Well it is 38ºC here in Western Australia today so I thought it would be a good time to update this thread.
I have competed in 9 events in the first half of this year and then temporarily retired the car to give it a makeover.
There were some new events this year because the club that runs the local racetrack have added a link road between the circuit and the adjacent hillclimb so that what they call Point 2 Point sprints could be run. They are very similar to the rally stages run at UK racetracks but being sprints a co-driver is not required and only one layout was used for each event which consisted of a practice and 3 timed runs.
Five events were run and my car seems to be very suited to them as my results were 2 firsts, 2 seconds and 1 third. I really liked these events as they reminded me of my rallying days in the 80s (also in an Escort).
Here are a couple of videos:
Two more videos, a very short hillclimb and sprint run on the tarmac stage of the Western Australian round of the Australian Rally Championship.
One of the questions I am often asked is why the car has such small wheels ( these days anything under 17in seems to be considered small!). The reason is that I like the look of wide 13in Minilites.
I gave my motorsport engineer friend a drive of my car at a sprint last year and he also queried the small wheels so I decided to change to 15in wheels to shut everyone up!
I have always loved the wide arched Zakspeed Escorts with BBS wheels so this is what I have chosen to replicate.I have not aimed to have an exact replica and will have essentially the same colour scheme as before.
Initially I thought that it would be completed in about a month after I started the change but it has dragged out to over 4 months because it has been more complicated than I thought it would be.
Next post I will start detailing the process......complete with lots of photos
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