- [Andre] Whaaaat?
- We lost the engine.
- [Andre] Where did you leave it, where did you see it last?
- Today we're racing at the Speedworks Rush Hour event at Teretonga in Invercargill.
Andre's away so it's just me riding solo.
Looks like the field is maybe a little lacking so it's just me and a bunch of Porsches.
So could be a pretty interesting race.
Just keep saying that, it's going to be interesting.
Boring just keep getting passed by everyone.
- So practice is done here, we were first out on the track, it was pretty wet.
So we switched to the wets.
The sun started to come out so we went back onto the slicks for qualifying.
In practice we softened the ride up to get as much grip into the rear and a bit more
into the front.
We disconnected the rear anti roll bar, have quite a bit.
Ben was experiencing a small bit of understeer which is better than oversteer in the wet.
So yeah he's pretty happy overall.
We're going to harden it back up now for qualifying.
We're going to leave off the rear anti roll bar 'cause that worked for us last time
we were here at Teretonga in the dry as well so we'll see how that goes.
Hopefully he qualifies in a good position.
- Bruh.
- Thought he was going into the paddock ay.
- They're all freaking. out 'cause I told them we do 1:04 around here.
That was the fastest time.
This underdog could beat us.
- So we're just almost at the end of the qualifying session at the moment.
Ben is the only fella out on track.
Best time so far is a 1:06.1, just trying to get some...there he goes.
He's done a 1:05.4 before on inferior tyres but they're also probably a little bit fresher.
So Ben's just done a 1:05.3 so we're stoked, now we're hoping he gets into the 1:04s.
Just an update on the old snack situation here.
Didn't want to drop the ball ay.
We're just running a water.
- [Scott] A warm water.
- That is qualifying done.
Had about 30 minutes out there, pretty much by myself.
Seems a couple of the Porsches went out, set some times that they were happy with and
then retired to the pits to save some tyres.
I've qualified six out of seven cars.
Most of them being GT3 Porsches so I didn't think that was too bad.
The guy in front of me is 0.25 of a second faster than me so hopefully tomorrow
I might be able to have a good couple of battles with him.
I did a fastest time of 1:05.56.
Which is pretty good, I felt like my driving was really good today, I was braking later
than I ever have been, carrying more speed but unfortunately we're down about
40 horsepower which you can really feel at the end of the straight.
I'm not able to pull into sixth like we were doing the first time that we raced here.
And also noticing that the Michelins allow me to keep a lot more corner speed
a lot easier than the Hankooks that we were running last time.
So overall, pretty happy, car seems to be performing flawlessly.
We've got no technical issues, no leaks, no dramas, pretty happy.
And the weather has turned on some amazing sunshine so pretty amped up for tomorrow
morning's race.
It's 8:30 here at Teretonga Park Raceway and getting ready to race at 9am.
So about half an hour.
Feeling good, boys have got the car ready, under control.
There's nothing really left to do but to get out there and set some good times.
Yesterday the car was feeling really strong, I'm pretty confident about how it will all
go today, hoping for a PB and a finish.
Shit, that sucks.
- Have you just overheated or are you on fire?
- Ah no no, she's blown up.
- Flat tow back in?
- Ah yeah I could be dropping oil.
Oh well team, hey good try.
No one could have prevented that bad boy.
She was due for a rebuild.
I've just come in from the race.
Ended unfortunately with an engine failure.
At the time the engine blew though, we were in second place, because of the handicapped
pitstop system.
Chances are the Porsches might have caught up with me at the end there, they looked
like they were, obviously they're gaining pretty fast.
Pretty happy with how it went until the failure.
Came around the elbow, plucked a gear, noticed the RPM sort of not rise as it should.
And then catastrophic failure, smoke out the window, flames, yeah.
All over red rover.
So time for a bit of a rebuild before South Island Endurance Series.
I think bigger capacity, try and push a bit more power out of her.
I had some really good tight bits of racing with the Porsches which admittedly are
faster than me but I was surprised at how close I was able to stay through the centre
section of the track which I was quite happy about.
So overall, unfortunate finish but we had a really good weekend, team had a lot
of fun and we'll get this bad boy turned into a worked example for our engine
building course.
So make sure you tune in for the next one of these videos and we'll give you a bit of a
rundown on what went wrong, we'll pull the motor apart and get ready to start
rebuilding it.
And on that note, I should probably actually ring the boss and tell him the good news
about his motor so wish me luck.
- [Andre] Yo.
- Yo, um we lost an engine today my friend.
- [Andre] Whaaat?
- We lost the engine.
- [Andre] Where did you leave it, where did you see it last?
- Just coming into that last corner, just left it on the ground.
- [Andre] Oh yeah, um.
- Big flames.
- [Andre] What actually, what happened?
- So I sort of plucked a gear and then it just stopped, stopped going.
It looks like there's some sort of maybe hole in the block, there's oil coming out of
the air filter, the exhaust.
Did you find a hole in the block Brandon?
He's going to have a look at the GoPro footage to see but there's oil everywhere.
It was going pretty good before that though.
- [Brandon] There's aluminium everywhere.
- Oh yeah there's aluminium filings in the exhaust.
- [Andre] Wow, oh shit.
- Yeah laid a bunch of oil down, stopped the session and yeah just rolled to a stop.
- [Andre] Is that why the session finished early?
- Finished under yellow yeah.
But when we blew it up we were in second place though.
- [Andre] Oh that's a f**king shame man.
- It was a shame but other than that it was a good race and I learned a lot and
getting to feel more and more comfortable in the car like getting it sliding a little
bit more.
Like not too much but a little bit like feeling a bit happier, staying on the
throttle.
Still places that I could improve like on this track I reckon I've still got a whole bunch
of time in me for sure.
- [Andre] Yeah yeah.
- But na it was fun man and nothing else broke apart from the motor.
- [Andre] Well that's at least probably the most expensive thing.
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