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So this is what we've just made on the dyno, looks like our 60ft will suffer and Thomas will have to change into 5th before the finish line, but we should see a new personal best MPH tomorrow and with a bit of luck maybe the ET, but the 4th to 5th will hurt us by 2/10ths

 

What a weekend.....Thanks for all the kind words and messages .....hopefully this is just the start of Old Red's 10 sec life......we have loads of data to look at and loads of ideas how to make Old Red faster and hopefully consistant 10s and 130+ mph runs for the rest of the year...... but for now here's the first 10sec ticket and a few 11.0s for Round 4


Its been a long time waiting for the scoreboard to light up starting with 10



And here is that ticket on our first qualifier and run of the day



Our 2nd qualifier, our best 60ft and our quickest 1/8th of the weekend.......Thomas didn't like how it felt on the 3rd to 4th,,,,,but everything checked out ok



Our 3rd qualifier and the first 130mph trap speed in the 1/4 for a MINI in Europe



For the 2nd time in a row we qualified 3rd



This was the ladder for today.......Amy had the lucky break this weekend as No 1 qualifier Richard Batty hurt his engine so had bye's to the final



For the first time this year we won our first round with a holeshot



Our semi final round against Kiel was a foregone conclusion and Thomas backed off in 4th again with Kiel running another consistent 9 sec pass

We have so much footage to go through but hopefully we will get a video up this week but for now just in case you hadn't seen on FB here's a link to a video of the 10 sec run

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10151673740712299

Our next outing is at The Bug Jam on the 19th -21st July at Santa Pod

 

Smoked the slicks off the line like if it was doing another burnout then shook them in the top end of 1st.....still more to come

Hopefully we will run another 10 this afternoon

 

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Well today wasn't the day as the very next run was a disappointing .......



Got back to the pits and did the routine compression test and it was showing No 2 was 10psi down compared to the last run....so a leakdown proved that there was definitely an issue......head off and we eventually found that exhaust was bent and the seat had moved............luckily we found a company who hopefully are fiting 8 new seats for tomorrow afternoon, so we should get back out Sat :thumbup:

 

Hope you like the picture taken by Scott Barnes and enhanced by Tom Raynor