3rd Széchenyi Race
2008 - Győr
part 2
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The racevideo on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nkJv46GChQ select "watch in high quality" option! |
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The race was held in 3 parts: in the morning we had to drive through the - practically go-kart - course with standing and flying start with measuring the maximum speed at the end of the home straight. In the afternoon there was held a "Le-Mans" type two-hour long race on a slightly modified course on the basis of the morning results. The 2 racing cars of Intermotor (with number 1 and number 2 - with about 400kg dead load), which were designed especially for racing, won start-stop victory. The guys with their - during the years matured designed - racing cars dominated the field tightly during the whole race. With these cars they achieve very good results on international races, too. Right after these racing cars our Porsche 924 (together with the driver about 1.2 tons load - designed not for go-kart course) would be the third. Despite of the technical problems due to the quickly finished conversion (the car would be ready 3 days before the race) and the missing of test drives we have succeeded to finish the 2-hour long race and to keep the third place till the end. The energy was out of the duck before the time has ended, this car only about 1 hour and 40 minutes could stay in the race - due to the missing of in-the-morning-races-used energy. As there are lead-acid-gel batteries built into the duck, it would be needed much more time to fully charge the batteries than to charge LiFePO4 batteries. We had only one hour between morning and afternoon races which was too few to refuel the energy losses. Despite of this we felt very gainful the race. We could gather a lot of experiences, we could decide what to change in the construction, what are the weak points if there is any to make our converted cars even better. The LiFePO4 batteries lived up to expectations: we could drive with one - not fully - charge (charging time was only 3 hours) 110 kms at a stretch to home after the race in dark and wet conditions. It means that the open lamps and the rain were increasing the drag. We had to put the Porsche onto a truck only after 110 kms. | |
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| The pit lane | The pit lane |
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| Crowd of enquirers in the pit lane in the interval of races |
Weighing - it would be a wild-goose case to put the scale with lever under the wheels - this is a duck! |
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| The time keeper - like on big races - with starting lamp, with start-/stopline sensor |
The speedometer - measuring the maximum speed at the end of home straight - the biggest maximum speed of our Porsche was 54.41km/h - the highest on the race. As it was a go-kart course only on a small straight we could speed up. |
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| Main sponsors | The tyre rolls - this has happened if somebody missed the verge of the course... |
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| Standing up for the start of "Le-Mans" race | |
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| The cups to be won by the course - to know why to take part in the race |
Traffic jam - when a more quick vehicle catches some slower ones up |
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| The duck in curve - this is not designed to be a sportscar! |
The Porsche in curve - but this is yea |
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| With the Porsche during passing by - and in the background: who were taking care of us |
And another passing by |
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| in race | in race |
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| In race - not everyone was guarded by body we had to take special care of each other |
This is not smoke - the nitromobil in race - on the left side of the car the dust from the road, on the right side through the exhaustion-system outgoing energy-lost nitrogen gas - this is not environment pollution, more than 70% of air consists of nitrogen gas |
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| in race - the slower vehicles had to leave the quicker ones pass by |
in race - however incredible it is, the 3-wheeler is the quicker |
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| The won cups : Porsche 924 - second place | Citroen 2CV - third place |
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