Dave Chartlon - Has hit the ground running, and is stacking up some well earned championship points, having made it to the ‘09 season opener at Brands Hatch. He will also be campainging for more points at Castle Combe.. hopefully building his lead to give him a buffer over the remainder of the season when we will see a lot more Bugs out on the track..
The Honey Monster (AKA - Simon Sergides) - Has been progressing the development of his car no: 68 ‘Monster’ over the winter - in between building nursery’s and baby-proofing his home - and is pleased to announced a new member to his pit crew baby George! - This welcomed addition to the family has slowed things down over the past couple of months, and the HoneyMonster is planning to be back out on the track at the May Brands Hatch Race, sporting a fresh rebuild of his 2165cc motor (after torching a rod on the last lap of the last race last year!) This year will see some new CB Wedgeport Heads added, and we will be trying some 45 & 48 Dells to see which gives the most ‘driveable’ motor. The engine is going to dump the semi-exotic ‘accusump’ system, which just didn’t cut the mustard! and replacing this with a deepsump and a raised gearbox to increase ground clearance, in the short term and hopefully the addition of a dry sump system mid season (got everything apart from the pump.. if anybody knows a good source for a 3 stage pump please contact us!) Other changes which will happen this season are: Tarrox 6 pot & Vented front disc’s, and a new Bear’s tall geared IRS box with a Quaife LSD installed (Which I picked up 2nd hand but un-used!)
Trigger -Â He too has been building his pit crew, with the birth of baby girl ‘Tasmin’ which has slowed down the development of the race car for obvious reasons. This season will see his No.89 car ‘Nasty Bug’ get an IRS conversion (Mainly because the HoneyMonster ‘borrowed’ the car and in true destructive style annialated the gearbox - at least he is consistent with his carnage.) - Trigger aims to be back out at the May Brand Hatch event with the car given the once over for the coming season.
Craig Winfield - Work and Home commitments, have delayed his ‘09 season start - but he will be back out in his immaculately prepared No.78 car at the May round at Brand’s Hatch
Nick Whitty - With the purchase of Mark Lloyd Jones ex Cup car (as seen in some of the below posts) and a 2332cc motor! Nick will join us real soon on the grid (He is targeting the May Race at Brands Hatch for his debut) There will be a flurry of activity to do the final pre-race prep on the car, so if anybody fancys helping out with spannering and having some fun in the pits then do drop an email (use the contact us page)
Tony Sharpe - Is building ‘the’ car to be reckoned wit, by all accounts.. details are being teased out by Tony.. but it will look like we will have to wait until his debut race to see it in the flesh! - spy sources have unconfirmed (but pretty certain!) reports of a 1303, with custom brakes, a monster 2332cc engine of a high spec and a lot of effort and engineering over the past 10 months during the build of the car… can’t wait to see this one in the flesh… Tony’s aim is to make it to the Brands Hatch race in May for his debut.
Steve ‘Cookie’ McGillivray - Has been frantically building his 1303, and can see the light at the end of the tunnel (It’s just about to go into paint!) then it will be a furious push to bolt everything back on, and install his fresh built 1914cc Motor, with Twin 45 Dells, 9.5:1 Compression, Big Valve 044 Heads, Engle 130cam, Straight Cut Gears, H-Beam Rods, Lightend Flywheel, 1″ 5/8 merged header - (Cookie is gunning for his debut at May’s Brands Date also - may the force be with you!)
Johnny ‘Ace’ - The ex-cup racer, is threatening to finish the build of his race car with the intention of joining us shortly
Do you see a pattern emerging here!!!!… most racers will be out from the May Brands Hatch Round! (Who will then be playing catch up to Dave Charltons early lead!)
So it looks like the May Brands race will be a fantastic round for the beetles, with the biggest grid of Beetles to date, mixing it up with all the other manufacturer cars in the BARC South East Region TinTop’s Race Series which we are piggy-backing until we build enough cars to have our own dedicated bug only grid.
There are several other cars in the early / mid stages of being built at the moment, so we will bring more details on them once their respective owner/builders release information on the spec they are building them too.. if you would like to get involved contact us as we may have some ways to help you (We have access to some ex-cup cars which unquestionably are the quickest route to get on the grid!)
Props have to go out to all the racers who are building cars at the moment, especially given the economic climate, as ALL of us are doing this out of passion, ambition, and enthusiasm, as we have done this all off our own backs as this is not a big sponsored series - just a bunch of like minded individuals who want to go racing… so the fact that we have expanded to 8 cars and increasing over the past 12 months is pretty incredible… well done guys (and girls!)
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