Time Attack - Signed Up Again

[gambler]

A couple of months ago, when the entry opened, I deliberated the pros and con's for about 3 seconds, and signed up anyway for the Time Attack series. http://www.timeattack.co.uk

This will be my second year competing in the series. It hardly seems a year since I was flapping about, running around at the last minute trying to get things ready for the 1st event. And here I am again, flapping about running around at the last minute again. Hopefully things will not be as quite so rushed this year.

The whole experience was fantastic though. I loved the thrill of competition, track days are just not the same now and the banter with the other drivers. I could have done without a lot of the stress and the traveling. You have to take the bad with the good.

Last year I finished 6th in the championships in an underpowered and under budgeted compared to a lot of guys in front and quite a few behind. With the top 4 moving up a class I should be looking for some half decent results. Although, being a tuner series you never know who will turn up in club class. There is already word about a few serious builds. Ukata? on scoobynet seems to have got himself in club with a very serious car.

I think I came on a fair bit as a driver last year. Working at northweild with Andrew Walsh from Carlimits and Philip Glew, who won time attack pro class in 07 and now races in BTCC. I also learned how the time attack game works. Its pretty difficult trying to get a fast lap in on a set of tyres that will only give you real grip for 3 flat out laps. On track with 40 other drivers who are either going flat out or very slow on cool down laps.

The car had slowly evolved through the year both in handling and power. I did get a bit of a shock when we put the car on a dyno at the end of the year and it was 'only' making 420 Bhp. Turns out that there was a restriction in the exhaust causing back pressure on the turbo. I have had that fixed and added some nice cams and springs from cosworth and a bit of magic from AndyF. Thanks again for the advice and sorting out the rubbish map the car had. I have also gone for slightly stiffer roll bars with a bit more adjustability to fine tune the setup. Now I just need to learn how to set a car up!

Is anyone else competing in Time Attack this year? Fee will be doing the full series again in the skyline. I know John Stevenson is not doing the 1st event at oulton.

1st race is oulton park on Saturday so ill do a wee write up for anyone that’s interested.

The other races are -

Knockhill - 16th May

Brands Hatch 27th June

Cadwell - 1st August

Snetterton - 10th October. Including night race :shock:

Here are a couple of pics. You might recognise it from knockhill

[dan_jess]

Nice one! Enjoyed your write ups from last year, looking forward to reading your progress this time around.

Best of Luck!

Cheers

Dan

[mikeyb13]

Quality mate. You need any tips for knockhill I'd be happy to give you pointers on a passenger lap

Be good to see a few more horses this year

Edited April 21, 2010 by mikeyb13

[paul555sti]

Best of luck for the year Scott. I will be up at Knockhill to see you in action.

[johns]

All the best for this year Scott, and looking forward to your superb write-ups again

[cruz104]

  JohnS said:

All the best for this year Scott, and looking forward to your superb write-ups again

All the best for the season and you will be getting a big shout from me and all the SIDC gang that watch from the sidelines at Knockhill.

[jcscoob]

  DanTerzo said:

Nice one! Enjoyed your write ups from last year, looking forward to reading your progress this time around.

Best of Luck!

Cheers

Dan

...what he said

good luck again

[sti pretender]

Car was looking good at the last SIDC trackday, write-ups were great last year and now you have a bit more power can definitely see moving up the leader board.

Good luck

Robert

[gambler]

Thanks for the kind words guys.I'll try and do Scottish scoobies proud.

Would be great to see some of you guys at Knockhill

Scott

[hi_jac]

Looking forward to reading your write-ups this year Scott.

Good luck

[john_stevenson2]

Best of luck Scott,

[ANDYJDMSTI]

Good Luck!

[RA Dunk]

Rumour has it somebody got a win yesterday, well done Scott

[gambler]

Good news from down south. I managed to fluke a win! I'll write up a report tomorrow. Thanks for all the well wishes folks

[RA Dunk]

Bet your glad you entered now

Well done on a cracking result though, and a good result for Fee as well

[RA Dunk]

you still running the T or have you gone bigger?

[gambler]

Still running the t+ got some Cosworth cams now too which has helped the breathing a bit.

[TrackScotland]

looks like you are quicker than Fee in a straight line this year too

Traps speeds for the final

Trap 1 (on Brakes)

Scott - 116.9

Fee - 116.7

Trap 2 (power up the hill)

Scott - 105.0

Fee - 104.5

Trap 3 (power over the finish line)

Scott - 115.5

Fee - 112.0

[gambler]

Not by much. those times are scary close