Bargain £75 entry fee at Castle Combe

[Steve Burns]

Due to the cancellation of the Club F3 races, Castle Combe Racing Club have scheduled two Open Races on Monday 29th May at Castle Combe Circuit.

Scheduled so as not to interfere with your championship race, an additional 15 minutes of qualifying and 10 lap race is available, for the bargain price of just £75.

Trophies will be awarded to 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each class, which are as follows;

Castle Combe Racing Club Open Single Seater Race
Class A: 2000cc – Catering for all Mono 2000 and Club F3 competitors.
Class B: Under 2000cc (not FF1600) – Catering for other Mono classes.
Class C: FF1600 – Catering for FF1600 competitors in the Melton Concrete Products Castle Combe FF1600 Championship and Mono 1600 competitors racing FF1600 cars.

Castle Combe Racing Club Open Sports / Saloon Race
Class A: Over 1600cc – Catering for Classes A, B & the larger engined Class C competitors in the National Mobile Windscreens Castle Combe Saloon Car Championship plus Classes C & D cars in the savesometax.co.uk Castle Combe Special GT Championship (Class A & B cars are not eligible).
Class B: Up to 1600cc – To cater for Stock Hatch competitors plus the smaller engined cars in the National Mobile Windscreens Castle Combe Saloon Car Championship.

Entries are also invited from competitors with suitable cars not mentioned above and not already racing on 29th May. Indeed a couple of new people have entered already.

Tel. 01249 783139 or E-mail. club@castlecombecircuit.co.uk for further details.

[NotLordPercy]

Sounds too good to be true! Are Castle Combe Racing Club sticking with their intention of not having races for less than 12 ( or so) starters? Good news if they are...............

[Steve Burns]

Yes. Castle Combe are not interested in hosting races with less than typically 20 cars. They get too strung out and Castle Combe is also licenced to start more cars than most other UK circuits.

[rcarr]

If only I was closer!

Its a bargain!

[Al Weyman]

Why are they doing this silly thing with a maximum engine size again like Brands Group are? Did'nt anybody ever tell these people big engines invaraibly mean heavy cars so it usually all equals out.

[Ian Sowman]

Over 1600cc and up to 1600cc would seem to let most things in, Al.

[driftwood]

"Libre" racing is limited to 2 litre and 2400 cc at some tracks
RAC do not want 3 litre /F5000 type cars racing in open races!!
yes we know its silly and has ruined many peoples dream of racing an old obsoltete F3000 chassis with rover V8 engine etc
the UK Libre c/ship was killed off in 89 since then 2 litre/2.5 limits have been imposed!!!

[JohnMiller]

Ian, but what about (exact) 1600cc cars?

[driftwood]

John the rules clearly state upto 1600 cc and then over 1600 cc not upto 1599 and over 1600 cc
so go and get yr car built up and get racing as upto 1600 or 0ver and show us what u can do behind the wheel

[Al Weyman]

Whoa hold, you are missing one important statement here guys:

Class A: Over 1600cc – Catering for Classes A, B & the larger engined Class C competitors in the National Mobile Windscreens Castle Combe Saloon Car Championship plus Classes C & D cars in the savesometax.co.uk Castle

As I understand I the Combe Saloon class A is pegged at 3000cc, not sure about class C and D in the savesometax series but that does not sound like a big banger class to me. In the Classic Touring Car Race Club there are minimum weights/capacity ratings in the various classes so this will keep a real lightweight with a stomping V8 out, I mean it is their call but do they want to fill the grids or not because even Rover SDI's could not enter this the way I see it.

[JohnMiller]

'Catering to' not 'exclusive to.'

[Ian Sowman]

Indeed, the sentence at the bottom of Steve's post made that clear I thought.

[R59]

Al,

The Castle Combe GT's class structure is thus:

A - big engined sports racing cars
B - not very big engined sports racing cars
C - Highly modified Saloons/Sports & GT's
D - Production based Saloons/Sports & GT's

Your car fits in Class D.
Mine goes in Class C.

QED = Put in your entry.

Next question.

Rob.

[R59]

Eeek, I had a quick re-read of the regs.

You'd be class C too. Too much modification to your car.

Rob.

[Steve Burns]

There is no upper limit on engine capacity in either of the two open races. Indeed I had an enquiry today from a guy with an F3000, although I suspect that it may be tad too loud for our council imposed 108dBA noise limit (I assume he agrees as he hasn't entered), as would most single seaters over 2000cc I would suspect.

Get your entries in quick though, spaces are filling up fast.

[Al Weyman]

I'm racing the Historic tub that weekend but would have been interested if I was not and the car was ready (got most of me bits in from the US today Rob and look real pucker), if any more of these crop up keep us posted, with JP and now CRC putting on these occassional 'bargains' its looking good.

[driftwood]

noise is an issue in deed
i had considered racing my f2 car but it will fail due to induction and i have better things to do with my time and $$ than trying to quieten a true international race car to appease some hethen villager 3 miles away who does not appreciate my " Music"

i have welded the mega pipe to the work bench to stop us fitting that insead of the muffler !!!

it has been 8 years since i heard my engine sing as it was designed to do!!

[Al Weyman]

Blimey a bit of induction noise should be easy enough to cure should'nt it, nice KN filter or something?

Actually this has always been one of my irritations, they come up to you, stick a probe a metre from the exhaust of my big V8 and it just about scrapes through but once on the track it is seriously quite because there is absolutely no induction roar through a Holley 4 barrel with air cleaner yet you get some 4 banger poodles through the test as quite as a mouse no problem, on the track with open throttle body injection and pulling 9000prm it sounds like a wailing banshee. Never understood that, so I for one am glad they are doing drive by testing now as it seems much fairer. Oh on one of my cars it has a side exit exhaust on both sides and generally reads well under 100 decibles as the probe can only measure one side so work that out!

[driftwood]

i wish i could do the air filter to the car but airbox fitting makes it a major reworking
but yr right the whole noise thing is but about face

[PenelopePitstop]

Ian, but what about (exact) 1600cc cars?

They don't seem to have a problem with my 1600 Maestro

[driftwood]

but what about the rust
i dont have that problem with my carbon fibre chassis

[PenelopePitstop]

I am training the Rust worm to eat away all that horible heavy metal to cut down on the weight

[topwelshman]

We're entered, should be a right laugh

[Grandslammer]

Originally Posted by topwelshman

We're entered, should be a right laugh

That's what it's all about ,looking forward to it

[gixxer]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

Blimey a bit of induction noise should be easy enough to cure should'nt it, nice KN filter or something?

Actually this has always been one of my irritations, they come up to you, stick a probe a metre from the exhaust of my big V8 and it just about scrapes through but once on the track it is seriously quite because there is absolutely no induction roar through a Holley 4 barrel with air cleaner yet you get some 4 banger poodles through the test as quite as a mouse no problem, on the track with open throttle body injection and pulling 9000prm it sounds like a wailing banshee. Never understood that, so I for one am glad they are doing drive by testing now as it seems much fairer. Oh on one of my cars it has a side exit exhaust on both sides and generally reads well under 100 decibles as the probe can only measure one side so work that out!

Induction noise has got to the most offensive noise around i hate it and if your yank is louder than that is beyond me,Nick Willaimson races an escort cossy in the Combe gt and the indution noise from that is awful and far louder that a lot of the cars racing but as you say Al it must pass the the noise test that's done in the paddock,but have to say it was not quite as bad at the last meeting......still nothing beats a howling V8 awesome sound