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Insanity Too
AWDC (All Wheel Drive Club) 2024 season
AWDC 2024 Round 1
(The first event of the 2024 season)
Walters Arena, South Wales
Another season racing with AWDC, back at Walters in South Wales. New car number "17" this year
We where taking things a little bit "easy" for this event as we are running in another new engine. The day started out with the course wet and slippery. The first third of the course is quite technical and rough, the middle section however is long flat-out tracks. the whole course was exciting and a joy to compete on.
As things turn out due to an incident there where only four runs for the day, we completed all four runs without any significant incidents and the car goes back on the trailer with no significant damage.
AWDC 2024 Round 3
(The third round of the 2024 season)
Ebbw Vale, South Wales
We were planning to continue to take things relatively easy again for this event as we are still running in another new engine.
A hot sunny weekend and a really good challenging course set out we where really looking forward to this event.
the first two runs started out quite well. however at some point, probably going deep through the muddy puddle at junction 3 we damaged the radiator cooling fan. On run three the engine started to overheat so we decided to stop mid stage to let things cool down a bit before continuing on a little more consciously. we where able to borrow a fan assembly from the team running car 14. Although this enabled us to keep running for the rest of the event a slightly less efficient fan and the hot temperatures meant we needed to manage the engine a little bit.
On one run on the second half of the stage there is a "straight" that had some farm debris to the left hand side of the track, normally I have been steering around this, however on this particular run I clipped the edge of this, the car started to go sideways at high speed! after a bit of a tank slapper moment we did continue, but thereafter I avoided this and kept well clear.
I am sure its not supposed to look like this!
AWDC 2024 Round 4
(The forth round of the 2024 season)
Mine head
A really tough and challenging venue. A five mile course, the first mile a long fast hill climb the next four miles almost continuous twists and turns. we had no real dramas and finished the day with First in class.
AWDC 2024 Round 5
Pen y Bont Wales
What a venue! Beautiful countryside and some stunning views from the hills (if you had time to look at them.) this was a mix of open hilltop heath, boggy fields, steep tracks and even a quarry section. The driver had a really nervous start, as there where a lot of side-slopes and off camber corners, however, we ended up really enjoying the event.
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A nervous and steady start to the day
AWDC 2024 Round 6
Whaddon.
We started the weekend with the gearbox having just been rebuilt with zero mileage before the event (just loading on the the trailer).
We had a really good day with as usual some steep learning curves due to the very slippery and evolving course. After a very wet night and the ground conditions becoming even more slippery than on the course walk the previous evening, the first lap of the day turned out to be one of the better ones even if it was not the quickest, with no significant drama and the stage not too "cut up & polished" as the morning goes on however things start to get very cut up and slippery it became less of a case of selecting a line to drive and more a case of accepting and adapting to where the car was going to go. The speeds of the course meant we are a bit between gears with second gear having a tendency to make the car Pirouette around the front axle and third just not working until the afternoon runs when the speeds increased a little. Run two does not start well making a real hash of the first major corner and the section of the track at 3 minus, amongst other slips slides and mishaps. Run four we take the "jump" at 1 minus a little too quickly and we have a hard landing which unsettles both the car and the driver. Run 6 we catch up with an other competitor (who did a grand job letting us pass), only to be caught ourselves just afterwards by number 67, however, we managed to hang on to them and were right on their tail through the finish line. That was fun.
The final straw came on run seven when, about halfway around, we lost gear selection. So, we just limped out in whatever gear we were in (as competitively as possible). With the gearbox now stuck in 2nd gear, we decided we'd take a maximum on run eight and protect the gearbox, and avoid being a mobile chicane for everyone else. other than the eventual selection failure the gear box seamed to be running smoothly, we are hoping its just something simple dislodged in the gear selection mechanism.
Hopefully......
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The first lap of the day turned out to be one of the better ones even if it was not the quickest, with no significant drama and the stage not too "cut up & polished"
Run two does not start well with the driver making a real hash of the first major corner and the section of the track at 3-. amongst other slips slides and mishaps.