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Croft race weekend pics & vids
Andy D - 10/5/10 at 08:08 AM

We had a pretty good weekend's racing at Croft, two class D second places, with the Civic (No67) going quicker than it's ever gone round the circuit on Saturday. Pete's lap times are now down in the 1-38s, and logging a top speed of 112mph.. not bad for a lil' ol' 1.6 Civic.

We used a cheapo ebay spy cam (£8) ponting backwards and got some pretty good results. (It handles the kerb rattling better than the didgi cam, which keeps losing focus annoyingly!) There shoud be some vids on youtube in the next couple of days.

Loads o' pics.

Saturday's start:





























..A few Britcars:










Sunday's start:



































MK9R - 10/5/10 at 08:21 AM

Thats one diverse field!!!!!!!!!

Those spy cams are great for motorsport aren't they, so cheap you can afford to strap them onto the the most vulnerable and exciting places

eddie99 - 10/5/10 at 08:25 AM

What class is that? Seems a huge range of different cars racing together...
Looks good fun!

Andy D - 10/5/10 at 08:28 AM

NSSCC is Northern Sports and Saloons. Basically, turn up with a car, and within reason you'll fit in a class.

The Civic is class D. 1600cc on 1b tyres.

T66 - 10/5/10 at 12:03 PM

Thats a great selection of cars on the same track....


I want a go , the green Hillman Stilletto (maybe) looks very interesting.

Nice post

Andy D - 10/5/10 at 12:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by T66
Thats a great selection of cars on the same track....


I want a go , the green Hillman Stilletto (maybe) looks very interesting.

Nice post


The green Stilletto is actually a Suzuki SC100 ... with a tuned Busa engine and Hewland transaxle, ..you know the one..




[Edited on 10/5/10 by Andy D]

TimC - 10/5/10 at 03:31 PM

This is an interesting thing:

The front suspension almost looks like a VW beam in this picture! I assume it has Sylva style rockers?

As for the 'roll bar' erm, was the scrutineer blind or has the mandatory diag fallen off?

beaver34 - 10/5/10 at 05:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Andy D
NSSCC is Northern Sports and Saloons. Basically, turn up with a car, and within reason you'll fit in a class.

The Civic is class D. 1600cc on 1b tyres.


ive been looking into doing it next year in my car but im struggling to understand what class i would be in, can i u2u you about it?

Andy D - 11/5/10 at 06:37 AM

quote:

The front suspension almost looks like a VW beam in this picture! I assume it has Sylva style rockers?


It's a formula 27, been racing a good few years, so I'd be surprised if the roll bar doesn't comply. Looking briefly at the blue book of interesting things, there's a diagram of a very basic hoop and two stays on page 179 suitable for "sports cars up to 2000cc" ... dunno..


quote:

ive been looking into doing it next year in my car but im struggling to understand what class i would be in, can i u2u you about it?


Feel free to PM me, if I can be of any help I will.
The regulations for the championship are on the DDMC website HERE

Kit cars on 1b tyres are, I think class E. Class E was won in both races by a Loco-blade.

Andy D - 11/5/10 at 06:53 AM

Video footage from the two races are on youtube, the front camera ia a £250 Sony digi-cam, looses focus over the bumps, my appologies.. rear view camera is an £8 spy cam off ebay, holds steady over the bumps!

First race, funny stuff at the start is taking the pee out of the rapid starting BMW. ;-)

Second race

skippad - 11/5/10 at 05:16 PM

The rear spycam looks good, have you got a link to the item on ebay?
or name of cam?

Andy D - 11/5/10 at 06:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by skippad
The rear spycam looks good, have you got a link to the item on ebay?
or name of cam?


This is the one

Also needs a micro sd card, we got a 2gb card and it records about 30mins.

skippad - 11/5/10 at 07:39 PM

TA
how long did take to be delivered?

Andy D - 11/5/10 at 07:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by skippad
TA
how long did take to be delivered?


Think it was less than two weeks.. from Hong Kong I think.

easisatman - 27/5/10 at 09:58 PM

Here is a link to a short vid of me in my striker around the circuit de Catalunya (Spanish gand prix track).
shot with a cheap spy cam (Copy md 80) seems I have a small annoying rattle also a bit of shake not sure if its the sd card! I have heard that some sd cards don't perform as well as others - Bit like me!! lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=913JKIVu1Po
Also you can see steve "coozers" knob he made for me

regards
Paul

[Edited on 27/5/10 by easisatman]

Andy D - 28/5/10 at 09:05 AM

That link doesn't appear tp work, think it must be this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=913JKIVu1Po

Can anyone comfirm that's Coozer's knob in the vid?

easisatman - 28/5/10 at 03:26 PM

Thanks Andy
regards
Paul

coozer - 28/5/10 at 04:28 PM

Looks like one of my many knobs