Congratulations - Scoobyclinic take ScoobySprint Driver's & Constructor's titles
24 September 2009, 03:58 AM
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Well done lads, looks like all the hard work paid off even without FAT BOY 
A testiment to Marks engine building skills 
just sorry i was not part of it for last rounds 
TOP JOB!!!!! hope next year is just as successful for you all
A testiment to Marks engine building skills just sorry i was not part of it for last rounds TOP JOB!!!!! hope next year is just as successful for you all
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24 September 2009, 10:41 AM
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Against all odds!
Thanks for the kind words folks but it nearly did not happen for us!
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
Last edited by specialx; 24 September 2009 at 11:20 AM.
24 September 2009, 11:55 AM
#34
Track Day Organiser
Thanks for the kind words folks but it nearly did not happen for us!
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
Makes the result even more impressive
25 September 2009, 06:11 PM
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Thanks for the kind words folks but it nearly did not happen for us!
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
Here is a behind the sences write up of the final mad hours before the event!
Well after our victory at the weekend winning the scoobysprint championship and then going onto win the Scooby shootout on the same day, we just had to tell you what went into us actually getting there or should we say what tried to stop us!
You could not make this stuff up if you tried!!
With five cars to prepare we knew we had it all to do ready for Sundays race meet, one of the cars still being run in on Friday night !
Saturday morning came upon us far to quickly!! We set about getting all the cars ready, geometry set ups to change, levels to check and maps to tweak before we could load the cars up ready for the 2+ hour trip up to Elvington.
This is where the fun started!
Problem 1:
We got four cars lined up ready for the dyno, final adjustments to do then sign them off, for the first time in nearly 5 years our dyno decided to grind to a halt on the first run !! four of our technicians quickly set about stripping down the rolling road to see what had broken! After 2 hours and various expletives the failed chain drive was repaired on site and ready to roll!
We quickly carried on with the mapping sessions with daylight rapidly leaving us hoping that our dyno failure was going to be our only hic up!
We were not that lucky!!
Problem 2
We then get a call from our pro driver Andy Harvey to say his M3 on track, he has ejected a piston from his block and the car is stranded............At the Nuremberg ring!!!
OH S**T!! We cry! (Andy said he could hear us from Nuremberg!)
With just over 12 hours till kick off our Driver is stranded in Germany!
By this time as you can imagine we were a little stressed, we were behind on time due to the dyno breaking and our pro driver was stuck in another country!
The day couldn't get any worse.......or could it?
Problem 3 (They always come in 3's)
We then call our delivery driver to see what time he is due to pick up 2 of the race cars we get no response! We call him time and time again with no joy, even getting in touch with his associates only to find he has gone AWOL! AAARGH!! (again)
Still not admitting defeat we decide to call our main recovery man who tells us he's just getting his suit on to go out for his 37th wedding anniversary! We knew it was his anniversary so we didnt bother him, until now
Bless him, He says “ My truck is locked away in a mates garage, I will try to get hold of him and get it out, if I can I will delay the anniversary meal and be up to you a.s.a.p ”
At 9 pm the last car rolls off the dyno and our superstar recovery man “Dangerous Dave” arrives to load up the cars with his best suit on ready for his anniversary meal.
Something is going our way at last!
We then get a call from our Driver Andy Harvey who tells us he is en route!
He has hired a car in Germany driven like a man possessed and is on the next ferry back to the UK! He arrived back in the UK at 4am, hires another car for the drive back up from the docks and gets to Scoobyclinic at 7;30am where he swaps his boring (go to sleep model) hire car for something a bit more fruity, a nice 400bhp RX7 that should keep him awake for the drive up to Elvington!!
Andy then hot foots it up to Elvington where he arrives with just enough time to grab 40 winks before Team Scoobyclinic rolls through the gates and the days racing begins!!
The rest as they say is history!
Great day and a great event thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has ever helped Team scoobyclinic!
Ads & The Scoobyclinic crew
25 September 2009, 06:29 PM
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BTW brilliant result worth all the hard work and I will be intouch in the next couple of weeks I have a cunning plan for next year championship.
25 September 2009, 06:31 PM
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He did indeed! Not to mention my car getting a puncture the night before, we were up at Scoobyclinic before 8am fitting a part worn, flat spotted tyre, what made it worse was we couldn't balance it either! Made for a vibrant drive up there and back
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