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After having our appetites whetted by some racing action at Bishopscourt and the anticipation of some real action at DragWarz we decided to head to Ten Of the Best in York. Its the shootout for the title of fastest roadlegal car in the UK with teams from all the big car clubs entering.

So myself, Jeff (pocket_rocket), and Phil (Phil_D) hit easyjet for some flights over, and bagged a snazzy Bora hirecar for the trip to York. 1600cc of VWs finest was truely uninspiring but hey it did the job.

The journey down was pretty uneventful but we pulled off the main road towards the airfield we suddenly found ourselves in a row of skylines, scoobies and pulsars. Damn this is gonna be good and these are just the spectators!!!!!

Pulling into the carpark was a feast of modified cars. Barely a fibreglass corsa in sight we are talking lancers, tvrs, imprezas, supras, lotus, fiat coupes, everything under the sun. So we parked up and headed off towards the track to see some action. The cars waiting in line were amazing, there was all sorts running. Turbo crxs had fun with dodge vipers, NSXs got nailed by MR2s, Andy Nicholls maestro turbo harried supras, the twin engine golf harried everything. The craic was mighty!

As the day went on the true contenders became apparant. The skylines were dominating 4wd class, the supras in the rwd and the rovers were taking no prisoners in the fwd along with the mighty fast turbo crxs. This was an event where size DIDNT matter. Big engined corvettes and dodge vipers looked slow in the company of highly tuned evos and hyabusa engined kitcars.

As well as the 1/4 mile racing there was also two other events, the high speed run (over 1.25 miles) and the handling course. The evos walked the handling course with the 1000bhp supra taking the top speed of 201mph.

As the heat grew so did the anticipation of the final shootouts. These would decide who really was top of the top. The highlight had to be seeing a 1000bhp supra getting its ass handed to it by the skyline in the first place shootout. Truely amazing!!!

So will be back next year? Hell yeah – if the Bora can take it 😉

The results on the day were as follows:

1. 1/4m Class Winner FWD – ANDY NICHOLLS AET TURBOS 12.08s 121MPH
2. 1/4m Class Winner RWD- DEE IRELAND CALDER RACING 10.84s 130MPH
3. 1/4m Class Winner 4WD- CLIVE REDDON RC DEVELOPMENTS 10.32s 134MPH
4. Handling -Class Winner FWD- JIM BASFORD 42.37s
5. Handling -Class Winner RWD- STEVE WILSON 39.33s
6. Handling -Class Winner 4WD- JASON HULBERT 37.43s
7. Top Speed Class Winner FWD- ANDY ROBINSON 171.8MPH
8. Top Speed Class Winner RWD- DEE IRELAND CALDER RACING 201.3MPH
9. Top Speed Class Winner 4WD-ROCKET RONNIE 192.4MPH

All the above are decided at the end of qualifying 3.30pm apart from handling which closed at 3.15pm.

Redline TOTB 3 Top Speed Champion – DEE IRELAND-CALDER RACING SUPRA-201.3MPH
(Awarded to the highest overall top speed achieved in Qualifying.)

Redline TOTB 3 Handling Shootout Champion – GARY NUTTALL CPP DEVELOPMENTS EVO 37.08s

Redline TOTB 3 1/4m Drag Shootout Champion- RON KIDELL R32 SKYLINE

Redline TOTB 3 Team Award Winners GTR REGISTER 59 Points
Runners up MLR 42 Points
3RD Place SUPRA’S 22 Points

Redline TOTB 3 Champion- The Overall Winner.

ROCKET RONNIE SKYLINE R33 GTR 24 POINTS IN TOTAL
(2ND OVERALL DRAG, 2ND OVERALL TOP SPEED, 5TH OVERALL HANDLING)

Additional Trophies & Awards

Japanese Performance Magazine

1. Fastest Japanese Car 1/4m CLIVE SEDDON RC DEVELOPMENTS 10.32s
2. Highest Top Speed for Japanese Car DEE IRELAND CALDER RACING 201.3MPH
3. Quickest Lap Japanese Car GARY NUTTALL CPP DEVELOPMENTS 37.08s

ERL Aquamist Water Injection Systems Fastest Car

NADINE GEARY DODGE VIPER 172.9mph

AET TURBO’S LTD

1/4M CLASS WINNERS –PRIZES- E-BOOST ELECTRONIC BOOST CONTROLLERS
FWD ANDY NICHOLLS RWD DEE IRELAND 4WD CLIVE SEDDON

1/4M FASTEST NON TUNER ENTRY- PRIZES £250 VOUCHER TOWARDS AET PRODUCTS
FWD STEVE NICHOLLS RWD JOHN MORGAN 4WD ROCKET RONNIE

TURBO DYNAMICS LTD TROPHIES FOR FASTEST CAR IN CLASS USING TD TURBO’S

FWD BARBZ SHEIKH FIAT COUPE TURBO
RWD NIGEL PEGG SKYLINE R34 GTT
4WD ADRIAN SMITH FENSPORT CORROLLA

Crash.Net FASTEST 1/4M OF THE DAY AWARD

CLIVE SEDDON RC DEVELOPMENTS

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Paul has been part of the team on RMS since early 2002. A big fan of car audio and electronics (when they work). Pilots a 996 911.