14 MX5 to run at Eastern Creek next week end come see!

Postby **Boyracer** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:03 pm

Cal wrote:HELP.....just broke the dorian timer box while putting the car on the trailer. Do any of you NSW boys have a spare old dorian box we could borrow? Not the new small ones, the old lunchbox one.

Cal.

Can borrow my lunchbox.....will bring it on saturday.

Cal · Postby **Cal** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:18 pm

You are the man Lou. Thank you very much.

Cal.

Postby **Boyracer** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:15 pm

Well done to all the MX5ers at E/creek today...busy day,big race...plenty of action.

Mr_Q · Postby **Mr_Q** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:18 am

Well done to all - a good day of racing (even if the new Mania car didn't get to the main race

).

There's a few more photo's here ...

Postby **Boyracer** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:58 am

runovr wrote:top photo lou how did you go?

OK for a phone camera.

Tom...I was just hanging around,hopefully my car will be going in about 3-4 weeks.

The 430 chlenge ferrari is spectacular...shame it kept running in to things.

Results are here.

http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/resul ... /2006.ARDC

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:22 am

A great result from Brian. 6th outright and second in his class isn't to shabby.

Go the SP! :mrgreen:

rodent · Postby **rodent** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:02 pm

Mr_Q wrote:a good day of racing (even if the new Mania car didn't get to the main race ).

Oh no! The guys were working so hard on it - what happened?

Mr_Q · Postby **Mr_Q** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:12 pm

rodent wrote:
Mr_Q wrote:a good day of racing (even if the new Mania car didn't get to the main race ).

Oh no! The guys were working so hard on it - what happened?

Nothing dramatic.

They ran it for the qualifying sessions and had some concerns with the engine. Rather than take the risk of doing expensive damage they didn't run it for the other races.

Hopefully it'll be ready for the Mania track day next week.

neil d · Postby **neil d** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:40 pm

I had an absolute ball over the weekend :mrgreen:

We rolled the car off the trailer on Saturday and had a quick run for about 5-7 laps to find out where the track went. Came into the pits and our diligent pit crew Brad spotted that the car was blowing excessive smoke. We shut the car off and investigated to find plugs 2,3,4 full of oil and we assumed the worse however after a few checks we worked out that there was close to about 1-1.5lt's of oil too much which was the cause of the smoke. Dropped the excess and sent Cal out for another run with a now non smoking engine.

That was the last time we touched the car for the rest of the weekend. It ran perfectly and our lap times gradually dropped every time we went out. We qualified in 25th for the main race and finished 18 overall and just missed winning the 2f class by .6 sec from the Lowe Boys.

We loved the track and will definitely be back next year to run Eastern Creek and Wakefield if itâ€™s still around.

Neil

Cal · Postby **Cal** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:57 pm

neil d wrote:and Wakefield if itâ€™s still around.

Don't you mean Oran Park? Wakefield ain't going anywhere.

Cal.

Postby **Boyracer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:53 pm

Won't be there...only planned race for me at the moment is the 1 hour at P.I.

neil d · Postby **neil d** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:55 pm

Cal wrote:
neil d wrote:and Wakefield if itâ€™s still around.

Don't you mean Oran Park? Wakefield ain't going anywhere.

Cal.

What ever! :evil:

Brad · Postby **Brad** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:26 pm

runovr wrote:will you make wakefield lou? hopefully the rx7 will be right. and as for 430 they should rip up his lic !

Why? If you actually knew the guy you'd realise he's one of the nicest and generous people out there. Sure he may not be quick but he's big enough to admit when he stuffs up, and can actually afford to be out there racing that car, which many people can't as they bankroll theirs and are stuffed if they bin it.

neil d · Postby **neil d** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:52 am

runovr wrote:will you make wakefield lou? hopefully the rx7 will be right. and as for 430 they should rip up his lic !

Why should they rip up his licence?

Brad · Postby **Brad** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:17 pm

runovr wrote:because guys like him always take out the little guys with nickle and dime budgets!

Like who? If you are talking about the incident in T1 opn lap 2 then neither can was damaged and it was a pretty hard to say who was a fault without having the benefit of a replay.