I do enjoy racing on the tricky little circuit at Taupo. This was a 2-day event run by the TACCOC group, and the weather stayed dry.

I was racing with a group of F2 sports-racing cars and clubmans cars.

We continued to improve our lap times on the Saturday, finishing in the top 3.

On Sunday morning, my son David, engineer for the day, decided to make some fuel mixture changes, with the result of an instant drop in lap times. In the first race I managed to get to the lead on the second lap, then opening a gap and winning the race. YAHOO!

In the last race while near the front, I suffered an attack of concentration fade and spun into the gravel trap at the end of the main straight, I missed a down-change. BUGGAR!
I managed to get back on the circuit after loosing a lap or 2 finishing well down. Our best lap time was set in this race however, at 40.9 seconds.

Overall, a good weekend. I think we gave those F2 sports racing guys a bit of a surprise. Not bad for a road-car. RAPT!

We received our new rims & rubber at last, 13x10 Front & 13x12 Rear with Formula Holden slicks.

Competed at Taupo circuit, a very short curcuit, average 39 to 45 sec lap times. Easter meeting 14-Apr-01 in Formula Libre class, a mixture of various single seaters & 2L F2 sports racing cars.

First lap, fell into the first corner cold tyres trap and had a spin (most embarissing, should have known better). A most enjoyable meeting, placings were 2x 4th and a 5th including spin, our best time was 42.6s.

We ran the sprint at Manfeild again on 28-Apr-01 at an Inter-Marque sprint meeting. Car went very well and acheived a best lap time of 1m 15.03s. Fastest time of the day, the next best car time, a 944 Porsche Turbo was 1m 19.07s

We now feel that a power increase from the standard RS Legacy would be worthwhile, perhaps a change of turbo.

Will update on this development later.

We have had our first outing at Manfeild with the Sprint and are very pleased with the results. Fourth fastest out of 23 entries in the class, 1m17.67 sec a lap. The correct wheels and tyres were not available at the time so we had to make do with what we had. The car ran faultlessly all weekend and did not even require any fluid top-ups other than fuel.

At this stage we haven't made any suspension adjustments, not even shocks and bars, as the car felt good and the driver,(myself), hadn't driven competitively for some years and was a bit rusty.

We will be competing again at the MG Charity Classic meeting at Manfeild on March 4th 2001. I'm really looking forward to that meeting.

We expect to be doing more serious testing after that when the correct rims and rubber arrives.