Brilliant day @ Oulton Park yesterday with Vtec Challenge. Car never missed a beat all day, and the changes made over winter resulted in being over 3 seconds quicker than last year!! In fact if I had posted my quickest quali time at the TA round last year it would have got me on the podium .
So pleased to have picked up 2 second places, especially for my first time out. Great close racing, and the respect shown by all the drivers is just fantastic.
Vids & pics to follow
My fastest lap in Qualifying.
I'm really pleased with how the car felt tbh. I'd not driven the car since last October, different tyres other things to get used to and it felt amazing straight out of the box!
Last year at TA I managed 1:40.1, and in quali I hit 1:36.9! In race 2 which was on a drying track I still managed 1:37.7, so the speed is definitely there. Only engine change was a new exhaust from @Beetlejuice which has helped with the midrange
Hopefully I'll be getting an "upgrade package" for TA @ Oulton in July so might be able to squeeze a few more tenths.
Not bad for a little 2litre
Cheers matey,
That's just the noise of the induction I think as I briefly let off..I do change gear rather quickly though.
On the hill coming out of the hairpin I think it's a little wheel spin as I change up to 4th
Race 2..Again not full, but certainly I was in the thick of it for longer, before I was running my own race.
I'll be honest I was ting it on the start, having never driven semi-slicks on anything other than bone dry. That's why I seem super timid for the first few laps. Unfortunately I realised there was more grip than I thought about a lap too late to think about catching the front 3.
Race 1 from Vtec challenge at Silverstone on Sunday. The last lap is missing, but all of the fun stuff had already happened. Maybe there should be a prize for the most amount near death experiences people can count
Mega fun