21st Mar 2010 HKS Series Round 1

With very little development over the winter, we arrived not expecting too much, but went away with a 2nd place and a New PB of 11.066 at 137.01 mph. With more developments to come for the following rounds this is looking like it will be  a good season :)

17th Oct 2009

 

 Test & Tune Day at Shakespeare

During the week we fitted a new boost controller that allowed me to adjust the boost in each gear. 9 runs later I had dialled in the exact boost I needed for 1st gear and was running a consistent low 1.7 second 60' time. So much so that I set a new PB of 11.082 at 135.50 mph and a new PB top speed on a separate run of 137.87
21st June

2009

 HKS Series Round 5

A good weekend, got all the way to the final of the HKS series and was beaten by a very quick Guy Chaberlain. The car was starting to get back to its best achieving my quickest time of the year with an 11.1108 @ 136.91
11th July2009

 

 HKS Series Round 4

A disappointing weekend, knocked out in the 1st eliminators with gear selector problems.
14th June2009

 

 Pro Street Drag Series Round 3

On the morning of the 14th we had a mad dash over to shakey to get one run of 12.4 seconds in, with damaged 4th gear, which was good enough to get us 4th in class, then a mad dash back to POD for the elimination rounds.
13/14th June 2009

 

 HKS Series Round 2

A reasonable show however gearbox problems and the trip to shakey meant we lost valuable points finishing 3rd with a best run of 12.0 for the weekend.
17th May2009

 

 Pro Street Drag Series Round 2

A complete washout, we managed to get one run in during the whole weekend which was a respectable 11.6 which was enough to secure the points.
11th May 2009

 

 

HKS Series Round 1

The weekend saw the first round of the HKS series, during practice on saturday the car was running well pulling consistant 11.1 second runs into a head wind. Terminal speeds were down by about 5mph on usual so the first 10 second pass looked to be on the cards.

Sunday the wind turned and we had a tail wind, could this be the day for the 10's? The first run of the day was a steady 11.3 which initially put us as number 1 qualifier, however a broken driveshaft in the 2nd qualifing round meant we missed the 3 round of qualiffying where Guy Chamberlain managed to beat our time to knock us down into 2nd.

With one uprated driveshaft and one standard one we stage for the semi final eliminators, a poor launch off the line meant that Dougie's honda was way out in front, but by the 1/8th we had almost pulled him back then a missed gear change and 2 attempts to get it into 4th meant Dougie was long gone....But there's always next time

20th April 2009 Pro Street Drag Series Round 1 - - lastminute.com but its worth it in the end….

April the 18th/19th saw the first round of the  Pro Street Drag Series at Shakespeare County Raceway. We had the whole weekend planned. Final mapping session on the Friday, light testing on the Saturday and the competition on the Sunday.. yeah well it didn’t quite go to plan!

On the Friday we had problems on the dyno we couldn’t strap the car down enough to map it, and we snapped a strap. So we decided to do some light road mapping Saturday, but the FTO was having none of it and decided it needed to see a Dentist. It spat all the teeth out from its 4th gear late Saturday afternoon. So Dave and I had to borrow a gearbox from Don Griffiths (another NR FTO competing at the event) and had a mad rush on to change the gearbox ready for the Sunday. The ratio’s were too short but at least we could run.

Sunday proved to be just as eventful, with a snapped throttle cable on the 1st flat out run of the day but the good thing about drag racing is the camaraderie and a friendly Swedish Pro Drag Bike team gave us a new one.

We managed 4 runs in all but it was still enough to take a Class Victory and 10pts so it was all worth it in the end.