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FLAT OUT AT SILVERSTONE IN THE NINETIE’S £400K+ SUPER TOURERS… NOW THEY COULD BE YOURS FOR JUST £20K. READ THE INSIDE STORY ON NISSAN’S 1999 CHAMPIONSHIP WIN, TECH AND LESLIE TRIBUTE
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7 NEWSAll the latest paddock gossip
14 SUPER TOURERSTwo of the most expensive Nissan Primera BTCC cars from the 90s make a welcome return to the circuit
21 (LOTS OF) LOCOSTSEntry level motor racing doesn’t get any closer than these home-built Locosts, track tested at Brands Hatch
28 FIAT X19Original road examples may look slightly cheap but this carbon-fibre race machine is anything but…
94 ROUGH GUIDEHow to get involved: Car Trials
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39 PALMERSPORT AT BEDFORDA heavenly mix of exotic supercars and gritty race cars make for an exciting day out for all
89 TRACK & TEST DAY DIARYMake a date in your diary courtesy of our diary: the most comprehensive track day listings known to man
51 NISSAN 200SX BUILDPart four of the cheap track toy converted with British built and sourced components
59 OUR CARSOur pile of rust for all to see… We that’s Andrew’s page. This month sees yet more cars!
77 NEW PRODUCTSTesting the latest gear and showcasing the products you need
94 CLASSIFIEDPick up a track and race bargain from our packed classifieds
36 RACING STARTSAll you need to know about race starts
46 CASTLE COMBE GUIDE The second part of our circuit guide
86 GO RACINGSee how easy it is to get started
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R esearching our cover story on the two Nissan Primera Super Touring cars revealed a number of very interesting facts and - more fittingly - figures. While today we’re, very much, penny pinching our way through the race season, ten years ago some of the top BTCC teams were spending over £4 million of manufacturer funding on their
supersonic rep-mobiles.I won’t go into too much detail now but you can’t fail to miss the full story of why
they cost so much to create and why they are now as cheap to buy as a Clio Cup car. Make time to read this in-depth feature over on page 14. Talking of Clios we’ve got an insightful column from Phil Glew over on p63.
Glew - who is currently leading the Clio Cup Championship - joins us and our other two new columnist, Joe Osborne and Nick Padmore, among the Our Car pages. Together these three international racing drivers have all started their racing careers from humble beginnings and, over the remaining season, will share with us some of those secret insider information you only get from the pit-lane.
Keith Wood
Editor
ISSUE 62
Roberto GiordanelliEuro Correspondent
Has mostly been?Fitting his new set of Carbone Lorraine brake pads for the Lotus 26R and looking into buying a new crash helmet
Andrew BrownPhotographer
Has mostly been?Capturing the iconic Nissan Primera BTCC cars at Silverstone. Oh and updating his profile on FaceBook…
John HaymanSpecial Correspondent
Has mostly been?Driving as many Locosts as possible during a four-session test day. Probably lost weight. Then put it back on
Tom SaundersAd Manager
Has mostly been?Amazingly turned down the chance to drive the PalmerSport cars at Bedford (p39). Miserable ever since
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DON’T MISS INSIDE……your chance to win a set of Carbone Lorraine brake pads for your track or race car on p57
…our Nissan 200SX over on p59 - it has a set of suspension specially created by BAD. Whose BAD?
…our Nissan 200SX over on p59 - it has a set of suspension specially created by BAD. Whose BAD?…the latest race reports from the TRC Pre-93 Touring Cars and the TRC Monoposto over on p72
…book your place at the Track & Race Cars Action Day at Brands Hatch! Flick to p68 now
TEAM TRC CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Birch, Tony Murray, Joe Osborne, Nick Padmore, Phil Glew, Andy Glenister, Paul Williams, Simon Davey, Norwich Photo
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SPORT / RML Nissan Primeras
TRCMAGAZINE.COM - JUNE 2009
Below: This 1999 Nissan Primera was driven by the late, great David Leslie to second in that season’s BTCC Driver Championship…
With the world
watching their
pennies in these
unsettling times
of financial
uncertainty I suppose this feature on
these ludicrously outrageous Super
Touring cars may on the face of it seem
shortsighted. If we could step back in
time to the era when these detailed
tourers were competing successfully in
the British Touring Car Championship
(BTCC) and you’d be right, in fact these
two cars alone would have probably cost
in the region of just under £1 million of
your hard-earned to buy them as a pair.
Even more staggering was the funds
required to run a team for a season which
started at around £4 million… Renault
(who employed Williams F1 to build
them a car) was rumoured to spend as
much as £6.5 million and beyond.
The reason these supersonic tin
tops demanded such extravagant
budgets was fundamentally chargeable
to the complex technology hidden
away underneath an innocent looking
production road car shell. If we were able
to virtually peel back the modest looking
bodywork, staring back would essentially
be a space-frame chassis, hordes of
carbon fibre and a highly complex
engine which was also positioned so
deep and low into the bulkhead it was
barely recognisable. These may have
been tagged Super Tourers but they
were more like thoroughly modern
Thundersaloons, albeit ones with
power running through the front drive-
shafts. Thankfully today, unlike the
Thundersaloons of yesteryears, ex-BTCC
cars swamp the second hand market…
and they’re cheap.
Cheap isn’t exactly the best of words
to use when describing the two cars
we’ve got splashed across the cover
and this feature. After all it is very
easy to mistake them as being shoddy,
so I suppose ‘affordable’ is a much
more fitting and complimentary. But
whatever I pluck from the dictionary
the truth is these two RML built Nissan
Super Tourers were in their day a very,
very, expensive commodity indeed.
Winners of the 1998 and 1999 BTCC
Manufacturers Championship, the
Drivers Championship in 1999 while
beating the likes of the well funded Ford,
Renault and Vauxhall outfits. It was also
followed up by an Independents Drivers
Championship in the hands of the lofty
Matt Neal in 1999 and 2000. So rather
fittingly our two feature cars recorded
some of Nissan’s finest achievements.
THE HISTORYTracing the steps to Nissan’s 1999
Championship white-wash with the
Primera really does take us on a wild
roller-coaster ride. It all kicked off with
JanSpeed Racing back in 1991. These
SUPERCHEAPBack in the late nineties the BTCC was swamped by multi-million pound budgets, Formula One built cars and superstar drivers. Ten years on and these highly sophisticated Super Tourers are copping up for sale for knockdown prices. Keith Wood investigates…Photography: Andrew Brown
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early Nissan’s were built by János Ódor
(founded and team manager of the
JanSpeed racing team) with his late son
Kieth Ódor as its number one driver
alongside such teammates as Julian
Bailey, Andy Middlehurst, James Weaver,
Win Percy, Tiff Needell and Eric van de
Poele. The highest placed was Ódor
who managed to bring the car home in
sixth in the Drivers Championship but
these cars weren’t competitive enough
and the JanSpeed program came to
an end in 1994. A missed year in 1995
saw a comeback in 1996 by the (often
forgotten) Rouse Sport Nissan Primera
Team but the real change came in 1997.
Although wilder versions of the
Primera came in the shape of four-
wheel drive (for Team Rosberg’s entry
into the German Super Touring Series
in 1997 and 1998) these would never
of happened if it wasn’t for Nissan
Motorsport Europe (NME) for the
collaboration with Ray Mallock Ltd (or
now known as RML Group, RML), the
formidable yet quiet motorsport giant.
This combination would prove to be
priceless for the second generation
Primera (or known as the P11) and
this was partly due to NME’s General
Manager, Alex Poole. NME’’s boss was
once a BTCC champ himself (winning
the 1969 One-Litre Championship in a
Mini) and knew only too well what was
required for Nissan to lift the crown. So
using his Irish charm he stole RML away
from Nissan’s main rival, blagging “we’re
a better bet than Vauxhall”.
Together with Stewart Ayling (RML
Engineer) and Richard Devilla (NME
Designer) the project was given an
immediate (and much needed) boost
for the 1997 season, especially when
controlled by the exceptionally talented
Mark Busfield (now team manager for
RML’s Chevrolet WTCC team). Nissan’s
first season showed huge potential but it
wasn’t until 1998 that the cars started to
take shape, claiming the Manufacturer’s
title, followed by the faultless season
in ‘99, not only was the Manufacturer’s
crown retained but the drivers also
finished in first (Laurent Aïello) and
second (David Leslie). That year Nissan
totally dominated and RML racked up the
most wins, poles, podiums, fastest laps
and laps lead.
That same season also brought Matt
Neal some silverware in the way of his
Independent Championship courtesy
of Team Dynamics (in an RML Nissan
Primera) and again the following year
in 2000. With Nissan pulling the plug
Nissan’s first season showed huge potential but it wasn’t until 1998 that the cars started to take shape, claiming the Manufacturer’s title,
followed by the faultless season in ‘99 when it took the double
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Below: … but, alternatively, this ‘98 ex-Matt Neal Primera helped scoop him the Independents trophy that same ‘99 season
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No matter how hard
we try to convince
our better half’s
and offspring (or
ourselves even),
there’s no hiding from the fact that
circuit club racing is an expensive
hobby. However, in relative terms there’s
expensive and there’s budget - and it
doesn’t get much cheaper than Locost’s…
if at all. Especially not when other
crucial factors are considered, such as
participating in a series that has capacity
grids along with guaranteed close racing,
that‘s for sure.
So low costs, full grids and closeness
is the fundamental reasoning behind the
Locost series - one that started with a
book of all things, Ron Champion’s ‘Build
yourself a sports car for less than £250
- and race it’. Although the price that
early Ford Escorts currently command,
the £250 part of the title is now rather
optimistic. But just like in the post war
good old days when homebuilt two-
seater specials were the norm, today with
that book in hand, and the ingenuity of
the home builder still present, the same
can be achieved.
To do so, you’ll need a donor 1300
Ford Crossflow from an Escort and
time - or alternatively enough wonga
to buy either a pre-built racer, or a
manufactured car. And from what I‘ve
seen and heard, requisite skills such as
engineering aren’t a requirement, for
over the years those that didn’t posses
any have successfully completed a Locost
with time and dedication.
So lets hear more from the horses
mouth as such, from the people who
actually built and race their Locost’s
- those that I can’t thank enough for
bringing their pride and joy along to the
test day at MSV’s Brands Hatch circuit for
me to drive.
And I’ll kick off with the man and
his car who also organised getting
everybody here, Mr Brian Micham, “Our
Locost was built in 2000 by myself with
help from Robert Balaam, Ian Kemp and
my son William.”
“William was involved because the
idea was to get him into a full size racing
car after him having been one of the
UK’s top 1/10 scale model car drivers for
a number of years, winning the UK Off
Above: Second-hand values for Locosts can start at £3,500 and rise to just £8,000 for a championship winning car. Great value and even better racing, see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjVakbNNMY
Photography: Andrew Brown
The 750MC Locost Championship is the ideal home for any budding clubman racing driver on a tight budget. John Hayman tests four of the best and discovers why the top ten are seperated by tenths not seconds.
SMALL BUDGET BIG FUN
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SPORT / Dallara Fiat X1/9 Track Test
TRCMAGAZINE.COM - JUNE 2009
With 457bhp-per-
tonne you just
know that this is
going to be quite
a ride. But first,
let’s go back to 1972, when the Bertone
designed, targa-topped X1/9 was a very
advanced car. It was the world’s first
mass-produced, mid-engined sports car,
and as it could out-handle most cars on
the road. Obviously, it was screaming
out to be raced. This track test looks at
the evolution of a 1972 X1/9 (chassis no:
2897) from an Italian hillclimb car into
the engineering excellence and madness
you see before you. It was painted yellow
for its first outing but quickly adopted
the blue colour scheme of Italian race car
manufacturer, Dallara.
This story starts when back in the
early 1970s the USA was about to
introduce stringent crash test laws:
50mph head-on and 80mph roll-over
survivability. Fiat had cleverly built the
X1/9 to meet these tough requirements
which – in the end – did not happen.
These robust little cars came with two
ample luggage compartments, a full size
spare wheel and enough room for two
big adults. Kerb weight for a standard car
was 900kg and power was either 73bhp
(1300cc) or in 1978-89, 85bhp (1500cc).
Between 1972 and the Gran Finale of
1989, Fiat and Bertone made 200,000
X1/9s. Most X1/9s went to the USA. The
UK was also a good market where the
X1/9 created the hairdresser label; now
par for the course with open-top cars.
Italians – ever pragmatic - were not so
keen, and very few were sold on the
home market; those that were quickly
found their place in motorsport.
PROJECT X1/9Small, compact and yet it churns out a staggering 457bhp-per-tonne. As a respectful nod towards the late Dallara conversions, Roberto Giordanelli straps into one of the wildest Fiat X1/9 ever.
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ARRIVE & DRIVE
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We send Mike Wood, our Editorial Assistant, kicking and screaming to play in Palmer Sport’s wonderful array of exceptional machinery…Photography: Andrew Brown
Below: The latest single seaters offer onboard video, Jaguar V6 power and full slicks. Unfortunately you only get to take the recorded footage home with you, not the car…
As the youngest in a
motorsport obsessed
family it was impossible
to get away from the
sound of revved engines
and screeching tyres. I simply rejected
the entertainment value of the sport.
Why? I saw so much racing that I simply
became frustrated and bored by it all.
I was dragged to karting events at the
weekends as my two elder brothers
raced around Buckmore Park or Tilbury
circuits, being too young to stay at home
I reluctantly watched on, willing the rest
of the day to speed along so I could go
home. Unfortunately as time went on my
brothers rapidly progressed through
the ranks to Formula Fords and I then
followed the same pattern of enduring
yet more racing, albeit at Brands Hatch or
Lydden Hill.
My initial lack of enthusiasm for motor
sport wasn’t a direct result of never
having the opportunity to race myself - I
was offered the chance to kart, but duly
rejected. In fact my only real racing
experience came from a school karting
trip to Buckmore Park. I managed to
surprise myself by really enjoying it and
faired well, even making it to the finals
- winning one race and finishing third
in another. I was (amazingly) extremely
competitive and loved the sensation
of beating people on the circuit. Hmm,
maybe this racing malarky isn’t so bad
after all…
So, as you may have expected, when
first joining Track & Race Cars Magazine
I still had a lot to learn. Look past my
enthusiasm for journalism and I didn’t
have any ‘real’ driving experience and
zero mechanical knowledge. So after
steadily compiling the News and New
Products for this very magazine, I’ve
tried desperately to soak up as much
as possible and so far it’s all been plain
sailing. Until one monday morning when
I was offered the opportunity to sample
a Palmer Sport event at the wonderful
Bedford Autodrome. It was finally time
to dig deep through all the information I
had absorbed for the last year and put it
to the practical test.
Palmer Sport is a driving event with
all the trimmings. You are empowered to
drive seven different high performance
cars over the day and all the while
competing against likewise guests for
such accolades as the ‘quickest lap time’
in each of the cars. In all of them (except
one) is an experienced race instructor
who helps you to get the most out of each
car. These aren’t dumbed down regular
school cars though, they include a
Formula Jaguar (a bespoke Palmer Sport
single seater with V6 power), the Palmer
Jaguar JP1, a Porsche 911 JP3, the latest
Renault Clio Cup, a drift happy Caterham
Superlight, the silky smooth Jaguar XKR
and a Land Rover Defender (used to
THE REAL DEAL
Above: We send our resident rookie to taste the thrill of motorsport courtesy of Palmer Sport
All of the instructors have to pass a high standard test before they can teach at Palmer Sport and majority have raced at some kind of level,
even Lewis Hamilton used to be an instructor here.
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TECH / Latest race gear
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offer these flywheels to Mazda enthusiasts in Europe.
The friction surfaces are removable to allow them to
be changed if worn or damaged without the need to
replace the whole flywheel. They come complete with
a heat-treated ring gear and military-grade fasteners,
and can be paired with almost any clutch disc material
available - from organic to Kevlar® and even sintered
iron. Great, but has anyone got one of these wild
Mazda 3 models out on track? If so we want to know!
HOW MUCH? £498.16 plus shipping
WHO? Fidanza
WHERE? www.fidanza.com
MAZDA 3 FIDANZA FLYWHEEL
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QUOTETRC WHEN BUYING
Look out for Pro-Race and its floor mounted three pedal bias
adjustable brake system. It has adjustable spring loaded accelerator
pedal which allows the pedal to be positioned exactly to your
requirements plus a balance bar giving you total control over the
front to rear braking. It also includes light weight accelerator linkage
and will accept single or twin cables. The actual weight of the
complete unit is just 2.6kg. Yum!
HOW MUCH? From £172.00 plus vat
WHO? PRO-RACE
WHERE? www.obp.uk.net
OBP PRO-RACE HIGH PERFORMANCE PEDALS
New Lotus Twin Cam cylinder heads are available from
Burton Power. The heads are cast in LM25TF from new
tooling and are available from stock as a fully machined
head to ‘Sprint’ spec which includes cam caps, cam cap
studs, fitted hardened valve seats and Colisbro valve
guides. Additional modifications to higher specs are
available on request to customers own specifications.
Since the heads are cast using modern materials and
technology, there is no need for tappet sleeves or cam
bearings – both cams and tappets run directly in the head
as you would expect on a modern engine. We like!
HOW MUCH? From £3450.00 inc VAT
WHO? Burton Power
WHERE? www.burtonpower.com
BRAND NEW LOTUS CORTINA CYLINDER HEAD FROM BURTON POWER
OBP PRO-RACE HIGH OBP PRO-RACE HIGH
Piper exhausts ever growing range now includes a complete turbo back system for the track
day special Noble M12 GTO. The complete turbo back exhaust system is suitable for Noble M12
GTO from 2003-2007, and comes complete with Ceramic coated downpipes as
standard. Should add a bit of punch too…
HOW MUCH? From £2115.00 inc VAT
WHO? Piper Performance Exhaust
WHERE? www.piperexhausts.co.uk
NOBLE M12EXHAUST
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