Hi all

Back from the beautiful Calabogie motorsport park. What a fun week-end. Great friends, great track, fast racing, nice lodging / BBQs etc...We all stayed and eat together at the Old Library. Thanks to Peter and Allan for the invite

We had some 7 fast CM cars on track and that made for interesting racing. Many cars had seen some serious development this year and past laptime records fell easily

Peter's new wide body / new Motons / new Michelin slicks / driving skills produced an unbeatable combination and he won the three races. Cheers ! Mark was fast as always but had misfiring issues in the last race. Allan's new E46 M3 racer / stroker S54 is seeing its first event in BMW CCA CR. It is the most beautiful BMW racer I have ever seen. Congrats to John. This thing is a piece of art. It still in need of some set-up work but has the greatest potential. Isi drove very well and took advantage of a small contact between Allan and John. Nobody can outdrive him on the lunch BBQ... 

I am very happy with the Too Cool Racing #111 CM car effort during that week-end.

We blew the clutch in testing 2 days before the event and had to build a " good " one from two bad units. Thanks to Simon for putting it together

We also had a faulty left volume fuel pump with no spare so we had to start full tank cause we had only 30 liters before starving in right hand corners.

Lastly we fought with a broken bearing in the Tilton brake pedal that produced a lot of rear bias upon braking. We put more aggressive front pads coumpounds / compared to the rears ) and that helped a bit but the car rear ends stayed a handfull while braking and turning. And because Calabogie's Wilson's design has a lot of  fast decreasing corners that requires brake/turning abilities , it was a lot of work to stay on the black stuff !

I started the wek-end with new Hoosiers ( while the others used up their worst tires ). As the week-end progressed my tires went out as the others switched to their newer rubbers

I took 3rd in the first qual. I then took first at the start and maintained first for most of the race playing defensive over Peter who was lapping at least 1 sec/lap faster. He passed me in corner 2  about two laps from the end. I did not protectt the inside line because there was dirt from previous oil spill there and did not think Pete would dare go there. Well it seems I did not know him well enough. He dove in and kept control. That was a nice piece of driving. So I finished 2nd 1,8 sec behind him.

Race #2, I got Peter on the start after jumping it quite bad and got away with it. This time Pete was on fresh slicks and was at least 2 sec/lap than all of us. I could not have resist him for long anyhow but I made a driving error in the beak, almost spun . Pete played clown ( as usual ) and waved me by on his way to its second win. Mark stayed on my bumper for the whole race and was faster than me in slow corners. So I made sure he was always close enough to me at the apex so I could control his throttle application point so we played the accordion till checkered and I finished 2nd

Race #3, I started from 2nd on the grid and got to corner 2  first but this time Peter stayed away from me, and was first on the throttle for a classic " pass and repass " in corner 3. He was then in a class of his own for the rest of the race.. I had to retire from that race after a few laps with 2 tires corded to the wires ( RR with 4" of exposed wires all around );  My fault cause we forgot to inspect the tires before race 3.... It seems the 33 deg weather combine with an abrasive surface chewed up tires a lot more than I expected. My tires did not survive 6 heat cycles and 3h30 min of track time ! Ron also finished the last race corded....

Paul with the Too Cool Racing #222 had a great week-end, no mecanical issues, had great racing with the Checcas, Steve M etc....

The week-end also saw a lot of attrition. Louis punched a a heck of a hole in its engine block, Tim also saw its engine die on him. Sorry guys

Thanks to Eric who came to help us all. He helped Peter fix his throttle cable, Steve fix his half shaft, Mark with his misfiring issue etc...

Thanks to the staff Pete M, Larry F and Steve C for being there !

Now lets go back to shop.....more work to do on the car .........

Jean Luc

Here is the video summary for you guys to enjoy....