Issue 5 - MG Racing

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4
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Friday,
6:40 am—Get to Chris Gidney’s and grab ute with equipment and car on trailer, head to
Sandown and commence unloading into garage.
8:30—finished unloading car and start helping Jason Holmes get his car setup ready for
practice, practice delayed due to heavy fog. Commence trying to find source of
problem on Chris’s car as it is idling at 3100 RPM, dodgy sensor to blame and organise
with Adrian Akhurst to bring new sensor and brake booster line from Adelaide
tonight.
11:30—Jason heads out for first session, has braking issues and reports that he is locking
rear brakes, inspection reveals flatspot of front left, rotate front left to rear and
check brake bias. Jason states has no grip whatsoever.
14:00—Jason heads out for second session, still having issues with pinching front brakes
but not as bad, states starting to find some kind of rythym (slowly) but still has no
grip. Hesitant to put new slicks on for risk of flatspotting the new rubber
15:00—Jason heads out for third session still on old tyres and still struggling for grip, comes
in to pit lane after Red Flag of session due to Rodney Gibb having a coming together
with a HQ Taxi, Jason tells me that we need to put his new slicks on for the
final session. Place new slicks on Jasons car after session and prepare for final session.
Chris Gidney arrives and is given clearance to drive final session of practice,
Chris car still idling high but have managed to fix Brake Booster problem temporarily.
16:00—Chris and Jason head out for final practice, session starts well and both cars seem
to be running well, after two – three laps Chris limps in and drives through the pits,
making an unknown hand gesture (along the lines of “its Fucked”) heads back out
onto main straight and accelerates away before slowing and pulling off at turn
one. Receive word from turn one that Chris’s car is stationary and will be towed
back, I head to turn one to see what the problem is and Chris states that car will
not drive when in gear. Car is towed back to garage and we begin looking over
issue, car will move under own power at low revs but from all reports seems to be a
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