Quaife Motorsport News Saloons

[tail out]

There was some good racing at Brands at the weekend and from a spectators point of view the Quaife Saloons/Intermarque race had some of the best action of the weekend, well done to all those involved.

[Tim Falce]

Is the Quaife saloons the follow on for the DMN series, I.E. QMN?

[Minicross424]

Correct.
Lets all get behind it and support this great series.

[chezza]

Pleased to hear that the guys were able to provide some good racing, looking forward to the next rounds!

[mig]

There was some really good racing in the intermarque-qmn race really fast and frantic good to watch from the sidelines might get my finger out and join in next time.

[Benny1664]

Does DMN not exist anymore then? Where did the Cossies and the Skylines go?

[Tim Falce]

Benny, it's a change of one of the sponsors, so Quaife have replaced the old sponsor and Motorsport News remain co-sponsor to the series.

[grichie87]

Wellcome back peeps, skylines are in the classic thunder and cossies are still around somewhere

[Benny1664]

Thanks Tim but didnt the Quaife Intermarque League exist by itself alongside DMN before? Have the 2 series merged into 1 now?

It seemed a much faster set of cars than DMN used to have, does it still allow all the smaller more standard 205s and other hot hatches that used to race in DMN or have they gone elsewhere now as well?

[chezza]

What was DMN has now become QMN due to a change in sponsorship as Tim explained.

The Quaife Intermarque League still exists as a separate series.

We also have the Cannons TinTop Challenge which picks up some of the less modified cars.

Although there have been some minor tweaks to the class regulations in each of the series overall they remain more or less the same.

With the numbers of entries that we have been getting we have been running 2 grids with the three series and usually split them depending on the average laptimes. The TinTops usually run in one grid, sometimes with the less powerful cars from both the QMN and intermarques, depending on the numbers (these ran on Saturday at Brands) and then the more powerful cars from QMN and the intermarques usually run together (these ran on the Sunday at Brands.)

[dex92]

Will they racing be at Lydden this season, was a good watch but i cant seem to see BRSCC on the calender unless its supporting the Truck racing thing at Lydden.

[graham bahr]

its run by barc se not brscc, june 16th/17th is lydden

[dex92]

Originally Posted by graham bahr

its run by barc se not brscc, june 16th/17th is lydden

Cheers Graham

[andypipe]

And a certain yellow escort will be making a return this year without fail

[BertMk2]

That's good news Andy Same spec as before or have you been fiddling with it?

[andypipe]

Originally Posted by BertMk2

That's good news Andy Same spec as before or have you been fiddling with it?

It's got a few little tweeks. Being busy prepping and running other people's cars for the last couple of years, and even though still doing that, will be good to get back out there

[chezza]

Yay my favourite yellow banger! ;-)

[The SpeCTator]

Cracking show at Brands last weekend, somewhat doubt the BTCC will equal the quality of racing this weekend but can guarantee the egos will be greater and the damage considerable more.

[bdwoody]

Originally Posted by The SpeCTator

Cracking show at Brands last weekend, somewhat doubt the BTCC will equal the quality of racing this weekend but can guarantee the egos will be greater and the damage considerable more.

true and ...true.

[adam46]

So no more of Birley's Cossie or Darren Bly's Skyline in QMN this season?

[bdwoody]

Originally Posted by adam46

So no more of Birley's Cossie or Darren Bly's Skyline in QMN this season?

sign of the times i'm affraid , it aint cheap to run these types of cars in these times and some thing has got to give. rod will be back in some thing smaller i recon , he just cant help him self ..

[greenamex2]

Originally Posted by adam46

So no more of Birley's Cossie or Darren Bly's Skyline in QMN this season?

Darren Bly has moved to Classic Thunder.

[adam46]

Yeah I can understand that.

Well If anyhting this can be viewed as a positive step, as there may be multi-car battles upfront!

[STEVED]

I'll be out some time this year unfortunately it looks as if ive got some sort of drive train / diff issue causing the horrendous torque steer i had last year.

[BertMk2]

Really pleased for Ash today - an outright win Dreadful luck for Malcolm Wise though (losing a wheel - well, hub really - it looked like it took the whole lot clean off) Glad the weather held off too - after looking at the forecast I thought it might have been a horrible day. Not sure if they'll get away with it tomorrow though. Bill lunched the gearbox again so it's back to Ashford for another one and start from the back tomorrow.

The tin tops race was a cracker too, Butler long gone at the front but a fantastic 5 way scrap going on for 4th. Have to say that Graham Richardsons drive from the back of the grid was superb.

Hope tomorrow stays dry