Totb V

[Philsutton]

Just got back from totb, had a god day out really shame i didnt get many runs in.

The surface was rather poor but managed a 12.6@111mph which put me in 6th place for the 1/4 mile out of 26 in my class, on the 1 mile straight i got 141mph which was about 500rpm from hitting the limiter in 6th gear, that also put me in 6th in my class. The handling i got into 4th place before being knocked down to 7th in the last hour. Not to bad considering ive spent practically nothing on the car.

The rest of the team did well, the purple corsa won the fwd class taking it away from Andy Nicholls, unlucky lol. One of the astras got a top speed of 166mph i think it was which put him second on the top speed run. Another astra came second on the handling course, so for the first year with a vauxhall team we didnt do that bad.

[Stuart]

good skills :d

[Ben]

Good work Phil.

[SRlew]

wheres the 11sec times phil :roll: lol still some bloody good time mate and top speed!

sounds like you all done good though!

[dan16v]

nice one mate! sounds like you all had a good day!:)

[Matt Pickering]

which car does Andy Nicholls drive ! recognise the name like?!

[Nick J]

It was a great day, I think the purple corsa surprised a hell of a lot of people! well done to you all :thumb:

[novarobbo]

which car does Andy Nicholls drive ! recognise the name like?!

a supposedly 700bhp (ish) rover lol

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/cavvie/andynicols.jpg

[MARTIN KELSON]

Hi Phil,

It was a top day yesterday. Good to see a Vauxhall take the honers in the front wheel drive section. Was going to come over and say hi, sorry i didn't.

Had an excellent view point. We make ally scaffolding at work, so we took a 7ft tower on wheels and sat on that all day!!

Well done to you all.

Martin

[Mazz]

Was a top day, and good weather too :)
Nice to see the GAZ'D team getting some well deserved attention, iirc his best was a 12.2, and he won the FWD 1/4 mile class - well done boys!

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6756/p1040247smallem0.jpg

And Andy Nicholls' Rover popped a hose on his first 1/4 mile attempt :)

http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/7333/p1040123smallyr2.jpg

[Philsutton]

the surface was rather poor, hence why no 11 second runs, only one car managed to break inot 11s in fwd a that was a civic. Also i think a car lost a wheel on the handling ciruit which ended up going across the drag strip while two cars were hammering down it lol.

[Mazz]

I missed that one!
I did see the Viper completly loose it in the RWD final (v's the MG), he was snaking from the start, but couldn't hold it and nearly wiped the MG out!

Safty isn't really a priority there from the looks of the set-up at TOTB, no concrete reservation on the 1/4 and only a 4ft fence between the spectator's and the cars...

[NovaNeil]

Well done Phil! Fantastic Result for you and the rest of the Vauxhall team.

How come the Terminal speed was so slow on an F28??? I thought they were geared to over 150? was it due to the wheel/tyre size you were running?

Neil

[craig green]

Top speed is taken at 1 mile... regardless of gearing & tyre size etc.

Congrats to team Vauxhall & Chip for organizing. Hope we kick more a$$ next year.

[TommySR]

well done Phil, and the purple corsa continues to impress me, seen it run an 11.8 at PV this year!

[draper]

well done phill, getting closer to 11sec 1/4 !!

[jedi]

well done team vauxhall:thumb: u have all shown it not all about ?$

[Philsutton]

well im hoping look at what the purple corsa was running i should be able to break into the 11s at usc next weekend. He was running 0.4 seconds slower at elvington so if i up my nitrous again i might just be able ot do it.

Think there is going to quite a big write up in total vauxhall as the guy took hundreds of pics of all our cars an interviewed us all, so all the correct times an that should in there.

[draper]

hope so, how much nitrous you running at the minute ??

[Philsutton]

only 50bhp at the moment, held back on as i havent really had much testing with it, its taken it good so far so im going to ram some more in it.

[skud52]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006031.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006030.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006028.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006002.jpg

without a doubt the best car at the show, granada supercharged v8

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006022.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/skud52/30072006024.jpg

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[draper]

wish id gone now ! :mad: