Season Update
May not be doing Pestalozzi, as it looks like a date clash with a prior engagement.
Car nearly ready, just a good clean & nut/bolt check, then Wiscombe here we come!!
May not be doing Pestalozzi, as it looks like a date clash with a prior engagement.
Car nearly ready, just a good clean & nut/bolt check, then Wiscombe here we come!!
The winter program is coming along, but slower than I’d like, thanks in part to my daughter getting married last month……..women!!
Nigel, the newly aquired Son-in-Law, is a good bloke and we get on very well. He’s a liking for old Ferrari’s, Porsche’s & MK 1 Escort’s. Welcome to the family son! Anyway. back to business. Car in bits, and will probably be like that until 48hrs before my first event. The radiator damage turned out not be the top hose, but the radiator’s mounting stud cracking the end of the rad (from an early VW Polo). So £40 later, a new rad ready to fit, with a new, lighter, fan also being sourced to replace the wind turbine that has resided in my engine bay since I got the car. Bodywork being repaired, and a new front being designed, so good-bye to the Hesketh centre section. Oil change (engine & ‘box), nut & bolt check, and we’ll be ready to face the Hillclimb tracks in the South of England once again. Dates for your diary are:- * 24th & 25th April - Wiscombe Park
Two-car Global GT1 Hill Climb and Sprint team based in Hampshire and Somerset
Ian has been competing for many years now and won the 2007 Wiscombe Park Hillclimb Championship in his Westfield BDH. In recent years, Ian has taken many class wins and set new class records at a huge variety of venues across the South and South West of England.
Lynsey and Mark campaigned an Alfasud for 3 seasons. In late 2007 they took delivery of a Pulsar 931.
In early 2011 both the Pulsar and the Westfield were swapped for Yamaha R1 powered Global GT 1 sports cars with which to worry the hills and tracks of the South of Great Britain
Global GT1 spec summary:
· FIA, SCAA, MSA approved space-frame chassis
· Double wishbone front and rear
· Öhlins dampers with coil over springs
· Only 390kg
· Yamaha R1 998cc DOHC 4 cylinder
· Maximum Power 150bhp @ 11,750rpm
· 20 Valve naturally aspirated aluminium block
· 6 speed sequential gearbox
· Avon Slicks 7.0/20.0-13 (wets as required!)
