LEYBURN HISTORIC SPRINTS 2011

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:42 am

Well I left home at 5.30 am for the 2.5 - 3 hour trip with the intention of getting a good camp spot and was lucky to find one on hard ground in the pit area as rain was predicted and I knew that the paddock area would become a quagmire which it did with cars being towed out on Sunday.
Friday pm was fine but it started to rain around dusk and continued to rain heavy at times all day Saturday.
I was greatly surprised by the amount of grip/bite the Octopus Grip treated RSR's had under brakes on the first run during a heavy downpour which was reassuring.I tried to get a video from inside the car with the camera stuck to the passenger seat .
Saturday night it absolutely bucketed down at times and was worried that the shifting wind would blow am OZ TRAIL 3X3 gazebo away.
Sunday was fine all day and was having a good natured battle with some of the competitors that have piped me or me them in other events in my class with times sometimes only 10ths apart.
From memory my wet times were 1.07 secs and in the dry app 1.00 got down to a 59 and on the 6th run went backwards slightly so in the final run I got off the line cleanly, braked a poofteenth later and attacked the tight hay bale chicane at school corner even powering thru it and ended with a 57 sec lap so I was rapt :D :beer when no 2 son downloads the mini camera hope to be able to get him to post them on the site

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:27 pm

eagerly awaiting the video footage :beer

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:34 pm

PS there was a major crash when a Falcon GT slammed sideways into a pole ( in the final straight after school corner) that had tyre barriers around it at speed and the drivers door sill was pushed in to the trans tunnel and the driver escaped unhurt simply because he only has a lap sash belt and leaned away and the seat was torn away and he ended up in the passenger side so he put it onto his tow truck and drove away. Bet he is feeling a bit sore and sorry today.

UPDATE A PIC OF THE FALCON IS ON BOOST CRUISING IN "LEYBURN SPRINTS "

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:36 am

Sorry no video but came 5th in a class of 15 drivers and 2nd rwd car in class

avandull · Post by **avandull** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:11 am

Sounds like an excellent event, looking forward to the footage.

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:14 am

Nice work rad!

panda · Post by **panda** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:14 pm

Rad, you will soon need to change your signature to THE OLDER I GET, THE FASTER I'M GETTING. Well done.

fugazi · Post by **fugazi** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:05 pm

OLD FART wrote:During the event I had a chat to John French, Jill Johnson & James Moffat.

So... OF is "still going strong"?

Jill Johnson is a Swedish singer... :D

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:25 am

Pic of the Falcon GT is on Boost Cruising in the Leyburn Sprints thread

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:18 am

Have a disc of pics that shows the wide variety of cars so hpoefully will get #2 son to post them nxt week.
Was particularly chuffed to knock off the little red Mactec Busa 240HP+ sequencial ?gearbox with a quoted a 3 sec 0-100k time.
There is a pic of Dick in the old Ford open wheeler as well

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:21 pm

At last slide show pics .Hope you like :)

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir? ... =SLIDESHOW

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:24 pm

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:03 am

:drool:

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:46 am

FWIW I came 5th in a class of 15 and 60th in a field of 206 competitors

JJH · Post by **JJH** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:03 am

Great work Rad, and the Staz looks fantastic.

Quite a variety of cars, and especially like the ones where the huge guys have stuffed themselves into tiny cars rofl

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