What an excellent day out
We got to see a rocket car do 277mph , the Tesla got beaten down the track by an electric VW Beetle and Voodoo was mercilessly slaughtered by a speed crazed RadioMarty
...a meeting full of excitement and drama
Sadly the c-5000 didn't get to play. Although it is up & running, electricDave had a few safety concerns that we simply didn't have the time to deal with. As neither of us wanted to see it fail because of faults we knew about, we decided to take Challenger and Voodoo ,which provided a good opportunity to give the new metal gearbox a proper testing
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Fastest C5 of the day was Challenger (no surprise there) , piloted by RadioMarty, managing 33mph while Voodoo managed 22mph piloted by Ray. Sadly the lights timed out before recording a speed for the two 12v standard C5's (Goldfinger and one of Ray's).
We experimented with trying to up Challenger to 36v but, despite a valiant and determined effort by electricDave, we couldn't get "challenger" to run properly at 36v so we put it back to 24v and carried on with some more fun on the track. All four of us has a couple of track runs each, so we had our moneys worth
The A.E.R event itself was a huge amount of fun and a big thankyou must be said to the organiser for putting it all together. The Santa Pod crew were a great laugh and you can imagine the banter as the c5's lined up for their speed runs
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This was our first visit to such an event and judging by the amount of fun we had I reckon we will be making a return next year , and hopefully return with some faster machinery.
As for Voodoo, it has suffered some sort of motor failure which will be investigated today. RadioMarty tasted the highs and lows of motorsport by having the fastest C5 time of the day and the dubious honour of piloting Voodoo when it died on the track. He was quite worried about Voodoo, but I'm a firm believer in the motorsport philosophy of "testing to destruction" in that if you don't break it, you're not trying hard enough
. Besides,it will give us the chance to find out what went wrong and correct it, plus we've found a new job for Radiomarty - C5alive's official motorsport test rider
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Some pictures to follow;