Home Of The Worlds Fastest Rolls Royce
Autosport International is the largest dedicated global motorsport exhibition in Europe.
This annual pre-season network event covers all areas of
motorsport, both professional and grass roots, from karting
right up to Formula One. Held at the NEC since January 1991
it is widely regarded as a showcase event for the UK and
European motorsport industry.
We'll be at the Essen Motorshow in Germany from the 26th of November to the 4th of December with the press day on the 25th of November.
The Essen Motor Show has sucessfully positioned itself as an authority for motor sport and automobile enthusiasts. The world's largest trade exhibition for tuning is also the leading trade exhibition for the entire industry and serves as a source of inspiration and materials for tens of thousands of fans.
We intend to go to Drag Week 2012 in the USA.
There's no event quite like drag week, driving your vehicle 1000 Miles in 5 days, racing at 4 different drag strips along the way and at the end of the trip you could be named HOT ROD'S FASTEST STREET CAR IN AMERICA.
The WG Racing team achieved the first goal for Matt's Outlaw Rolls Royce, a seven-second pass, at the Saturday Night Special at Santa Pod Raceway last weekend.
We went with every intension of running in the sevens. After an off the truck 8.1/171 we went back to the pits and made some minor adjustments to the AMS1000 boost controller. Crew Chief Bill Felstead felt that the car needed more power off the line. After some head-scratching, Matthew and Steve (Scheeky) Strong managed to make some small adjustments without compromising the tune-up which John Sleath had installed.
Down to the line for another attempt to get into the sevens! Our second run netted a 8.28/135. The car lost all power unexpectedly at 800 feet. We were all baffled. On inspection back in the pits, Bill found that the distributor clamp had worked loose causing the distributor to fully retard, hence the motor shutdown. After reinstalling the distributor and changing the plugs, we went out for our third attempt for the day to run that elusive seven which we all desired. Massive launch hitting the wheelie bar hard, and Matthew's foot slipped of the loud pedal unsettling the car. Once back on it, the car veered left and had a small amount of tyre shake. Matt backed off aborting that run. Looking back at the video footage taken by Steve at the start line it was obviously driver error, and not the track. After unfortunate delays it was now 8:00 pm and our last chance to achieve our goal.
After a strong burnout, chute pin pulled, Bill brought Matt to the line as Steve armed the datalogger... we were set. Matt spooled the turbos, let the transbrake button go and the car launched like a Roll Royce possessed! Screeched the tyres through the full quarter with the car moving around a lot at the 800 foot mark but the timing lights said it all, 7.94/175. We had done it!
Now we can really get started and eke away slowly at the sevens. We have a very mild tune in the motor, there is loads more to come as this was only our seventh full pass.
Matthew and I would like to say a huge thank you to Synionic Prolong who have been our oil and lubricant sponsor this season. Their products are in our opinion the best on the market. The full range of prolong products can be found on our on-line shop at www.wgmotorsport.com Thank you to Crew Chief Bill Felstead of Fester Race Cars who has built us an amazing and very safe race car which Matthew has great faith in driving, and for his total dedication in helping Matthew reach his goals. Also a massive thanks to Steve (Schneeky) Strong for his help this season trackside, Neil Warwick for all his IT assistance with the project, Andy Hone for his help along the way, and to our engine tuner and sponsor John Sleath of John Sleath Race Cars. Thank you to our other sponsors, D3 Creative, Carpets for Less and Samco Hoses.
Straight out of the Transporter with no chassis setup and the car has run an 8.092 qtr mile at 168.5 mph.
The next outing will have more power from the engine and
the chassis tuned to get a better launch