For those doing Combe next month..
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Alot of it depends on your top speed, the metro goes like stink as does the Mini having 216 banannas!

So are we talking keeping it flat over Avon in fourth?, I dought it!

I bet alot of "normal minis" dont hit 90 on the track!

JF.

I'm listening to all the advice I can get. First race soon, rather be last & have fun than to try and be a hero with a smashed car.
Its other peoples safety as well as your own.

JG...Drayton Manor MG Metro Championship Apprentice

Edited by Jason G on 1st Sep, 2007.

This sounds interesting...Some please enlighten me!

JF.

Into the wall at Quary!!!!!

LOL

I came ove the rise commited as always to find somebody in a westfield facing me having a rather interesting accident all on there own.

I'll be honest and say that I should have probably waited a couple of extra milliseconds before hitting the brakes hard to make sure the car was settled but that way I'd have probably of contacted muppet boy and that would have been a much nastier impact than broadsliding into the wall. Still a very bent car though, unfortunately the same problem as has slowed the Mini progress down (bought a house that basically needed everything) has meant that she is still stitting where I stripped her a few years on.

I guess there is a lesson there, why Rob pointed it out no doubt, that no matter how capable you and your machine are there is always one person in each session (probably more the way they pack them on the track at action days) that is going to make an attempt on your life!!!!

To be fair, Tom's description of braking for the rise in the pug isn't far off what I do in the VWs as they aren't as direct as the Mini.

As far as pictures of the car are concerned the answer is very few and then only those that I had to have taken for the agreed value.
The problem there is my photography ability is lagging greatly behind my advanced Chinese lanuague skills ... ie. no existant plus some. Everybody has something they just simply can not do .... for me it's work a camera!!!! I litterally can't take a picture to save my life!!!

I'll get my better half to take a few next time we're with the car (lives at my mothers as I have run out of room here with the project cars).

She really isn't that special in all honesty, just a 1380 NA Mini with coil overs, well chosen 13" wheels and some nice brakes (Pug 106 rear calipers by the way .... very easy to make fit due to being effectively radial mounted...). There is nothing particularly radical there by todays standards ... I originally built her to replace the turbo Mini whilst I rebuilt her (in 2001) ..... sadly neither have had much done to them since!


Anyway, that is well OT ... I'll put some pictures up in the show us yours section when I get some. Might have the car at combe .... so long as there are a few hours to check her over between finishing the new kitchen and the day.

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

Taken from yesterdays race:



John demonstrates the benefits of taking a slightly less aggressive line through Quarry.

Photo taken by Alex B (hope you don't mind me post it here)

Edited by Rob H on 16th Sep, 2007.

yep, i went in offline to protect my second place knowing Dick trevvett was ver quick( albeit a little unpredictabe) in that area.....

JF.

You should of seen the flames out of his exhaust!!!!!!!! He was aggressive. Glad hes okay, top racing.

He was agressive but half a second of my pace during the race....

JF.