Gossip, we all love it and here are the stories and information snippets that were meant for the underground only.. we break them out and let you have them raw...
Duckworth call on his troops
Nissan S13 driver Kevin Duckworth was keen to say thanks to all the friends that had helped him get the car fixed ready for Knockhill. Damage sustained at Oulton Park looked equally damaging to his chances of making the trip to Scotland, yet somehow he managed it. “Friends have put in a lot of work… just roughly they’ve given about 138 hours of free time to help me get this fixed and sponsors have helped get hold of parts too. Even normally you couldn’t do this, but at short notice where it’s a case of things having to be done now it’s incredible we’ve done it. I’ve got some friends with a barn that they let me use part of to fix this, but I ended up taking the whole thing over, meaning they couldn’t get to their gardening tools when they wanted too. We made some changes too like lowering the front a little more and putting adjustable rear lower arms on as we weren’t sure if the chassis would be completely straight.” He admitted he was still knackered after driving at Knockhill, and despite coming second in his class was disappointed with his time as he’s been in the 58s round there before. “I’m looking forward to Silverstone, even though it’s a power circuit, I’ve had some of my best results around there!” he adds.
A minute with Fee Kindness
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After her small incident at Oulton Park, we figured it was time to catch up with the R32 Skyline driving Club Class competitor at Knockhill. How did you get on at Knockhill? Better than at Oulton Park…at least I didn’t crash this time! You had some guts to go back out in the car again later the same day. Ha, I didn’t have much of a choice to go out again…my husband made me. Is it any easier driving here in front of a Scottish crowd? We organise all the trackdays here so I know the circuit well which certainly helps. I’m still getting used to the car though, as we’ve taken the power from about 400bhp to somewhere around 500bhp for this year. |
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There’s a lot of competitors in the 4WD class, do you ever wish you’d gone for a rear wheel drive Skyline so there’s less competition?
No, I had an Impreza road car so am used to 4WD and before this I had a Peugeot 205 track car.
Do the other driver’s treat you well on the circuit as you’re the only woman in the competition?
Ha, yeah it’s quite nice, they treat me nicely. It would be nice to have another girl to compete against though!
The secret of Buddy Club success
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During Round Two of 2009’s Time Attack series at Knockhill, Paul Hughes in the Buddyclub Integra DC5 had a major problem. While qualifying a CV joint failed, resulting in his front offside wheel coming off. In these circumstances finding replacement parts to get the car fixed and back on track can be tricky and there was no way the team could get hold of a new CV bearing. So what did they do? They made one from the ring end of a spanner and a chopped off socket of all things! It clearly worked though as Paul went on to win his class and finish fifth quickest in Club Class overall. With the Buddyclub suspension set-up and new engine for this season which has boosted power from 275bhp to 305bhp, you can bet Paul will continue to shine this season, especially with the sort of ingenuity his team showed backing him. |
Clubber #6 Graham hooks up with Zen
RaceDynamix announce Zen Performance Race Engineering Support
Time Attack club challenge #6 competitor Duncan Graham is proud to announce that ZEN Performance will be commissioned to provide Race Engineer support for Time Attack 2009 series.
Following on from the on-event support at the final round of Time Attack 2008 at Snetterton, Duncan feels that this is a crucial piece of the jigsaw often overlooked and who better to provide this support and guidance than the 2007 champions.
ZEN will use their massive Time Attack experience and knowledge to assist Duncan in engineering the car for the season, assisting with chassis / engine tuning and set-up, along with good old fashioned moral support.
Duncan is very excited about this partnership and the forthcoming Time Attack season that is starting at Oulton Park on the 25th April.
Time Attack cars on display at JAE
Get up close and personal with the Japanese cars from the series at the long running JAE (Japanese Auto Extravaganza) event Aug 29th-31st [More]
RCM get direct backing from Samco
Latest press release from RCM [more]
R35 GTR makes debut at Oulton Park this weekend
Exciting stuff, Check it out! [more]
Biofuel for Zen this weekend at Round 4
Zen Performance's , GC8 Impreza Pro Car will be running on Bioethanol E85, the first car in Time Attack to do so and a massive step forward in the series for the team from Northampton [more]
Team Zen roll out another hired gun for round 2
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Our news hound caught up with Team Zen testing and it wasn't the usual driver behind the wheel, who is the new mystery man for the next rounds drive? [more] |
SIDC join the TA ranks.
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Another club which is into the Time Attack Series this year is SIDC, Subaru Impreza Drivers Club, [More] |
Japan's top TA driver confirms attendance at Round 3
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We are pleased to announce that Time
Attack legend driver, Tarzan Yamada will be attending Round 3 of the
Time Attack Series at Silverstone, June 1st ( hosted at the JTS Show ). He is famed for his Time Attack technique and ability to extract every ounce of performance and time from each of the cars he has previously driven... [More] |
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Official forum up and running - all welcome!
That's right thanks to a little (huge) help from our friends at bigpower.co.uk the official Time Attack forum is now up and running, chose the forum open from your right hand menu!
Drivers in car footage starts rolling in from Round 1
Slowly but surely the drivers from this weekends first round are firing their in car footage onto the world wide web!
Heres whats live so far:-
Don Watt Car #58 - Video 1 / Video 2
Ben Weeks Car #33 - Video 1
Steve Hawkes aka YAK Car #101 - Video 1 / Video 2 / Video 3
Dave Ellen Car #16 - Video 1 / Video 2 / Video 3 / Video 4
Sam Kerr - Car #3 Video 1
Alan Tolley Car #53 Video 1
Kev Horsley Car #2 Video 1
Autoergonomics car arrives from Greece for Rd 1.
 Nicknamed' The Shadow' will Harington be able to tame it and its T04Z turbo!?! |
 The eagerly awaited pro car, Auto Ergonomics Evo arrived from Greece to compete in the 2008 series this week. Will it be a lethal weapon in the hands of Guy Harrington? Lets wait and see.. |
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Zen Performance to handle Team Orange contract
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earlier this week saw Zen Performance, Time Attack 07 Pro Winners being
awarded the contract to maintain the high profile Japanese Drift Team,
Team Orange [More] More info on the Drifters [HERE]
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Japanese Performance Magazine on board
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Japanese performance magazine have announced they are on board again for 2008 to cover the Time Attack series.. Welcome back! |
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Banzai join Time Attack as Media Partners for 08.
| We would like to welcome Banzai Magazine as a Media Partner for 2008. |
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Download 2008 Flyers
Help to generate interest within your club, workplace, shop or forum by downloading, printing and spreading the word with the 2008 Time Attack Flyers..
[Round 2] - [Round 3] - [Round 4] - [Round 5] - [Round 6]
Japanese Press tell all on UK cars from Dec 07
Download the Japanese mag articles from the trip to Tsukuba in 2007 :-
350Z Article from 'Z' magazine - [Download]
RC Evo 6 Article from 'Evo' magazine - [Download]
More coming soon..
ZEN Performance 08 car - Naughty spyshots! Shhhhh
We have been able to pinch a few spy-shots of work in progress on the ZEN car for this season (click to download) [Pic1] [Pic2] [Pic3], more information can be found by scanning the Zen website www.zenperformance.co.uk.
Samco Sport show support for Time Attack teams
Samco Sport today issued a release to the Time Attack & EDC teams about the limited Edition run on hose kits for Japanese & European cars [MORE]
JAE - The Ultimate Japanese Car club Event is on!!
We had word from the organisers that JAE will take place 29th-31st August 2008 at the new home on Mersea Island, Essex.
The new location should bring the JAE crowd back to together again and revive what JAE was originally all about , [MORE INFO]
21.02.08 - New driver for Auto Ergonomics Pro car
Auto
Ergonomics, the Greek pro class entrants announced today their driver
for the 2008 series will be none other than GT driver
Guy
Harrington.
Guy visited the team in Greece earlier in the month and checked over the new car nicknamed "The Shadow" and was reported to be very excited at the prospect of taking part in the Time Attack Series behind the wheel of the Auto Ergo Evo this year. (picture - Guy - John - Spiros - Mikis )
20.02.08 - Zen car for 08?
The shell for the 2008 zen car has been fully prepped and has gone off to the body shop to have its wide arched, carbon/kevlar WRC panels fitted.
Rumour has it the colour has been chosen and it wont be ZEN blue. The spec will have a few surprising twists - more on those in March.
More info on the Zen Website
19.02.08 - UK Teams at Tsukuba You Tube
10.02.08 - FACEBOOK - Hang with the teams and drivers
There is now a dedicated Facebook Time Attack Area where you can hang out with the teams and drivers, join in the banter and have a good time..
Join now - www.facebook.com and search under the group listings for 'Time Attack'
Our admin team will have to approve you as soon as they can.
