We’re just back from a rather frustrating weekend at Mallory. I should have known better really. We didn’t go there last year as it was right in the middle of the time when Anthea was being replumbed. However, a lot of the RGBers that did go didn’t have a fun time of it. Continue reading “Malloried again”
Author: Tim Hoverd
Preparations…
It’d be nice to get going, but of course I need to wait for things to be manufactured. In the meantime I’ve been getting the Fury ready for its next outing, and starting to organise myself for the Spectre build.
Apart from starting to make a big list of things to buy, do and design, I started out with clearing out the garage. I’m going to have to try and build the car with the Fury tucked in the corner of the garage, unless I can find some other convenient way of storing the Fury. In the meantime, I know this will work as I originally built the Fury while the Dax was still in the garage, and I think that was wider than the Fury is, even though it was a se7en-like car.
Midsummer mid-engined madness
Back home now with the Fury, I’ve been taking the time to check carefully the engine installation that we did in rather a rush in the Brands pit garages. Alarmingly, the propshaft bolts were, not loose, but not exactly tight which is a bit worrying. All the same, the car should be easily back together in time for Mallory which isn’t for a month yet. Continue reading “Midsummer mid-engined madness”
So much for a quiet weekend
This year doesn’t seem to have been exactly peaceful on track, does it? Especially considering the catalyst debâcle that’s still rumbling on underneath RGB. That lost me the first two races of the season and it all looked as though I was going to lose another one this weekend.
This post intentionally nameless
It’s back to fettling the car for the next track outing, in this case to Brands Hatch. Somehow, this all seems very amateurish after listening/watching the Le Mans 24 hour race at the weekend; the level of preparation and care that must go into one of those cars is truly awesome. A chap I’m working with at the moment is a complete sportscar endurance racing anorak and he’s managing to convey his enthusiasm to me. If nothing else, I’m looking forward to the Birkett with renewed intensity. I’ve only done this race the once; my two other attempts foundered on the rocks of setting the car on fire and Anthea’s heart surgery.
Getting rained on again
It’s a long way to Anglesey, a really long way.
We set off at 1830 on Thursday evening and got to the circuit at about 0015. Friday was a test day and we were expecting to find a mostly empty paddock. As it was, just about the entire 750 club had clearly decided that some testing was in order and the paddock was already absolutely packed.
Spoiling, splitting and sparring
It’s been a while since I posted here, for which there’s a complicated reason that won’t fit into this margin.
We’re working up now to the next race at Anglesey. As I write it’s warm and sunny outside; doubtless this presages a race weekend at Anglesey with horizontal rain. Having suffered hugely at Anglesey in the past I’m very wary about the weather there.
Fettling…
Well, it’s back to that in-between races fettling period. In fact, it’s a bit more than that for me because I’m going off to Spa again in a while for a couple of days whizzing around the track. Although that’s a trackday and as such I won’t be able to time myself I’m still planning on using the occasion (apart from the sheer rush from shooting up Eau Rouge) to do a bit of testing. As such I’m planning on trying a few new things.
Another race weekend
This time it was back to Cadwell. So far I haven’t got any photos to go with this writeup but I’ve every hope of one or two arriving soon. We had a fantastic weekend in Cadwell. It only a rained a little on Friday and the rest of the weekend the sun shone, the track was grippy and there was lots of motor racing. Windy though, I seem to have windburnt extremities. Don’t ask…
New: I do now have a couple of photos. Many thanks to Dave Hackett for these.
Heavens to Betsy, it’s a CATastrophe!
I knew it was too good to last.
I took the exhaust off again and, lo and behold, the cat is showing signs of incipient degradation. It’s got a way to go yet but you can clearly see that the matrix is coming to bits and there are various clearly hot spots which are just about to block up the exhaust.
To say that I’m hacked off about this is the understatement of the geological era. There must be someone whose legs I could rip off… I had had plans to do all sorts of clever things to the car this weekend. It looks, instead, as if I’ll be welding…