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Title: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 09:18:11 pm
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Me...  :pomppomp: :pomppomp: :pomppomp:  :signLOL:

Had a trip down to Sliverstone today to Trax with my mate in his R26 and in turn bumped into the usual suspects (Nath, Steve P and Theo, well his car anyway  :signLOL: ).  
So whilst there (during the morning) and totally against my character I know, I decided to have a quick go on the 0-60 sprint and did 2 runs, 1st in the dry (5.15), 2nd got ruined by a brief shower whilst in queue (5.51).  Anyway, turns out that during the remainder of the day none of the other FWD runners managed to pip the Ed30  :booty: and to my suprise I ended winning the class  :surprised:  :star:  :signLOL: Which after seeing some of the machinery there was a bit of a shock TBH..  :confused:
But it didn't end there, as well as my little trophy I also got presented with one of these bad boys...  :surprised:

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http://www.vi-performance.com/homepage.aspx

So all in all not a bad day for a £7 0-60 run  :laugh:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: JGM.30ED on September 05, 2010, 09:27:16 pm
 :signLOL: :happy2: :drinking:yous the man dude well done  :congrats:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: keano on September 05, 2010, 09:27:53 pm
Nice time. Well done  :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: dan.payne on September 05, 2010, 09:30:28 pm
Nice 1 :congrats:
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Post by: SteveP on September 05, 2010, 09:31:38 pm
Congrats Ben  :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: golfman on September 05, 2010, 09:34:16 pm
Very nice well done  :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:

scott :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: dmac1969 on September 05, 2010, 09:35:40 pm
Class! Well done!  :notworthy:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Hedge on September 05, 2010, 09:37:12 pm
Nice one Ben.  :happy2: :congrats:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Greeners on September 05, 2010, 09:43:32 pm
Ha ha knew I should of had a go!!  :wink:

Nice one Ben you old speed demon!  :evilgrin:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: john_o on September 05, 2010, 09:52:07 pm
the magic's still there eh Ben  :congrats:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 09:56:09 pm
Ha ha knew I should of had a go!!  :wink:

Nice one Ben you old speed demon!  :evilgrin:

Purely on the track I might add  :wink: Did you end up snabbing anybody in the end for touching the vinyl?  :signLOL:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: stealthwolf on September 05, 2010, 09:58:26 pm
 :congrats:

Congratulations mate. Let us know how that VI monitor is. Quite a few people were interested in buying one a while back but no one wanted to bite the bullet.
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: PDT on September 05, 2010, 09:59:36 pm
 :happy2: I like to think that the car being on my dyno is worth at least -2 seconds off a timed run :signLOL:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 10:08:51 pm
:happy2: I like to think that the car being on my dyno is worth at least -2 seconds off a dyno run :signLOL:

Oh most definately Dave..  :wink:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 10:10:18 pm
:congrats:

Congratulations mate. Let us know how that VI monitor is. Quite a few people were interested in buying one a while back but no one wanted to bite the bullet.
Cheers guys..
Anyone used one of these before? Trying to decide whether to keep it or sell it on to someone who would get a lot more use out of it.. Saying that, it does do dianostic checks / air intake temps etc... Mmmm
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: stealthwolf on September 05, 2010, 10:42:38 pm
Trying to decide whether to keep it or sell it on to someone who would get a lot more use out of it.
I honestly would say give it a good try out and then put a review in the review section before selling it. The only other monitor I'm aware of is RaceLogic which is what Hurdy had.
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Greeners on September 05, 2010, 10:46:28 pm
Ha ha knew I should of had a go!!  :wink:

Nice one Ben you old speed demon!  :evilgrin:

Purely on the track I might add  :wink: Did you end up snabbing anybody in the end for touching the vinyl?  :signLOL:

Oh yes of course!  :innocent:

No I couldn't as I had my daughter with me so I got my own security to watch it for me!  :laugh:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: wigit on September 05, 2010, 10:47:45 pm
congrats ben well deserved  :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 10:50:25 pm
Who was the chap in the white Rocco R, does anybody know? He was putting down some decent times to (5.8's) in a standard car AFAIK..  :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 05, 2010, 10:51:24 pm
Trying to decide whether to keep it or sell it on to someone who would get a lot more use out of it.
I honestly would say give it a good try out and then put a review in the review section before selling it. The only other monitor I'm aware of is RaceLogic which is what Hurdy had.
Think you may be right bud..  :wink:
Decent review of it here...




Looks like a decent bit of kit and right up my street....  :driver:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Greeners on September 05, 2010, 11:28:43 pm
Who was the chap in the white Rocco R, does anybody know? He was putting down some decent times to (5.8's) in a standard car AFAIK..  :happy2:

Thats Markymarks mate Mark!  :laugh:
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Post by: gobbleplease on September 05, 2010, 11:51:59 pm
Is that one gps logging or obd ?

Well done on the win, who says it doesn't pay to mod :smiley:
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Post by: Hurdy on September 06, 2010, 12:16:43 am
Yayyyyy, Go Ben :happy2:

I think you should have another medal for holding the VW banner high. :driver:

Any new Focus RS's there and having a go?
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Kiwi on September 06, 2010, 08:43:55 am

Just a quick question, is Bens car standard or remapped/tweaked??
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: markymark on September 06, 2010, 08:55:47 am
Who was the chap in the white Rocco R, does anybody know? He was putting down some decent times to (5.8's) in a standard car AFAIK..  :happy2:
Yeah thats my mates car, completely standard at the moment, 3 runs all the same time of 5.87 secs! I was the one sat in his passenger seat for most of the day! The engine seems to have loosened up very nicely now, its just clicked over 12k miles! :happy2:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: QD MBE on September 06, 2010, 08:57:16 am
Who was the chap in the white Rocco R, does anybody know? He was putting down some decent times to (5.8's) in a standard car AFAIK..  :happy2:

Thats Markymarks mate Mark!  :laugh:

Bellllloooooooow!
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 06, 2010, 10:12:35 am

Just a quick question, is Bens car standard or remapped/tweaked??

Tweaked..  :wink:

Yayyyyy, Go Ben :happy2:

I think you should have another medal for holding the VW banner high. :driver:

Any new Focus RS's there and having a go?

There was a few running to be fair John, but obviously couldn't cut it against the likes of ze German..  :grin:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: chungster on September 06, 2010, 10:16:42 am
i'd guess that u were the only car to have the advantage of an semi auto box with launch control  :wink:

so not quite a "fair" win but as Vin Diesel would say, winning's winning!  :happy2:

Would like to see how you'd do on in a manual car tho!!
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 06, 2010, 10:19:40 am
i'd guess that u were the only car to have the advantage of an semi auto box with launch control  :wink:

so not quite a "fair" win but as Vin Diesel would say, winning's winning!  :happy2:

Would like to see how you'd do on in a manual car tho!!

If someone is willing to lend me a manual Ed30 i'd be more than happy to have a go.. The changes obviously help a bit (although I can be pretty handy with a stick  :laugh:), but the launch control is no advantage whatsoever..  :sad1:
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: theo on September 06, 2010, 12:03:01 pm
Ha ha knew I should of had a go!!  :wink:

At the end of the day yesterday I was thinking exactly the same. Would have been interesting to see a comparison between the cars!

Well done on the result though! There were far too many Vauxhalls, Fords and the like there yesterday. There was a distinct lack of VW!
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on September 06, 2010, 12:44:14 pm
Quick vid of the run courtesy of my mates phone.. Not the best quality, but you get the idea..

Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: RedRobin on September 06, 2010, 05:59:06 pm
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Well done, Ben! You definitely deserve it after your 15 stretch. That cup looks huuuuge!

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Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Poverty on September 06, 2010, 06:08:58 pm
Ha ha knew I should of had a go!!  :wink:

At the end of the day yesterday I was thinking exactly the same. Would have been interesting to see a comparison between the cars!

Well done on the result though! There were far too many Vauxhalls, Fords and the like there yesterday. There was a distinct lack of VW!

same weekend as edition 38 thats why!

congrats ben you should keep the box!
Title: Re: And the winner is.....
Post by: Gtikenny on September 06, 2010, 09:06:39 pm
nice 1  :congrats: :congrats:
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Post by: jhtrophy on September 07, 2010, 05:12:34 pm
result!!! looks a good piece of kit that mate :happy2: