MrLizard

As im a member of the local car club and have driven curborough sprint circuit in the past I would recommend this to anyone If my car wasnt in storage without a drive train id come along , quite a technical little sprint track

youll never make full use of the lsd with the TC on imo, utilising that is the quickest way round a corner, as said previously, some race logic TCS might improve cornering speeds but the ESP in the zed is for safety

whats esp? cant remember last time i used that, mine doesnt work

thanks for the kinds words all

ta alex

thanks for coming along m8, and that goes for you too Daz n Alex Im sure youll be fine no matter what the weather daz

More support would be excellent, i have an idea for a meet but need to run it past the nippon guys too!

they scared the hell out of me!!

An intersting introduction to Brandshatch as a circuit. Ive never driven Brands unless you count some time on the xbox, was really looking forward to it until i heard the weather was going to be cr*p, then, having watched enough btcc races to know paddock hill is a killer i started getting a little nervous. Fortunately the crew, myself and the car managed to get to the circuit separately and still make it in time for last practice on the friday, thanks to the guy who pocketed the money and let me out on the track, legend After following the orange cobra through the tunnel i thought id try and follow that round the track to get an idea of....... oh..... its gone... right, so ill figure it out myself, practice went ok, got the lines and the braking points for my car, realised that the new drop links on the front were helping a lot with turn in and that the rear was now having issues keeping up, and finally managed to run out of petrol, car felt good through druids + clearways and not so brill through graham hill and paddock. Qually: Im obviously not brilliant here, i didnt do very well at Mallory in qually and thought that this would be a good opportunity to improve, however due to the poor conditions and my lack of TC or downforce i decided to concentrate on keeping the car on the track and myself out of trouble, the track was incredibly damp and i had a ‘moment’ coming out of the Graham Hill bend, Armco,grass,Armco,grass,Armco,roger,grass,road ... just managed to snake all the way down the following straight and catch it at the end, apologies if i held anyone up, and good job Roger in the CRX for making a good overtake there That shot the nerves a little and it took me a while to get back into the groove, i was on brand new cut tyres here so still had the gel coat on and no use, suspect that may have contributed a little. Race 1: Same idea as Mallory again, i managed to make up quite a few went from 19 to 10, didn’t have a great start but had great fun overtaking some of the MR2 mk2’s, good scrap with the blue mk2 which i managed to just pip near the end of the race, seemed to be a few casualties, having just gone past the mr2 i looked in my rear view mirror to see timmy spinning around at graham hill, Maxim seemed to be parked at druids and the 200sx had gone out as well, which having spent half the morning hunting for the signing on office with him was a shame, unlucky Jason. Race 2: Just so im clear here, on the parade lap it isn’t a great idea to be overtaking people is it?, i don’t want to cause a fuss but if this could be re-iterated at some point? Is it just a tactic to psych out the opposition or just people being silly, i was right up against the car infront and had to brake hard into paddock to let this person around the inside of me in order not to hit them or steer off the track, still even with the Christmas tree arrangements of lights that went up on the start karma got the better of them and i kept my position. Car felt much better in race two, droplinks raised slightly at the back, ARB softened up, tyres had some wear, times were coming down, i managed to overtake 2 people in this race from 10th but also had 2 people go past me, both people who didn’t finish race 1 i think... Had ‘that’ green teg on my tail again (you know who you are), however the zed was picking up pace each lap and some ideally placed back markers and one car for position got inbetween us and I managed to keep the gap, sounded like Lee had a similar event to me in the poor qually, good race 1 etc... Like a plonker i let Maxim past thinking he was lapping me, only to see the person i was fighting with give him all sorts of problems, guess that makes up for it as i wouldn’t of held you up for long anyway ïŠ, also in an attempt to go back past maxim the mr2 in front went wide into graham hill and i managed to get a good run through and up into clearways, kept taking more and more kerb on this corner, laptimes were falling all the time, 4.5 seconds quicker than qually and not as far off the pace of the front runner in gt300 as i thought. Abbey Motorsport have offered me some support for the car and I have a few things up my incredibly ape like sleeves so im hoping to be able to make more of a challenge of it next year in my own class, still, it was a fantastic race and a great experience considering the conditions etc.. Big Thanks to: The Crew - MrsLizard, Mark, Dan Mark from Abbey Motorsport Colin from the 350z-uk forum Darren & Alex, also from the forum

up in the air at the moment stew, anglesey/knockhill and combe are all maybe's, seems like most want to ditch silverstone national for one of them

Thanks for taking the time to come down Colin, shame about the conditions like but at least you had the 350z-uk hat to keep you warm Pictures and vids are excellent, thanks for that! Very good to meet you and ill sort you out the reflectors as soon as i can, ill also write a race report later and post it into this thread! Further thanks to the Team Mrs Lizard, Mark, Dan and support from Colin, Mark from Abbey Motorsport, Darrenb and Alex... oh, and the sponsors That was the last race of the season now but i will be testing in the out season, get those laptimes down

hmm should be about £12 but its the Forumal VEE festival so the GT cup and other exotica will be there, muchos interesting, looks like Ebized might be making an appearance so more the merrier!

good luck

Hi Guys Nippon Challenge last round is at Brands this weekend 24th Saturday I only have a dry setup available on the car at the moment (tho hoping to get some cut r888's for tomorrow somehow!!! ) If its not hard rain then below will be the list of entrants, notice Jim has come out to play in his 350z, ill try and get him on the forum though he is a yank driving a left hooker If anyone wants to come along feel free! SUPER GT ALIX THOMPSON SUBARU IMPREZA BARRY RABBITT HONDA INTEGRA ANDY MCLENNAN SUZUKI SWIFT CHRIS HUNTLEY SUBARU IMPREZA SIMON DEATON SUBARU IMPREZA GT500 STUART WARD SUBARU IMPREZA WRX/STI MAXIM TAYLOR MAZDA RX7 TIM CLARKE MITSUBISHI EVO 6 GT300 ROB JEFFERIES TOYOTA MR2 MK1 TURBO VAUGHAN FLETCHER SUBARU IMPREZA ELIOT DUNMORE SUBARU IMPREZA PAUL HUGHES HONDA INTEGRA JIM BRIDGE NISSAN 350Z STEVE BURKE NISSAN 350Z JASON WEST NISSAN 200SX GT250 LEE BENNET NEAL HONDA INTEGRA MICHAEL CLARK HONDA CIVIC KRIS DUNLOP HONDA CIVIC DIXON CHENG HONDA INTEGRA GT200 PAUL GARROD HONDA INTEGRA DAVID LITCHFIELD TOYOTA MR2 MK2 ROGER SIBLEY HONDA CRX DEL SOL NICK JONES TOYOTA MR2 MK2 MIKE WOODS HONDA CIVIC RICHARD JOHNSON HONDA CIVIC DALLAS JACKSON TOYOTA MR2 MK2 GT150 HASSEN GUNAGOO TOYOTA MR2 MK1 JONNY WHITE TOYOTA MR2 MK1 PHILIP O'HALLORAN TOYOTA MR2 MK1 PAUL DOBBIN/TIM HARTLAND TOYOTA MR2 MK1 SUBARU CUP DARREN HUGHES SUBARU IMPREZA WRX MARTIN WHITE SUBARU IMPREZA WRX ADRIAN HOWELLS SUBARU IMPREZA Wrx UNFORTUNATELY NSX WITH DREW HOPES TO PLAY NEXT YEAR This is the NSX that couldnt make it

cutting that off would be a pain, there are two 10mm bolts holiding it to a bracket attached to the front bumper, ive no idea how you could do that, do you trust the garage, no way they could of followed you? (ive no idea who did the work, if it was a trader on here sorry)

btw having removed and refitted mine the other day, the chance of someone doing this with the wheel on is so incredibly slight. no way they could of jacked the car and taken the wheel off?

i run the race car without the rear half of the wheel lining, so i have that for sale... need the front part tho as otherwise id have a swimming pool in there

pm me an offer

awesome looking zed that bm

hehe, fair point, i only notice it helps when you going from 100+ to about 60ish into a corner maybe 5th into 3rd and turning, car feels very unbalanced without matching the revs

its easy in the mr2 and the aygo. i would also say that there is only a real need when you really really hooning tho

husky, as standard i struggle in the zed and have a similar position to Mick43 in that unless im on track and braking very heavily the accelerator is set much further back than the brake

good stuff

thanks to the organisers, was an excellent day, next time ill make sure ive changed the oil first and ill join you on the parade lap

is 8 a beetle?