What a weekend! The last races of the season at Snetterton were two of the best – a great and fitting end to the season. So what happened I hear you ask? Following a couple of failed attempts on track at Cadwell Dan and Ollie had some work to do before Snetterton. Ollie had a problem with a throttle sensor which was easily rectified but Dan’s problem was more fundamental… a short time after Cadwell Dan discovered a heavy box in the corner of the garage containing odd implements. What could these be? These conspicuous metal objects seamed to fit nuts ...
It was a day of mixed fortunes at Cadwell Park on Saturday for the penultimate meeting of the Peter Best Insurance Challenge Championship, but certainly a day to remember! The usual suspects chose to confuse us all with a bit of a switch around for this meeting. Rob Spencer was waiting for his group C V8 to be straightened, and chose to bring out his group B V8. Barry ‘Vic Reeves’ Holmes switched to Simon Cripps’ group B 4 pot, leaving Terry Holmes to peddle his group C V8. Another interesting entry was Peter Andrews in Rob Huff’s group B 4 ...
The Mallory Park circuit in Kirkby Mallory was the scene for some great racing with the Peter Best Insurance Challenge Championship over the weekend. The most noticeable achievement for Team Neaves racing was that we all finished this time! Driving up on the Saturday night the weather was looking decidedly iffy; the rain was truly torrential. But it cleared for our arrival to the circuit, which meant we would be able to make our way to the circuit bar in relative comfort. ;) As we were taking the cars off some of the BCV8 boys came for a bit of a nosey ...
Setting the scene Since I started circuit racing back in the early 90's I have always raced with the PBIC in its various forms. In the early days it took a while for me to get into the action but when I did it was fantastic. For me the lure has always been good close racing, the thrill of winning through good driving. In the later years, as I've moved up the classes, I've found it near impossible to obtain the same performance as Midgets and V8 powered cars. Simply, you can't get the power out of the B Series engine. Couple ...
See the proposed regs below…
The intention was that we could get just the Class C boys chatting on here – so as not to p*ss on Joneseys chips, but FYI there are the Class A and B regs too…
Here we go…….
For me, Snetterton changed everything regarding the K series boys. With Ollie lapping in the low 1.23s, still sporting a novices yellow cross then going on to win the race outright, clearly they will pi$$ it next year if we don’t slow them down a bit…..
Have a look at my videos on youtube for a birds eye view of their pace.
Over to the rest of you for your opinions…
Vic
That’s a can of worms Barry…
Are you talking about Dan in the K Series Metro as well? Simon Cripps and Dan have been in a class of their own this year, lapping up to 2 seconds faster at Cadwell for example. Surely if you’re talking about slowing us down then we’ve got to be slowing them down too?
Understandably there are a lot of people worrying about these cars being too powerful. We have 190bhp at the fly – James and Johnny Wheeler have a quoted 210bhp with the B Series. If you’re interested we can show you the power graphs which incidentally were sent to Dave Brooke when they were done.
There is a definite need for some good regulations to cover the engines, but I certainly don’t think we have too much power.
Let’s see how we go next year, if we are running away then that’ll be boring for everyone, and in that case we’d be happy to take on the weight. But I’d request that the aforementioned applies to all of Class C, V8’s included. After all, close racing is the key to enjoyment.
Dan
Hi Dan,
you are novices, still got the yellow cross…….you work it out!
You may wish to refer to Joneseys website where I have just posted this
“One last thought, before Blaine Ollie & Dan mention Lofty’s times in his V8 compared to their cars, let him drive a K series & see how fast they really go……no offence lads but there is not much difference between mine & Loftys cars, but the times show how much difference the driver makes!”
We still haven’t seen a “quick” experinced driver in one of your cars, I’d love to take Ollies car around Castle Combe to see how fast I can go, because I know the front running BCV8 boys would knock another 3 or 4 seconds off of that, they did it at Cadwell clocking 1.43.7 in Lofty’s McCarthy 4 pot…..FACT!
In the words of the great Ali G “Keep it real” boys!
Cheers
Vic
Barry, you or Simon are welcome to have a go in my car, book a test day and I will deliver the car for you. James Darby drove my car over the Snetterton weekend and in the relay. He managed to go around 3 tenths quicker than me on full slicks.
Blaine
Dan/Ollie,
Someone please make it plain at the top of this page that the suggestions for possible regulation changes cover more items than you have currently put.
I appreciate you are only concerned with items that affect you but I must stress that they are items for discussion.
Dave
Put my points on Clive’s site, however no issue with any vhpd cars as easy to regulate, bcv8 4 pots should be in C. All v8’s together seems sensible
No changes should stop any current racer in pbic racing with us.
I would like to run same weight as v8’s but dont expect that to be agreed
Allow 1.8 zr 120 spec in class A
Before I joined the PBIC I followed the series and enjoyed some close racing with Simons midget and Dans metro new vs old great to see.
Why not allow 1.8 k series mgb 120 spec in class B?
Why not allow 1.4 k series midget 105 spec in class A?
Makes building a race car a lot cheaper
How would the 120 spec performance compare between an MGB and a ZR or Metro?
I don’t know the answer but we’re already expecting them to be different by putting them in different classes :¬)
The cost argument is compelling since that is what let the K series B into class C, but for a class A car I would prefer that it is a bolt in change not one involving cutting and welding.
This is not an original idea but perhaps we force everyone to run a rev limiter then we can handicap each car individually, Oh wait that’s not good we would just be a one class series :-0
Dave
120 spec ZR should be ok against class A cars as your can regulate weight of car, restrict mods as we cuurently do with ZS in a. Standard engine ecu etc
My chips taste funny..
My chips taste funny..
Perhaps they’re stone
Anyone know the menu for the award dinner?
As this can of worms is bound to get bigger.
regards
dave
Hope it’s chips.
I’ll have a word with Lofty Blaine, would love to drive your car….don’t forget to fill the tank up for us….(what a nice man…)
Vic
Barry, you are more than welcome to drive the beast, just remember the golden rule “you bend it, you mend it”.
I think you may be dissapointed and it mite bite simon……
Good call Blaine
Lets arrange a track day with a few of us, we can all have a go in each others cars, of course, always abiding by the golden rule…..”if you drive my car faster than me, I’ll smash yer face in…..”
Vic
Barry, Sounds good. We better hurry up and organise it so I can get on with adding this large pile of cheating bits to my engine
P.S not keen to drive your car as i’m not use to that much power!…….and I don’t want a beating.