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Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by JohnStewart » Mon May 17, 2010 3:27 pm

Fee during morning practice. Fee not only won the 4WD category of Club Class, but won Club Class outright beating the big power RWD Supras with a 55.4 second lap (on road tyres) :)
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This Exige was going very well, until the engine developed a terminal problem (oil pouring out :( )
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Guglieme's Exige (came 2nd again to the EVO of Gareth Lloyd)
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Very well driven white Exige (or is it an Elise with a hard top?) which I think won the RWD category in Club Class
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Portable BBQ :D
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Scott Robson (gambler) at full chat up the straight - Scott had another great result, with 2nd place on the podium :)
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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by tut » Mon May 17, 2010 4:27 pm

Well done Fee and Scott, 55.4 is an excellent time.

What was yours Scott?

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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by JohnStewart » Mon May 17, 2010 5:01 pm

Scott got a 56.2 during the morning session, and a 56.4 in the final.

Full results here: http://www.tsl-timing.com/attack/2010/101970.pdf

You can see that both Scott and Fee lose out quite a bit in terms of straight line speed to some of the other cars, but more than make up for it throughout the corners and braking!

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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by TrackScotland » Mon May 17, 2010 5:28 pm

Fee seems to be using her head more this year too :) and appreciating that lap data/time is useful in car.

In practice she went out on 1 year old worn 888's and did a 56.220 on her first flyer. She then came in and said 'that will do...' I had to convince her to go back out just to cool the car/brakes down. In the past she would have just kept flying round and wearing out the car/tyres/brakes for 15laps or so. In the final she did 3 hot laps, then 3 cool laps. Her time from these was a 56.082 - good enough for 1st still. With the tyres coming back to her she gave one last try and up came the 55.431.. she then came into the pits where again I had to try and convince her to go back out and keep circulating just incase she needed to improve it. Tense Times :shock:

Have a look at the vid here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgMsUp2Pe0 It includes her 4 flying laps in the final... and her reaction on the last lap (55.4) is priceless :cheers

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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by gambler » Tue May 18, 2010 9:04 am

Great result for fee. Well done! Her time is even more impressive as the drifting boys had just spent the previous hour drifting down duffus, making it very sloppy with a lot of loose rubber. On the 1st half of the session, when the traffic is all moving fast, there was bugger all grip down there.
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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by s29ttc » Tue May 18, 2010 12:58 pm

Scotty, you looked as though you were going rather well! I did think about the consiquences of the drifting on right before you went out! Great result from yourself and very impressive from Fee. Some of the guys I was with were rather suprised that a girl was able to peddle a car round knockhill like that and I heard a few people at the side "Is that a burd dayin that....that mental by thu way" :lol:

Well done to both if you! It was a great day of spectating, watching the cars going round at that speed was something else :thumbsup
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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by Scuffers » Tue May 18, 2010 4:41 pm

Wrong Elise...

Jamie Willson in his Exige,
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lost out (in class) by 4 hundredths of a sec - track knowledge really helps here (or lack of!)

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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by TrackScotland » Tue May 18, 2010 5:03 pm

I didnt notice two white elises/exiges LOL

That must have confused a few folk. I only thought there was gugliwooglie in Pro, the white and the orange exige in Club.

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Re: Time Attack (some Lotus content)

Post by gambler » Wed May 19, 2010 5:46 pm

Scott - Glad you had a good day

John - Cracking pics :thumbsup
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