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Fiat Coupe on Motors TV
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25/05/2011 16:34
25/05/2011 16:34
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sparco
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Well the Scottish Saloons tv coverage is on again for round 3 and 4 from Knockhill. A pretty eventful race 1 for me so it should be a good watch. 7:00pm Thursday 26th
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25/05/2011 16:37
25/05/2011 16:37
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Nobby
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Superb. I'll be watching.
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25/05/2011 22:36
25/05/2011 22:36
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What channel????
Sky plus will catch this if I miss it!!!
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25/05/2011 22:43
25/05/2011 22:43
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25/05/2011 22:50
25/05/2011 22:50
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Re: Fiat Coupe on Motors TV
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25/05/2011 22:57
25/05/2011 22:57
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Re: Fiat Coupe on Motors TV
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26/05/2011 00:02
26/05/2011 00:02
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Matty
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Nice one Marco, hope to sign up to SMRC soon due to persuasion from Garry and Tracey Muir!
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#1219623
26/05/2011 09:32
26/05/2011 09:32
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Nooo I left the house this morning and forgot to record this! Bummer! Hopefully it'll be repeated some time?!
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26/05/2011 10:00
26/05/2011 10:00
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Nooo I left the house this morning and forgot to record this! Bummer! Hopefully it'll be repeated some time?! have you got an iphone?? all i know is you will want to record this!! Sparco is a loon on tracl and worth wathcing even min of this!!!
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#1219692
26/05/2011 11:27
26/05/2011 11:27
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don't blame me for you being a cabbage, paesano
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26/05/2011 16:24
26/05/2011 16:24
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26/05/2011 22:17
26/05/2011 22:17
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Marco20valveT
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FFS.
Sky plus FAILED to record.
It repeats at 2:30am. Great. Late on for me...
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26/05/2011 22:35
26/05/2011 22:35
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very good race and what a battle with the ecort cosworth in front.
still dont understand your finishing position
LE53 (452BHp & 389ftlb's with Quaife) Wine red VIS FOOFY Audi RS4 B7
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#1220254
27/05/2011 00:28
27/05/2011 00:28
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Nobby
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Just watched it. What happened in the first race? One minute you were 3rd and then said you finished 5th?
Thought the commentator was a bit off. He said that you were in the class above with more power, slick tyres and less experience..... I don't see how you can be at that much of an advantage with a less powered fiat coupe (as compared to an escort cosworth) which has very little pedigree. It was quite clear that you were faster in many of the corners but just lacked a little more power to get past him.
Do you have any idea what the spec of the yellow SEAT is running?
Great stuff again. Do let us know when your on again.
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#1220295
27/05/2011 08:26
27/05/2011 08:26
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Jonny
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Yep, great stuff I too was confused with the 3rd place to 5th
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28/05/2011 02:08
28/05/2011 02:08
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good racing Marco. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the races, looked like you caught some air round one of the bends off a curb and the cossy got a bit out of shape, cant believe the commentator never even mentioned it. Are all the races going to be televised?
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28/05/2011 08:27
28/05/2011 08:27
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Yes all the races are televised, that was the second meeting. I was much faster than the escort but fortunately for himhe has 600bhp and 4wd which was just giving him the edge on the strights and out of the hairpin. You seen on the coverage that he was struggling with grip well he had another moment and i tried to go round the outside of him but ended up at the next corner running into the back of him and the yellow seat and a caterfield got by. To be honest i was a bit disappointed with the coverage of the first race as our battle could have taken up the whole programme.
The yellow seat has supposed to only have 300bhp but it a 4 pot turbo with a dsg gearbox and is a full Seat cup car with full aero package etc etc. It's very quick and always gets quicker as the race progresses.
My car is still not quite there but it's not far away from the optimum i reckon. New gearbox is nearly ready so i hope to have that in for the next race.
Thanks for the comments guys, it's like that at the circuit and even the alfa boys from the classics have been over singing my praises which is very nice.
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28/05/2011 08:32
28/05/2011 08:32
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sparco
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Here is Andrew Morrisons link to the Seat. Nice to own such a huge car dealership i reckon. http://www.morrisons-garage.co.uk/history.htmlIf you look at my other post all the video's are from other cars in the first two race meetings and there is one from a spectator whic is really good.
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28/05/2011 09:32
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I've just managed to watch the races, fantastic racing Marco. Your car looks great.
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31/05/2011 16:53
31/05/2011 16:53
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Have to say that is a very pleasing photograph with so many other cars behind. Long may it continue.
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31/05/2011 17:52
31/05/2011 17:52
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Don't have Sky and my parents don't seem to have it as part of their package anymore!
Is there anywhere online to watch it?
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#1222084
31/05/2011 20:50
31/05/2011 20:50
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Dont have motors tv but watched the youtube from within the EVO which you minced the X I think. Im on holiday for the next race so will have to be the one later in the year to come and watch.
keep up the good work Marco.
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#1222296
01/06/2011 11:04
01/06/2011 11:04
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We watched the race last night, good stuff Marco, really good to see a Coupe on TV, even better to see it race competatively. Rather an enthusiastic start in race one, it was funny seeing the skid marks on the track at the restart. haha
I too also thought the commentator was a bit harsh not mentioning the power difference and the fact the Coop is 2wd, not only that but fwd! It's a strange mix of cars, I see that my Seven is eligable for class C, if only it wasn't so far away.
Will look forward to seeing more races later in the season.
Cheers, Dave
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#1222423
01/06/2011 16:27
01/06/2011 16:27
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sparco
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Thanks Guys
Nigel the front i think is still soft and i might increase it. The back springs were definately too soft and i have just bought a pair of 750 lbs progressive springs so we'll try that. The splitter was on it's last legs and i was pulled up for having the front too low. That bumper is my original and has had a hard life. That will be sorted now for the next race. Its quite difficult getting a compromise on suspension set-up and by only changing the springs on the front between the first and second race meetings i went 0.7 seconds faster so it can be deceiving. The coupe as you know Nigel is not inherantly the best handling car in the world and i am hussling it pretty hard in order to keep up with these other guys. I'll just keep changing one thing at a time otherwise i'll never know what is actually making it better.
I should have my new gearbox by the next meeting so the ratios in that will suit Knockhill a lot better and i might see some gains there too.
At the end of the day i really enjoy driving my car on the limit and i get enormous satisfaction being able to keep up with cars that have huge amounts more race pedigree.
What people doon't realise is that the guy in the Cosworth was actually in class A1 running on slicks last year and actually won a race ooutright so him changing to class B running road list 1B tyres is the only difference. I'll get him next time i promise.
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01/06/2011 16:42
01/06/2011 16:42
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I've completely missed this thread until now - does anyone know if I can watch this online, or perhaps download it from somewhere?
What was the complete name of the program?
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