Hi All,
The MSCA SA 6Hour regularity is on this Sunday at Mallala featuring SA and Victorian Alfa Teams will be Competing.
SEE YOU THERE!
Good luck to all the Alfa teams this weekend.
Wish I was there :'(
Thanks Phil,
We are hoping to go One better this year,"TEAM AIM",but you know what happens when you plan to do well!!!
I think Phil was referring to the Victorian teams? ;D ;D ;D
We're on the way!
Looks good what time is Kevin leaving?
Kevin left Ashburton @ 7.20pm. Took a bit longer to load than expected. He'll stop somewhere overnight, should be in Adelaide mid arvo.
Guess it depends how many macchiatos he stops for on the way :D
Hope everyone packed their longjohns, good luck to all and stay on the black stuff!
I have ordered a Sunny Day!? and think it will be much the same as last year.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Cheers
Andrew
Andrew good work the day was exactly as you ordered. the weather was fine and the day was great.
Hi Ray,
Thankyou,I am still buzzing.It was a GREAT DAY,in team AIM we had 5 cars but the total number of club members was up to 21 just in our team and we have full catering provided by the Storrs and Pats sister Liz (new Club BBQ trailer)who fed and watered us all day as well as all the other members who do timing and pit board etc.It just makes such a fantastic Club event when at the end of the day win or lose we have 20 people sitting at long tables,with table clothes and all,having dinner and chatting about the day in our shed.
A real bonus to get a podium position on top of that.
The Results were Team AIM 3rd,Team Scuderia Alfa 2nd,and Team Meata(mazda mx5's) First.
Totally envious ! Sounds like a great event for the day. Wish I could have been there. Those friggin Mazdas give us a hard time up here too but on the flip side, it feels great when you knock some of them off, ha ha.
Hello Victor,
Thanks to all those who came over for the 6hr,good to see your backside trackside.What is the damage report on the Yellow beast?.
A few pics but should get some better ones later.
Cheers
Andrew
Good pics .Some of the Vic teams could/should post theirs
Team Alfa Melbourne -
Team Victoree Racing -
some more ...
Hi Andrew,
Haven't got the car on the hoist yet ... in next few days. Probably another donut! (Did a donut at Malalla Six Hour in '07 as well).
It was making a "bang" from the gearbox area on every gear upchange. I reckon something wasn't quite right in that area, and it got progressively worse as my stint went on, it put strain on the tailshaft and a donut let go. After the car stopped, engine off and battery off, in neutral, the tailshaft was still spinning happily away turning the engine over ... I lifted my feet off the floor at that stage!
We'll see if I'm right when we put it up in the air later.
Nice work Victor/ Mary. curious could Robin look any more relaxed?
Could say the same about you Ray, must send a shovel next time for you to lean on! :D
Yes Robin does look relaxed, but who was the cheeky bugger who snuck a walkie talkie into his hand instead of a glass of red, or was it actually one of those new fandangled wine glasses that look like a walkie talkie? ;D ;D
IMPORTANT NOTICE-CHANGE OF RESULTS FOR THE 6HR
Hows that,4 Alfa Teams in the top 6!!
Victor,
Here's what you need , a one piece carbon fibre drive shaft.
http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/motorsports/136703-drive-shaft-safety-5.html
(go to page 5)
Here is what I have for the 3.7 24v race Milano. One-piece carbon fiber driveshaft with Scuderia Biscione front coupling. As you can see it uses Milano/GTV6 front splined section, but late Alfetta rear flange. I have Alfetta yoke and clutch cover with Alfetta slave cylinder setup on transaxle. The shift linkage is relocated from tunnel into cabin. The WRX STI guys run these kind of driveshafts also on their street cars.
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the event was a blast !
here are some numbers for the alfa teams
Thanks for the spreadsheet Branko.Great stuff
Cheers
Andrew
I've done some number crunching. Firstly, apologies to Branko ... I've modified your spreadsheet!
I've included the results for the top 6 teams ... and as Andrew has noted, 4 of them are Alfa teams!
I've added what I call the "Bonus" Factor: Being the number of bonus laps gained less broken laps as a percentage of the laps actually driven (not including changeover laps).
Just check out JPS driver 43 Geoffery Lawerence: 49 laps driven, 25 bonus laps, and only 2 broken! This gives a "Bonus" factor of 46.94%. That's pretty impressive!
Scuderia's Peter Axford isn't too far behind: 51 laps driven, 28 bonus laps, 6 broken giving a "Bonus" factor of 43.14%
Victoria's best is Branko with 40 driven, 16 bonus, 3 broken; "Bonus" factor of 32.50%
This just states the obvious: Bonus laps, bonus laps, bonus laps; and no broken laps. Of course the above could be improved if safety car laps didn't get in the way!
By the way, have you seen driver 192? 56 laps driven, 2 bonus laps, 45 broken laps! "Bonus" factor: negative 79.63%! ???
Victor all well and good but we want more photos. from all that were there with a camera. With a picture we can make up a ripper yarn. The stats just dont bend themselves to the same imaginative level.
He can post more pics after the mag's been published. He's used too many that I'm using already...
Its like waiting for Xmas . When does the mag come out?
Hello Victor,
I think you need to re-examine your mathmatics if you are deducting one bonus lap for one broken lap as a bonus lap counts for 2x and bonus laps =0 as far as overall lap count goes,but I get the idea.
Cheers
Andrew
Quote from: alfagtv152 on May 23, 2009, 06:06:30 PM
Hello Victor,
I think you need to re-examine your mathmatics if you are deducting one bonus lap for one broken lap as a bonus lap counts for 2x and bonus laps =0 as far as overall lap count goes,but I get the idea.
Cheers
Andrew
your logic is correct if you count separately laps that were bonus vs broken vs even. However, Victor is counting total number of laps on the track as a starting point. If you include all laps, those that yielded bonus, those that were broken and those that were even, as a starting count, it is then correct to perform arithmetic by adding bonus laps as +1 and broken as -1. It is only a question if changeover should be used as a lap for calculating percentage, i believe it should be.