British Rallycross R7 - Lydden Hill

tbtstt · 28 Jul 2015, 09:11 (Ref:3561909)

Yeah, I know its not for a month, but I'm rather craving some rallycross, so I thought I'd post a thread up and see if anyone has heard anything concerning this round yet.

Anyone know if any Europeans are planning to make the trip over? I assume Pat will be back out in the Supercars for his local round?

**BertMk2** · 13 Aug 2015, 14:12 (Ref:3565806)

I see Andrew Coley will be out in the RX150's at Lydden - it'll be interesting to see how he gets on. I've not heard much else about this event so far - and it's getting closer. Anyone else got any news?

tbtstt · 14 Aug 2015, 08:30 (Ref:3565960)

I was hoping there would have been a bit more news on it at this point, hopefully an entry list will be forthcoming in the next few days.

tbtstt · 18 Aug 2015, 07:53 (Ref:3566608)

I see Liam was asking for a driver to retrieve a car from Sweden yesterday...

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Originally Posted by Liam Doran Facebook

Anyone want to drive a van and trailer to Petters workshop in Sweden and back this week? Need one of my cars back urgently for filming next week in UK. Not much driving as can get the Hull > Gothenburg ferry crossing, relaxed trip in a van....paid work of course!

...I wonder if he will use that car to run at Lydden as well?

Hampton Caught · 23 Aug 2015, 21:40 (Ref:3568010)

... or will Pat use it? Mmmm!

Looking forward to the Lydden round next week. Like you, I'd expected to see more about it by now.

I'll be there with my display of the rallycross models I've made, which you'll find in the Ripla Retro Rallycross Arena. Hope to see you there.

Cheers, Steve

ebby · 23 Aug 2015, 22:04 (Ref:3568019)

Any sign of an entry list for Lydden yet?

tbtstt · 24 Aug 2015, 08:29 (Ref:3568158)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hampton Caught

Looking forward to the Lydden round next week. Like you, I'd expected to see more about it by now.

The flyer for the round was up on Facebook over a week ago...

Quote:

Originally Posted by ebby

Any sign of an entry list for Lydden yet?

...but I haven't seen an entry list yet.

They have confirmed a few guest drivers in the RX150 class for Lydden though, specifically Andrew Coley (the shouty commentator from World Rallycross) and Reinis Nitiss. Also MSA secretary Simon Blunt will race in a Swift.

tbtstt · 25 Aug 2015, 08:06 (Ref:3568547)

Swift entry list is now online...

...still no sign of the other classes though.

Pozi · 25 Aug 2015, 09:10 (Ref:3568558)

Entry list

http://www.rallycrossbrx.com/assets/...Entry-List.pdf

tbtstt · 25 Aug 2015, 11:22 (Ref:3568581)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pozi

Entry list

http://www.rallycrossbrx.com/assets/...Entry-List.pdf

Brilliant, thanks Pozi!

12 Supercars
16 Super National/Super 1600
9 Hot Hatch/BMW MINI
17 Suzuki Swift
5 Swift Junior
10 Retro Rallycross
11 RX150

Not a bad entry. I assume that's a typo in the Supercars and Mark Flaherty is in his Focus.

I see Bill Watson is a TBA in the Retro class: I hope he manages to get his car out there.

bigted · 26 Aug 2015, 07:54 (Ref:3568844)

I think you can add the Hudson brothers in there BMW minis, and maybe another junior now

chunder · 26 Aug 2015, 11:55 (Ref:3568890)

Hardly big numbers and still far too many classes

Not sure its worth it really sadly.

Pozi · 26 Aug 2015, 14:00 (Ref:3568914)

It looks like Jenson Button and David Coulthard are down at Lydden today in the JRM RX Mini.

I know it would never happen but wouldn't it be great if they stayed on to drive in the UK round

**BertMk2** · 26 Aug 2015, 18:51 (Ref:3568981)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbtstt

I see Liam was asking for a driver to retrieve a car from Sweden yesterday...

...I wonder if he will use that car to run at Lydden as well?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pozi

It looks like Jenson Button and David Coulthard are down at Lydden today in the JRM RX Mini.

I know it would never happen but wouldn't it be great if they stayed on to drive in the UK round

Well at least we know what Liam needed the car for now - David Coulthard was driving it at Lydden today (with Jenson Button in the JRM MINI)

tbtstt · 28 Aug 2015, 20:39 (Ref:3569456)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BertMk2

Well at least we know what Liam needed the car for now - David Coulthard was driving it at Lydden today (with Jenson Button in the JRM MINI)

Indeed! Looking at the pictures, it looks like Liam's new 2015 car that was at Lydden, which implies that was the car that was sitting at Petter's workshop (as per Liam's original Facebook post). I wonder if it was just stored there, or if Petter's team have been working on the car?

**BertMk2** · 31 Aug 2015, 21:11 (Ref:3570329)

Well - the weather was pretty grim but the racing was excellent! The supernational and supercar finals in particular were superb but all the classes put on a good show. In practice there really wasn't a lot of traction - you could really see the rwd cars in particular struggling to put the power down and their were areas of Chessons that just acted like a massive brake - get off line and the speed just fell away. I hope that the damaged cars aren't too badly damaged - there were a couple of big offs and hits but given the conditions I was pleasantly surprised at how few there were. Anybody else brave the weather?

tbtstt · 1 Sep 2015, 11:16 (Ref:3570464)

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Originally Posted by BertMk2

Anybody else brave the weather?

Yep! Weather did seem to ease off a bit in the afternoon, but the morning was rather damp.

Fully agreed with regards to both the Super National and Supercar final. Great racing in both and nice to see places changing right up to the flag.

Still not sure what happened to Harris at North Bend; I have now seen a video of the roll, but not sure how he ended up hitting the tyres in the first place: did he have a moment on the exit of the corner?

bigted · 2 Sep 2015, 07:57 (Ref:3570685)

Speaking to Steve Harris after the roll, he said the car snapped sideways like a Drive Shaft sheared

tbtstt · 2 Sep 2015, 13:37 (Ref:3570750)

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigted

Speaking to Steve Harris after the roll, he said the car snapped sideways like a Drive Shaft sheared

That makes sense, as said the only clip I've seen doesn't show much of his approach, just the contact with the tyre wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUuIFtWOVA

Looks like quite a sudden stop.

Did anyone see the Flaherty/Mundy contact after the flag in heat 1?

**BertMk2** · 2 Sep 2015, 20:15 (Ref:3570833)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbtstt

Did anyone see the Flaherty/Mundy contact after the flag in heat 1?

No but there was some contact with Pat and someone (can't remember who) after the flag in one of the heats as well.

**BertMk2** · 2 Sep 2015, 20:15 (Ref:3570834)

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbtstt

Did anyone see the Flaherty/Mundy contact after the flag in heat 1?

No but there was some contact with Pat and someone (can't remember who) after the flag in one of the heats as well.

tbtstt · 10 Sep 2015, 12:07 (Ref:3572912)

Finally dried out enough to post some pictures!

Don't know what was causing O'Donovan's car to constantly produce sparks (undertray perhaps?), but it certainly caught the eye.

Few more images here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/229616...57658433321545

If anyone is interested.

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