Metris Mk IV (bottom view) - tuning parts
Metris Mk IV - assembled and tuning parts
Voltage Regulator TI µA78M05 - 5V 500mA
Complete light kit - 2.8g
Hotslot cellar - my workspace - not staged ;-)
Acuras (f.l.t.r.: EEC #1-3 - chassis Metris/TST SLP Gen II, EEC #5 - chassis Michi, EEC #4 - chassis RPM, Toronto - chassis modified (lighter) RPM)
F430 - left: Metris Mk IV and new body, right: 2008 Toblerone and Worlds car with Metris Mk III chassis
RPM close up
Acura & F430 (19.7.2009)
not staged :-)
Electronics department
Checa's Workshop
Getting ready to pack the fragile cargo
Vodka-Tonic aahhhhh
Canada - nothing but nature and here and there a small spot of civilazation
Fluffy Clouds
Lunatics
Light/flash system above the track
Borge and Glenn's table
Nick's factory
Andy and Lars - tough nuts to crack
Flat MTT track
One full table each - luxury :-)
Mark's clean desk policy
Gabe's clean desk policy :-P
Yank that plastic rear window and replace it with the lexan version 1.2g vs 0.55g
Last year's F430 as rear window donor - no, made a new one...
Donut very smooth here
Summer in Toronto
...oh and yes of course, Borge's Mustang :-D
Glenn with his gay computer
F430 Concourse line-up
Concours: 1st Jan Roestorf (AUS/ZA) - 2nd Loise Valkenborgh (BE) - 3rd Franco Devuono (CA)
1st
2nd
3rd
LMP and GT concourse line-up
Acuras
Porsches
Peugeot in the middle
Lolas
Concourse winner - Nick de Wachter (NL)
First runner up Tim Tyler (NZ)
Second runner up Jan Roestorf (AUS/ZA)
A room with a view
Marcel, Tim, Woody and Chris :-)
More lunatics - Mike next to Chris, Checa and Checa, Louise, Franco
Terry and the Canadians
F430 tire handout - me
Happy Kiwi - Chris Radisich
Tim Tyler
First group - Eagle Eye Lars overlooking the scene
Tim Snyder
Bob Bainborough
Mark Campbell - Mr. Race Organizer
Jan Roestorf
Eagle Eye's view
Inserts fit
2nd group
3rd group
Jan and Chris assisting Lars at scrutineering
BR-emme production cars line-up
Brand new BRM Minolta Toyota
Brand new BRM Tom's Toyota
DJ Oo! inspecting the PA system :-)
(f.l.t.r) Roger Schmitt, Alan Smith (BRM importer NA), Francesco Seren (BRM), Enrico Baratella - testing the BRM production cars
Instant light set for Fola's 908
Not my finest piece of work, but hey! it didn't fail
Timmaaaaaayyyyyyyhhhhhhh.....
...and Woody
Scrutineering - no cameras allowed - Andy Wasserman
Updating SLM.com with Andy's scrutineering announcements.
Andy Wasserman - bad news guy :-D
LMP tire hand-out
LMP tire hand-out - Checas, Nick, Jan, Gabe, Borge, Eagle Eye Lars
LMP tire hand-out - Borge, Gabe
GT tire hand-out - Mark, Bernard, Louise, Tim, Victor, Terry
Eagle Eye Lars not believing what he sees?
GT tire hand-out - Louise
GT tire hand-out - Mark
GT tire hand-out - Tim
Andy watching over time during tire hand-out
Warm up race - (f.l.t.r) Borge, Laura, Roger, Simon, Mark, Terry, Victor - but what are they all looking at?!?
...ah Andy holds the rider's briefing
but where are the cars?
cleaning the tires before the start
almost ready...
...almost...
and the 2nd group - (f.l.t.r) Jan, Javier, Louse, Bob, Mike, Chuck, Franco, Bernard
who's that girl :-)
3rd group - (f.l.t.r) Colin, Marcel, Nick, Glenn, Javi, Peter, Gabe, Tim - and the nose of Chuck
Result of the warm-up race
lamps for quick-drying the glue
Marcel qualifying
Nick qualifying
nerves...
F430 qualification results
oops - my flash triggered the overhead flash...
F430 round #1 - Group C - (f.l.t.r) Marcel, Tim, Peter, Colin, Louise, Laura, Bob
F430 round #1 - Group B - (f.l.t.r) Javier, Chuck, Bernard, Simon, Franco, Terry, Victor
F430 round #1 - Group A - (f.l.t.r) Gabe, Javi, Borge, Glenn, Mike, Nick, Mark, Jan
F430 round #1 results
F430 main final - (f.l.t.r.) Javi, Gabe, Borge, Glenn, Mark, Javier Franco, Simon
Borge's Ferrari (red in the back) 0.40 lap ahead of mine (in front) at finish
F430 final result
F430 sprint championship
Tuesday morning - Endurance day unfolding
Tabloids remain fascinating ;-)
Ernie Mosetti, Tim Tyler - wing car babble
Eagle Eye Lars vacuming the slot
Nick and Mike
Chuck's boxes
F430 sprint world champion 2009 - Børge Haug
Getting to know the Plafit PanAm car built by Fola
Inspecting the Plafit Excel chassis
F430 and their chassis - (f.l.t.r) Borge's Plafit S24 SLP w/ Fola parts, Gabe's Metris MkIV, Glenn's Plafit S24 SLP w/ Fola parts
Bottom view chassis - Borge and Glenn used Slottec braids - Gabe used Bleck Center's super soft silver braids
Fola body mount/ballast parts on Borge's (top) and Glenn's (bottom) cars
Canadian Grand Prix GT line-up
Canadian Grand Prix - GT cars - (f.l.t.r) Terry (Chuck), Laura (Colin), Franco (Bernie), Bob (Tim), Alan (Francesco, Enrico), Victor (Peter), Mark (Louise)
#45 Porsche 997 GT3 - Tim and Bob
Canadian Grand Prix - LMP cars line-up
Canadian Grand Prix line-up - (f.l.t.r) Jan (Simon), Marcel (Gabe), Børge (Glenn), Mike (Nick), Tim (Chris), Javi (Javier)
ALMS - LMP day 1 section results
ALMS - GT Endurance
Victor in the pits
E.T. (Marcel) phone home via Skype
Dutch breakfast - Hagelslag, never leave home without it :-)
Endurance Worlds - LMP night section results
Endurance Worlds - LMP results after 1st day and night section
(f.l.t.r) Glenn, Franco, Bernie, Louise, Tim, Gabe, Mike, Javi
...and their cars
(f.l.t.r) Laura, Chuck, Nick, Chris, Victor, Marcel, The Stig, Jan
(f.l.t.r) Javier, Simon, Roger, Colin, Peter, Børge, Terry, Timaaaayyyyyyy
The Stig???? - no it's Timmaaaaayyyyyyyhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!1
PanAm - tire hand out - oh I *LOVE* tire truing under time pressure.....
(f.l.t.r) ah you know the usual suspects...
RfH finished all stints in the first heat - now it's nail biting time
Standings after 1st heat
World's longest street - 1896 km long
...from Ontario lake shore - west end of Yonge street
2009 Toronto Trio
Elvis lives!
Fola's babies on their way to the post office
2009 worlds - take 2 - terror of trophies
1:32 Production NSR
1:32 Productin NSR: Desmond Dekker (2nd from left) - beat all the legends by far!
Niemas' BMW M1 cars
Main final - yeah I'm in the main!!!
(f.l.t.r) Fred Hood, Giovanni Montiglio, Paul Gawronski, Piki van Rossem, Michael Niemas, Gabriel Inäbnit, Alexander Ortmann
Birthday kid George Kimble
Belgian beer does this to you
Best racers ever
Best racer ever
quick quick before ze tschermans cöm
Niemas' showcase
Amsterdam Tourist Trophy @ Hotslot Noord - November 6th 2009
Practice: The Stig, Matthijs, Appie, Howie, Erwin
Getting ready: Jürgen (D), Marcel (NL), Onno (NL), Howie (US), Matthijs (NL), Chris (NZ)
Good old times: Howie, Jürgen, Peter
Dawn & Chris
Bribing the bar maid for a better result!?!?!? :-)))
Tamar, Bert, Henri, Onno, Sharon
Marcel, Tamar, Henri, Onno, Sharon
