Croft Hill Climb - How not to do it

Alan Soutar will need Red Bull to give him some wings after he writes off the current set in the Mondiale M84T at Croft Hill Climb in Holywoon, Northern Ireland. Perfect display of an excess of confidence over competence!!!!!

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• alan
• peter
• carvill
• soutar
• croft
• hill
• climb
• holywood
• mondiale
• formula
• ford
• 2000
• ff
• doonbegrosie

[clausm2]

Hi!

Regarding tires, I have tried a bit different tires on my '84 Reynard FF2000.

I found out that Dunlop Clubman tires are highly recommendable. I can drive 14-15 heats on a set before they are worn, and they are almost just as fast worn, as they are new.

Best of all: They almost doesn't need any heat to generate grip, and they are really easy to drive.

There are different shores available. I think its the 894 I use - its the hardest available.

[doonbegrosie]

Thanks for this Mr Fox. (Reynard.... get it???) We've been using AVON sprint compound which is usually very good but the ones at Croft were at the end of their useful life. I'll take a look at the Dunlops.... they might be cheaper!!!

[tsj73]

what is the car? more rear wing needed???

[doonbegrosie]

Its a Mondiale Formula Ford 2000 built in Northern Ireland using a 2 litre ford zetec engine.

Problem that day was crap tyres!!!

[tsj73]

i thought it was a FF2000 but i didt want to say so incase it was one of those purpose built hill/sprint single seater chassis. Looks like its set up well , i watched another clip at Kirkistown sprint.What sort of money is the car standing you? and have you ever done the scarey calculation of cost per meeting?

[doonbegrosie]

All things are relative I suppose but the car is not expensive to run provided you don't knock any corners off and don't take things too competitively. We get one season from rear tyres and two seasons from the fronts. Many competitors will use three or four sets a year to get that extra 100th of a second but we do it for the craic, not the glory. Peter and I bought the car in 1995 for a couple of grand. Biggest expense was moving from Pinto to Zetec but reliability was worth it.

[Right2PwnProductions]

1:05 "Fuck you bumper"

[serchmarc]

how much to build 1 of these i want 1,be hones 5000 10000 40000 :)

[Fernandohv45]

He was on the wrong gear for me. more rpm = more grip, including the fact that the road has a LOT of bump.....so, this is my opinion.

[n33dw33d3333]

what a shit car

[lIIustration]

WTF?! look at how much he's correcting the car. Why the hell would they tune it like that?! there's way too much oversteer.

[iain399]

Nice going until then - lots of corrections, you kept it just right - it was almost as if you thought that corner might be tighter and longer than it was. Anyway, great clip - shows how difficult those events are, like Monaco but with mud at all the corners!

[Vecio88C]

huge oversteer!!!

[bradkrit]

I like how you left just enough video at the beginning and end, rather than cutting it all short, or having several minutes of garbage. Good edit!

[DarthSparhawk]

Ouch about the vid description. Even Vettel made clumsy mistakes, it's human to err.

[Sursion7]

Needs more traction control ^_^