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Time Attack Se Silverstone Round 3 2008
posted by MotorsportAddict, 04-Jun-08
The gloves are off as the action from Time Attack heats up in round three. The official results are as follows  Pro Class Winners 1st Place Roger Clark Impreza (Car No.2) - Dr: Olly Clark 2nd Place Guglielmi Motorsport Lotus (Car No.3) - Dr: Steve Guglielmi 3rd Place ZEN Performance Impreza (Car No.1) - Dr: Tom Ferrier Club...


Time Attack Se Dissappointing Knockhill
posted by Kev@Apex, 27-Aug-07
I'd been looking forward to Knockhill but had never driven it. It seemed that most people had been practising either the day before or in the morning of the event, no such practise for me. It showed in first practise, I was slow. All year I had been meeting my expectations and I expected to have a good showing at Knockhill with my modest power, but I forgot how to drive. I couldnt seem to push, and lacked concentration, the track was more daunting than I expected. Maybe I was just too tired,...


Time Attack Se Time Attack R3. Knockhill.
posted by PaulWest, 01-Aug-07
What a superb day! It started off dry then rained in the last session and in the first part of the finals. It became a bit of a leveler in the wet though at the end. A lot of the big powered cars couldn't get the power down so times tumbled. I went out 3rd and there was rivers running across the track and the kerbs were like ice rinks! Track is amazing as anyone that has driven it will testify. Adverse cambers on blind bends throw the car right across the track, straight into the gravel...


Time Attack Se Knockhill Round 3...
posted by Dill, 31-Jul-07
After a 5 hour drive up the A1 past Edinburgh I arrived at the hotel where a few competitors were already there, after refuelling ready for the next day I saw a few of the lads from Scoobclinic and we had a couple of drinks. Up early and down to the track for a track morning to familiarise myself with it.  After a few laps I was getting unofficial 1.01s, but thought I could knock 2-3 seconds off that.  I made a few alterations to my suspension, and it appears I may have been running...


Time Attack Se Knockhill 28th July
posted by StevenDarley, 31-Jul-07
OMFG!! I finally completed a round of Time Attack without breaking the car!! Well thats a slight porky pie, i broke my own car on thursday morning at 2am, after finishing building the grey STI5 ready for TOTB. Boll0cks!! This was a bad breakage, unrepairable in a day, so i quickly confirmed with Rob if i was good to take the grey car instead. Yes was the answer. Mark of Lateral Performance was good enough to let me use the car, as i would my own. The effort of building that over the previous...


Time Attack Se Surprising Donnignton
posted by Yak, 27-Jul-07
As usual with me everything ended up being rather last minute. A ply wood splitter under tray that we had been working on for quite a while put u more of a fight on its final fitting. To the point that we finally got it on and the road at about 4am Saturday morning! So no time for any sleep. Quick trip home, shower, pack the car and then drive down to Donnington. Which thankfully was not to long a drive but having had very little sleep and none that night i was suffering a bit. Still arrive...


Time Attack Se Silverstone Round 2
posted by NeilMcLean, 18-Jul-07
Hmm, round two of Time Attack at Silverstone...  Well, it all started well with me arriving on Saturday evening to drop the car off.  Was mighty happy to find the amount of space available in the garages!  So, a nice quiet Saturday evening and onto the circuit nice and early on Sunday.  I went out for the first warm up session and unbelieveably had serious missfires AGAIN!  I'd been out on the road a lot during the week before trying to get used to the new power and...


Time Attack Se Silverstone - Managed 1 lap ..
posted by Kev@Apex, 09-Jul-07
Well that was lucky, managed 1 full lap all day and it was the one that counted. :D Day started pretty bad, blowout on the trailer on the way down, towing a car that didnt actually work. Having guessed that the timing belt must have jumped a tooth I while travelling down, after spending most of the previous evening ruling out other problems, I started dismantling stuff. There was nothing wrong with the belt positioning, so stick it all back together, I've now missed the first practise...


Time Attack Se Round 2 Silverstone
posted by PaulWest, 13-Jun-07
Oooooo Sunburn! How hot was that today. The weekend started early for me with a mercy dash to help rescue Gunther Vallons in his XO Turbo EP3 who was stranded with a failed clutch on the Saturday night. After some messing around bleeding the system...what a sod of a job on a Civic!!!!! Gunther was eventually ready to roll and now in debt to the tune of a few beers! Preperation for me didn't go quite to plan due to work commitments so I ended up running the car in pretty much same state...


Time Attack Se SUMOPOWER EVO 8 TIME ATTACK ROUND 2
posted by RobBarnes, 07-Jun-07
Well... having done reasonably well at Round 1 I thought my chances at Round 2 would be good and couldnt wait for the JTS show to come around! Roger Rally (www.turnaround360.com) sourced a 5 speed GSR gearbox to replace the broken and weaker 6 speed we had originally that died at Donington and once it had arrived Rich from RG Motorsport came over and got his hands dirty to make the conversion complete. We sourced roll centre adjusters and adjustable pillow mounted steering rack ends and...