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Old February 28th 2005, 08:45
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UK Circuit Raing News

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After a drivers meeting this weekend we have some news as far as who racing and when we have agreed to race.

As you know aircooled vw's havn't been circuit racing in any numbers for quite some time in the UK and 2005 will be the first year that you can watch aircooled cars competing against each other and other manufacturers. The races are mostly based at Lydden Hill in Kent except two race at Brands Hatch and Silverstone early on in the season. We are racing along with other cars in a series run by SEMSEC and we run to their very loose rules as far as modifications go, so anything is possible.

SEMSEC run a lot of races each year and we cannot make all of them so we have picked a few where we can maximise the number of aircooled cars. we hope to have 6 cars at the following races.

these dates are
Silverstone Saturday 30th April
Lydden Saturday 4th June
Lydden Sunday 17th July
Lydden Saturday 3rd September

there are more dates and some drivers will be racing at further meetings at Lydden and Brands Hatch.

Anyone is welcome to come and watch, all the aircooled cars will be arriving the evening before the race, be pitted together and we will have a gazebo city and maybe an artic race lorry with huge awning, BBQ and plenty of cups of tea for allcomers.

a quick update on the cars

John ' ace' Aitkenhead has changed his bug to IRS and will be competing at ALL the semsec events, his dry-sump 1835 is very quick with a best lap time at Lydden of 49.8 seconds


Snott has bought a BERG 2007cc type1 with 48's which will be in for the Brand Hatch race on Saturday 2nd April

Jimbys Type4 heads are at GAC motorsport for modifications to get his 1911cc Type4 above 130bhp, the oval is currently going through some extensive body modifications. we have found a cheap supplier for yokohama race tyres

Triggers 1302S is in shakedown with a 2276cc type1 and will soon be getting its 5 speed porsche box and huge Type 4 engine.

Mark Vanstones cup car is ready to rock but the engine is still in build, a 125bhp 1776cc Type1. he has secured some sponsorship from the Uniroyal Team Challenge organisers for Uniroyal tyres.



also

for anyone wanting to first dip their toe in the water, there are sprint events held on the 4th june and 3rd september the same day as the circuit racing, to compete you dont need a race licence but a non-race licence is neccessary details at http://twmc.org.uk/allcircuit/
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Old February 28th 2005, 11:01
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PLEASE take some pics and video for those of use who can't be there to watch !!! :agree:

I would pay for a DVD of some racing footage.

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Old February 28th 2005, 17:54
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we will be shooting footage in car and from down by the front wing, also trackside with professional equipment so yeah, a DVD will be made
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Old February 28th 2005, 21:56
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sounds like fun. i wish there was some of that going on over here.

jimby, feel free to email me some videos if you would like anything posted on GermanLook.com.
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I have posted this info on FastTrack Dub Club.
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Old March 1st 2005, 16:11
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not going to do the race 's but am going to do the sprints at some of the meetings.also will have camara and video with me at all the meets i'm doing.
check this post for what i'm doinghttp://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showt...56#post1326556
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