New event idea .. comment below if of interest

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New event idea..
TIME ATTACK
Comment below if this would be of interest ..

Obviously as a starting point most cars will likely be grass root road cars or rally cars but with car culture marketing potential could quickly get the word out.
These days are proving popular in England and I feel ireland has the potential to grow a series.

So what’s needed?
•road or track
Anything really type R civic /Evo’s /Subaru’s/m3s /rally cars even drift cars If not drifting..
It’s a handling circuit so grip is the key.

•good road tyres
•roll cage would be optional depending on spec of the car and ability of driver.
•helmet

Lots of track time no knock outs.

So why is it different from a track day?
Your battling the clock by yourself winners at end of day will be fastest per class and over all fastest .

Remember your out to race yourself and beat your own time.

I’ve contacted an awesome track and because it’s not drifting they have took notice and honestly considering it for 2020

CAR CUTURE
IRISH TIME ATRACK CHALLENGE
or something along them lines

for those that don’t know what it is ..

Time Attack racing is a type of motorsport in which the racers compete for the best lap time. Each vehicle is timed through numerous circuits of the track. The racers make a preliminary circuit, then run the timed laps, and then finish with a cool-down lap.

Time Attack and time trial events differ by competition format and rules. Time Attack has a limited number of laps, time trial has open sessions.

Unlike other timed motorsport disciplines such as sprinting and hillclimbing, the car is required to start off under full rolling start conditions following a warm up lap in which they will have to accelerate out as fast as possible to determine how fast they enter their timed lap.[1] Commonly, as the cars are modified road going cars, they are required to have tires authorized for road use.

Time attack events began in Japan in the mid-1960s. They have since spread around the world. In the United States, the Super Lap Battle is held at Buttonwillow Raceway Park since 2004. In February of 2019 a new event called Superlap Battle USA was run at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX. The outright winner was Cole Powelson in the Lyfe Nissan GTR. An international event known as World Time Attack Challenge[2] has been held at Sydney Motorsport Park, Australia since 2010 attracting the fastest time attack teams from around the globe to compete.
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Yes would be interested in this, and I’d say a lot of people who do track days would also like the idea. Is there other time attack style programs happening over here at minute?
 

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Yes would be interested in this, and I’d say a lot of people who do track days would also like the idea. Is there other time attack style programs happening over here at minute?
I’m not sure I know there is track days and sprints but not to my knowledge regards time attack
 

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Was interested in this a few years back, I know there's whole series for the gt86/brz chassis in England

Would be much more interesting to me than drifting and static shows
 

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I did the drifting along side time attack events for years and would love to give it a go. Great idea.
 

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Yes would be interested in this, and I’d say a lot of people who do track days would also like the idea. Is there other time attack style programs happening over here at minute?

Mondello run "time attack" and "drift days" in addition to the "normal" track days.

There are sprint events all over NI, but that is a bit different, basically one-shot timed laps.

"Time attack" is sort of half way between a trackday and "racing". You will be up against rally cars, sprint cars, drift cars, circuit racers, etc.
 

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Mondello run "time attack" and "drift days" in addition to the "normal" track days.

There are sprint events all over NI, but that is a bit different, basically one-shot timed laps.

"Time attack" is sort of half way between a trackday and "racing". You will be up against rally cars, sprint cars, drift cars, circuit racers, etc.
On track .. but personally your out to beat yourself on the clock. The beauty of it is just as you mentioned .. a full range of cars.
 

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I'd be all over this if I still had my evo.
it's far more sympathetic on the cars too as you're only hooning it for a minute or so at a time & not melting clutches & drive trains doing launches.
used to be very popular for the evo/scooby boys in England.
great idea 👍
 

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I’d be interested as well, something between a sprint and a full track day would be good.

Full track day gets boring and the sprints are good craic but not much seat time.
 

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Are there any autocross style events for road cars in NI? They seem to be popular over in the states and look like fun.
 

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Yes, tons of it, we call them "autotest" over here.

Navigate a tight course with set challenges along the way, going both forwards and reverse. Usually in a big farmyard or an old air field or similar, no track required.

They're on just about every weekend.

Weapons of choice range from wee midgets and MX5 to the likes of Caterhams, etc.

Possibly the cheapest form of motorsport you can do, all about car control. To be competitive it gets expensive and highly specialised though... As with anything, lol.
 

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I don’t think US Autocross and what we do in Autotests are really comparable are they? US Autocross is more like a temporary coned track in a parking lot whereas last time I looked at an Autotest it was more like J turns and crunching gears to slide and reverse into a pretend garage. Certainly not something I would consider doing in a good road car. Autocross looks a bit gentler on the car. I could be mistaken on this though.

I’d love to get involved in motorsport properly but the sheer amount of time involved vs actual driving time always puts me off. Hillclimbs being a prime example. All day of a weekend for what, half a dozen runs up a hill a few minutes long.
 

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I don’t think US Autocross and what we do in Autotests are really comparable are they? US Autocross is more like a temporary coned track in a parking lot whereas last time I looked at an Autotest it was more like J turns and crunching gears to slide and reverse into a pretend garage. Certainly not something I would consider doing in a good road car. Autocross looks a bit gentler on the car. I could be mistaken on this though.

I’d love to get involved in motorsport properly but the sheer amount of time involved vs actual driving time always puts me off. Hillclimbs being a prime example. All day of a weekend for what, half a dozen runs up a hill a few minutes long.

I’m aware of the autocross genre I’d say it’s almost comparable to our sprint series except America has a lot of MASSIVE flat car parks lol

Only issue really is I’d say you still be disappointed in terms of seat time. Competition like that means one/two cars on track at a time and small amount of runs max in a day no matter how you dice it.

Phil
 

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I’d be interested in the timeattack idea for sure.

I believe Mondello already has a series (Irish regs)

Here you probably can’t call it timeattack on less it will actually be ‘timeattack’ as we are in MotorsportUk territory and they own the uk timeattack brand iirc.

That’s said it has been discussed by the speed events teams, so you could maybe start talking to people within the local motorsport world and see what options open up.

Phil
 

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The closest equivalent to the american Autocross in the UK/Ireland is an Autosolo (All forwards Autotest). Autotests or Autosolos are hard on cars but you will learn loads about car control in either. I've been mixing multi-venue autotests alond with some autosolos and targa rallies for the last couple of years in my mx5. I'm currently preparing the car to go to Wales next weekend for a loose surface targa which has around 36 competitive miles in one day and it's a big day. We did it last year and loved it. Done a couple of NI Championship Autotests earler this year which were a big step up for me but I loved it. Looking to do more to the car for more of that next year. For me at least, the direct competitive element makes it much more interesting than track days etc.
 

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No these are daylight events, navigation rallies are run at night. Targas over here are made up of tests that can be up to a mile long and are a bit like autosolos except they are unseen and you have to have a co-driver to interpret a test diagram.


This was a test on last years Dungannon Springfling.


And another on the same event.

The Welsh event has 5 mile long tests on former WRC stages. :p
 
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That's Arthur McMullan, he built a 'new' one that he's been using since September last year. Brilliant to see someone out using interesting stuff.
 
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