Gavin's 1973 911 in Mallory park 6 hour Endurance event
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:57 am
Gavin (Gav P) entered his car into the Mallory Park 6 hour event.. also to increase his chances of success he tried to hire none other than Le Mans legend and part time Porsche driver Derek Bell to co-drive. Derek has alot of expirience with these types of events, so he was the logical choice. However Derek was somewhat busy testing a 962 and shaking down a 917 and wasn't available for this event. Shame.. but all was not lost Derek was able to reccomend the next best thing to having Bellof in your car. Thats right, you guessed it.. the drive was given to none other than the master of the BEAST... which would be Dyno! ( thats Me ) this must have assured team success. Just like Alonso I claim that I take 6 ths from any lap time
Seriously this was a team event and we had a joint entry with Gav's mate and owner of Cobra replica.
Here is Team Pilgrim - Porsche
The Players
Matt and his father Tony in the self built Pilgrim-Cobra, which has completed the Monte-Carlo rally.
Gav's 1973 911 E 2.4 You'll notice its somewhat slammed. This is due to the services of a certain Mr Neil Bainbridge at BS Motorsport. He has committed similar such slammery on the my own 911, which is the BEAST. This proves for a purposeful handling car for the track and equally the B-road or any road for that matter. lowered, corner balanced on the table, some negative camber for good measure. SORTED.
Here we are all scrutineered in the pits. Race number 11 for the 911, which is the day my son was born on the 11th 11th last year.. it all seemed to to make some cosmic sense to me having a snack at 11:11hrs pondering my next drive. Yes it all seemed to fall into place. This indeed bodes well. Especially if you double 11, which makes 22, which again incidently is the day I was unleashed upon the world.
I think the previous nights lack of sleep and a very sideways beemer on a wet roundabout near midnight were finally having their effect on me. That and the fact that I hadn't nearly had enough caffine that morning.
Sorry I digress. Lets look at what we were up against....
Westfield looks pretty tough.
Some sort of race car thingy... Ginetta apparently.
More Caterham equipment
Cobra's hmmnn.. tricky
Ohhh big buck Cobra someone whispered 80k's worth of pocket money. Note the AP-Racing brakes on the corners.
Oh crap.. does that say LOLA on it! Had LS1 Corvette power
then there was this....
WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT!!!!
Clearly Team 26 weren't playing with a full deck. That or someone hadn't switched all the light on upstairs. I guess that can be handy if your a endurance racer and like rain.
Note the sneaky Tiger powered by Kawasaki Ninja in the background. Sequential box too.
Do I look scared. See the steely determination in my squinty eye! I am practicing my race mantra; DO NOT CRASH GAV'S CAR, DO NOT CRASH GAV'S CAR!
Here's the team.. is it me or does Gav look worried?
Gav here we are again with the most amazing car ever, Porsche's 911. Notice how we have removed the hub caps to add lightness. should be good for at least 3ths over the lap.
I'll stop babbling now and let Gav chime in with some his own thoughts and pics.
I'll also get the video footage hosted so we can share it.
Seriously this was a team event and we had a joint entry with Gav's mate and owner of Cobra replica.
Here is Team Pilgrim - Porsche
The Players
Matt and his father Tony in the self built Pilgrim-Cobra, which has completed the Monte-Carlo rally.
Gav's 1973 911 E 2.4 You'll notice its somewhat slammed. This is due to the services of a certain Mr Neil Bainbridge at BS Motorsport. He has committed similar such slammery on the my own 911, which is the BEAST. This proves for a purposeful handling car for the track and equally the B-road or any road for that matter. lowered, corner balanced on the table, some negative camber for good measure. SORTED.
Here we are all scrutineered in the pits. Race number 11 for the 911, which is the day my son was born on the 11th 11th last year.. it all seemed to to make some cosmic sense to me having a snack at 11:11hrs pondering my next drive. Yes it all seemed to fall into place. This indeed bodes well. Especially if you double 11, which makes 22, which again incidently is the day I was unleashed upon the world.
I think the previous nights lack of sleep and a very sideways beemer on a wet roundabout near midnight were finally having their effect on me. That and the fact that I hadn't nearly had enough caffine that morning.
Sorry I digress. Lets look at what we were up against....
Westfield looks pretty tough.
Some sort of race car thingy... Ginetta apparently.
More Caterham equipment
Cobra's hmmnn.. tricky
Ohhh big buck Cobra someone whispered 80k's worth of pocket money. Note the AP-Racing brakes on the corners.
Oh crap.. does that say LOLA on it! Had LS1 Corvette power
then there was this....
WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT!!!!
Clearly Team 26 weren't playing with a full deck. That or someone hadn't switched all the light on upstairs. I guess that can be handy if your a endurance racer and like rain.
Note the sneaky Tiger powered by Kawasaki Ninja in the background. Sequential box too.
Do I look scared. See the steely determination in my squinty eye! I am practicing my race mantra; DO NOT CRASH GAV'S CAR, DO NOT CRASH GAV'S CAR!
Here's the team.. is it me or does Gav look worried?
Gav here we are again with the most amazing car ever, Porsche's 911. Notice how we have removed the hub caps to add lightness. should be good for at least 3ths over the lap.
I'll stop babbling now and let Gav chime in with some his own thoughts and pics.
I'll also get the video footage hosted so we can share it.