Following on from the recent car and motorcycle threads, all the talk of ‘making progress’ and 150mph motorway knee-down madness I found myself wondering how many, genuinely talented fast riders and drivers frequent this site?
(Not me!)
So, don’t be shy, let your brilliance shine through with a list of (verifiable) race wins or top three’s with date, circuit and club.
National race wins = even more awesomeness.
International race wins, go away, far too much talent for this site.
I know Weeksy did a bit of bike racing and Hammyuk must have been at the sharp end with full dealer sponsorship .
Anyone else?
Ps, novice race wins don’t count and ‘ no one came past me in the fast group’ track days count for sweet F A! 😀

IIRC I was 7th from last in my first motorbike race and second last in the second, because all the total knobbers had fallen off in the first. Bow down before me. I accidentally gridded too high, not realising just how bad some of the competition really were, and completely shat myself in both starts 😆

I coulda bin a contenda!

(oh OK, I was a late standin as a mate had spannered himself, the entire point was just to get sponsor logos onto the track. But I didn’t bin it, that’s basically the same as a win in my book)

Kicked a few arses on the way to pubs & nightclubs back in the day – speciality was eating kentucky ribs or fish & chips at the time

#endofthread

Never raced as I’m faster with a spanner, so done a bit with cars and bikes at tracks.

I was comprehensively beaten round Knockhill by a guy in a standard 2012 Seat Leon Cupra. I was in a nigh-on 400bhp RX7. I did manage a really cool skid on the last corner though.

What do I win?

Oh okay.

Back in the mid-late 90’s I competed in hillclimbing and sprinting in my increasingly modified Mk1 Golf GTi at club level. South West Hillclimb Championship and Gurston Down Hillclimb Championship.

I would more often than not finish in the top 5 in the Modified Production Saloon Class 1599cc to 1999cc (IIRC), generally always the quickest of the fwd cars which included modded Fiesta’s and 205’s, but never quite being able to match the rwd escorts with their 2 litre Pinto’s.

A number of 3rd places, can’t recall how many and once a 2nd. All those I do remember were in the wet.

I did a lot of work with throttle bodies (sawing Dellorto and Weber carbs) and laptop based engine management with Dave Walker, who at the time was Tech Editor for Cars and Car Conversions, which with a bored and big valve self ported and flowed 8v head, gave silly amounts of torque. Together with a 1.6 GTi final drive and Quaife diff, the car was recorded at the TRL test track at 4.8secs 0-60. Max speed was something like 108mph, but that wasn’t the point.

I often wonder how well it would have gone with a 16v head on it.

The car ended up completely stripped out, grp panels, plastic windows, roll cage etc etc, all four corners I modified to take adjustable coil overs and corner weighted. It used to be featured reasonably regularly in Cars and Car Conversions, Golf Magazine and VW Audi Car mag too.

Did all the mechanical work myself and the bodywork done by a friend who ran a business restoring Austin Healey’s. Dragon Green with yellow bits it was. Lovely 8)

Ended up breaking it and selling everything off so I could afford to go and buy a place in BC 8)

EDIT. Just found a pic, I don’t have many of them digitised, but this one will do 😀

I came 5th in go-karts at my mate’s stag do. Where do I collect?

Raced moto-x and road racing, solos and sidecars in both. Had enough offs to earn the nickname – crasher! I never fall off my mtb – honest.

RAC (now MSA) and BTRDA British Autotest champion, outright not just class. First 1300 group N on the Welsh rally. The “other driver” with Russ Swift when he first started precision driving displays.

Edit: I’m the least interesting driver you’ll ever be a passenger with, passengers generally fall asleep within half an hour.

once got a Nova up to 100mph.

Mistiming a level crossing doesn’t count.

The flying Ox, there must be a prize for honesty and modesty. slackalice, I sold my best rg 500 motor to a guy who’s name I forget, but went to watch him race his space framed, mini F1 looking car at Gurston around the early to mid ninetys, not much in the way of gravel traps/ run off as I remember !!! well done on your results, isn’t it in the wet were the true ability shines through 😀
Thought we might have some race winners though , too modest? Maybe when the wine and beer start flowing 😉

Edukator, that more like 😀 And that’s always been my experience of quick race drivers/ riders, generally very steady and considerate on the road.

Mistiming a level crossing doesn’t count.

😀

there must be a prize for honesty and modesty

Hehe. It just goes to show that no matter how good the car is on paper, the weak link is the idiot behind the wheel. I obviously had the measure of him on acceleration and the straights, but then there’s little skill in planting your right foot and keeping it in a straight line. The way he went round corners though was insane. I just didn’t have the minerals to turn in at the speed he was.

Loved my time racing.
Got into it totally by accident. “Mate” raced for them and I was arsing about on his spare bike doing racing starts with him.
Didn’t know the shop owner was the fit blonde with his dad.
Asked me if I wanted to go the next weekend with him and “mess about”. Said she’d better go ask my mum! (I was 8)
Ended up doing the schoolboy mx champs for a number of years.
Managed to snap my right kneecap in half though on a gatepost one afternoon so that buggered me up for the rest of the season.
Healed, started again but it hurt like hell taking the weight on landings so was then asked if I fancied roadbikes?
“Errrrrr not really but I’ll have a go”
Turned out I rather liked them – RG125, then 250. GSXR750 slabbies (hinged in the middle).
Consistently in the top 5, enough podiums and class/overall wins to keep the shop happy. Helped I weighed feckall and was tiny (Ieft school only 5’1″)
RAF put paid to the racing though as it was a no-no back then.
Still – left me with a lifelong love of 2 wheels and several in the garage always.

Edit: I’m the least interesting driver you’ll ever be a passenger with, passengers generally fall asleep within half

The kind of driver I like.

This thread is useless without surfmat and george.

I love my racing and apart from having a year off at the minute as I’m busy doing a house renovation I shall be back to it soon enough. Although I race on short ovals (1/4 mile) rather than long circuits.

I race a ‘thing’ called a spedeworth superstox which is an open wheel purpose built race car, I built mine completely myself and am currently 1 of 6 who still build their own car when there is about 70 registered drivers.

I wouldn’t say I’m one of the top guys but have had a few wins in the 6yrs I’ve been racing them and absolutely love it. It is ‘contact’ racing so we have bumpers front and rear and just shove or fence people when they’re in the way 😀

The car runs a 2 litre pinto but is quite restricted on what we’re allowed to do internally which means it runs about 160 horses, however the car only weighs 650kg so still goes fairly well except it’s only designed to turn left! Racing on ovals means I only turn one way 🙂

Spend bloody ages setting the thing up on scales to get inside and cross weights correct for each track.

Race mainly in the south east but do normally head up to Scotland once or twice a year.

Made it into the top ten of the national league/points chart in 2014 which was awesome!

Did race motox too but to be honest my balls weren’t big enough over the jumps! Was okay on the flatter tracks but rubbish on the more modern stuff!

Have also spannered for a couple of national level junior kart drivers but that was more than a few years ago.

My father is completely the reason I got into it and he was pretty sharp and won a world title in Belgium back in the 80s.

slackalice wins the internet on the basis of that picture.

Nope not me, I’ve always been slow. I drive like my Grandad in His slippers.

Take your time, admire the view.

I like riding a bike quickly though.

Some cool entries up above and great results..
We have raced on and off for years, my old man won numerous events and a couple of national championships. Years ago I won the Northern Counties Autotest champs and my class in the Midland sprint championship. Sprog James (now just 20) started on cycles, second in the Nationals CX juniors, then on to DH getting regular top x3s in class at all events, then switched to motorbikes on the Hillclimbs and became 250 Nat Champ for a couple of years. We are both in cars again with him usually winning his class and me hopefully top three in class.

58bhp 86kgs 250cc, has been in National Top ten regularly -up against all sizes

Baby racers, great fun

Old man Hillclimber Ie mine

192bhp 312kgs, I find it a bit of a handful and a touch sharp. James thinks it’s a pussy cat

We are both keen on safe, mundane driving on the road but we both hair about in a ancient Micra.

Helped lots of mates at race meets but never fancied it myself, too much silly politics and bitching. Done lots of Nurburgring laps though

Raced motorcycle enduros for over 15 years including british championships – never anything more than capable… and the middle of the pack so no claim to fame other than being passed by David knight Paul Edmonson and many others many times –