The Straightliners 'Grudgement Days' thread
 

New sprint series based at Elvington, home of TOTB

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I will be at the May date as a shakedown for ScoobySprint, and hope to do the Shootout too

Anyone else competing? I know Simon will be :)

Cheers for the post Justin.

Again, one to watch out for. :doubleup:

Just got back from Elvington, had a great day sprinting.

Qualified 2nd in class (Modified 4wd) and fastest Subaru of the day - beaten by an Evo.

In the final I went even faster, but was beaten by the Evo who went faster still and also pipped into 3rd by another scoob so just missed out on the fastest Subaru trophey.

Very pleased with my performance considering I was running low boost due to this misfire I haven't sorted yet, plus my car had full OE interior, aircon etc and I was beaten by a scoob that was stripped out wide arched and trailered to event.

It was a great day, good atmosphere and good banter had with fellow competitors, its a long way away but IMO worth it

Next round June 20th

Next round tomorrow, travelling up today rather than getting up tomorrow at silly o'clock. I know one other member here competeing too ;)

Well, to say i had a good day was an understatement

Fastest in class, beating all Evos and winning the final, bagging 2 tropheys - 1st in class final and Scoob FTD :D

By may calcs I'm leading the championship, but I'm on holiday for the next round, whoops nevermind

Well done buddy, great result especially beating the evo,s:doubleup:

well done justin :ok:

Thanks chaps :)

Driving home with the car packed with tools / wheels / baggage etc I left a space for the 2 tropheys on the passenger seat to keep me company on the long way home, lol :D

Bit like that advert with Andy Roddick buying a seat 1st class seat next to him for his winners trophey at Wimbledon, except mine was obviously more prestigous ;)

Next round 12th Sept, I'm missing it so next round for me is 3rd Oct, lets hope I'm still in for a shot of the championship

Results

Qualifying http://www.straightliners.co.uk/comm...1&d=1277155121

Final http://www.straightliners.co.uk/comm...2&d=1277155161

Yes, it was close :)

OK there is a new round, this Sunday 22nd.

Overall Standings still haven't been compiled so noone knows their championship positions, but if I do well tomorrow I'm definately in with a shout

Good luck mate, hope it all goes well and you kick some arse!
:five:

Didn't go too well, had a power steering fluid leak that caught fire on hot headers, luckily I had a hand held but tbh it was too small but others were on the scene immediately with decent ones and fire was out quickly. Only damage was split rad end tank which obviously disabled the car.

I was 3rd overall, 2nd in class and fastest scoob at the time, but fire happened just after lunch and at the end of the day was 5th in class and 2nd fastest scoob so missed out on points.

I was trailered back to a mates house who had a spare rad, we pressure washed all the powder residue out of the bay and I was back on the road later that evening.

All in all an experience I won't forget in a hurry

Good job Justin :10:

A bugger about the split rad, but thankfully not more serious than that.

We'll make sure we arrange something to come and watch / support you at some point :double:

Justin
What a sod about the fire, as Worzel says thankfully it was not to serious.
Great stuff though mate:10:

well done and things happen. Glad it wasnt to bad

Next round is this weekend but I'm missing it, so I took the opportunity to send my AFP20g back to Andy Forrest to have an experimental billet compresser wheel put in for evaluation purposes. Good job too because upon inspection the thrust bearing collar had worn so much there was 2mm of axial movement of the wheel and it was grinding away at the compressor cover!

Its still managed 375HP on Charlies rollers (Vpower) just before I sent it away though, so hopefully I will be seeing a bit more power now assuming the billet 20G does its job.

Thanks to the fire I have decided to take the car to Subaru4U for a full checkover, they will fit the turbo and also check the clutch cylinder after my clutch issues at TOTB.

So next outing for the car will be the Grudgement Day finals, held alongside ScoobyShootout on October 3rd

Finals this coming weekend, I have a bit more power now thanks to Andy Forrest's Billet20G

I'm just doing the Grudgement day sprint, which will share the handing course with the Scooby Shootout competitors.

Anyone else going?, if so come and say hello

Will be going up but not in the scoob

Currently sitting at elvington airfield looking at ALOT of standing water (2-3 inches in places), action should be good once it gets going.

Well it got going despite the non-stop rain, just this week I found out I was in 3rd position overall, 5 points behind leader and 2 points off 2nd place. I was also told points scoring system - 10 points for fastest qualifier down to 1 point for 10th fastest, also top 4 go through to Finals where its 4 points for 1st and 1 point for 4th.

Today I found out the leader (in his evo) wasn't at the event which was wierd - he's only been to 4 of 6 now - same as me this was my 4th one of the 6 event series. So that meant all i had to do was to beat the guy in 2nd place (Andy) in qualifying AND the final to draw level on points which meant me winning the championship due to countback - I would have won 2 events to Andy's none (he's done 5 out of 6 events and scored consistantly).

Anyway the event. Wet. Very wet. Ironic thing was the rain only eased at 12:30 for half an hour - yep that was lunch, lol.

So my main aim is to beat Andy, thats all i need to do.I'm in Scoobyshootout but TBH wasn't interested in the 1/4 mile side of things so stuck to handling, which shared the same track as the SSO competitors.

Its so wet i decide not to put my Kumho trackday tyres on and stick to my 4 year old rock hard toyo T1R's. Despite advice from the experienced TOTB guys there to run the Kumho's - mine were so close to the markers there was hardly any tread left I stuck with the T1R's and monitored my times against Andy. My time were good, very good infact relative to Andy, I was always a second quicker so decided not to change. Then someone in a newage goes a second quicker than me on std RE070's in the SSO comp so i decide that i've got the best out of the toyo's and stick the Kumhos on. In doing this I got fooking soaked in the 20 mins it took but I thought it was worth it. this was at approx 3pm, I was about 5th in the queue to start when it just monsooned down. Qualifying was suspended, then the rain never abated until quali was over and time for the finals. But finals were cancelled due to standing water so I never got to try the kumhos but it didn't matter - I was 1st in qualifying (for grudgement day competitors) and finals were depicted by qualifying positions so I won that too :D

2 tropheys and by my calcs OVERALL CHAMPION :D:D:D:D

I am currently back at the B+B drinking beer from my Scooby cup - get in!!

Nice to meet you Dukeboy, you can be my lucky mascot :D

Yep what a wet day!!!

Back home and drying out, nice to of met you Justin you were going very well even in those conditions. :10:

I think everyone that drove today deserves a trophy :10:

Daz Davies also sounding great and going very well on the 1/4 mile :10:.....see all that stress is worth it now ah :doubleup:
My first time up to Elvington and even in thoses conditions it was very enjoyable, would recommend this to people next year :doubleup:

Just afew pics from the day...http://www.southeastscoobies.co.uk/v...ead.php?t=6007

Will add more later!!!

Been up in yorkshire all week for work - hope your drive home was better than mine! Took 7 hrs :-(