Lime Rock June 10-11 SCCA National, Madsen, Foley, Givler represent'n Options

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The SCCA National race will be held at Lime Rock June 10-11. Chris Foley and Ed Givler will be running Fp and Erik Madsen (me) will be running EP. This should be a heck of a weekend. For Ed and Chris MArk Megliola in his Rabbit will be the competition as will the Cefalo boys. For me (Erik) EP will be tough with Chris Fox, Charlie Vaccaro, Jerry Hinkle (lap record holder last I checked) in a lotus. So if I can run with some of those guys and get some points it will be a good run. I am hoping for 1:01 laps, anything less will not meet my expectations. Of course if it rains, I should do very well.

If you have some free time, look us up in the Paddock, we would love to see ya there.

Erik Madsen 914-6 EP

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LRP Race Report.

Disappointing!

I Qualified 10th, behind FP cars and the like. 1:02.21 not very good. Pole was 1:00.571 in a Mazda, and An Elva Courier at 1:01.5, Caterham 1:01.6, So I was 4th in class and 10th overall. Not as well as I had Planned.

Had A few issues, The gearing information I got was not right. 2nd was two low and 3rd too high for two corners, as well as 3rd gear too low and 5 th too high or long, so it basically sucked. After qualifying, found the carb linkage out of adjustment. Pete got some tire temps which caused me to change the front toe to a little less to gain some balance at the limit. During the race this worked well and the car felt better. Still searching for more rear grip.

The Race: 1st Start got waved off, 2nd start was a good one for me ending up 6th by the second corner, then all hell broke loose. A guy in a FP Miata just could'nt wait to make his move and punted a FP Rabbit into the EP Elva, which turned the Elva sideways and being right behind these cars, I found myself going down the hill through the grass and finally back onto the track losing 12-14 positions. After working my way back up to 3rd, I was trying some different things to make the car go faster, one was going down to second for the right before no name straight, this worked okay, but was not as fast as the correct gear would have been. I was behind SEVERAL oil leaking cars, mostly MGBS or Midgets, It was so bad my in car video is useless after about lap 8 due to the lense being covered in oil, so was the front of my car.

So heres what really screwed me. In Practice the day before, I zinged the motor. Probably 10.5-11.0 k. Just making a mental error. afterwards in ran fine. I did not worry or even think about it again until....... Yes, it happened, lap 16 it broke a rocker arm, or at least thats what it seems like. Dropped power big time, and the #5 EGt went "cold". No noise from the engine, no other problems, oil temp okay, oil pressure okay, CHT okay. WTF, Will find out tomorrow. Tough racing on 30 year old components. But what are you going to do.

Finished 5th and 20 laps out of 30 laps. Best Lap 1:02.1 we'll see if I can get it fixed for Beaverun in 1 week.

Erik Madsen