Doune record Evo run...

[alicrozier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzIdYflKs4

[ed]

Impressive stuff, looks like he could have gone even quicker with the minor off at the bottom of the hill.

[Scotty C]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UO9h1dBbg&NR=1

[fd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UO9h1dBbg&NR=1

Here's a better one . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Lopg7YbUY

Fd

[ed]

Wow, balls of steel!

[ruadh08]

Never understood all that effort for less than a minute of action..................

Mind you that's what the other half often says right enough................................

[ed]

[Lazydonkey]

[ryallm]

Fantastic vids. The last one of Graeme Wight in particular is just amazing. I have been going to the hillclimb at Doune on and off as a spectator for 20 odd years, and it remains on my list of things to try before I die. It makes track driving look tame in comparison

Mark

[fd]

Some footage albeit brief of the TSE mob on this youtube from last weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPqbofqTSPc

Jonathan Neal first in Macs car near the beginning, Mac at about 3:19 and myself immediately after . . . you'll see the difference a couple of seconds faster makes Mac

Fd

[Brian J]

Question for the hill-climbers - How do the slicks work if you don't get time to warm them up?

[fd]

The tyres are soft enough to work from cold, they are a specific sprint/hillclimb compound . . . they would last a couple of laps at KH . . . same with the 'road legal' tyres I use, 1, maybe 2 laps of KH and they would be destroyed . . .

Probably also worth saying that the big single seaters are way faster than F1 cars, the GW Jr car has a V10 F1 engine but only weighs a baw hair over 400Kg, an F1 car is 600+Kg . . . they also have virtually no restrictions on aero so are designed to have massive downforce at sub 100mph . . .

Chatting to someone last year at a BBQ at Doune one evening a story was told about the then british hillclimb champ running a Gould chassis and NMR V8 racing engine (probably 100K's worth of kit and the engine is rented) who was invited to do some demo runs at I think the goodwood festival of speed . . . who put some noses out of joint by beating the F1 cars up the hill and refusing to slow down when asked so the F1 cars could be fastest . . . apparently he wasn't asked back . . .

Fd

[tuscan_thunder]

my personal favourite,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sH2i0Zf14

[meatball]

[Dominic]