Well we had a great day & no rain to boot (except for a couple of spots).
There were only 12 cars in our sessions, all Triumphs unfortunately. It would have been nice to mix it up a bit with the MGs as it was at Silverstone in March. Ah! well. The sessions lasted for 15 minutes and we had 4 in the morning & 3 in the afternoon.
Near the end of the second session I was just going round Quarry, I lost all power & the rear wheels locked up for a second. Pulled it over onto the grass and tried to start it again but it wasn't going to. It was then I noticed the green light on my dash wasn't working (leccy fan) so I immediately thought "fuse blown". Anyway, after the session had finished I got towed back to the pits, opened the bonnet & sure enough a fuse had blown. For some unknown reason I had brought the kitchen sink but not any fuses
Plenty of people with spares though.
So I replaced the fuse & moved the leccy fan & leccy water pump to a different one, thinking it may have been over-loaded. Off I go for the next session, did about 2 laps then coming past the pits it did the same thing again. Of course I now have to wait for 10 minutes for the session to end to be towed back in again. Once is annoying, twice is embarrassing.
Bonnet up, same fuse blown. It must be a short somewhere me thinks. Only the leccy fuel pump & leccy ignition left on that one. So I traced the lead for the fuel pump & found the cause in about 5 seconds, the lead had wedged itself under my seat mounts, chafed & then shorted. I was both pleased & annoyed at the same time. Pleased 'cause I wasn't going back out 'til I found the cause of the problem but annoyed that I let something so trivial spoil one of my sessions.
Anyway, that was about the only problem that any of the Triumphs had all day I think, except for a Spit driver who had to purchase a silencer as his car was too noisy.
Myself & "Sierra brake" Jon had some great tussles, his Sprint was quicker in the corners but mine was quicker down the straights. I think his Sierra front ARB helps but in truth I think he's just plain better than me (he has done a lot more track days than me). Mine is a lot quicker than his out of the corners but that will be down to the 4.1:1 final ratio, he's running standard ratio. Both cars are pretty even on power.
I was just touching 130 mph at the top of Avon Rise so all you clever bods out there, what was my actual (approx.) speed, running on 185/60 13s ?
Here are some pics taken by professional photographers kindly nicked from Chris (2Toledos) from the CT forum. Hopefully some videos to follow.
Robin is in the Yellow Sprint, Chris (2Toledos) in the Toledo & Fred (a very nice young lady) in the 2000.
Chris again, me & Jon (Trackerjack) in front.
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