first day of racing went badly wrong today (crash!) ** video now uploaded**

[the youth]

Today was my first race of the season in the northern saloons with my xr4x4 now with cossie power.

well to say that every thing that could go wrong did!!

day started with my getting up early and to get to croft about 20 mins from my house, got there ok and when taking the car off the trailer something didn't seem right with the car..

later I started it up to take it to scruitineering only to find it running on 3!!

after scruitineering I tried to find the fault and discovered no 2 plug was dead changed it and all was well

Into qualifying the car had an on boost missfire so struggled to get it too boost and on my 3rd lap someone dropped oil all around the track resulting in half the field going off I went sideways on the oil behind a caterham who also went off but he hit the tyre wall. Then a Metro 6R4 dropped it's coolent!!!

Ended up towards the back of the field for the race after having no confidence to push the car on the ice rink!! the guys at the front got there laps in before the ice ring was formed!

Fixed the missfire for the race with smaller plug gaps (25thou) and made a great start passing several cars on the first lap the car was flying!!! onto lap 2 and I was in a small bunch of cars when as I braked for tower and the car snaped sideways (on what looks like the oil from earlier looking at the video) I spun sideways into my m8 in his civic

I spun and somehow kept it off the barriers, petes civic lost half a wheel

we both coasted back to the pits where I found a dented wing, 2 doors bent bottom suspension arm and a smashed wheel



Stay with me it gets worse!!!!

I then borrowed my wifes mondeo TDCI to go and get some spare suspension arms from my unit when a few miles down the road a conrod exited the block!!!!

Rang the wife back at the circuit to give her the good news!! A call to the AA got me home



nighmare day, but both race cars will all been well be out tommorow

the wife on the other hand is walking to work

Just uploading the video of the crash now will post it asap

edit
here are the videos
my car and the civic

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZMmI5J12A"]YouTube - NSSCC 2011 croft round 1 crash.wmv[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYtHWHknqA&feature=player_profilepage"]YouTube - NSSCC Round 1 23/4/11 - Honda Civic[/ame]

steve

[ronnie amis]

Not good mate. If theirs any parts you need I've got a few boxes of 4x4 odds and sods

[Davecos 4x4]

sorry to hear Steve.

[Loader]

Ffs you couldn't make it up , could you.
Sorry to hear

[sixaxles]

well with any luck that'll be all the shit for the rest of the season in the same day - terrible day there mate, chin up.

[Paul Cos]

Not a good day. Hope all goes well tomorrow.

[COZZFATHER]

if the mondeo was only tootling when it stuck a leg out the bed i'd be sick as a parrot at that debacle Steve,fair do's if you were pulling 6 grand in a emergency rush for bits to save yer days racing though oh yeh door handling yer mate must be a choker too lol

[the youth]

Was just crusing in traffic in the mondy, it's not been well for a while, blue smoke on start up rough running etc, but why it did this I don't know, the AA man said he pick up loads that have had an injector stick open then hydrauliced the engine causing the same leg out of bed..

It's getting sold as is can't be arsed sourcing an engine!

steve

[Davecos 4x4]

is that oil on the left of the track Steve?

atleast you saved the ar hitting the armco.

the mondy tdci's are nothing but trouble , i sold the jag diesel a while back due toa few problems,one of them injector problems.

[the youth]

yes dave that is oil on the track more certain than ever now that the oil was a big factor!

The AA man thinks an injector went wide open and caused the engine blow up
He picked an s max up the day before with the same problem!

steve

[Davecos 4x4]

atleast its not too bad them,well for the sierra.

shame about the mondeo but there's plenty about to get another one....seeing as you like them lol.

[the youth]

not getting another mondeo dave, she wants a focus TDCI she seems to think them engines are "different" !!

going back to croft early this afternoon to fit some spare std arms so should be in the race this afternoon (4.45)

steve

[Bergcup435]

steve

Hi Steve,


luckily not too much damage, thats a weak point on the tca, i bent one exactly the same once, the steel cracked and then at the next turn snapped in half. in your case it didn't snap or the tripod would have been completely damaged.
I have some spare parts for the tca's i'll send them over to you. (to keep in your tool box)

stick in and good luck for the next race. keep the videos coming.

Kenny

[the youth]

Cheers kenny, your a star.
your clutch is mint btw


steve

[FletchCossie]

What a shit day for you Steve hope today goes better