A cracking pic from Sunday’s sprint.
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Nicholas Horne, on Flickr
Having ended the season in this car on a real high with the 2nd in class trophy it’s time to focus my attention on 2016. Winter is a time for plans, upgrades, improvements and repairs. The next 5 weeks will be consumed by the Race Of Remembrance prep and competing there in Skuzzle’s MK2 Aero Monster but after that attention will be back on this wee beasty.
For 2016 my aim is to compete in all three Farnborough and District Motor Club Sprints (Dimanche, Abingdon CAR-nival and Royale) as well as at least one competitive round at Gurston Down Hillclimb. This time I’m wanting some top step action in the class as well. With that in mind I have the following list to work through before April. It’s a tall order budget wise when factoring in I also want to run the MAX5 racer in a couple of rounds of the MAX5 championship.
• Rust repairs to the sills (Rust really isn’t lighter than carbon fibre).
• Repair/replace cracked peddle box.
• Some more sprint/hill suitable rubber with more grip from cold.
• Get the car set up and corner weighted.
• Adjustable cam pulleys for a bit more power.
• 2.5 Sport rear brakes.
• Finish plumbing the extinguisher in and battery cut off pulls (it won’t make me faster but BecauseRaceCar).
• Purchase and fit some proper 5 point 3” harnesses.
• Adjust the seat to lean back a bit more.
• Fit passenger bucket seat (lighter than standard seat and I need to run both seats in my class as per the regs).
• Steering wheel hub spacer to improve the driving position.
• Fab up and fit some door bars to the Cusco/Safet21 4 point cage for a bit more chassis rigidity.
There’s probably some more stuff to add to that list that I have forgotten.
