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Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. #1603732
01/07/2017 23:02
01/07/2017 23:02
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The first time this has happened - great to see Graeme Gillies taking part in his first event today using his 20V N/A, some pictures here of the two cars together:
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A video of my fastest run of the day is here


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Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603733
01/07/2017 23:12
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Great pics, Andy.
The link to Youtube works, but it's asking me to sign in, and says no videos available.
Does it take a while to load up?
Huw

Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603734
01/07/2017 23:19
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Sorry Huw, video should be live now.


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Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603735
02/07/2017 00:00
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Sorted thanks.
You were really on it on this run. The last corner at the top was a bit exciting.
Great stuff.

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Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603736
02/07/2017 00:32
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I cut out the final bit of video where I was talking to myself about how I managed to miss the thwacker posts at the finish line! You can see my looking in the mirror to check if they were still standing - hitting the ones at the end make it a failed run.


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Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603767
02/07/2017 15:28
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Definitely getting faster Andy! That perfect run is not far away.



Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603783
02/07/2017 18:06
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Thanks. I don't think the perfect run exists! We just don't get enough time on the hill to achieve it. For me the start is the achilles heel - the grip levels change so significantly between runs it is really difficult to get away well. My last run yesterday was a disaster, the slowest I've had for a long time because I tried to compensate for too much wheelspin the previous run and completely bogged down resulting in a 3.18 second 64ft time. My best is 2.64 but I've never been within a tenth of that before or since! The run the video shows was 2.93 with the previous run being 2.73 - repeating that would have put me ahead of the Mini which beat me yesterday!

My theoretical best based on sectors is now 68.9 seconds so something to aim for against the PB of 69.52 I have achieved.


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Re: Two Coupes competing at Harewood Hillclimb today. [Re: andyps] #1603799
03/07/2017 06:35
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It looks like great fun Andy, thanks for posting - keep 'em coming!


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