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3 Sisters Sprint, April 4th 2004
1st in Class 4B and a trophy for the best prepared car. An excellent result for the 1st meeting of the year. The event was spoilt by heavy rain showers, and problems with the timing gear used by the organising club, meant my 1st timed run didn't record a time. (just my luck as it started raining as I finished the lap) And with other timing anomolies the organisers decided to scrap all the times for classes 4A and 4B, meaning we had a run off at the end of the event to decide placings. As Les Proctor had gone home with his OMS after his 1st timed run, I had no competition, and slid the car round the track to come 3rd in 4A+B. Rather chaotic, the event was spoilt by the bad weather, but I still had fun. The Fiesta is so much better round corners with the new suspension. There's no understeer in the dry, and the rear axle worked perfectly with the new anti roll bar. There's hardly any body roll even on the softest ARB setting, which I had to use because of the damp conditions. The new Piper camshafts have given the engine a huge increase in power. There's too much for the wet now, I had to feather the throttle in 2nd gear, otherwise the front wheels just broke traction. I could left foot brake to get the car to drift round corners too. Excellent fun, but I need to really start concentrating on taking the racing line, and I must stop playing. The XR2 is now capable of recording much quicker times. I just need to prove it.
Times were as follows:
Weather: Cold, overcast, 10° C
60.1s 1st practice
54.85s 2nd practice
??.??s 1st timed (timing gear failure) (wet)
59.8s 1st timed (re-run after lunch) (wet)
65s 2nd timed (wet)
61.5s run off time (wet)
The run off at the end of the day put me in to 2nd in class.
Note: After the event following the publication of the official results, the organisers of the event decided to revoke their decision to scrub all the times for class 4B, with no explanation, and therefore Les Proctor was classified in 1st place, and I came 2nd in class, scoring 20 points in the Midland Speed Championship.
Tyre pressures were 18psi at the front, and 18psi at the rear.
Rear anti-roll bar was on the softest setting.
Some of the photo's from the event
Here is a PDF file with the report that appeared in Nottingham Sports Car Clubs 'Spinoff' magazine, and Loughborough Car Clubs 'Backfire' magazine.
RaceTechnology DL90 datalogger from the six runs. (Files are in .RUN format, for use with DL90 software)
Practice run 1 [436 KB]
Practice run 2 [222 KB]
Timed run 1 [152 KB]
Timed run 1a [182 KB]
Timed run 2 [93 KB]
Final run off [154 KB]
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