Steve Causey

P.S. Sorry you missed out Graham.

Mine went in on May 17th and I've got an entry.

Chris, Yes please Thanks for sorting.

Good grief Chris! Makes my gearbox troubles look trivial. Glad you made it home in the end and hope there wasn't too much damage.

Richard, if I could figure out how to cut and paste into the messaging system I'd forward them to you! Drop me a message with your private email and I'll forward. Steve

Excellent news Paul and Becky. Glad to hear the damage wasn't too serious. See you at Loton*smile*

Andrew, thanks for organising and please count me in. Steve

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the Awards Lunch due to a prior commitment (made by SWMBO!) so just wanted to say: Congratulations to all Class and Award winners. Thanks to Paul for his hard work as Comp Sec. Thanks to Chris and Matt for their superb work on the scoring. Thanks to all competitors, especially those in Class1, for their friendship, banter and advice.Can't wait for next season. Enjoy the Awards Lunch. All the best, Steve Oh, almost forgot, thanks to Clive Marsden for letting me beat him just the once this year........

I had something similar on my K-seires. The engine would cutout on fast right handers on track. Eventually, with Mark Durrant's help, tracked it down to be a broken wire from (I think) the CPS. Wire looked fine from the outside but was broken internally. There was enough of a connection in most circumstances to work ok but then on right handers the connection was broken and the engine cut out, as the car straightened the connection was made again. We found it with the car stationary and idling by wiggling wires.

Ok Ok, you can stop yer (fully justified) nagging now, I've entered. Thanks Chris.

Entry in post today.

Sorry Tony, didn't see your post until this morning. Seems you're sorted. Be good to have some company.

Anyone else planning to do the test day on the 17th??

Thanks Paul. As it has turned out I can't do Llys-y-Fran after all but many thanks for your kind offer. See you at Llandow Steve

I thought I'd give these hillclimb things a go. Planning to do Llys-y-Fran and Harewood. As the Bongo is still off the road I could use some recommendations on where to stay. Thanks, Steve

Great day today. Plenty of track time and space. Even the weather behaved! Graham - many thanks for organising.

Me too, please Chris. Thanks.

Another vote for sticking with the sprint layout for the whole day, for all the reasons mentioned in the other posts plus - I'm easily confused

Entry submitted this week.

I'm in.

Simon, Thanks for the offer re Curborough but, unfortunately, I'm not booked on any of the practice days there, although I am doing teh day at Bluton organsied by Graham Howard. I think Andy McKay has organsied one of the Curborough days so it might be worth contacting teh participamnts through him. Pendennis, pretty sure I don't have an LSD. I've had the car from new and thee original invoice states 'non LSD' for the axle. Unless, of course, Caterham made a mistake and gave me an LSD....

Firstly, thanks to everyone for your contributions. I've realised that I should have been more specific in the original post in that the issue is power-on understeer. The car seems to turn in fairly well but if I go anywhere near the accelerator later in the corner the front starts to run wide. The consensus seems to be to increase the negative camber so that's what I'll do. I'll also take the opportunity to have the rake, corner weight, etc rechecked. The previous flat floor was done for me but it was a while ago now. Once that's done I'll experiment with the softer front ARB. Oh and I've bought the book - thanks for the tip Rob. Lastly, I have two responses to Mr Rogers comments re my driving skills. Firstly, it's not often that I'm 'accused' of carrying too much speed, usually the reverse is true, so thanks for that! Secondly, obviously my skills are superb so it follows that as I'm slower than the rest of the Class there must be something wrong with the car! Seriously though, the 'slow in fast out' comments are valid but I'm hoping increasing the negative camber etc. will help as well. Thanks again to everyone. Steve

My car is 2005 ex-Academy. It's running with the red bushed (5/8") front antiroll bar, no rear antiroll bar, no LSD, on Yoko A539's and it was flat-floored a few years ago. I sprint the car and struggle with understeer on tight corners. A friend who has driven a number of Caterhams thinks that the undertseer is excessive and has suggested that a rear antiroll bar together with more negative camber would help. So my questions are: 1. Do the experts on BC agree with this recommendation? 2. If 'yes' how easy it is to fit a rear ARB. 3. Can anyone explain the physics behind the rear ARB reducing understeer? 4. In terms of 'more' negative camber I have no idea how much more and don't have any equipment to measure it anyway, so can anyone suggest an expert/firm relatively close to me in Essex that could help with this? 5. Can anyone suggest a good book that will help me understand the basics of suspension and vehicle dynamics? Thanks in advance. Steve

Hi Graham, I'd like to join you if there's still a place open. Thanks for organising Steve

Thanks Matthew. It's very helpful to have this published so early. Also very happy to see a couple of events a bit nearer to home for me!! I wonder if Mr Marsden will make the trip 'down south'???