Formula Vee BATHURST 2008 - Race 2 - Tim Hamilton [PART 2/2]

[Part 2 of 2. See below for links to further parts]
Australia. 2008 WPS Bathurst Motor Festival FORMULA VEE CHALLENGE.
Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales. February 8-10 2008.
Field of 55 Formula Vee's competing.
Onboard with Tim Hamilton, Race 2 starting from 5th, 6 laps.

Starting 5th, Tim looses a number of positions early on, falling as low as 10th. Despite getting back to 6th, the lead group had towed away and an enthralling battle began with Gary Ogden (Mako 04) for the position. Racing side-by-side across McPhillamy (the mountain top) was a brave and daring highlight for the combatants.

Unfortunately, nearing the end of lap 6, Tim makes heavy contact with the wall exiting Forest's Elbow (T18, onto Conrod Straight) resulting in a non-finish (DNF). Suspected to be as a result of choosing too-higher tyre pressures, Tim was battling a nervous & twitchy lack of grip, with both chronic under-steer and over-steer. Simply driver error, pushing too hard with oversteer through Forest Elbow, finally caught up to end the weekend.

With no spares package, the damage was not repairable for the final race.


DNF. 8th fastest lap time (2:45.7884 on lap 4).

Race won by Ben Porter (Checkmate JP02) from Ryan Simpson (Jacer F2K6) and David Cutts (Jacer F2K6).


+++[For PART 1: follow link below]+++
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=O076_8BQFjg
+++[For PART 2: follow link below]+++
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOAQxHdlig

+++[Race 1 footage begins at link below]+++
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fb1h_GKqw4M

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[htutke82]

Great driving. Its a shame that there was a mistake. I race KF2 kart and wandering if I should try something like that. The thing with Kf2 is its pretty powerful for a kart and it took a while for me to get used to the power. I am wandering if I am ready for that kind of thing you are doing. Any suggestion?

[zerofightxD]

curve that had saved him several times already, and you could see who understood him, but he wanted to push ... a good pilot must also know the limits of the car, has made a big error

[tigersyear]

Thanks for posting your films. Wonderfully exciting to watch.

[beeDUB75]

ouch! What a pity, great driving otherwise. It looked like it only stepped out a little. Though with unforgiving walls that's all it needs to. That was fantastic and what a thrill to drive on the great Mount Panorama.

[vppa100]

very nice vid!! nice driving, except that one corner.

better luck next time !!

[alexellis38]

try takign the corner you wrecked on twice tighter, ive watched a bunch of ur videos and ur really good except that one corner. lol its a pain when you just cant get 1 and it ruins a whole weekend.

[alexandreschumacher]

nice!

how much does a season cost in these series?

thnx.

[mickeynismocat]

better luck bruv!!