Web update

Our webpages at alabama.peelen.no has been redesigned and are starting to get up to date on the info there.
Feel free to leave a comment about the new design

 

Also visit our group “Alabama Racing Team” on Facebook.

2 new drivers.

During the 2009 season 2 new driver have joined the team.

Jan Møller with car no. 40

He has competed in all the races in the 2009 season and have been showing a constant rate of improvement. Way to go !!

At the end of the season Eva “Snoopy” Peelen also had a go with car no. 47

She had a good couple of races at Kinnekulle Ring october 3.
Showing progress the whole weekend.
Time will show if she can develop further during next season.

Due to many technical problems with car 47, Alf only finished 4 out of 12 races. Hoping for moore luck next year

 

Now it’s time to start planning and preparations for the 2010 season, will try to keep the blogg moore up to date.

Updates to the 2007 season

See pictures from the raceweekend at Kinnekulle here: Click for pictures

News ! ! Anderstorp Racefestival 17-19 august Anderstorp
Here I will compete in Modsport II

2007 Racing Season

Then the schedule is ready, only missing the date for the South African Endurance race
NM Round 1 & 2
19-20 mai Vålerbanen, Norway
Laprecord: Thomas Faraas 17/9-2006 - 59,204
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NM Round 3 & 4 + Scandinavian Master 1 & 2
2-3 juni Rudskogen, Norway
Laprecord: Audun Njøs 3/6-06 - 01:01.675
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Scandinavian Master Round 3 & 4
30 juni-1 juli Kinekulle, Sweden
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NM Round 5 & 6
25-26 august Rudskogen, Norway
Laprecord: Audun Njøs 3/6-06 - 01:01.675
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NM Round 7 & 8 + Scandinavian Master Finals
8-9 september Jyllandsringen, Denmark
Laprecord: Thomas Faraas 3/10-2004 - 1.15.171
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NM Finals
22-23 september Vålerbanen,
Norway Laprecord: Thomas Faraas 17/9-06 - 59,2004
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2 Hour Endurance Race, Formula Vee
End of November, date TBA, Zwartkops South Africa

See you there! ! !

Racing again

Finally the racing team "circus" is back on the road again




The car is working again
The weekend at Jyllandsringen Raceway in Denmark prooved to be an success. Since my last blog entry i had my engine explode on me. Engine parts are not supposed to exit like this!!





Here I am quite pleased after the races, with final result 4th & 5th. place in the Norwgeian championship rounds.

We had a nice weekend but ended up with rain in the last race, wich proved to be a quite funny experience, at least for the spectators.
I had so many "spins" that the speaker named me the dancing master of the day :-)





The next weekend I went to Falkenberg Raceway in Sweden, and had a go at testing a Formula Opel Lotus(Vauxhall)
That was really something else....
I really enjoyed the drive here, so thanks to everybody that made this possible.

 

Rudskogen 3-4 june

The weekend started with everything beeing hectic.
Worked on the car until late friday evening, before setting course for the racetrack.
Tried for 2 days to improve on the braking system, as I discovered on testing at Karlskoga that the brakes where very ineffective.
Changed everything.......
On first practice at Rudskogen on saturday, SURPRISE!!!! no brakes again.
Tried to bleed some more, but no help.
Decided to run with it anyway, and went for timepractice wich wasn't too bad.
Then it turns out the organisers have messed it up, and we have to run a new timepractice, as they cancelled the previous one.
During this practice I noticed the oil pressure started to flutter, and a knocking noise came from the engine.
Aborted the run and went back into the pits.
Turned out that the connecting rod bearings where gone, so that's it for this weekend.
Only positive experience this weekend is that I have improved my laptimes by more than 2 seconds compared to last year.
So I guess the work I have put into the suspension system seem to have worked.
Time to get working on fixing the engine for next race, wich will be 24-25 june on Våler raceway.
Until then.......;-)

Kinnekulle Race weekend CANCELLED ! !

The first race of the season, has been cancelled due to not enough entries.....
Amazing how people don't manage to get ready despite having 6 months to prepare.......
At least my car is ready, and I guess I will just keep on polishing it until next race event...