Neil Clark - Time Attack FC

[najiru]

Well.... I thought I\'d start a thread now that I\'m signed up for the double header round of Time Attack this year at Anglesey. I\'d never actually driven the circuit before when I sent in the form so have since done a couple of trackdays there, one in the pouring rain and one in the dry last sunday. As they are running international for the Saturday round and Coastal for the Sunday round I\'ve done one of each. Times are looking pretty good and improving nicely although it\'s hard to judge a baseline as TA haven\'t competed on the international circuit before and last year they were on pirelli road tyres rather than semi-slicks and when I did the Coastal track it was wet. I\'ll hopefully get one more day in there before the rounds on 11th/12th August. Below is a vid of three clear laps I got on Sunday as I managed to get out when everyone must have been having a brew!
 
http://youtu.be/iyGx8osk2L0
 
 
I\'ve still a few bits to get sorted on the car, mostly to meet the regs and a couple of niggles that have surfaced but having just put on a splitter I\'m looking to make a diffuser next if I have time. Also I need to get the rest of the vinyl finished as I\'ve put the TA mandatory stuff on but I need to put the car number on (55 in honour of a certain other 1991 rotary racer ) and the logos for my main sponsor. Here\'s how its looking now.
 

 
The idea is to do the two rounds to learn how it all works, understand if anything needs sorting over winter and then look to get a couple more sponsors and do the whole season next year. Fingers crossed it all goes well!

[TiddlesRX7]

Looks like a lot of fun mate. Maybe one day I\'ll be able to join in the fun with you

Ade

[najiru]

You thinking of coming down mate? We\'ll be camping sat night so it should be a good weekend. Btw give me a shout when you want to change your rack and I\'ll come over.

[Casey]

Neil - great stuff, car seems to be going well from the vid you posted. Keep us posted on progress in TA. Shame it\'s such a bloomin\' long way from Colchester else I\'d come and watch!

[clive]

Good luck Neil, I wish you well, keep us all posted :Thumbs-up

[shaunwil]

Awesome news, camping you say....................

Shaun

[fil_auto]

Looks and sounds great mate, well done, keep us posted on how you get on

[festa]

looks like fun, whats the setup of the car?
Cheers

[B.Martin]

I fully expected to click this and see and FD - Good on you for using an FC man, best of luck!

[marcusd666]

That looks great Neil, nice to see the car is running well let me know when you are on track and I will try to turn up to watch.

[najiru]

Thanks for the comments guys I intend to keep the thread up to date with what\'s going on.
 
Shaun if you come camping it gives you good opportunity to get that stove of yours out for its annual airing and make us all a brew
 
Anyone that comes along feel free to come and say hi, if I\'m lying under the car looking stressed then you can always grab some tools and get stuck in
 
I\'ve another vid from the first TD at Anglesey when it was wet and there was a lot of traffic, as it was a norlog day it was full of elise/exige\'s. Its here: http://youtu.be/9lWeMyhnbhU
 
PS Festa - I\'ll put a decent spec up soon when I get time to type something up.

[Kodiak]

Brilliant Stuff Neil!
 
Best of luck this season. Might just get me interested in Time Attack!

[najiru]

Well I was back at Anglesey yesterday for a cheeky last minute practice but the seal on the water pump went just after lunch depositing all my coolant on track. I came into the pits to find there was virtually no coolant left so it was back on the trailer and home. Luckily it looks like the engine should be ok, fingers crossed.
 
The morning was pretty good but there were a lot of cars out and I didn\'t get any clear running so didn\'t improve my times much, good practice though.
 
Pic from the morning:

[marcusd666]

Sorry to hear that mate, the new paint job looks good on track hope the engine is ok and good luck for the proper run.

[shaunwil]

Fingers crossed its all good ! Looking very nice !

Shaun