Look what Santa brought me!

Yeah! shiny bits, all pretty and new, Stuart has put a lot of work into this engine my only hope is as a driver I can stay in front of him, "yes you did here correct news flash Stu will be racing in the Challenge, and people he is kinda quick I am intimidated....NOT!

No seriously this year is gonna be soooooo much fun for me, I`ll make him eat some of those words about ,"you should have taken that flat out, or you can go faster round that corner, or you are loosing so much time if you just did it like this", well we will see now wont we..snigger, oh this year will be fun.

At the moment I am dealing on a MK2 so we can be getting that ready for 2008, nothing like being organised, but Stu will stay to give the MK1`s a run for there money ," he will be on pace by then I`m sure".

Why I had to retire at Snetterton last races of 2006

Since the end of the racing season Stuart has stripped and inspected my race engine. If you remember i had to retire from the last two races at Snetterton at the end of the year, due to a smoking engine. As Snetterton is a long, fast circuit the engine rev`s are held higher and longer than any other circuit we have raced it, this causes a higher oil pressure than normal, the exess pressure in the MR2 engine is relived by an oil pump relif valve, which dumps the excess back to the sump. This was my problem on stripping the engine Stuart found the relif valve stuck. This would cause the excess oil to fill up the cylinder head, leading to it getting into the inlet side, causing the smoking. Stuart had intended to fully strip the engine at the end of the season this was fully rebuilt engine for this year so things needed checking, he has re-honed the cylinders to help it rev a bit more as after a season racing we have only done 680 miles on the engine, he has replaced the piston rings, main and big end bearings,he is also fitting a new cambelt and clutch plate(just to be sure i`ve had problems before and while its stripped down we gave it some xmas prezzies) so hoping for a mechanically sound year . we have also had the cylinder head apart, checked the valve seats, and springs, replaced the valve seals and reset the tappets. so all rebuilt and ready to go into my new car.....looking forward to 2007.

Making head lines

Our local paper is hot on the press with my updates, and have just printed my yearly results and accomplishments, being female I have the luxury of being popular with the press, but it is earned!

I would like to thank the Evening Telegraph for all there efforts in printing my reports through this year,
and I hope our great relationship will continue.