Brands Hatch - Classic Thunder 5/6 June - Pics and Vids..

[StuyMac]

Got back late last night from a fantastic weekend at Brands Hatch!

Arrived Friday evening to some glorious weather - high 20's and shorts and t-shirt weather even past midnight!

Saturday looked to be another hot day, with the sun beating down!

Qualified 14th out of 17, which I was quite happy with considering the rest of the field were using slick tyres and I was on 195/50/15 Toyo 888s.

Saturday night was another warm one, but at about midnight we had a massive storm which went on for about 2 1/2 hours with some really heavy rain, and over head thunder and lightening.

Come the first race on Sunday, the sky was pretty clear, but it was still very muggy. We lined up on the grid, lights went green, and the pole sitter made a mess of getting the car off the grid and what followed was carnage!

Youtube footage from the pole sitter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUllT2kguY0

What I saw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbXhpHK9_1A

...some of the cars involved...

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...and my old Civic :(

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One the restart, everyone got away pretty cleanly, and I got in to a race with a nippy XR2 - 1.6 Duratec on TBs with 210bhp and 720kgs! Managed to hold him off for a bit until my tyres went off, and had a bit of a "rub" going in to the hairpin :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJys7j0B0E

2nd race saw the 2 E30 BMWs fail to get away, but I managed a good start. Things settled down and I got in to the best race Ive ever had! One of the BMWs caught, and passed me, but I caught a Mk1 Escort, and my mate in his Civic who was running slicks (Im was on Toyo 888s) and even had a few looks up the inside before backing off. I also managed to hold off the other E30 M3 who was breathing down my neck all race, and got along side a few times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-bDMxin-A - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHc1lyegQZo - Part 2

Best lap 56.528

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[bren]

Do you know anyone selling a good car suitable to come and join you in the same series?

[Aj82]

Oh god, what are you thinking now Bren?! lol

Looks like a good day mate.


Cheers Aj

[bren]

Ultra reliable and trouble free Integra, door to door racing, it's got to be a winner :)

[StuyMac]

Unfortunatly not Bren :(

[zeppelin101]

Unfortunatly not Bren :(

What's happened?

[StuyMac]

Nothing, I just dont know of any cars, similar to mine, that are for sale :)

[arry]

Well I do know of an integra for sale :wack:

[Daz]

Nice little write up there Stu. Looks like you had a cracking weekend there. Shame about that big crash at the start.

[zeppelin101]

Nothing, I just dont know of any cars, similar to mine, that are for sale :)

Oh right, I thought you'd blown it up or something lol

[skid solo]

That looks like a good series and well done on staying out of the carnage and have some cracking races.

The XR2 in race 1 was taking some lurid lines! Reminds me of my old one, as every time I chucked it round a corner hard it would rub the tyres on the arches :D

[docwra]

I saw the first video and was gutted for you mate. Didnt realise youd sold the red one! :D

Looks like good fun that does :thumbs:

[arry]

Do you know anyone selling a good car suitable to come and join you in the same series?

You may have to log in to see this one Bren:
http://www.itr-dc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78181&highlight=

I'll give you a snippet to see if you're interested:
Due to change of plan and sponsors, we now need to build a new race car to race in different series, so my race car and all the spares are up for sale, its a sad decision as I have been racing with my DC2 for the pass 6 years and I have dedicated the pass 6 years into research for building one of the finest DC2, most of you may know about a little bit of history of this car -

Full spec is on here - http://www.dmsracingltd.co.uk/news/dms-race-car/2009/07/21/

*Pictures of all the bits from the old car will be up shortly, need to take photos for everything will take me a while.

Pictures of the new car is at the bottom.

2006 and 2007 Timeattack champion car -
2008, 2009 Nippon Challenge race car, and with 6 wins out of 15 races in 2009 (IIRC) 1DNF and missed 2 races, all the others comes 2nd.
3 times magazine features
Hybrid Racing Demo car

Matt Black race car DC2 -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/proracerimports/PICT0338.jpg

[bren]

Ive signed up for the forum but havent had activation email as yet. What money is the car up for? Looks a bit high specced for me with built BC engine etc.