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Insanity Too
AWDC (All Wheel Drive Club) 2023 season
AWDC 2023 Round 1
(The first of the 2023 season)
Walters Arena, South Wales
A new season racing with AWDC.
After a nervous start on run one, being the second car off the line for the day. We felt we had made a good start even with a sticky throttle cable for the second half of the lap. Run two was uneventful and the confidence started to increase.
Run three and we where really starting to enjoy the really good challenging course, it was starting to dry out and the water splashes where getting decidedly more "Gloopy" with the mud sticking to the screen and getting harder to clear, however, on the final corner of the lap and going into the finish strait the driver goes to select 3rd... Nothing there, OK just missed the gear, try again, still nothing there back into second and it instantly becomes apparent something is very wrong. Limping across the finish line it is very apparent the gearbox has spit all its teeth out. so the car is back on the trailer and we are spectators for the rest of the day. Very disappointing as it was a good and exciting course.
AWDC 2023 Round 2
Clouds Hill, Bovington
A venue we enjoy, it is however very tough on the car, specifically on the brakes. The course laid out had a bit of everything including two stretches of wide concrete road that where very fast, there where also long gravel straits, tight twisty woodland and the Roller coaster undulations that this site has a reputation for. the surfaces where a mix of soft wet sand, hard dry dusty tracks and large "puddles".
We started this round with an untested replacement gearbox, so the main target was to finish the event. We where changing the rear brake pads every other run, but that was the only work we had to do the the car during the day. Run 1 proved to be more exciting that necessary as the newly fitted wiper blades did not clear the screen properly making visibility for the driver very difficult. Generally a very good fun and exciting day with good results.
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AWDC 2023 Round 3
Ebbw Vale, South Wales
A really hot sunny weekend in south wales, fantastic course, Fast technical and a lot of fun. We where not especially fast here amongst other thins we had a couple of laps with some unexplained issues where the engine decided to rev to full throttle for no apparent reason, and went into one lap with the engine running very hot so we took it steady.
AWDC 2023 Round 4
Minehead, Devon
Another hot sunny weekend for the Minehead event and again a fantastic course, technical, tight and twisty and a lot of fun. A relatively uneventful day for us, unlike many others meant we came away First in class and tenth overall.
AWDC 2023 Round 5
Walters Arena< South Wales
A very large field of cars made for a busy day. The weather for the morning was very good with the course drying out and evolving during the day, however a thunderstorm in the early afternoon changed things dramatically. Dry tracks turning into rivers of water. We ended up 2oth over all, but Had really enjoyable day on a very good technical and challenging course.
