Rebuilding before season

The craft was completely stripped down and checked over- as its the first hull from this mould i knew there would be some bits that needed reinforcement. The glass (most people use aluminium) angle around the edge and core foam i used in this hull was damaged in a number of places where there had been racing bumps (and the occasional fence or tractor Rob…). It was a pain repairing all of these bits after only the equivalent of half a seasons racing so these will be done differently next time. In fact pretty much everything will be different next time but more of that later…

It even got cleaned!

Changes from last season will be a flowed and rebuilt engine to give a bit more power (and a ‘drop in’ spare for when that explodes), flow straighteners to give more stability in cornering and maybe more thrust and also various bits and bobs have been done to improve the strength and reliability of the craft.

All the engines i had (about 2 and a half) had either exploded or were knackered so when they were rebuilt they were done properly,on a student budget ‘properly’ means ‘expensively’ however a lot of people helped out. The cranks were done, Mitaka racing pistons have been used (supplied at a great price by P Seager engineering) and an engine has been flowed and ported by Cambridge Motorcycles…

Flow straighteners were made out of sheet aluminium, we’ll see if they make any difference..!

The first event of the season will be Peaches Pad near Manchester on the 2-4th May. In Formula 3 it looks like theres going to be a large grid of evenly matched craft which should make for some awesome racing. For live video and results of the racing go to Keith Oakley’s site