Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

[david_white]

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Well done Nick, great result

[Toymex]

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Well done Nick , good lap time aswell hope to see you at the next round ,sending my app form tommorow,

[Pushrod King]

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Thanks,worrying thing is that Alex and Bill were doing mid 54s and dipped into the 53s on one lap!

Pic of damage: can anyone guess who caused it?

[tom burgess]

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Well done Nic.impressive time for an unarched x-flowed escorti would say that was paul who done that?roll on the next round

[Pushrod King]

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Well done Nic.impressive time for an unarched x-flowed escorti would say that was paul who done that?roll on the next round

Correct Tom it was Paul,he did to me what I've seen him do time and time again to other people but got spun out for his trouble,I half expected to be dragged up infront of the clerk of the course at the end of the race but didn't hear a thing! Paul's not talking to me now. videos of race 2 here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpxiHr-1BIYouTube - DMN 29th March 2009 Brands Hatch (1st half).. and here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-uelkqYurUYouTube - DMN 29th March 2009 Brands Hatch (2nd half). (not mine) If you look carefully you can see how much time it cost me at the start.

[Pushrod King]

Race report May 10th Brands

The day got off to a bad start for me on the friday prior to racing.... I woke up in the early hours with the worse tooth ache I've ever had and due to work commitments I couldn't get to see a dentist until Monday so I took loads of pain killers and rubbed Bonjela into the generally painful area for two days leading up to sundays' meeting
Anyway, sunday morning came and I drove to Brands hatch,arrived at 8.25,signed on and then parked up unloaded the car and took it to scrutineering where it was scrutineered by the head honcho and eligilbity scrutineer,who although clearly not impressed with my Led headlights passed the car and gave me the sticker. PHEW!!

Qualifying came and still feeling pretty sh*t I drove over to the assembly area only to be met with a bloody queue for noise testing which A: wasted loads of fuel ( I nearly ran out at the end of the session) and B: didn't do the clutch a lot of good as I was stop starting for at least 15 mins
Despite having to take to the grass to avoid a white Seat that moved over on me as I was passing it along Cooper straight I managed to complete the session and qualified 23rd on the grid and most importantly 2nd in class D.

Race one:Made quite a good start but was baulked by some of the "faster" cars that wouldn't push on cold tyres at the 1st corner,had a good race with Graham Richardson in his Nova for a couple of laps before making a break and eventually finishing 19th overall and 2nd in class.
Race 2:Feeling really sh*t by now,the race was much the same at the start but Graham managed to get infront of me whilst I defended against a yellow Seat Cupra and Paul Goddard in the bda engined mk1 Graham stayed there until his engine blew going down the hill after Druids (I'd like to think it went because he was pushing so hard to stay ahead of me) I was then able to make a break and get away from the cars that were behind me having a good race with a class B Seat,I eventually finished 18th overall and 2nd in class D.

My favorite pic showing how close class D is:http://www.snappyracers.com/album/10.../IMG_0590.html

I just need to learn how to drive properly as I drove like a prat for most of both of the racesMind you as I type this the whole of one side of my face is swollen and my tooth is still agony I've been on 1500mgs of anti-biotics a day since I saw the dentist on monday but they've not really started to work yet

[Dan]

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sounds like you had a good weekend

every time ive taken antibiotics they've made me feel worse than the thing their supposed to be fixing, cant imagine they help much when your trying to race

[Retromotorsport]

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Well done on the result Nick ...

[Toymex]

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Hi Nick im guessing from Garys post all went well ,i will be awaiting your write up

[Pushrod King]

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Well done on the result Nick ...

Thanks Gary,it's not the way that I like to take a win but I won't complain too much

[Pushrod King]

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Hi Nick im guessing from Garys post all went well ,i will be awaiting your write up

I took the class win in the second raceI'll do a write up in the next couple of days (when I've worked out how many laps that I led Graham Bahr for in the 1st race until the misfire returned)

[Graham]

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i had to let you have some of the glory nick you were certainly pretty quick early on i know we swapped places a couple of times before my tyres came to life and i started to push a bit more, but to be honest with the second part of the race getting more hectic for me against 1st nigel then barry in the rover my memory of the early part is rather vague, it was good fun thou

[Graham]

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I took the class win in the second raceI'll do a write up in the next couple of days (when I've worked out how many laps that I led Graham Bahr for in the 1st race until the misfire returned)

sorry to dissappoint nick but as a result of me finding mr ushers oil you only lead me over the line on lap 8

but bring it on, as i said i was well suprised at the turn of speed you had early on

[Pushrod King]

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sorry to dissappoint nick but as a result of me finding mr ushers oil you only lead me over the line on lap 8

but bring it on, as i said i was well suprised at the turn of speed you had early on

Nah,lap 8 was when the engine went sick,I overtook you into paddock on about lap 3 and was slowly pulling away,looking at the lap times I led you until 8 when it went sick.
Full write up from my perspective later

[Graham]

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mmm you need to have another look at the lap charts, you are looking at the right car numbers? i was driving 46 yours is 71, the only lap you lead me over the line on was lap 8, as my lap times on laps 7 and 8 had slowed by 1.5 seconds, i can see where your lap times really slowed as by lap ten you were lapping at over a minute a lap

lap charts http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc=club&...&eventid=92253