Donington Today

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It was a testing/press day for the historic event later this year and there were a small selection of juicy cars blatting around. A friend of mine was out in a Chevron and also had planned to be out in the Nissan Group C car but a rear end issue put pay to that. Some piccies though sadly there is no soundtrack :(

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Ferrari 512 please, one of the 5 cars in my dream garage, parked alongside the 917...a inch back :D
 
R90, so awesome. Great view there, shows just how radically different the construction of a race car is to a production car.

It was flying today in the owners hands running some nice boost too. I believe when it ran the pole lap in 1990 it was something like 1300-1400bhp and lasted just over a lap, enough for pole by 7 seconds!
 
I also popped over to Donington on the Saturday to see the qualifying for the historic meeting over the weekend, and took some photos. Stupidly I set one of the camera setting wrongly, so a few are not as good as I had expected, but there are some nice technical shots of some of the fabulous cars there. A few below, the bulk (200 odd) at http://www.newbury-house.com/historic/historic.html
 
I also popped over to Donington on the Saturday to see the qualifying for the historic meeting over the weekend, and took some photos. Stupidly I set one of the camera setting wrongly, so a few are not as good as I had expected, but there are some nice technical shots of some of the fabulous cars there. A few below, the bulk (200 odd) at http://www.newbury-house.com/historic/historic.html

Nice pics, including those of my dads car. I'll pass them on to him. Unfortunately after a difficult qualifying and resulting suspension rebuild, a related suspension failure meant a DNF in the race :(
 
Does he want to adopt another son..... :) ? Lovely car, well presented and very well driven. I love Spice chassis, so well made and seemingly sensible to maintain. I have Frentzen's F3000 Lola from 1991 and would, given a lottery win, like to add his Nissan Group C to the fold as well. Do you by chance have the qualifying times for the Group C cars in electronic format? I picked up a time sheet on the Saturday, but it's gone astray, and the `net only seems to have PDF's of the race times.

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It's just a toy before I get too old to get in and out of one. I raced in the ARP National F3 championship, raced special saloons and special GT's, and have two Zeus sports prototypes and the Lola. yes, the T91/50 was the year they went from cross plies to radials. The car is a bare tub at the moment, I bought it supposedly ready to use with a third of its engine hours left, but on the test day at Donington in the photo, not only did I find the "new and unused" wets were about 5 years old and hard as nails, I also found out the engine was down on power and probably well up on hours. I do all my own engines and transaxles, as a rule, but farmed the Mugen out to Engine Developments for an eye wateringly expensive rebuild, with bits having to be sourced from all over the world. The engine's done, and I have rebuilt and re Kephos coated all the suspension. All the carbon tub is back to bare carbon, as is the bodywork and wings, and it's almost ready to be painted. It's going back in original Frentzen Camel colours. Euroboss is just too expensive to consider, plus it wouldn't be very competitive.

The car is probably going to be tested on cross plies with some camber taken out, as a sister car is run successfully like that in the US, and they are apparently a lot more forgiving to drive like that, which sounds good to me ;)

Thanks for the link to the times, it's probably me, but I can only see race times listed....I wanted to see what qualifying times were achieved. All the best, and best wishes for a safe and productive season, it's so nice to see that sort of stuff out on track :)
 
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