MadMarx Posted June 29, 2021 Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) had a race weekend with TR4 and TR8. My laptimes in the 8 were too slow but I guess this comes from not driving that car at high speeds for almost 2 years: Edited June 29, 2021 by MadMarx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted June 29, 2021 Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 don't you just love to see a TR pass a 911 or a few. they can kid themselves they are not holding you up until you pass them and disappear into the distance. great stuff Christian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted June 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 You are very kind. The best I did last weekend was a 2:48.8.....but I can do a 2:44.3.....and the plan was to go down on a 2:42.....which failed completely. But I wasn't the only one who struggled that weekend. Hope I find my performance. And yes, I enjoy to be Porsche poison. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted June 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 The last race was a slicks in rain experience. During pregrid it started heavy raining. All cars went back in the paddock and changed on rain tires. Unfortunately my rains weren't properly inflated and it would had took too long for me to change...I would have missed the start. So I stayed in place and hoped for the best.....but the whole race was very wet and slippery. But I wasn't last. I managed to overtake 2 cars. Quite scary to drive 130 mph on a wet track on slicks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted June 29, 2021 Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 hey at least you get some seat time must be nice to get into a rhythm over a few laps. but the added risk is the others taking you off ............ i get about a minute a run as a one off and can't get that corner right "next time" i have a lot of respect for F1 in qualifying !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Hamish Posted June 29, 2021 Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 That’s a good result in a fast group of cars. it will come back to you CM and you have them all in your mirrors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stuart Posted June 29, 2021 Report Share Posted June 29, 2021 1 hour ago, MadMarx said: Love the 1600 Escort in 8th place, he did well! Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roy53 Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 2.49 on slicks in the wet is still a good time Criss. How did the TR4 drive go ,we all know how you can make that fly. Stuart you should see the spec of the escorts and will understand why they fly. ROY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted June 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 ha, 2:49 in the wet would be fabulous. I drove 3:35 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roy53 Posted July 2, 2021 Report Share Posted July 2, 2021 Oh i miss read the times posted. Still you got to take it back home in one piece. Thats a plus. Roy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted July 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2021 Always good to take ready to go cars back home. There where people who had less luck. I saw a Elan rolled over and also a Lotus Sunbeam on the roof. Many red flagged races from crashed cars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted August 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Seems the F1 drivers should be replaced with CSCC and Triumph Competition drivers at Spa. We would give them a race for the money. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hamish Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 9 hours ago, MadMarx said: Seems the F1 drivers should be replaced with CSCC and Triumph Competition drivers at Spa. We would give them a race for the money. I have yet to see the laps done on a recorded highlight. but I think I am with Lewis ( I know he had a vested interest) to call it off and refund the attendee fans. I know tv rights is all in F1 but yesterday’s happenings can’t have satisfied the TV companies either. but both race rules and probably commercial rules meant that 2 safety car laps meant they could call it a race and award points. Very sad. Christian, you know Spa. Would you really think it would have been safe to race in the conditions yesterday ? Especially with the rooster plumes of spray these cars produce. May be more about visibility rather than grip ? ( but then look at Norris) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 It was a joke. I could have tagged along behind in the 4A and kept up with them. Awful shambles. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 It was purely to protect F1 from having to repay its advertisers and broadcasters. F1 has a travelling circus of metorologists with radar, all the bells and whistles. They are supplied by UbiMet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubimet) to inform the teams of weather on the way, so they must have known that the rain would continue. They were supposed to hold the race in a three hour window, to satisfy TV, and they stopped the clock on that, but by 1800, with sunset only two hours away, they had no more flexibility left. Cancel the race and pay large penalties, or send them out for the minimum of two laps to 'satisfy' the contracts. Makes no one happy, least of all the spectators. But the weather has stopped motorsport before. I was at a North Wales rally a few years ago, when overnight snow and frost on wet ground turned the stages into the traditional skating rink. Four wheel driver rescue vehicles had to be sent into the stage to get marshals out, as no ordinary vehicles could get through, yet 200 feet lower down - there was no snow! Spectators got no money back, but then they had paid none, and the competitors just had to put up with lower level stages. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadMarx Posted September 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) On 8/30/2021 at 9:13 AM, Hamish said: Christian, you know Spa. Would you really think it would have been safe to race in the conditions yesterday ? .... They have these red rain lights....those are visible...nearly blinding bright, even in tight fog or rain. If I race I don't care about safe. If I want to be safe then I sit on the sofa watching a talkshow about the Kadeshians. If I sit in a race car I do my best to be fast, keeping that thing on the road and not crashing others. I drove in drowning rain which made the spare wheels flooding away, tight fog in the night, snow, strong winds, high temperatures and never feared anything. I have this accelerator thing on the right....this is controlling the risk I go. I would expect that the accelerator in a F1 car can do the same and the drivers have learned to use it. Means - I don't care the conditions, I go as fast as I can....maybe not winning the race but having fun for myself driving a hell machine. A matter of attitude. Edited September 4, 2021 by MadMarx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted September 5, 2021 Report Share Posted September 5, 2021 (edited) Just for comparison, the Malaysian GP, from twenty years ago: Not the first or the only Malaysian to be near ruined by rain! Edited September 5, 2021 by john.r.davies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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