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993 RSR at Britcar 24 hour

hunter

hunter

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Paul as you well know ( thanks for your support) we will be running a 993 at RSR spec ( Car number 67) in the Britcar 24 hour in a few weeks time with myself ,Paul (GT Classics ), Tony Littlejohn and Mike Quinn driving .
We are being catered for by my local pub in London ( Scarsdale , Kensington) , so if anyone from the Porsche community is there drop in for a chat and maybe a bacon butty!!!
Regards
Peter
 
I will have to work very hard to pay for this so NO free, not even for the more established of gentlemen.....
This weekend will also be the last round of the PCGB club and GT3 series , so something for you to get your teeth into....
 
Vic, there has to be a clause in the small print that excludes those mad enough to drive a cup car on the road from free dental treatment.
 
Reminds me of a friend and racing driver who after so extensive dental work crashed his NASCAR at 200 mph and took quater of a mile to stop , which destroyed most of the tooth work.....
 
Thats exactly why it should be on the cheap they all fell out ..............

i was concerned Pete might use a wrench for the rest though!
Good luck Guys
 
1st and 2 nd of Oct , PCGB meet as support plus a few Porsches in 24 hr unfortunately not 997 RSR.
But we will have a hospitality area for Vic the rest his legs in the easy boy........
 

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Reminds me of  a friend and racing driver who after so extensive dental work crashed his NASCAR at 200 mph and took quater of a mile to stop  , which destroyed most of the tooth work.....
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Were they ceramics ?? [;)]
 
Yep should have used Alcorns , Blimey looks like we are the only Porshce entered in the 24 hrs a sad day indeed when out of 60 cars in a premier 24 hr race there is only 1 porsche entered but it will be AIR cooled....
 
But James, Richard and I will be there again in the Lotus - running a Porsche in a 24h race is a frightening expense. I remember costing it up once on the GT3 Cup car and we could run three Lotuses for that price!
 
Hi Zub , I know , but being Porsche nuts means we cannot help it!!!!!. The latest entry list shows more Porsches a 997 Cup ( Jet alliance ) , 996 Cup and us.
See you there
Peter
 
Well guys a true epic , severe weather , an early shunt but stoic determination and the reliability and drivability of the 993 RSR saw us through to the end a memorable weekend ...... thanks to all involved , especially Matt of Fearnsport who we could not have done it without as well as Toni who welded the upright as well as drove a 2 hour plus stint in the the rain , well done . Then there was the usual P Mac car control at the worst of weather moments.
We hung in persevered and got there setting times in the top 3 or 4 in the last 3 hours , true 993 reliabilty and pace at the end
3 lires of oil and a wiperblade.......the way Porsche designed it.....air cooled for 24 hours
Peter
 
Well done Peter. Our Lotus was going very well, we were leading our class in the evening, but then at about 3am an innocuous off into the gravel caused the belt running the dry sump oil pump to fail, and because the car was still idling for a couple of minutes the engine ran with no oil pressure. We therefore decided to retire the car rather than risk a very big engine failure. Gutted. I watched you guys doing very well in the wet, and the car looked fantastic the next day when it was still going round. Well done, you deserved to finish after the incident with the Dutch car.
 
ORIGINAL: hunter

Well guys a true epic , severe weather , an early shunt but stoic determination and the reliability and drivability of the 993 RSR saw us through to the end a memorable weekend ...... thanks to all involved , especially Matt of Fearnsport who we could not have done it without as well as Toni who welded the upright as well as drove a 2 hour plus stint in the the rain , well done . Then there was the usual P Mac car control at the worst of weather moments.
We hung in persevered and got there setting times in the top 3 or 4 in the last 3 hours , true 993 reliabilty and pace at the end
3 lires of oil and a wiperblade.......the way Porsche designed it.....air cooled for 24 hours
Peter
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Astonishng , but my 993RS has two wiper blades ? [:D][:D]

Epic grit ... Porsche at it's best.
 
Great to see four (?) Porsches make it all the way through - and a second and third overall! I guess #67 became #43?!

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Looking a bit sad towards the end!

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More here.
 
Thanks for the nice photos spyderman , we were hoping on a wet race though as the engine had been set up with a few issues so easier in the wet were we ran great times , without to driveshaft related crash we could have been top 10 .....all in all great fun and the first run with the car for us so a lot more to come........tired and dirty at the end but was running very quickly and well at the end.....
 
Thanks for the nice photos spyderman
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Contact me if you want copies, or I can put some up on Photobox if you want to get prints done.

How many sets of tyres did you get through in the end? I wondered if the change of lead was down to a switch back to wets in the last hour or so when it started to come over all dark again, but never actually got beyond spitting? Was the dry line really ever that dry?! You lighting setup also looks very impressive.
 
We did the whole event on 4 sets of wets and 1 set of slicks. I drove the final 1 1/2 hour stint and we stayed on wets. The line had got quite dry, but Dunlop advised against slicks as it was not proper bone dry and the temperature was very low. Intermediates would have been great, but we didn't buy any and just made do with the wets we had left. The car went through a really horrible 15 to 20 minute stage as the wets overheated, but they came good again having remodeled themselves into slicks. It was great to finish the race and the first time we had raced our newly acquired car.
 
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