Unfortunately didnt make it as planned but sounds like a good weekend was had by all. Just spoke to CBH who came 3rd in race 1 where he had to change gear with the rod after 3rd gear linkage broke, and finished 3rd overall, blooded hand to show the effort that'd gone in! He then came 2nd in race 2....

Some more pics here - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fb...9653&aid=56350

 

Had hoped to meet you Ben, next time!

 

looks like this is going to be interesting.

 

BIG S2Ki meet should be planned for a few rounds of this,

im local to castle combe so will be going to that round for sure,
would be good to meet some more guys of the forum there and have a bay of motorsport

 

Hoping to sort that Rob - any willing volunteers to help would be welcomed

 

It was nice to see them there at the same race meet as the Caterhams. The Orange BTCC graphic'ed (or even ex) Civics certainly caught the eye.

 

They may have caught the eye but they could not catch the Integra that took pole and both race wins. Not too bad for for a car the was built by the driver......and it was his first ever race

 

And you could tell. He made a lot of errors in line, shifting and control.

The fact he won was because his car had at least 70bhp more than the ex-BTCC Civic.

Shocking really, but it was all down to power.

 

And you could tell. He made a lot of errors in line, shifting and control.

The fact he won was because his car had at least 70bhp more than the ex-BTCC Civic.

Shocking really, but it was all down to power.
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It usually is - there's only so much you can do to equalise a field of cars, especially when you have such a small entry, if you segregate too much, you end up with single car classes. It highlights the problem with starting another niche club series in an already crowded marketplace, there are lots of series to choose from already and if drivers don't feel they get a decent race, they'll go to a series that will give them that.

It's one of the reasons Rich and I chose the Northern Saloon series - full grids every race so there's always plenty of people in each class, subsequently the classes can be narrowly defined and quite tightly controlled. With the best will in the world, a dozen or so cars on the grid can't give you the flexibility to ensure equal racing and you have to really want to race against other Hondas exclusively to enter this series over say CSCC Tin Tops or the Trackday Trophy.

 

I'm not sure I understand just why you find that quite so shocking I would have thought the first thing anyone would have done when entering a race series would be to study the technical regulations and then bulid a car to fit within them.....down to the min weight for the class and with the maximum power for the engine used? Richy seems to have achieved just that with his Integra The ex-BTCC Civic's are in a class with a 100kg less weight limit and any engine size.....if they can't use that to their advantage to build a car that can compete perhaps they need another trip to the drawing board