R.i.p.s Street Drag-r Scores 2nd In Pro Class At Totb In The Uk

[R.I.P.S NZ]

What a trip!!! Had a fantastic time.

The owner of the Blue R34 GTR (Drag-r) invited me to come and have a drive at this years event after he won his class last year on his first ever outing in it.

We went a week ahead so we could check over the car, go on the dyno and check the tune etc.

With no changes other than going to Q16 from C16, we made 1051whp at 1.9 bar no NOS and then ran out of fuel supply, it turns out the fuel pumps wern't rated to quite what we thought once running at the pressures we needed them at.

We did the best with what we had and headed off to TOTB the day before the meet to get through scrutineering etc, all passed no problem and we were entered in the street class.

Somehow on the day, the organisers decided I was a Pro driver (which obviously I am not) and they put me in the Pro Class against some very serious and expensive machines, there's money over there like you wouldn't believe and some teams had big artic trucks, massive crews and were extreemly well set up indeed, we didn't even have a ground mat, umbrella or a chair to our name, lol.

Race day turned out to be drizzly and the old runway surface at Elvington didn't look like it was ready to hand out good time slips unfortunatly, the general consensus was we'd be very lucky to run a 9, let alone beat our 9.7 time I did on my one and only run in NZ.

My first run of the day was a 9.97 @ 145 mph and boy was it slippery but a 9 was already in the bag!!

2nd run, much the same 9.94 @ 144mph then it started to dry out a little, by now I had the hang of the sequential shifter and was ready to do a standing km run.

They time the 1/4 mile and then you carry on to the 1km mark, 9.61 @ 144mph and on to 191mph on the km absolutly smoking the tyres.

It turns out they had prepped the 400 meters for the drags but not from then on so once I crossed the finish line of the 1/4 mile and got onto the hardly used part of the runway it started to wheelspin and smoke was pouring off the tyres all the way to the 1km mark, great fun spinning all 4 tyres at over 300kph but it had to have slowed us down a fair bit.

Here's a video of it:

After qualifying we were doing really well. Best time of the day was in the street class (Mega $$ Pro class subaru on dot tyres (same as us) but they let him stay in street) with a 9.44 @ 150mph and in the Pro class the best was a 9.5 @ around 150mph.

1st round of racing we netted a 9.47 @ 147mph and then went on to run a 9.46 @ 155mph winning both rounds, both on a reasonably dry track.

Had a buy in the semi final, it was really wet so decided to just do a 6th gear burnout the whole 1/4 mile, lol, here's the vid, turn up the sound:

The final was also wet and the other guy had wet weather tyres on so I decided to not even race, it was too dangerous and it wasn't my car, I let him go and just went out and had some fun doing skids up the track again.

So all in all a great day, got 2nd in the Pro Class and the following overall results out of around 200 entries:

Quickest 60ft overall with a 1.48

Quickest Pro Class 1/4 mile with 9.46

2nd Quickest overall 1/4 mile time, best time of the day Ole Clarkson's subaru 9.44

Fastest Pro Class 1/4 mile speed with 155mph (251.1kph)

Fastest overall 1/4 mile speed with 155mph (251.1kph)

Fastest overall top speed in the standing km with 191mph (309.42kph) damp track

Vehicle weight was also confirmed at the previous meeting at Santa pod as 1740kg so probably the heaviest car there too!!

I'd like to thank Jason from Infomotive, Link, Jeff Ludgate (car owner), Sparks, Robin and everyone else who helped or supported us.

Rob

[max1]

hi rob

its mark who came to gtart to help outan meet u guys

well done at totb mate car looked awesome in the vids let me know how the other gearbox setup works out for the arab car .

cheers

What a trip!!! Had a fantastic time.

The owner of the Blue R34 GTR (Drag-r) invited me to come and have a drive at this years event after he won his class last year on his first ever outing in it.

We went a week ahead so we could check over the car, go on the dyno and check the tune etc.

With no changes other than going to Q16 from C16, we made 1051whp at 1.9 bar no NOS and then ran out of fuel supply, it turns out the fuel pumps wern't rated to quite what we thought once running at the pressures we needed them at.

We did the best with what we had and headed off to TOTB the day before the meet to get through scrutineering etc, all passed no problem and we were entered in the street class.

Somehow on the day, the organisers decided I was a Pro driver (which obviously I am not) and they put me in the Pro Class against some very serious and expensive machines, there's money over there like you wouldn't believe and some teams had big artic trucks, massive crews and were extreemly well set up indeed, we didn't even have a ground mat, umbrella or a chair to our name, lol.

Race day turned out to be drizzly and the old runway surface at Elvington didn't look like it was ready to hand out good time slips unfortunatly, the general consensus was we'd be very lucky to run a 9, let alone beat our 9.7 time I did on my one and only run in NZ.

My first run of the day was a 9.97 @ 145 mph and boy was it slippery but a 9 was already in the bag!!

2nd run, much the same 9.94 @ 144mph then it started to dry out a little, by now I had the hang of the sequential shifter and was ready to do a standing km run.

They time the 1/4 mile and then you carry on to the 1km mark, 9.61 @ 144mph and on to 191mph on the km absolutly smoking the tyres.

It turns out they had prepped the 400 meters for the drags but not from then on so once I crossed the finish line of the 1/4 mile and got onto the hardly used part of the runway it started to wheelspin and smoke was pouring off the tyres all the way to the 1km mark, great fun spinning all 4 tyres at over 300kph but it had to have slowed us down a fair bit.

Here's a video of it:

After qualifying we were doing really well. Best time of the day was in the street class (Mega $$ Pro class subaru on dot tyres (same as us) but they let him stay in street) with a 9.44 @ 150mph and in the Pro class the best was a 9.5 @ around 150mph.

1st round of racing we netted a 9.47 @ 147mph and then went on to run a 9.46 @ 155mph winning both rounds, both on a reasonably dry track.

Had a buy in the semi final, it was really wet so decided to just do a 6th gear burnout the whole 1/4 mile, lol, here's the vid, turn up the sound:

The final was also wet and the other guy had wet weather tyres on so I decided to not even race, it was too dangerous and it wasn't my car, I let him go and just went out and had some fun doing skids up the track again.

So all in all a great day, got 2nd in the Pro Class and the following overall results out of around 200 entries:

Quickest 60ft overall with a 1.48

Quickest Pro Class 1/4 mile with 9.46

2nd Quickest overall 1/4 mile time, best time of the day Ole Clarkson's subaru 9.44

Fastest Pro Class 1/4 mile speed with 155mph (251.1kph)

Fastest overall 1/4 mile speed with 155mph (251.1kph)

Fastest overall top speed in the standing km with 191mph (309.42kph) damp track

Vehicle weight was also confirmed at the previous meeting at Santa pod as 1740kg so probably the heaviest car there too!!

I'd like to thank Jason from Infomotive, Link, Jeff Ludgate (car owner), Sparks, Robin and everyone else who helped or supported us.

Rob

[2rismo]

Great job rob. Pro driver hey?

[95GTR600]

Congrats Rob......very impressive 155mph ............. do you race the car with 1051whp or less ?

[spizr1]

hey rob what gearbox is it using?

[J'z-R33]

Its running an OS88 sequential.

It snapped the PPG shaft in 4 hours.. heaps of info on the build on gtr.co.uk

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/94399-announcin...-drag-r-26.html

[dano4127]

Well done Rob!

[R.I.P.S NZ]

Congrats Rob......very impressive 155mph ............. do you race the car with 1051whp or less ?

It made 1051whp at 1.9 bar but we ran out of fuel supply so we backed the boost off a little and gave at a 75hp shot of NOS which probably gave us a little over 1051whp.

The trusty slide rule says we needed 1100whp to run 155mph in 1740kg so it was probably around there with the nos I spose.

Rob