Racing Jupiter Updates
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:23 am
Dear All
We manged to take our Jup to a track day at Goodwood on the 16th March just as the lock down was introduced. This was our first outing since the engine had been tuned in Stourbridge. Julian Crossley (of racing Javelin fame) has agreed to co-drive with us at Classic Le Mans and this was his first drive of the car. We were timing "unoffically" and by the end of the day Julian was lapping at around 1.51 and Goodwood circuit is 2.367 miles long. When he raced at the Goodwood Revival last year (with Christian Horner as his co-driver) he was getting around 1.45 so we were absolutely delighted!
There's been no official notification of a change of date for Classic Le Mans as yet but proper Le Mans has been pushed back to September and I can only assume the Classic will follow suit. No sign of any racing for the forseesable future which is disappointing but our new gearbox will hopefully make an appearance at some stage which Julian thinks would get us into the 1.48s for Goodwood.
Assuming that Classic Le Mans does go ahead then at some stage we will hopefully ask Keith C to have a good look over the car and we can also make a plan as to what spares we need to take with us. Richard Gane will also be competing so we plan to collaborate as Team Javelin with Keith supporting both cars!
We manged to take our Jup to a track day at Goodwood on the 16th March just as the lock down was introduced. This was our first outing since the engine had been tuned in Stourbridge. Julian Crossley (of racing Javelin fame) has agreed to co-drive with us at Classic Le Mans and this was his first drive of the car. We were timing "unoffically" and by the end of the day Julian was lapping at around 1.51 and Goodwood circuit is 2.367 miles long. When he raced at the Goodwood Revival last year (with Christian Horner as his co-driver) he was getting around 1.45 so we were absolutely delighted!
There's been no official notification of a change of date for Classic Le Mans as yet but proper Le Mans has been pushed back to September and I can only assume the Classic will follow suit. No sign of any racing for the forseesable future which is disappointing but our new gearbox will hopefully make an appearance at some stage which Julian thinks would get us into the 1.48s for Goodwood.
Assuming that Classic Le Mans does go ahead then at some stage we will hopefully ask Keith C to have a good look over the car and we can also make a plan as to what spares we need to take with us. Richard Gane will also be competing so we plan to collaborate as Team Javelin with Keith supporting both cars!
