ROUND – DATE – ORGANISER – CIRCUIT – EVENT TYPE
1 – 19 March (Sat) – MSVR – Snetterton 300 – Single Header
2&3 – 2/3 April (Sat/Sun) – MSVR – Donington – Double Header
4&5 – 1/2 May (Sun/Mon) – MSVR – Brands Hatch Indy – Double Header
6&7 – 21/22 May (Sat/Sun) – MSVR – Cadwell Park – Double Header
NC – 10/11/12 June (Fri/Sat/Sun) – Roadbook – Spa Francorchamps – Double Header
8 – 2 July (Sat) – MSVR – Oulton Park International – Single Header
9&10 – 20/21 August (Sat/Sun) – MSVR – Brands Hatch GP – Double Header
11&12 – 10/11 September (Sat/Sun) – MSVR – Anglesey International – Double Header
NC – 30 Sept/1 Oct (Fri/Sat) TBA – TBA – Double Header
13&14 – 15/16 October (Sat/Sun) – MSVR – Snetterton 300 – Double Header
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 December 2010 11:11
The final round of the year was held at a chilly Silverstone, utilising the National circuit configuration. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was thinking ahead to round 1 at Brands Hatch…
Going into the event I had the luxury of an 8 point lead in the standings, which meant I could happily accept two 2nd place finishes as long as I got the fastest lap for one race. But the trouble with motorsport is that it’s difficult to go slower than you can (mistake creep in as you deviate from your usual rhythm), and virtually impossible to go faster than you are able to. Maybe I wouldn’t be able to keep up and get fastest lap. Maybe Richard Purcell would be quicker. Maybe something would break on the car. Maybe Jeremy would crash. All I could do, in my role as driver, was do my best…
Saturday was cold and wet to begin with. The smaller engined Mono cars (I playfully refer to them as the MiniMonos) were out first, and the tyre choice was divided between wets and slicks. Fortunately, by the time we were due out the track was mostly dry, and we went out with dry-weather slick tyres.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 30 October 2010 03:41
The penultimate meeting of the 2010 Monoposto Racing Club championship was held at Croft this weekend, and it had the potential to decide the championship. I went into the meeting 12 points adrift of Jeremy Timms, having trailed him in the championship for the entire year. Jeremy could have clinched the championship here, but fortunately the outcome was rather different, and now the championship will go down to the wire at the final meeting of the year in just over two weeks time at Silverstone on the National circuit.
The whole weekend was a chilly affair, but the rain stayed away (at least during daylight hours), and the track remained in reasonably good shape throughout. Saturday morning saw a fairly uneventful qualifying session in which Timms took a fairly easy pole position from me in 2nd, with Richard Purcell in 3rd having repaired his engine. The gap between Jeremy and me was 0.3 seconds, which isn’t a lot in Monoposto terms, but I didn’t have an answer for him. The misfire had returned, this time no longer on gear changes (well, it did once), but now on full throttle; it occurred at 6300rpm or thereabouts, and the only way to maintain competitiveness was to reduce the throttle slightly (to 90%), which allowed me to accelerate through it. How much time that was costing me isn’t known, and it may have cost me pole position, but I think overall Jeremy just out drove me.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 01:19
We’re well into the 2010 season now, and the general trends are already apparent. In our case, it’s been that we have had a quick car, but one with too many reliability problems, and hence we’ve been lacking in championship points despite a fairly large proportion of fastest laps and pole positions so far.
Most of our reliability problems have been due to bad luck rather than poor preparation, and we arrived at Oulton Park hoping our luck would change a bit. At most races we’ve had one disaster, so it was slightly pleasing when that occurred before we’d even got out of Norfolk – I realised I’d forgotten the laptop, which is important for checking the datalogging as well as attempting to improve the poor mapping in the ECU. Emma and I went back for it, whilst Andrew and Martin continued in the truck to the track. As disasters go, it wasn’t a big one, but we hoped that it would count in the eyes of Lady Luck!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:27
Not a good weekend really. Our problems started on Friday when the switch for the tail lift on the truck burnt out in the heavy rain, so we had to resort to touch wires together by hand to operate it. This was the first time we were going to use the truck at a race meeting, so we knew there were going to be issues related to it, but we weren’t expecting to have such fundamental failures… Oh well, you live and learn, and we can fix it in time for Oulton (which, at the time of writing, is only a few days away!).
At the circuit on the damp Sunday, I qualified in 3rd, missing out on the front row for the first time this year due mainly, I suspect, to traffic on the final two laps when the drying track was at its quickest. The ever present misfire reared its head again too, although I don’t think it’s costing much more than a tenth per lap (although that is no excuse). We are hopeful of getting the misfire problems sorted out, and we are attempting to discuss the matter with the people that made and mapped the ECU. However, a good race was still on the cards, until the throttle bodies failed for a second time in two meetings, leaving us with no throttle – the throttle shaft that links both throttle bodies together broke up. Clearly not strong enough, and a new design is in progress. Laughably, the throttle body manufacturer even tried to suggest it was the driver or the track that was causing their product to break. We’ve since offered to let them inspect the installation and the setup of the throttle cable before Oulton Park – although I’ve been triple checking the throttle cable and the pedal stops since Mallory last year.
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 September 2010 01:06
I’ve mentioned on here recently about the oil pressure issues we thought we might have been having, and had been optimistic that it was behind us following the mid-season rebuild of the engine. However, that was not the case…
After refitting the engine, and having it running late last week, we found that the reported oil pressure (confirmed with a mechanical gauge to ensure the electronic version didn’t have a problem) was lower than usual at idle, and massively high when revving a bit. When I say massively high, I mean about 150psi – almost twice what we want!
So over the weekend, the engine was removed from the car again, and partially stripped to see what we’d done wrong. And we found nothing. The bearings were nice, with good clearance, and all in the right way around. All the oilways were clear, and the head gasket was on the correct way – all very basic things, but when you’re struggling you check everything. The oil pump was taken off and checked, with nothing apparently wrong. Whilst we were there, we thought we’d make a quick drawing off the pressure relief valve system (as it is different from the TOM’S pumps we have in stock), and that is when we found the problem.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 04:40
