Anyone going? £13 entry, hopefully be at least one Zed blasting round. There will be some amazing machinery on show.

 

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

http://www.cadwellpark.co.uk/calendar/2013/april/time-attack.aspx

Fastest lap

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Cheers for sharing that, superb driving and a real life ambassador for how good a z32 can be.

My little 2 year old Abby just ran across the room to see the vid and she called yo the stig :lol:

Whens Croft??

 

If I get chance Ill come through and watch.. :-)

 

Cant believe how planted that Zed is at speed...

 

great driving..!

 

 

Firstly well done to James that wasn't a bad time at all.

 

My car is quite messed up but I am absolutely fine. Most likely reason for crash was pedals too close together meaning I pressed throttle at the same time as braking. There was a lot new with the car and a lot of bespoke elements but we were working on it right up to the last minute and went with what we had. When doing the roll cage the welder put all the pedals to the right of the steering column. It was obviously going to be difficult but time constraints meant I decided to live with it and try and work it out. On Sunday night we were dropping the seat height as I couldn't sit in the car with my helmet on and was hitting the roll cage with my head so focused on that. At the same time we decided to lift the throttle pedal as it was sitting low.

 

So running the car on Monday was simply going to be about a first test unfortunately the first thing we found out was also the last lol.

 

We hadn't even been able to map it as they couldn't stop the wheels spinning on the dyno!

 

I also didn't realise the locking mechanism was still on the doors and we probably did as much damage trying to force the doors open as the crash! In the end I slid out the gap between the window and the roof :)

 

If the car is repairable (and it's a big IF) then I think there's potential to be quick. I was still warming up and on only the second lap but managed a little bit of air on The Mountain so the power increase and weight loss worked. Having said that there is still an awful lot of testing to make this car quick in the real world as we've changed so many bits it was a bit like driving a meccano toy.

 

Will find out later this week what the prognosis is but I might end up taking my road car out on track instead. At least I'll be able to play some tunes :)

 

More overtime needed at work still then :(

 

Roll on Croft and hopefull complete a full session

Whens Croft??

 

Google is your friend!!.............................http://www.timeattack.co.uk/index.php/2013-calendar

Cheers.. Hopefully be there to cheer you along..

Quick story of the day, not going to prattle on as I think the video shows a lot of it! I'd only done 3 or 4 laps at cadwell before and that was with blown turbo's so yesterday was a steep learning curve! Learning a very interesting track and getting used to the car with a much more agressive power band.

My brakes are still mismatched as well, but will get that sorted for the next event, all focus had to be on the engine for this round. This is also why you see the rear getting *very* light on heavy braking

 

Day started early, got up at six and left the B&B by 6:30am. Pulled over on a quiet bit of road to unload the Zed from trailer so I could get some heat in the engine and put some road miles on her on the way to the circuit. Got to the circuit at 7, found ourselves a spot, and then promptly got on with checking the car over and fitting the rain light at the rear.

 

Then went through the usual signing on, briefings etc. We left the car on the Michelin Super sports for the first session, again for me to get used to that setup and the track. The red flag was out very early in the session and was shocked to see a bale on the track while returing to the puts, followed by Bob's car off the track. Having seen the remnants of the accident, I'm surprised the damage to the car isn't worse to be honest. Saw Bob walking around the puts shortly after so glad to see he was unhurt.

 

The warm-up session resumed after clearing up, and my best lap of the session was a 1:50. We switched to the R888's and pushed on, my best time in the practice session being a 1:47. Both the morning sessions revealed a stumble in my map between gear shifts, so played with the emerald setup and managed to fix this :)

 

After lunch, we had the qualifying session so some points up for grabs. Also charged the gopro inbetween but forgot to put the SD card back so no footage from that one. Shame as I was closely following a subaru on a flying lap, unfortunately he span just before 'gooseneck', so I also ended up spinning while avoiding him. Must have been quite the sight seeing both cars pirouetting together. Best time was a 1:45, 4th in class so some points - though didn't realise at the time.

 

Final came along, and it was a real struggle to put in a flying lap, there was a yellow flag on the back straight, then combination of traffic or mistakes from me. Finally got a clean(ish) lap together and as I came onto the pit straight I saw the chequered flag, hesitated a bit then realised my lap would still count so booted it and bagged my fast lap. Parked the car on the trailer and it was only while chatting to another competitor did I learn that the time was a 1:43 and good for 3rd place :clap: Looking at the timing sheet I then found I only missed 2nd by 9 thousandth of a second...

 

My thanks to Jimmer for the support during the day and doing a great job prepping the car. As always it was good to catch up with Pete, I met Noel (Noz) who came along to support and had a good chat with him, didn't get a chance to speak with Bob much but not surprising given the circumstances.

Edited April 3, 201312 yr by jaffa

Wow awesome, looked like an amazing day. Thanks for the vids.

The Ksport scooby driven by Paul Doyle looks to have taken a far more significant pounding during it's off than first thought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hopefully they'll be sorted ready for round 2 aswell

The Ksport scooby driven by Paul Doyle looks to have taken a far more significant pounding during it's off than first thought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hopefully they'll be sorted ready for round 2 aswell

 

Had contact with paul today and damage isn't as bad as they thoughht so they should make round two, slight whiplash for him but he's ok and had a narrow escape as it could of been a lot worse.

Well done James (jaffa) that was an awesome drive:bow: But so sad to see Bobs car suffering a bad crash after all the work that went into it but at least you are ok Bob. Hope you get it sorted soon with Pete's help and back on the track. Good to see two great 300's on the track and I wish you guys the best. Good luck:clover:

Feck that z is fast!!! Superb driving Jaffa!!!!!!!!