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One more precision… in a french car, what you find on your left hand is not the gear stick, its the door handle!
Anyone in touch with the owner of a heavily modified blue Capri posting here a while ago and working at Heathrow? He could join the happy pack of Salooncars, our version of Modsports. Many others too. |
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Ha, left hand drive is good for me, my motorhome is LHD and I've done 50k miles in 5 years in it. Also raced a LHD FIA Anglia at Mallory Park a few years ago, made the impolite mistake of being quicker than the owner, most embarassing!
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The Bugatti is a quite conventional track. May be you'll have to adjust your trajectories to a non single seater, as on usual. In case of rain, two places are really slippery, the "garage vert" a long double right and the "chemin aux boeufs" which is what we call a pif-paf or chicane, meaning a very tight left-right. In spite of a very long climbing straight which is famous, in case of rain a small displacement engined car can surprise the big dogs.
Do you know it already or sim experienced it may be? I prefer RHD cars but with the gearstick on the right… |
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Should Max join us, a very good thing imo, the Alain Prost karting track is renowned not only for its lawn mower engined karts! Few yards from the paddock.
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Hope you will have the opportunity to play your music in France, Joe. Do you know that Johnny Halliday used to song a remake of The house of the rising sun? Same music but instead of a house of joy, Hallyday was singing Le pénitencier. More politically correct.
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We're guessing our tour in June is cancelled now, festival in Le Havre was a highlight. maybe next year all being well.
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Seems we could meet more than one Tenther there if everything goes right. Good news. Just one thing dont forget your valve caps…
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I'm considering doing it in the BMW.
Even stumped up the extra cash for the appropriate licence just before the Coronavirus f***ed everything up for all of us. So who knows what will happen now? I guess we can't even be sure at this stage if it will definitely go ahead? Will us Brits be allowed into the country without having to spend time in quarantine? That would put a bit of a damper on it, to say the least! I would still be tempted though, funds permitting of course. After all, I can't see MSUK giving me a refund on the licence just because I decided not to use it, can you? |
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22 May 2020, 12:28 (Ref:3977683) | #36 | ||
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Depending on the year/model/displacement I think you could enter it in several grids. Is it an M3? If they dont merge GT Classic and Salooncars as they sometimes do you can prepare yourself to have a busy weekend.
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There are too many different grids in CSCC for me to understand but I think you could enter Future Classics and french Salooncars/GT Classic which will be one grid instead of two. Depending on what you wish, want and can afford.
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And again you'll all will be welcome, if I can help ask me dont hesitate a single second, but I'm not recommending anyone to travel abroad.
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Thanks Gerard!
Yes, Future Classics is my regular haunt. Of course, whatever happens it would be an expensive weekend to do this event, so a lot depends on funds. But also, travel may be the big problem - as things stand at the moment, the idea of two weeks quarantine before and after rather kills the idea somewhat. Let's hope those restrictions are lifted by then, as it's simply not practical otherwise. Gerard - the French Saloon/GT Classic: what sort of stuff would be racing in that race? Are they having just one race at this meeting, and what's the format/length likely to be? And, of course, if you happen to know - how much is the entry fee likely to be? If it was affordable, it might make sense to enter more than one race having spent all the money to get there! |
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Paul, the idea behind GT Classic was to make a "prestigious" grid, with Ferraris Lambos and stuff like this. I must confess that before the first season I was consulted about the Porsches because I drove many 911's in different trims. Of course, two 993 Bi-turbo showed up together with one or two Vipers, killing the competition. Sadly, this grid is more or less dying with some 964's and 968's… Hence the Salooncars to join sometimes which should be the case at Bugatti.
Salooncars grid is operated by a very nice person, Claude Maurel, sport and pleasure oriented. The guy is cool! You can have Bimmers, 996 GT3 cup, Audi Quattros and a fast Seven to name few. All in all, very different cars but a lot of battes at different levels. The rules are simple and there's no police to spoil your pleasure. Just find a bloke and have fun. If everything goes right, talking with my rose tinted glasses, I'll enter my poor little MX5 on road tyres just for the pleasure to drive and share it with MG David. I know the guy is fast and if ever the rain comes… Have to check the race format, usually its either 2X30' or one hour with mandatory pit stop. I know the Bugatti is very expensive to rent for any organiser. I'll ask Claude if its possible to escape the annual fee for foreigners, can guarantee nothing but trying. As you say, while you're here why not drive the more you can? This year is different in many aspects, isn't it? I see only one problem entering two grids is the gap between two races to add fuel in the tank and some water in the driver! Again if everything goes right, we'll be several Tenthers to give help. Would be a nice way to give a kick to the virus… |
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On board view from Vincent Delarche's Seven at Charade last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNoXy8PUafc Dont worry, the smallest car but certainly the best driver of this batch. He now has more power under the pedal -180 HP in the 1600 Crossflow-, the 996 will be far behind… Dont tell me about his rear axle noise, my Capri has the same!! |
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After a loooong search found this result sheet:
https://www.its-results.com/hvm/2019...f-1e3a091bfbc2 Hope it works… |
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Hi Morning! It could be either Claude the father or Franck his son. Interesting career for Franck, a brilliant mechanic, specialized in transmissions probably the best here to fix a Bimmer trans. He runs a small company, Blue Fox engineering, and rebuilt interesting cars like a Cesca-Grac. This one looks a little bit like a GRD.
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It was in July 1992 at Brands Hatch, not Silverstone. It was Claude and he drove a Renault R8 Gordini. He retired in the race. A certain Gordon Streeter came 3rd in that race.
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Spot on morninggents, Claude does remember the loss of the flywheel bolts, something common on those small french engines!
For those interested in entering more than a CSCC grid, you must contact the Salooncars operator at least 15 days prior to the race. Format should be one Free Qualy, one Qualy and two 30' races, entry around 800 €. Sorry I understand the price is not accurate but given the circumstances… |
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Also occurred frequently on overpowered Ford engines as well, especially if one used standard issue bolts from Fords as I did for a time. Luckily, a kindly soul from Boreham came to my rescue, and he kindly donated a box of specially made hardened steel bolts made for them by GKN; never had a problem in that department again, I'm glad to say. |
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Some old Renault aluminium cases were known for a certain lack of rigidity, hence the crank to wave above a certain rev limit located for sure well behind the Ford one. I'd say around the 7k mark. Not mentioning the damn paper seals under the sleeves…
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Event maintained.
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