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[bass gt]

Well Guy's,

Today was another round of the UK Porsche Speed Championship, held at Castle Combe. The track is based around an old airfield, but since the 1950's has been a proper race track, hosting all manner of formulae, including F3.
In short, it is a fearsomely fast and dangerous circuit, with numerous areas to have a BIG one!!
So we all rolled up today, and true to form, the great british summer was in full bloom. For you colonials, that's rain, rain, wind and oh yes, yet more rain
The class structure is such that as my car is running with 250 BHP, it is a P2 car, but with the addition of slicks, i am moved up into P1. Now this is basically the unlimited class, and my rivals were a 911 GT3RS, 993 RSR to name a few. So basically, I'm toast
Anyway, rain seems to be a great leveller, and after a big off on my first run, where i hit some standing water and speared off stage right, i seemed to be languishing around the 87 second mark. And my opponents? 83 seconds. Hmm, not good.
So with the rain now falling steadily, i set the car up, adjusted the pressures on my cut slicks(intermediates) and got ready for action.
So after what can only be described as an intense, but exhilirating run, the clock was stopped.
The result?
81.31 seconds. my nearest rival was a GT3 RS engined 996 cup car at 81.71 seconds.
So the long and the short is that i have notched up my first ever victory, my little 924 was the fastest Porsche in a field of 30, with some seriously big hitters in play, and this is only my 9th ever event. Considering each event equates to an average of 4 minutes race time, that gives me a total seat time of little over 40 minutes. Total.
Am i chuffed? Do bears poop in the woods

Steve

[924guy]

Awesome job! its always great to see the "little engine that could," actually can! especially up against some big guns... way to represent
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Eric
78 924
82 931 SE "smokey"
99' VehiCross
Y2K Honda Insight
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Performance by Pasha

[bass gt]

http://www.racecar.net/castlecombeforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1894

Just to give you an idea of the conditions

[endwrench]

OOoooo! So CooooL!!!!!

Thanks for the representation!!!

Todd
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'79 924NA. Rebuilt 9.5:1, MSDS header, Mega Squirt Injection, MJLJ-EDIS Ignition, 1.6L Whipple Charger and Intercooler, 10lbs Boost, 944 Trans, Custom HD Clutch.
"simsport" said....superchargers are better than turbos its official!....

[Peter_in_AU]

Way to go!!!

That's a nice looking 924 in the photos.

Bet you didn`t get many "not a real Porsche" comments after that
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1979 924 (Gone to a better place)
1974 Lotus 7 S4 "Big Valve" Twin-cam (waiting)
1982 924 (As featured on Wikipedia)

Learn to love your multimeter and may the search be with you

[edh]

Great result Steve - looking forward to the write up in Porsche Post
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current - '90 944S2, '00 986S,
ex - '90 944 turbo '86 924S, '88 924S

[924RACR]

Rock on!!! Good job! Glad to see someone else is sharing in the rain results!!!

We notched up another win yesterday, in the dry; qualified 2nd in class, just .04 seconds behind the ITB pole, but ran him two-wide from the start to Turn 4, then pulled away... and proceeded to take away his line all the way to the checker!
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Vaughan Scott
Webmeister
'79 924 #77 SCCA H Prod racecar
'82 931 Plat. Silver
#25 Hidari Firefly P2 sports prototype

[Chrenan]

You racing guys are going to make me catch the bug! I already bought a tow vehicle (F-150) this summer, and construction of my "racing headquarters" begins in august, a 28' by 22' garage. Of course, I'm a chicken, so the chances of me actually racing are slim.
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1987 951 - M193 Version for Japan

[J1NX3D]

wow, the camera loves your car!