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Retrocars again!

Postby peterg » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:20 pm

This month has a Renault turbo shoot out....no GTAs mind as it was the RTOC and not an elite club like ours :lol: Red21 is in there, and theres a neat 5 T2. The R5 GTT that was in the same speed series as me this year is also in there and I sort of get a mention.....says they were neck and neck with a GTA all season....thats me!! :D (except they were in mod prod....and I beat them overall 8) )
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Postby RED21 » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:17 pm

Thats me, :D :D :D :D
It was along two days for me, up at 4:30am back home at 10:30-10:45pm then up again at 4:30am the next day for work so I was absolutely knackered.
The best part of the Retro car day was on the track using part of the old runway where 130 mph+ does not seem that fast (Ok it’s not really) but then again I was not using all the engine rpm or gears as I had Longleat that weekend so no risks were taken.
Tony Hart from Prima did bring his GTA along, so Alpine did have some form of representation there.
If you want laugh or not! I have my season report done so drop me an e-mail titled “Season report” and I will send it onwards.
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Postby peterg » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:08 am

Will it not just post on the the events bit? Why didnt they put the GTA on there as well??? Seems odd that they had something different there and didnt use it.....especially when there were so many 5 s there.
The 5 GTT guys I know had a bit of a mare I think....if I remember correctly they ended up having to buy a new turbo afterwards!!!!
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Postby clee » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:08 pm

Good to finally see RED21 in the flesh ........... 8)
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Postby peterg » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:00 pm

In the flesh???!!!! I thought he was fully clothed.....jesus that mag. gets close to the knuckle sometimes :lol: :lol:
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Postby clee » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:04 pm

Shite :!: Picked up Retro-bras by mistake :oops:
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Postby steveatyork » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:46 pm

why cant we do a group thrash as you never really see alpines in mags and not many people even know what one is even at renault they were some people asking me to describe the car to them :lol:
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Postby clee » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:12 pm

Tis galling that a car like this gets systematically ignored :evil:
Was looking through some classic online price guides and many don't even list it,but the 5'S there ( I is not dissing the 5 ,I like the 5 ) but ................................................as a classic Renault it's unknown and as an Alpine it's slightly looked down upon .
Again as the only Renault approved Alpine club in the UK ,it's up to us to push it forwards .
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Postby RED21 » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:15 pm

peterg wrote:Will it not just post on the the events bit? Why didnt they put the GTA on there as well??? Seems odd that they had something different there and didnt use it.....especially when there were so many 5 s there.
The 5 GTT guys I know had a bit of a mare I think....if I remember correctly they ended up having to buy a new turbo afterwards!!!!


The reason they didn't have the GTA in the article because it had no racing history as an individual car plus it wasn’t registered to take part.
I cannot post the season report, as it is a whopping 5.6Mb including pictures so I can only e-mail. Yeah, Tony & Paul were complaining of poor boost levels until they came in smoking :?
Clee, Even I don’t want to see me in the flesh!!!!!!!!!:shock: :shock:
Someone should push to get some Aplines in a magazine just to show what all those Porsche people are missing.
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Postby steveatyork » Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:32 am

im deffo up for a group feature but my car wont be on the road till next year :(
probably best waiting till then when the nice weather comes back
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Postby Alpineandy » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:39 pm

I understand that the next one is with subscribers, so It'll be in the shops next week. I hear it has an article about rebuilding Renault Turbo motors (probably 21 or 5GT engines...).
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Postby David Gentleman » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:20 pm

RED21 wrote:
peterg wrote:Will it not just post on the the events bit? Why didnt they put the GTA on there as well??? Seems odd that they had something different there and didnt use it.....especially when there were so many 5 s there.
The 5 GTT guys I know had a bit of a mare I think....if I remember correctly they ended up having to buy a new turbo afterwards!!!!


The reason they didn't have the GTA in the article because it had no racing history as an individual car .


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Postby peterg » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:09 pm

No...youve missed the point....the GTA that was there wasnt one with a racing history, it was purely a road car. If I had turned up, or anyone else who competes in a GTA then they would have featured it....but as the cars were supplied by RTOC which has no GTA owners that compete (at all??) it was impossible!


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