my gsmotosport time attack cosworth

[ronnienag]

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Only problem I can see with us ex - sprint / hillclimb competitors is that the MSA will take your race licence away from you if you are caught entering any event not scanctioned by them ---- read the ' blue book ' . Do time attack drivers have any sort of race licence ?

it is in the msa calender as of this year mate,

yes all drivers have to have a race licence

[ronnienag]

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thanks all for the comments

few pics from my last race at knockhill, finished 7th in my class, fitted bilstein front coil overs which were too hard causing understeer.















next race is at brands hatch

[markb]

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I might try and get down there for that ronnie.

it's only down the road from me and it'd be good to see your car in action.

[ronnienag]

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I might try and get down there for that ronnie.

it's only down the road from me and it'd be good to see your car in action.

nice one mate,

where abouts are you then mate?

[markb]

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nice one mate,

where abouts are you then mate?

Plumstead mate.
About 20 minutes away down the A2.

[ronnienag]

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Plumstead mate.
About 20 minutes away down the A2.

i know it well mate, i come from thamesmead

[markb]

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lol. small world!

[Kalashnikov]

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Really nice pics and truly love that Sierra of yours! Especially that second to last Picture is Wallpaper material!

[Paulzippy]

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Mint motor good luck to you Ronnie

[david_white]

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Great write up and pics, car looks superb and just proves you don't need 500+bhp to make a cossie really quick

In those last pics the car looks just a tad high at the front which won't help with the understeer that you mentioned, is it possble to get it a little lower just at the front? Just a thought. Keep up the good work, hopefully you'll inspire a few more fords to enter

[ronnienag]

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Great write up and pics, car looks superb and just proves you don't need 500+bhp to make a cossie really quick

In those last pics the car looks just a tad high at the front which won't help with the understeer that you mentioned, is it possble to get it a little lower just at the front? Just a thought. Keep up the good work, hopefully you'll inspire a few more fords to enter

thanks mate, 500bhp to come next year lol

it is probably to do with that and the rock hard springs that were on it lol getting the car ready for brands hatch this weekend, how is your one coming along?

[david_white]

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thanks mate, 500bhp to come next year lol

it is probably to do with that and the rock hard springs that were on it lol getting the car ready for brands hatch this weekend, how is your one coming along?

Slowly but surely mate. I had, not bad understeer, but a little bit of a problem with turn in at clearways (Brands) and got over that with slightly softer front springs and about a 10mm drop on the front

[ronnienag]

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Slowly but surely mate. I had, not bad understeer, but a little bit of a problem with turn in at clearways (Brands) and got over that with slightly softer front springs and about a 10mm drop on the front

cool mate good luck with it.

thats what we have done, joe has specced some suspension for it which we fitted,

see how it goes sunday, i cant wait

[ronnienag]

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havn't updated for a while,

june 26th i had a race at brands hatch, it was the hottest weekend of the year so far and was seeing track temps of 45 degrees.

the car ran faultless as usual

and i finsihed in 5th position the r888's seemed to go off after two laps and after being held up by a supra on my flying lap posted a time of 54 seconds, was speaking to a lot of the other guys who had done testing at brands and they said they were posting times 1-2 seconds quicker than their quickest lap on the sunday a couple of days before, the heat was killing the tyres they said.

some pics









qualifying

final

last week i had a race at cadwell park, what a track!!

after nearly melting in the car at brands hatch, decided a roof scoop was needed





arrived at cadwell hopeing to try and get on track the day before as i've never been their before but it was to busy, so only managed a couple of laps as a passenger.

car all clean and ready to go



my best lap time of the day was a 1;43 securing me second place in my class









the podium



champagne in my eye, stings like buggery



the trophy



me and my proud dad



the final race is at snetterton and with a possible 105 points to bag i am 20 points from the leader, didnt expect to be quite so high up in my first year

[DanR]

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havn't updated for a while,


and i finsihed in 5th position the r888's seemed to go off after two laps

what hot pressures were you running? they are well known for getting greesy when too high