Al Weyman

This is the prelude race to a new UK based road race series for next year called Historic V8 Racers Association. I was going to take my 2nd Gen but was waiting for a rear sway bar to be delivered so took the revamped 3rd gen and had a brilliant race despite some silly problems like oil leaking from the valve cover on one side (now sorted!). Here is some links to my incar video of what was a very exciting race for me in the road class. The other cars that lapped me have had hundreds of thousands of bucks spent on them my car is all steel/glass self built throughout including engine/box/axle etc. The white Cobra I nearly collected on the opening lap for example has been valued in excess of £1000,000 sterling!!!! Some lovely stuff out there though I hope you like my vids.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZonjiyF4Y

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlF9Fzar5Zk

Pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/highnorfolkbo...57627845310417/

Enjoy!

Base91

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Good stuff Al. Looks like a blast. What are the rules about mods to the cars?

Al Weyman

ha ha not many!

Base91

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Almost makes me wish I still lived there. But not really!

Al Weyman

Well for this time of the year it was amazing California type weather Sunday which helped.

Base91

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It did look nice. Keep us posted on the series and post the videos. What camera do you use?

daverr

iTrader: (1)

Nice driving, alittle bumper car action too. I thought you have to remove all mirrors like in motorcycle racing??

Al Weyman

No we dont remove mirrors or we wouldn't be able to see who was behind us, I lost a passengerside mirror a couple of meetings ago and it was not nice trying to guess is someone was sneaking up on the inside of you.

The camera is a cheap Sony flash card camera is extremelly light and available overhere for under a £100 sterling probably same in $ over there. Very pleased with it no trouble with vibration etc.

InfernalVortex

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I bought a crappy $15 minicamera on ebay from china a while back. Took excellent videos, about the size of a cigarette lighter. Didnt include a memory card though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V2xlbWAph8

Look up "MD80" on ebay and you'll see some cheap crappy $10 cameras. That video is what they look like.

Vibration might be a concern, since my head probably dampens all the vibration of my little two stroke bike engine.


Also, Al, why does your hood bounce around so much? Do you use a T5 or a 700r4 in that car?

Al Weyman

It has 8 hold downs so wont go anywhere, since I redid the suspension firming it up it is bouncing a bit so just needs a tad of adjustment. Its glass fibre/kevlar so wont get damaged. I am pleased with the Sony and the beauty is unlike the bullet cams you can aslo use it as a still camera and a general purpose video camera, it has a large lens that lets a lot of light in without the fisheye effect and there is the advantage imho of using a standard type camcorder.