Fiat Coupe on Motors TV

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

Superb. I'll be watching.

Can't wait.

Motors TV is favorite channel.

What channel????

Sky plus will catch this if I miss it!!!

Motors TV

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Why can't you be like mr tickle!!!

Set for record

Nice one Marco, hope to sign up to SMRC soon due to persuasion from Garry and Tracey Muir!

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!!!

don't blame me for you being a cabbage, paesano

LMFAO!!!

FFS.

Sky plus FAILED to record.

It repeats at 2:30am.
Great.
Late on for me...

very good race and what a battle with the ecort cosworth in front.

still dont understand your finishing position

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.

Yep, great stuff I too was confused with the 3rd place to 5th

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?

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.

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.html

If 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.

I've just managed to watch the races, fantastic racing Marco. Your car looks great.

I haven't had a chance to watch this yet.

My engine should be ready this coming weekend just in time for Cadwell park. Hoping for 20bhp more (10+% increase).

I think our next race at Knockhill is the Speedfair so I doubt I'll see you there, Marco, but all things equal I'll pop over and say hello the next time we are both racing.

Our coverage is on the same Motors TV show so there's a bit of a bonus. Much bigger grids in the Classics and should be 5 Alfas running next time it's covered.

Missed it

Looks good though

Have to say that is a very pleasing photograph with so many other cars behind. Long may it continue.

Well done Marco - very impressive drive against (theoretically) more capable machinery - holding your own against a 600bhp Escort Cosworth is mighty impressive

I was watching the way your car rode the bumps, especially coming into the hairpin while hard on the brakes - it looks like it was set up far to hard at the front (either spring rate or damping - can't tell which) - the front was bobbing like an old 911

It was far less pronounced in the second race though - I'd say you either firmed up the rear or backed off the front

I also noticed the front splitter was a bit skewed - it was touching the ground (a lot) but only on one side - is it the car that's leaning or just the bumper that's a bit lop-sided?

For me though, the highlight must be the two black lines you laid down at the start of the first race - ever considered traction control?....

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

Motors Tv run it on more than one day Suba if you check the Scottish saloons and classics on their tv scheduling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6K_9ZGT-U0

@ 16 seconds a flash of Sparco lol, probably find a bettter link than me via the title info... Im off to work!

watched this last night via sky+ ....brilliant stuff Marco, shame you're not coming to Spa, i would have stayed sober enough to have risked a ride this time

Just watched this now, good work Marco, you didn't half hussle those Cosworth's, although I noticed your bonnet was bouncing a bit in the 2nd round

Ah due to running into the back of the white one i the first race in the second last corner which is why i was 3rd most of the way then clasified as 5th. Did a fair bit of damage really, smashed the corner of the bonnet, broke the aero catch, broke the bumper, the exhaust mounting broke which meant the exhaust bounced around over the gravel and grass and actually straightened itself and was point out the back of the car and not out the side, cracked the manifold (again!)and cracked the windscreen. Bloody Fords!! In the second race i was down on power as the exhaust was split and the manifold and the tyres were well and truly knackered.

wow you battered your coupe Marco...

but if i remember correclty that was a 600bhp escort cossie...

you where owning his arse on track!

hope you fix it and get it back on track soon!

Marco don't say that i own his arse out loud people will get the wrong idea!LOL

Listen that's racing and it's mostly fixed now. Just waiting on my new super dooper Pro Alloy radiator with a few mods coming so that will be more shiney stuff. All the bodywork is now repaired and looking as new. She's a tough old bird my coupe you know.

Just make sure they put a bleed point and get the mounting points correct on yours, as they didn't with mine, even though they had a radiator to copy!

Sorry Marco



yer, i can tell your coupe is living proof that you can give them some stick and it will be ok!!

looking forward to seeing the new bits!

its a dam shame your so far up North... other wise i would come to watch!!!

you sure your not going to return to time attack??