Tel's Tales Issue 069 Three Sisters 30 July 2016
Entry posted by Terry Everall
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TEL's TALE's 069/16
Three Sisters 30th July 2016
This was the second visit to the Three Sisters track near Wigan and used course number 2 again. A total of 9 Speed Series guys were entered and the weather forecast was good and indeed it stayed dry all day. I was on holiday in the south of France and did not leave Nimes airport until 1030hrs Friday and in less than 24 hrs, by 0715hrs Saturday, I was in the paddock and ready to rumble. It was good to see Graham Frankland taravelling north and seeing what the track was like but he nearly did not make it as he almost forgot his passport. Scrutineering passed ok but there was talk of all seat belts needing to be in date next year and the use of Logbooks. Dave Cleaver and Andy Hargreaves both had their road legal cars cars logbooked. There was a reasonable sized entry and at the driver's briefing we were promised as many runs as they could fit in subject to the weather and cars staying on the black stuff…......
P1 started prompt at 1000hrs and we all found the track lacked grip even though it was quite warm. P2 showed that matt Turner and Dave Cleaver were quickly on the pace and showing how its done. Mick Skidmore was initially going well (after fitting a new clutch as it failed at Blyton) but started to get a missfire and found that he only had about 11.5v at the battery. Eventually the penny dropped when found the alternators wires not connected up following taking his engine out to do the clutch..whoops. T1 and T2 took place before lunch with Steve Everall and Graham Frankland setting their best times of the day in T1. Steve was 2.5secs (5percent) off his previous best and blamed it on the ZZS tyres. Maurici Revilla was really trying hard but in T2 he had a big off at Lunar bend and although he was only shaken up a bit his car needed repairs to chassis, bodywork and suspension so that ended his day but his first run would score him good points. Mick Skidmore was still having missfire problems which we could not diagnose as it was dependent on throtte position. I suspected the throttle pot we we did not have a laptop and software to check it and on the last run the car cut out completely. Mark Anson was still struggling a bit to get a good time out of the OMS but at least his J2 target time was easy compared to the other classes. Andy Hargeraves and Dave Cleaver posted good times whilst Matt Turner was driving really well and out to beat me this time. I was struggling with a frozen shoulder, jet lag, a painful right knee, old slick tyres (18 events) and a trickshifter that decided not to work....apart from that I was not going quick enough despite trying a few suspension set up changes.
After lunch we had another 5 runs making 2 practice and 7 timed runs in all and we still finished at 1630hrs...brilliant. For me the star of the day was Matt who posted all of his 7 timed runs between 44.48secs and 44.99secs for consistent on the limit driving leaving me to pick up the second place trophy whilst he took first.
Best times were
Steve Everall class B2 51.10secs
Graham Frankland class C 51.95secs
Andy Hargreaves class E 48.45secs
Michael Skidmore class F 52.21secs
Dave Cleaver class F 45.71secs
Matt Turner class G 44.48secs
Terry Everall class G 45.62secs
Mark Anson class J2 46.10secs
Maurici Revilla class B1 49.53secs
Terry Everall
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