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Round 2 of the McRae Rallysprint Series ran on Thursday evening. The weather cleared up to give us perfect conditions.

Under 2L, 2WD attracted a few more entries this round including some serious Ford Escorts and a Targa prepped Renault Clio...I did not build on my nice 4th position of round 1 and ended up 8th of 9 entries.

Ferrall Duck racing dragged their communal IPRA spec Daihatsu Charade Detomaso down for a friend to use and we had great fun swapping our co-drivers around.

Run 1 was a bit of a mess but turned out to be one of the faster runs of the night. I have got a new set of race pads in and I thought they were bedded in properly but they were very snatchy.
I pushed far to hard going in to a very tight, right hand hair pin and understeered straight in to the dirt and just missed taking out a 44 gallon drum. The car generally felt very loose on this run. Maybe I was trying to be to aggressive.
No idea how this run managed to be the 2nd quickest!! A friend of mine is co-driving this one.

All the videos were taken with my new Drift HD camera with remote microphone down behind the drivers seat. The videos can be watched in 1080p.



Run 2 with Geoff Duckworth on board. With many legions of fans clamouring at the trackside we gave them some entertainment going down the drag strip.



Run 3 back with my friend on board.



Ashly Barnett was floating around and jumped in for the final and fastest run of the night.

i will come and say hi next time.
ps: good driving!

Absolutely come and have a chin wag Mr Bender! I try but I'm by no means perfect!

Nice picture there, the cross is on the numbers as I unfortunately had to drop out of round 4 due to an inept me putting a new engine mount on incorrectly. The cross was to let others know to not wait for me to line up.

Next round is March 7th!

Okibi wrote:

Nice wheels and bonnet !

Seriously, looking good though, how long till the new goodies are fitted and its running better?

Clutch and flywheel are in thanks to a monumental amount of effort and help from tinscfi.

The go fast stuff is very much nearly finished, I started Sunday arvo and have done 2-3 hours a night since then. I just need to swap the injectors and fuel pump for the new ones and hook up the computer...something about 'connecting to the oxy sensor signal wire' in the instructions?!

I have got the bumper and under tray off so I will have to try and remember how that all goes back together. I think the undertray will need some trimming and there are some wires to tidy up.

The car will be up and running on the weekend assuming it all works!!