Shakespeare County Raceway

[Jib]

Myself and a friend on the strip at Shakespeare County Raceway His car is a 306 GTi-6:



In my defence, his car is stripped and hes done the whole drag thing before!

Quite pleased with how i got seen as though its my first time on a strip!

My quickest time was 16.033secs at 89.61mph.

Im not too sure if this is a respectable time or not.

Any ideas?

 

[Jamin Berry]

Seems like a all right time to me. How did you find the whole set up there?

 

[Jib]

Was really good. £10 to get into the show ground and £20 for unlimited runs during the day.

Going to York Raceway in October hopefully.

 

[fresh_creps]

Which engine you have 2.0 16v or 8v or 1.8 16v?

I had a race with a 306 gti (i've got the 1.8 16v) and we were pretty much dead level although I was pulling away slightly until the higher gears where he started to catch up. But his 306 definatly wasn't stripped which does help a hell of a lot.

Nice one on going on the strip though!Haven't been to one yet but had plenty of practice on my err...private road

 

[Jib]

It's a 16v mate.

Sorry dude but just because you were faster that the 306 on a 'private road', doesn't make me think you would be quicker down a quarter mile. Proper drag strips are kitted out with the proper timming equipment and the strip itself isn't your average tarmaced road.

Also, are you sure it was a GTi-6 you were racing!!!?

Civic Type R's were getting high 15's!

 

[fresh_creps]

yes mate definatly,as we were slowing down he even rolled his window down to ask what engine was in my car lol,looked pretty shocked

 

[Jib]

Ok, has your beeza been RR'd? Would be quite interesting to see what figures its kicking out as GTi-6's are around the 165bhp mark!

 

[fresh_creps]

Nah not yet,on my list of things to get done.

Only got a full stainless exhaust system and ram air induction so doubt it would be running much more power

 

[Jib]

hmmm would be quite interesting to see. What do the 1.8's kick out as standard? I dont know much about them tbh.

 

[fresh_creps]

sposed to be 130bhp as standard but after 11 years I'm guessing it's lost 1 or 2 so with my mods should be back up to standard lol or hopefully just above.

Well I'm hoping to come to one of the meets/rolling road days sometime,just wanting my car to be almost finished before I do

 

[Jib]

Ok, i fail to see how your car could be dead equal with a GTi-6 but i won't knock it till i see it pal!

 

[fresh_creps]

Lol I can understand your skepticism as everyone has different experiences,driver ability,car performance etc.

The gti-6 is only 8.5 to 60 so roughly the same spec as my car anyways,the fact your mates one is stripped out is gonna help a hell of a lot.

 

[Jib]

Sorry to keep correcting you dude but i have a friend who has had more GTi-6 than i have had hot dinners in my 21 years of existance.

Right here goes, Peugeot said the GTi-6 was 8.5 to 60 to make the insurance cheaper (even though its still group 17!). In reality, GTi-6 are quite capable of achieving 60mph in the low 7's!

Also, stripping a car out can't shave a 0-60 time by a whole second!

 

[fresh_creps]

Ok thats fair enough,not really clued up on the gti-6,just saw the badge and looked it up on parkers .Although it says insurance group 15 on there...

Simplest explanation then is that the dude i was racing was an absolute tool lol,or had a re-badged Peugeot?

 

[Jib]

Possibaly both!