Scottish Elises

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SSC Round 1 13 April, 2008 Kames Scottish Sporting C.C.
SHC Round 1 19 April, 2008 Doune Lothian C.C.
SHC Round 2* 20 April, 2008 Doune Lothian C.C.
SHC Round 3 27 April, 2008 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SSC Round 2 03 May, 2008 East Fortune Lothian C.C
SSC Round 3 04 May, 2008 East Fortune Lothian C.C
SHC Round 4* 10 May, 2008 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 5 11 May, 2008 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SSC Round 4* 24 May, 2008 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SSC Round 5 25 May, 2008 Kames Machars Car Club
SSC Round 6* 7 June, 2008 Golspie Littleferry Caithness C.C.
SSC Round 7 8 June, 2008 Golspie Kylestrome Caithness C.C.
SHC Round 6 21/22 June, 2008 Doune Lothian C.C.
SHC Round 7 28 June, 2008 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SHC Round 8* 29 June, 2008 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SSC Round 8* 5 July, 2008 Boyndie Circuit 1 Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 9 6 July, 2008 Boyndie Circuit 2 Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 10* 19/20 July, 2008 Alford Grampian A.C.
SSC Round 11 2 August, 2008 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SSC Round 12 3 August, 2008 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SHC Round 9* 9 August , 2008 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 10 10 August, 2008 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 11* 24 August, 2008 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SSC Round 13 13 September, 2008 Golspie Littleferry Caithness C.C.
SSC Round 14* 14 September, 2008 Golspie Kylestrome Caithness C.C.
SSC Round 15 20 September, 2008 Alford Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 16 21 September, 2008 Alford Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 12 27/28 September, 2008 Doune Lothian C.C
2008 awards dinner 29 November 2008 Atholl Palace Hotel Atholl Palace Hotel
NB: Events marked with an asterisk are also rounds of the 2008 Scottish Speed Championship.

2009 Dates.

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SSC Round 1 12 April 2009 Kames Scottish Sporting C.C.
SHC Round 1 18 April 2009 Doune Lothian C.C.
SHC Round 2* 19 April 2009 Doune Lothian C.C.
SHC Round 3* 9 May 2009 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 4 10 May 2009 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SSC Round 2* 24 May 2009 Kames Machars Car Club
SSC Round 3 6 June 2009 Golspie Littleferry Caithness C.C.
SSC Round 4* 7 June 2009 Golspie Kylestrome Caithness C.C
SSC Round 5 13 June 2009 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SSC Round 6 14 June 2009 Kames East Ayrshire C.C
SHC Round 5 20/21 June 2009 Doune Lothian C.C
SHC Round 6* 27 June 2009 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SHC Round 7 28 June 2009 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SSC Round 7* 4 July 2009 Boyndie Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 8 5 July 2009 Boyndie Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 9* 11/12 July 2009 Alford Grampian A.C.
SSC Round 10* 1 August 2009 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SSC Round 11 2 August 2009 Kames East Ayrshire C.C.
SHC Round 8 8 August 2009 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 9* 9 August 2009 Fintray Grampian A.C.
SHC Round 10 29 August 2009 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SHC Round 11* 30 August 2009 Forrestburn Monklands Sporting C.C.
SSC Round 12* 12 September 2009 Golspie Littleferry Caithness C.C
SSC Round 13 13 September 2009 Golspie Kylestrome Caithness C.C
SSC Round 14 19 September 2009 Boyndie Aberdeen & District M.C.
SSC Round 15 20 September 2009 Boyndie Aberdeen & District M.C.
SHC Round 12* 26/27 September 2009 Doune Lothian C.C
2009 Awards Dinner 28 November 2009 Atholl Palace Hotel Atholl Palace Hotel
NB: Events marked with an asterisk are also rounds of the 2009 Scottish Speed Championship.

Just spent 1.20 on the phone with Mike this afternoon, but he did not have the dates at that time.

Last year was best 9 out of 16 for the Sprints, but this year I see that there are 15 rounds and East Fortune has been dropped, plus KH again.

Still dick 'em if they would let me.........



tut

might do a couple of the local rounds next year.

wait and see.

Scotty C

Mike or Ali

Do you know if the 2-11 would be eligible for A8 Class?

If so it could probably win the outright Scottish Sprint Championship.

tut

Don't see why not...as long as it's a Lotus 'full production model'.
Also be allowed to massively modify it terms of power, brakes, suspension etc. as long as it was road legal (and you didn't put a Honda in it).

Yeah - after all, it's legal to bolt a bloody supercharger on a VHPD with no equivalency rule, as long as the block is the same as production

Not entirely sure I agree with that TBH

tut wrote:Mike or Ali

Do you know if the 2-11 would be eligible for A8 Class?

If so it could probably win the outright Scottish Sprint Championship.

tut

Scotty

I meant with me driving it..........



tut

Shug wrote:Yeah - after all, it's legal to bolt a bloody supercharger on a VHPD with no equivalency rule, as long as the block is the same as production

Not entirely sure I agree with that TBH

I think there is a multiplier for turbo or S/C...

...but the class is unlimited engine capacity...

Spooky, I went for my medical today and the doctor was Paul Rhodes who races single seater's in the Scottish championship.

Just need to pass my test now.

tut wrote:Just spent 1.20 on the phone with Mike this afternoon, but he did not have the dates at that time.

Last year was best 9 out of 16 for the Sprints, but this year I see that there are 15 rounds and East Fortune has been dropped, plus KH again.

Still dick 'em if they would let me.........



tut

It's the first time I've been given a bollocking for being on the phone so long from somebody elses wife I wouldn't mind but I was paying for the call

As for the 2-11 no it isn't. I checked before blowing a load of money on something I couldn't use. Not enough units made................yet.

Good lad Paul, lent me a racing suit for most of the season.

Started off using my Nomex 3 Flying suit, £500's worth, but as they could not force me to wear shoes, they banned that instead.

tut

Mikie711 wrote: As for the 2-11 no it isn't. I checked before blowing a load of money on something I couldn't use. Not enough units made................yet.

Yes Mike, I see the Scottish regs say '...full production models...' and MSA defines that as '...produced in quantities of not less than 1000 per annum...'.
I don't know how many 2-11's are produced a year.

Seems a bit harsh but a standard 2-11 would wipe the floor with pretty much anything. I think the class was designed to encourage standard Porsche, Ferrari, Lotus, TVR etc. In the past it's been been a mix of some fairly standard road cars (like myself) and classic racers (Matt Gordon, Stan Bernard with the Porsches etc.) and the odd Ginetta, VX220, TVR. As it stands I think an early Elise or Exige (340R wouldn't be eligible as not produced in enough numbers) with K series engine, maybe bigger capacity, with a turbo and/or supercharger is going to be the otimum...as Graeme Bremner has proved with his Exige.

I'm sure a few other notable past and present entries can't have been produced in those numbers though...

Your probably right. Think the ginetta runs in A8 because there is usually on one or two of them. In the lowlands championship they run in a class of their own up here there A8 because they don't really fit anywhere else. A8 has kinda turned into a catch all class for stuff that would get thumped in any other class, road car wise.
Graeme did happen to have the right car at the right time, but all power to him he's Scottish champ again and Jeniffer got the womens so it's worked out OK for them.
I would expect to see more Elise/Exige variants as the price of them comes down, then they will either change the class and do away with A8 or bung them in a class structure of there own, like some of the English hillclimbs/sprints have done.

BTW tut, worked out that I am home for 14 events next year, 10 of which are sprints. Looks like '09 is going to be a busy year