First Race of the season.

[LotusLocost]

This weekend the first race in the Norwegian Racing championship took place at Rudskogen racetrack in southern Norway. Some 550 km each way for me to drive A bit fare, but all in all vorth it in the end.
I was very exited about this race because of the different things I had done to my car over the winter (exhaust, new dry-sump pan, new water hoses ++).
All the things you may have done wrong is likely to apear the first race or test pass .. But after a few rounds in the first test pass I found out that every new feature was ok...
BUT my LSD was broken. That is the same as driving without LSD and in a car with so much horsepower and so few kilos it's difficult to drive without..
So we decided to get hand on a rep-kit to the LSD and fix it on track Inn all, that means we had to tear the whole rear-end appart and the axel in pices. And after changing the plates inside the LSD it was fixed. Not so difficult, but it takes some time.. so after 8,5 hours of work, we were finish..

On Saturday it was more training and time qual.. It was a good day on the track for me with no problems at all, and I ended up with 7th starting position ..

Sunday was race-day with two finals to be raced..
First race I got a bad start, but drove my way up to 7th position and ended there.. This year we have started with still-standing start, and that was new to me.. So second race I did also got a bad start. But this time I also managed to fight my way up to 8th position..
I'm very pleased with the results, since it was 17 cars that made it to the finish-line. And I'm sniffing on the top 5 positions. wich is one of my goals for the season. some positions amongst the top 5

There was also a brilliant racing weekend with alot of classic cars, super production 600 cc motorbikes, special saloon cars and the rawest class, Supercars..(700-900 hp) I have loads of pics.. I'll start off today with some of me.. But more will come in the coming days of different classes..

Hope you like the pics

[LotusLocost]

Some more pics
Some from the supercars class..
Including one Corvette C6r (aprox 800 hp) and an ex team Oreca Viper GTS and a porch 911 turbo( 660hp and around 800 nm of tourqe ) Lotus Esprit S1 with chevy V8 (ashame) over 700 bhp...
More pics from this class will come later

Edit: Last pic: the white car in the midle is me

[Mustang]

well done

What bhp / engine does yours have in it ?

[LotusLocost]

well done

What bhp / engine does yours have in it ?

Thanks
I have a lotus twin cam in my seven..
Haven't dynoed it after the new exhaust came on, but it is about 180- 185 bhp I think.. Next week it's dyno time
and the minimum weight on my is 608 kg.. but it's about 620 now.. with fule and driver..

[Wouter Melissen]

Good to hear you had fun. The stickers look great!

[adamfraser]

Awesome, well done for a first race, and goodluck for the rest of the season !!

[LotusLocost]

Good to hear you had fun. The stickers look great!

Good you liked them
Our race-tent position in the depot was good and "on display" to

[LotusLocost]

Awesome, well done for a first race, and goodluck for the rest of the season !!

First race of the season Have two seasons befor that to
And thanks for the luck wishes

[Wouter Melissen]

Good you liked them
Our race-tent position in the depot was good and "on display" to

Got any comments?

[henk4]

Edit: Last pic: the white car in the midle is me

nice demo of oversteer

[LotusLocost]

Got any comments?

Not any specific from spectators..some took pictures of corse.. some of my fellow seven drivers did ask what it was.. since it's not very common with sponsors in my class
Of corse I told them it was a multi-billion-euro web-site that had me on contract for later testing for Le-Mans

But we got tv coverage On a Scandinavian satelite channel
I don't have it at home but at our cottage But in the end of the season we get to buy the whole season complete.. So we will see if the logo appears

@ henk: yeah! but I did overtake the two cars wide out in the turn Puting me behinde the green one.. wich I later also passed

[McReis]

Congrats on your progression and especialy on the great fun you have in the process. Great images. I'd love to drive one of those.

[PerfAdv]

Looks very exciting, side by side racing!!

How long have you been racing?

[Ferrer]

Congrats, and have a lot of fun!

[LotusLocost]

Looks very exciting, side by side racing!!

How long have you been racing?

Only two and one half seasons
No carting in my early years either.. not professional though.. just hire carts


And thanks for the comments everybody