Food for thought... SE top shed challenge

[woody]

Team Ayrshire; we can use one of our daily drives then?


I vote Shug's mini.

[gambler]

Great idea. Im in

[Shug]

Sort it out Shug

Sure.

Dom - sort it.

[Dominic]

Okay,

Here's my first stab at a plan and some rules;

TSE Top Shed Challenge

1. First off, keep it simple!

2. For ease, all cars should be driven to and from events; not everyone will have a tow car / trailer. For younger folk, CCI are fairly cheap for 3rd party insurance for smaller engined cars (from memory, aged 27, my 2.8l XR4x4 was circa £280 for 12 months roughly half of which would be refundable when the car is sold). Each team can decide if all will be insured for road use, or one nominated road driver.

3. Try to keep a lid on the costs, so cheap & chearfull events (i.e. no sprints)

4. We can come up with a theme for the cars... or anything goes? As suggested the more imaginative the idea, the more points.

5. Teams can be of any number of members, but ideally no more than 5, so that the whole team can travel together.

6. Top budget £500 for purchase. Minor repairs and quick fixes allowable along the way.

The plan / timescale;

Over the next couple of weeks, form teams and start thinking about what car to go for.

By the end of May, have a car bought; can be from anywhere, but good starting points; Auctions, Autotrader, the Yellow Paper (Scot Ads I think) Classic car websites and of course, pistonheads. Cars should be MOT'd and taxed;- need not be at time of purchase, but will need to be for the first event, so may as well buy wisely.

First event, in early June; a road trip, testing mpg and reliability. A route could be devised that takes in all road types, with some specific points to visit. Points added / deducted for mpg (we need not take MPG too seriously), and stoppages. A trip round the highlands in a day sounds fun!

Second Event, late June / early July (poss swap with 3rd event subject to what events car clubs are running to fit in with callenders), Kames track day. As others mentioned (If any sort of timing would be allowed) set a 'standard' time to aim for; points awarded for faster, points deducted for slower... all team members can take part, if desired; only the best time to count. If no timing allowed, then points deducted for any offs / or break downs.

Third event, late July. a grass test (swapable as above subject to available dates). Points awarded according to finishing order.

Forth event; August KH hot hatch day? / and or tarmac autotest - other suggestions???

After August, sell the cars, ready for any profit made to go to AMP3 charity day.

We can throw in some minor challenges along the way too; for example; researching your car's manufactures racing colour scheme, and preparing the car (with tins of paint & a brush) accordingly/ presentation of car/ etc etc.

If we can come up with a points system that does not require judges, then we can all compete. If it requires someone to oversee things, and have the final say on any disputes, then, in the absence of any other volunteers, I'll be happy to 'manage' the challenge. Otherwise, if it's simply a case of judging originality / paint jobs etc, we could always get some non competing SE'rs to act as one off judges.

Further suggestions welcome....

[Dominic]

We can also get car specs from; http://www.carfolio.com/ and do a 0-60 test (at Kames?).. points off for tenths slower than when new.

[Neil72]

Great idea.

I'd be up for this if there was enough interest from the West Lothian chaps to form a team

[Mr Momo]

Top idea

What about a NE team, west coasters teams, Edinbuggers teams - helps with getting people together.

Everything else sounds like a larf !

[Rusty]

I'm up for being in a team, i'm skint but i do have a polo that can be bought off me, 1.4l mechanically great, mot and tax

but as i'm skint, i'll happily be a judge! or invidgilator or whatever!

Adam

[kenny]

So who wants to form a weegie team?

/shed driver for hire faction

[cloggie]

Genius idea
Im in
now who do i pay my money to

[Rusty]

If i go judge, for one of the lap times, if someone lets me take something nice round, with me being slow, then there could be fun in that

"haha i beat adam's time in a shed"

i prob will never live it down but its worth a thought.

[VXJON]

Open it to teams from other forums?

Jock7s ( most on here anyway)
TypeR
Sidc
And so on


???????

[Dominic]

Open it to teams from other forums?

Jock7s ( most on here anyway)
TypeR
Sidc
And so on


???????

Looks like there is quite a lot of interest on here so far, so prob keep it to SE & Jock7s... for just now. We can always open it up in a week or two if interest drops.

I'll post up on J7s.

[mac]

I think it's an awesome idea - something that Simon I had chatted over with me a few times in the past. I would prefer an all day stint at Crail if I'm being open and honest as we could cover pretty much every eventuality there from 0-60 tests, a sprint, economy trials and performance testing.

Could even try and do an enduro type event - brim the cars and start driving, taking spells. Winner is the car that does the most laps.

I think the possibilities are endless.


Mac

[cloggie]

I think doing it all in the one day is a far better idea!
Or even a weekend , One day up at crail the next day at Kames????