Time Attack 2009 Round 4 - Brands Hatch

It was off to Brands Hatch for Round 4 of Time Attack


And for the first time ever it was Steve Gugliemi in the Gugliemi Motorsport Lotus Elise taking the win with a 48.6 second lap

Second was Olly Clark in the Roger Clark Motorsport Impreza with 50.1

Third place to Chris Ward in the RSE Motorsport Evo 7 with 50.2

4th place for the best looking car on the grid, Robin Duxburys Evo 8 - 50.4


Still the fastest N/A car is Jeff Milehams TVR Tuscan with a 53.9, overtaking James Nicholls 5th overall Car Planet Racing Evo 6 - 50.8

A better result for Duncan Cowper in the F1 turbo Hayabusa powered Dax Rush - 52.06, 6th overall

John Stevensons Impreza - ClubPro 52.96

Ben James Rx7 makes its yearly return


Paul Hughes Buddy Club Dc5 - 54.2, Club FF N/A winner

Duncan Graham in the RaceDynamix Impreza now effectively has the club class title in the bag since the 'promotion' of Shane Smith to ClubPro, a move that not many are happy about including myself

Mark Pollards 6R4 on BBS LM's, tasty. Im not a 'wheel whore' but BBS LM's do it for me on almost any car

Julian Westwood in the first Evo X to compete in the series

But Zen Peformance ran out of luck with their Impreza suffering a fiery exit

The final is at Snetterton as part of the Modified Live show on October 11th

Time Attack 2009 - Round 3 - Silverstone

Silverstone was the venue for Rd3 of Time Attack, where Olly Clark was in supreme form in the Roger Clark Motorsport Impreza and took victory with a sublime time of 57.9

Second was Matt Allison in the Zen Performance Impreza with 58.8

Third was Steve Gugliemi in the Gugliemi Motorsport Elise with a 59.1 laptime

Fourth for Gareth Lloyd in the Car Planet Racing Evo with 59.6

Club Class once again goes to Shane Smith in the Abbey Motorsport / CAT Driver Training with a 1.02.9, which moves him into ClubPro class for the next round

Its not racing its Time Attack!!!

Next Round - Brands Hatch - June 28th

Time Attack 2009 - Round 1

Time for another 5 rounds of Time Attack, 1st stop Oulton Park for an interesting day

Pro/Club Pro/Prototype/Openwheel Class
For the first time since June 2007 it was not a Subaru Impreza on the top step - it was a Mitsubishi Lancer Evloution! Chris Ward in the RSE Motorsport Evo 7 took top honours with a 1.26.8 lap and was in the top 3 times all day

But the Imprezas were never far behind, Olly Clark in the Roger Clark Motorsport Impreza, managed a very close second with a 1.27.1 fastest lap

Another Evo in third, perhaps the tide is turning! Gareth Lloyd in the Car Planet Racing Evo 5 with a 1.29.3

Fourth for Russell Humphrey in the Interceptor Racing Evo 5 with a 1.30.8 - but running in the new ClubPro class, for the not so fast cars, but still more developed than club class cars

Fifth for James Nicholls also in ClubPro with 1.31.8 in the second Car Planet Racing Evo 6. Prior to today, this was the last Evo to have won a Time Attack round overall

But this was the car that had everyone talking. The sole Prototype class car, the AG Motorsport Ford Focus Cosworth of Andrew Gallacher, which had topped 2 of the 4 sessions with a fastest time of 1.27.1, which he no doubt would have beaten if only for a blown diff in final qualifying

When time attack started properly in 2006, these little openwheel cars were the ones to beat - but in 2009 they are having to fight for it. Duncan Cowper in the Dax Rush, with a Suzuki Hayabusa engine with a 1980's F1 turbo, good for 7th over all with a laptime of 1.32.4

Finally Simon Norris could debut Version 2.0 of the Norris Designs Evo 9 SWB 'Bogey' but he had differential carrier failure, but will return

2007 champions Zen Performance were back with pro-driver Tom Ferrier but a few teething problems kept them out of the serious running, but will be onces to watch

Best looker for now, Robin Duxburys Evo 8....

Club Class

An overdue win for Shane Smith in the Abbey Motorsport / CAT Driver training R32 GTR with 1.35.1

2nd for Marcus Webster with a 1.36.8

3rd for Duncan Graham in the RaceDynamix Impreza with 1.37.1

Round 2 will be at Knockhill on May 17th