[Al weyman]

I will be competing at the fastest circuit in the UK at the weekend in my 2nd gen car 'Old Bumble' in an historic race (vintage to you guys!). I will try to post some footage up after the event.

[Al weyman]

Meeting was great, nice crowd and some interesting racing on, unfortunately I did the classic mistake with the old 2nd gen and changed too many suspension things at once.

I had just swapped the 1.25" Transam front A/R bar for a smaller one under an inch and had yet to try it then I checked the droop on the rear axle and discovered it only went down about an inch and has always been like this but probably not a problem before I had to raise the ride hieght to conform with the Historic class rules I now run with. So i made some extenders up then discovered it would only drop a tad more before the rear A/R bar stopped it so I whipped that off having read thats how a lot of guys run them and also as it would spin at the hint of a wet track.

Anyhow to cut a long story short she wallowed around like a pregnant yellow duck and had too much roll and didnt feel very stable at this high speed track. I got a poor qually position as the gear linkage worked loose on the rebuilt Muncie so was starting near the back. I made up about 5 places though and the car finished strong with all systems working great including my home built engine, gearbox and rear axle, just didnt handle too nice. I will take the third gen out in 3 weeks time with the new Eaton diff and lowered Panhard bar at a fabulous UK circuit called Cadwell Park thats a bit like a mini Nuremberg Ring with its own Seguna corkscrew thrown in for good measure. In the meantime here is some footage from the weekend. I do get the blue Escort in the end and he was docked for straight lining the chichane and gaining a pass on me he should have slowed down and let me retake the place. Oh btw half the field including the Escort were on Toyo 888's as the recession has meant grids are low so in an effort to get grids the club relaxed the regs a bit now most of the cars in front were running in the invitation class so I think I had some moral victory on my old Dunlop Historic tyres!

Footage from Thruxton race circuit UK.

[Al weyman]

Some pictures here mine is the yellow 2nd gen. these pictures confirm I had way way too much roll and this was from the good side wher my bulk counter weights the car! TransAm Roll bars back on this weekend!

PHTC/Grp1 Quali http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa35/Da...ric%20Practice/
PHTC/Grp1 Race http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa35/Da...istoric%20race/