BPM Racing - Britcar Season Opener

[Icarus]

This weekend saw the first Britcar race of the season with BPM fielding the 2009 Spec X85 Super Endurance Clio.

To say it was a challenging 90min race was an understatement with Hail, Sun and Rain all in the race distance and a fairly large crash at the start bringing out the safety car and seeing 4 cars out within the first lap.

With pretty much no pre-season testing we qualified P1 in class, later bumped to P1 when a rather high power/weight S1 was reclassified as Class 3.

The race we ran as a single stopper and due to the threat of rain fueled the car with 65Kilos to avoid having to refuel and give us a much larger pit window for a wet change if required.

The car and drivers ran fantasticaly and after some hard charging and rivals panicing and pitting for wets we placed P2 in Class and 11th Overall. So thats another pot for the trophy cabinet

Big thanks to the team as always and Tom who is on here for coming and helping out.

Few pics:

Cheers
M

 

[Craig]

well done mate

 

[Fred@BTM]

you know that device you type numbers into and press dial? try using it in future!

 

[Bazzon]

Good work Matt!

 

[mini-valver]

Nice one dude! Who finished 1st in your class? P2 is awesome if you did little or no testing.....

First race at Brands this weekend coming, should be good. Was at Silverstone on Tues/Wed too, pissed it down from lunch onwards

 

[Icarus]

you know that device you type numbers into and press dial? try using it in future!

Bugger, thought I'd told you? Was a mental rush to get it out though.

Next one is Donny. You up for that? www.britcar24hr.co.uk for the time table!

Cheers
M

 

[Gray]

Next one is Donny. www.britcar24hr.co.uk for the time table!

Cheers
M

ohh... Can people just come down and spectate? My local circuit!

 

[Icarus]

Nice one dude! Who finished 1st in your class? P2 is awesome if you did little or no testing.....

First race at Brands this weekend coming, should be good. Was at Silverstone on Tues/Wed too, pissed it down from lunch onwards

First testing of the new rad setup was me nailing it around the circuit roads on Saturday morning LOL

1st was taken by an S1 Elise, which was in Class 2 but managed to blag their way down a class. They were invitation though so we still get P1 championship points

Cheers
M

 

[dzm]

Good work!

 

[mini-valver]

First testing of the new rad setup was me nailing it around the circuit roads on Saturday morning LOL

1st was taken by an S1 Elise, which was in Class 2 but managed to blag their way down a class. They were invitation though so we still get P1 championship points

Cheers
M

Lol! Break your spine much??? Just driving to scrutineering is crippling if the car park is knackered!

 

[Beef-Mc]

Good result there then, car looks nae bad as well.

 

[Fred@BTM]

no you didn't tell me b**ch! if you need to borrow superior equipment (ie wireless shiznit) let me know, you might win next time

 

[Tom@JMS]

gorgeous, would love to be involved in live motorsport projects like this one day.

 

[Englebert]

Glad you had a successful race. The safety car session put our car into it's safety map, so we dropped down the order massively. My dad got a birds eye view of the opening crash, will try and get that on YouTube eventually!

Despite three offs we managed to get the last step on the podium... but obviously we did too well in pre-season (catching 1st at 3.5 seconds a lap) as they want to give us some ballast!

Off to Spa on Weds for a practice track day... can't wait for my first race there!

 

[Lagerlout]

Great stuff. Car looks ace!

Might pop over to Donny and have a butchers. Only down the road :approve:

 

[Naith]

cars looking different, nice sponsership off opie too, nice to see my tow sticker still reppin it up!

 

[Englebert]

Heres a pic i've found that might better illustrate the conditions the teams were against at the weekend!

Sorry for the hijack

 

[Icarus]

Yep Ash managed to bury the car in the gravel during the last few mins of qualy so we to had some gravel clearing to do ;-)

Aside from the ECU issue how did the car run? Are you confident for the 2 X 90 mins at Donny next?

For us these 90 mins are still a bit too short. We can carry enough fuel for 3 hours flat out running. 6 hours + is really where the Clio comes into its own. Really we need a nice 280bhp short distance engine package

Cheers
M

 

[ben_p]

Is that Ben driving lol?

 

[Englebert]

Yep Ash managed to bury the car in the gravel during the last few mins of qualy so we to had some gravel clearing to do ;-)

Aside from the ECU issue how did the car run? Are you confident for the 2 X 90 mins at Donny next?

For us these 90 mins are still a bit too short. We can carry enough fuel for 3 hours flat out running. 6 hours + is really where the Clio comes into its own. Really we need a nice 280bhp short distance engine package

Cheers
M

The Quaife sequential was exchange for a conventional 5 speed h-pattern. It was reliable but did mean it topped out at 120mph so it was a benefit being wet!

90 mins are too long for us! I suppose you are hoping to do best at Spa and the other Joint race then... can't wait to do them!

 

[maynard]

well done on the result! is there anyway of following this competetion?

 

[Icarus]

www.britcar24hr.co.uk

Full calendar on there. Entry to most races is £10 online in advance and its well worth coming along for. Get up close with everything from our Clio which runs in Productions to Mosler's in GT's.

Cheers
M

 

[Tony Hunter]

I think Iv'e sold mine now,just waiting for the transfer.

 

[maynard]

www.britcar24hr.co.uk

Full calendar on there. Entry to most races is £10 online in advance and its well worth coming along for. Get up close with everything from our Clio which runs in Productions to Mosler's in GT's.

Cheers
M

cheers gonna have a browse now.

 

[PPTom]

Thanks again Matt, it was good to be involved with such a nice bunch of people. Fantastic result for the first outing of the year and with the car still in good shape at the end of the race, something which you can really appreciate after seeing the carnage at the start, that sort of thing must be devastating for all involved.

 

[steve@wests]

well done,iccy and the team.good to see your keeping your reputation from last year!

steve