Comments on: British F3/GT Festival, Snetterton http://www.goodrichard.com/2008/06/11/british-f3gt-festival-snetterton/ Places, pop, Polos, and postings Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Doug Ross http://www.goodrichard.com/2008/06/11/british-f3gt-festival-snetterton/comment-page-1/#comment-2204 Doug Ross Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:35:14 +0000 http://www.goodrichard.com/?p=651#comment-2204 Hi there, Just came across this page and thought I would drop you a line. My name is Doug and I race the (good looking) Polo. Snetterton was a good result, finally. We got the car last year from South Africa where it was used as the press car in their one-make series. (Sam's Polo is the sister car but now with new panels to give it a facelift). We had a terrible season last year with numerous problems, mainly engine; you name it we had it. It's a 2-litre (non-Turbo) engine, developing 207bhp. It has a 1.8T bottom end with a 20v Golf head. At Snetterton it had a 6-speed Lupo gearbox, which due to the problems has now been swapped for a 5-speed Seat Ibiza Cupra one. The car is finally starting to work as could be seen at Snet, where it was flying. It started at the back due to a mis-fire in qualifying which we couldn't fix. Sadly halfway through Race 1 the gearbox started playing up, which became worse for Race 2 (12th place). Anyway, currently getting ready for my 'home' race (I'm an instructor at Silverstone) plus live just up the road. So if anyone reads this and wants to come and say 'hello' in the paddock then feel free. All the best, Doug Ross Hi there,

Just came across this page and thought I would drop you a line. My name is Doug and I race the (good looking) Polo.

Snetterton was a good result, finally. We got the car last year from South Africa where it was used as the press car in their one-make series. (Sam’s Polo is the sister car but now with new panels to give it a facelift). We had a terrible season last year with numerous problems, mainly engine; you name it we had it. It’s a 2-litre (non-Turbo) engine, developing 207bhp. It has a 1.8T bottom end with a 20v Golf head. At Snetterton it had a 6-speed Lupo gearbox, which due to the problems has now been swapped for a 5-speed Seat Ibiza Cupra one.

The car is finally starting to work as could be seen at Snet, where it was flying. It started at the back due to a mis-fire in qualifying which we couldn’t fix. Sadly halfway through Race 1 the gearbox started playing up, which became worse for Race 2 (12th place).

Anyway, currently getting ready for my ‘home’ race (I’m an instructor at Silverstone) plus live just up the road. So if anyone reads this and wants to come and say ‘hello’ in the paddock then feel free.

All the best,
Doug Ross

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