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I'm hoping to fill in some missing info in the car database and wondered if anyone has any contact details (email addresses, phone numbers, company names where they worked - anything really) for the owners of the following cars:

Team/car Name	Last seen	Last Race#	Owner/Entrant name
BTM Racing	2009	88	Fergus Mcleod
Crusader Vans 2	2008	48	Martin Sadler
2 Smoking Barrels	2007	77	Jon Davies
John-Paul Wilkinson		99	John-Paul Wilkinson
Laurence Broadhurst			Laurence Broadhurst
Simon Pearson			Simon Pearson
Murfcedes			Paul Murphy

If you do, please can you PM me rather than replying to this post.

A couple of people have asked where the UK Hybrid regulations are. They can be found here: http://www.2cvracing.org.uk/joinus/ at the bottom of the page is a link to the .pdf file.

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Here are the draft regulations for the UK Hybrid Class. These are all Technical Regulations and are strongly based on the UK Club Class Technical Regulations. They are based on our experience from preparing a car for a 6 hour race at Zandvoort in June and preparing 2 cars for the Spa 24 hour race in October. There are still some diagrams to create, but I wanted to let everyone know what our thoughts were in some detail before the AGM.

Please remember that these regulations do NOT allow cars in this class to race in the UK at any event organised by the Classic 2CV Racing Club.

Still recovering from one of the best races in any calendar (my thanks to everyone for making Anglesey GREAT), but in the cold light of day I'm looking at what I've got to do in preparation for next season. I've got 2 engines and both were rebuilt at the beginning of this season. The engine we ran at Anglesey was significantly slower at the end of the race than at the beginning and the other engine is 3 seconds a lap off the pace. Both need rebuilding and I'm smarting at the cost. Kris built an engine for Anglesey and it had £1200 of bits and services (rolling road time and travel etc.) in it. He did all the labour (porting the heads, setting the cam timing, cleaning everything and carefully putting it together) on top of the parts cost. I'm probably looking at around £1250 each for my engine rebuilds plus setting them up and getting the fuelling right.

So, my thoughts turn to 'How can I make this cheaper? Can I continue to spend £3000 every year on engine rebuilds, rolling road time and extra testing time?'. Over the past 3 years I've made some mistakes and used the wrong people to do things (Sammie has rescued me on every occasion), but I've spent the best part of £15k on my car – almost entirely on engine work. I thought 2CV racing was going to be the cheapest form of motorsport and in truth it isn't.

There have been many ideas about having a level playing field and reducing costs over the last couple of years. We've had the 'Injection' idea, the 'BMW R1100' idea, the 'C1 engine & gearbox' idea and probably some others. I'm not proposing anything other than let's have some discussion about the future of the club and the sustainability of racing costs. We've had a good turnout for the sprint races this season, but the 24hr was disappointingly supported (there may be many other reasons for this) by 2CVs and without the Minis and Euros we would have faced big losses for the event.

The future of 2CV racing is being challenged by parts getting scarcer, the quality of some aftermarket spares falling and cars getting more valuable. We can stick our heads in the sand and ignore the fact that the world is changing or we can start thinking about how we can adapt to this changing world.

Let's start a discussion about reducing costs. Let's not just think about maintaining them, but actually reducing them. The BMW idea was started on this basis. The economics were simple. Pay less than £3k in the first season to buy an engine and a fitting kit and then pay for a gearbox rebuild and engine oil change (£350) in each subsequent season. Total engine costs over the first 3 seasons = £3700 for BMW compared with £9000 for 602cc. It's a no-brainer economically, but there are other issues and opportunities.

There are other ideas and one that I immediately scoffed at was using the Citroen C1 engine and transmission. I've recently looked at C1 engines and gearboxes on eBay and they're staggeringly cheap. There's more to this idea than I first thought and it solves a number of challenges that the BMW might have. We ought to investigate further.

As I've said, I'm not making any proposal except that we need to discuss this and think about the future. Maybe you can think about this before the AGM and we could move forward with ideas you have then – or decide to do nothing.

Right, need to find my asbestos underpants and a fire/bullet proof suit.

I've just discovered that ECAS are having a 2 week shutdown from later this week (Thursday 23rd July, I think). You may want to order some tyres for Anglesey before Roy disappears on his hols.

Here is the CAD file for a front window with a port hole for the vent: http://www.acwmotorsportplastics.co.uk/polycarbonate-pop-out-vent.html

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I've been developing the CAD files for the front door, rear door and nearside and offside rear quarter lights. I did these designs for the Crisis Racing cars and the first set were fitted to Kris' car (no. 5). They are designed to be fitted on 10mm spacers to give a flush look. They will not fit inside the standard rubbers.

I am in the process of doing the design for the drivers door windows to fit in the standard opening frames and will post them when I'm done.

Please note that these have been test fitted to 4 different body shells and door sets, so they should fit universally, but I can't guarantee it.  Also note that the nearside and offside rear quarter lights are different shapes, but that difference is consistent across the 4 body shells I've test fitted them in.

They come free, but without warranty. Any decent polycarbonate sheet supplier with a CNC router (polycarbonate cannot be cut with a laser) can use the attached files to cut the windows out of 4mm thick polycarbonate.

I have a design for a front drivers window with a port hole for a standard MSA compliant opening vent that can be purchased from here: http://www.acwmotorsportplastics.co.uk/polycarbonate-pop-out-vent.html. It's a rubbish photo on their web site, but quite a nice product. I'll post the CAD file for this window on another post (only 4 attachments are allowed per post).