gone short ratio with my box - don't imagine myself being particularly competitive - but it'd be a bit of fun for Ł100

JonnyBravo

Danny and Specky have run faster than 11.5 in the Tigras, both above 135mph too.

Gaz'd has run a 11.4 in the Corsa iirc not shabby from a nitroused atmo engine and that car is massively consistant which is what counts.

There are loads of other cars being built, Gavs being one but like others I'm unsure if that is going to make qualifying in time.

Danny did 181mph at Brunters, I'm sure Specky could match that if top speed was his thing, I think Specky was actually faster on the 1km at last years totb.

Twellsie

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is that the mk2?

JonnyBravo

Yes it is near York, not hard to find.

We stayed at a hotel a few years ago which wasn't far from the event.

Being honest something like your old mans Escort is what the Ford Team needs, Its capable in all 3 events, not to win any of them but it would raise the Ford flag somewhat as its massively underpowered compared to the others but I still think it would out perform a LOT of the other cars.

Lloyd

it would be good to get the cars to run all 3 events, it would make it a bit fairer.
the event needs better organising on the day,last year i didnt get noise tested untill 11am,take off the hour for demos and dinner,and there was not a lot of time left to que up and do some runs.
you need to get the competitors there early,and start racing at 9am.

markk

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I would have thought that if the competition was for an overall winner then unless you can do all three disciplines then you cannot enter ?? am i worng here ?

JonnyBravo

Not exactly, each class also has its own winner

markk

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that bit i understand, but surely your only a winner if you have completed all three tasks ?

what has been said above about evo's just doing the handling and nothing else, they are just wasting the actual track time on the day if so from the real competitors trying to win the class over all tasks?

polly_x

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I will there again this year and hoping to improve on last years efforts. Should have the best part of 100 horses more for this year so expect to do better in the 1/4 and the top speed.

JonnyBravo

I believe they still have a overall winner for each class, I didn't pay much attention to that last year as its something the Vauxhall team tend not to concentrate on much as the 11 sec cars aren't really built to do well in all 3 disciplines, some of the team did have a go at everything though.

If that is the case though I do feel Robs Astra could certainly win as a all rounder, its very fast and handles very well so fingers crossed for him that it comes together on the day

Specky in the Tigra came 2nd overall in the fwd drag but won the drag shootout, both him and the Honda iirc both won prizes for winning seperate categories.

I actually though originally that they only allowed 3 timed runs of the handling circuit, I know my mate didn't get much more than that last year but that was only down the que.

Lloyd

nice one stu,hopefully no last min diff changes this year.

polly_x

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Fingers crossed Lloyd! Getting a diff shipped up from Martoon that evening and then fitted in a field with limited tools was not good fun!

All worth it in the end though!

My goals this year are:

1. Win the RWD 1/4
2. In the top 3 for RWD top speed
3. 1st or 2nd in the handling shootout (assuming I qualify for it, but beating Duncans new car wont be easy!!

SiZT

Specky did 169mph in the standing km and has done a 11.3 off gas IIRC, the annyoing thing is there are the cars but no-one seems bothered I'm sure MAD Ade & Yum would be competitive and theres been a lot of good FWD Fords released this year, maybe it won't be left to sas this time?