Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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Hey all,
As you may know, me and my friend (ex CS member) Adrian, have built and entered an integra type R race car into the MSV trophy series this year.
This is a race series which is mainly aimed to encourage people to get into motorsport, generally with two driver teams competing in a 45 minute race with pitstop. The classes are worked out on power to weight and generally everything else is free to be changed. A lot of the teams have 1 novice driver and 1 pro driver who has a lot of experience. In our team - we are both complete rookies, only with track day experience previously.
Our first race was this weekend at Cadwell Park, slightly damp. A lot of the other drivers had done the race the day before (we couldn't afford to do both), so were on the pace for the sunday!
After having a bad qualifying and being last in class and 12th overall on the grid (out of 21 cars), we thought there was no chance of any sort of result - however we decided just finishing (not crashing) would be a result and cracked on!
In the race, we managed to gain a few places, then had a bit of luck with our pitstop and then watched one of the class leaders crash his porsche. Adrian then did a storming second half getting some amazing lap times and pulling away from cars in the above class.
When we crossed the line initially we thought we had finished 3rd in class! Which we would've been  about.
Then when we picked up the timing sheet we noticed it said 2nd in class! (one of the cars was actually a lap behind after they fluffed up their pit stop).
However, when they called us up onto the podium, we had the top spot  ... it turns out the leader got a 30 second penalty for not pitting long enough (there's a minimum time for the pitstop required).
For the first race ever to finish 1st in class and 5th overall (from 12th) was amazing 
not bad for a car built on a budget, built on my parents driveway 
There's a video of the race here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26gh7Cv9ac4
Although unfortunately the camera falls down before we really started making the places (unfortunately no footage of Adrian kicking ass either).
tl;dr (summary) - we won our class in our first race.
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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Congratulations 
Drives supercharged Tec with torque 
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
Location: Northants Drives: V40
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well done mate
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
Location: Cheshire
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Which one is paul j?
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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White.
congrats paul
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
Location: Cheshire
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Well done btw
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
Which one is paul j?
in the white.
Very cool
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DannyB
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Registered: 6th Feb 08
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Well done
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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Nice work.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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We're a really strong team, both drivers are quick and consistent.
We just need to perhaps sort a few things on the car, e.g. valve stem seals (the car blows a lot of oil out), brakes (we warp our standard discs), weight (I think we're heavier than we need) and tyres / wheels... we have quite narrow wheels at the moment and the regs allow us to run at least another inch wider than standard - currently the car likes to 4 wheel drift when pushed hard.
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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Nice one matey, top result!!! I bet your addicted now!
[Edited on 23-05-2011 by Stu]
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: MK
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Well done
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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Top work! well done guys!
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Awesome!
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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It's not how you stand by your car..........
Seriously well done Paul and Adrian, top result You must be over the moon Paul, kudos for just doing it like you said you wanted to
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R Lee
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Registered: 15th Aug 03
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Well done
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M Sutton
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Registered: 11th Jan 03
Location: Northamptonshire
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Well done mate!
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Phillips_91
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Registered: 20th Jan 10
Location: Blackpool. Drives: Sapphire Black Mk4 Astra 1.8
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Top result congratulations
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DJMartin07
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Registered: 1st Feb 07
Location: Bedford/
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Well done Paul and Adrian!!! Watched the video, that White Clio was giving some good defending on some of the straights. Was obvious you had more straight line speed and acceleration too then it. Kudo's for winning. Would love to do this kind of racing in the future. What class of racing lisence you have to have? Cos I know there's different classes from an old college mate who does MR2 racing.
[Edited on 23-05-2011 by DJMartin07]
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
Location: South Wales drives: Vxr
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well done to you both!
cadwel looks awsome too!
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chris_uk
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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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congrats again mate.
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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top banananaaaanana
Hope to roll out the Impreza for door to door racing soon
[Edited on 23-05-2011 by AK]
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Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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Still have this half watched on my phone lol
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corsarooney
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Registered: 21st Nov 09
Location: Maidenhead, Berkshire
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V-TEC YO!!
Seriously though well done mate
[Edited on 24-05-2011 by corsarooney]
Corsa 1.6 sport - 1
1.7 puma engined fiesta - 0
Keeping corsa's on the redline since 2008
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