Yes.
In board on the rear has always been allowed - since the beginning in 1965, rear spring medium was free, but on the front, the original damper mounting points must be used.
When we started...
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Yes.
In board on the rear has always been allowed - since the beginning in 1965, rear spring medium was free, but on the front, the original damper mounting points must be used.
When we started...
Chris
From my (poor) memory, we broke one or two ball joint spindles last year in our State, and one or two link pin spindles.
The link pin spindles are the more prone to break. What I failed to...
Graham
One of the regular cameramen has grown up and is now a University student, and so stays at home with his nose in books.
We are looking for a new cameraman. Any takers? Pay is good (a hot...
Chris
Dunlop triggered this entire change in 2014 when they announced by surprise they would close their factory. We then went to Hoosiers, but after some time people were hurting from the cost of...
We have finished our second round for the year. Here are some photos of the first couple of rounds.
And to make it worse, Hoosier dropped the price of their tyres after Yokohama were given the "contract", from $1420 to around $1,000, and also, Dunlop Formula Vee racing tyres came back on to the...
I forgot to add that because the rear tyres are smaller, they result in higher revs of about 3% to 4%more often, and will hit max revs at a few tracks in Australia, where we might not, or only just,...
Hi Guys
We in Australia have just had street tyres mandated (by the National Formula Vee body) purely on the basis of lower cost and longer life (and the kickbacks to the National body), with the...
Hi Mike
Sorry for the late reply. I just got a new computer and haven't looked at Apexspeed until now.
Which Indy race are you referring to?
I don't have my ear to the ground with what the...
Hi all Formula Firsters
Link to the latest Formula Vee Association of New South Wales January 2017 magazine (the most populous State of Australia, with Sydney as its capital).
Our Formula Vees are...
Here are videos of the final two races of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) 2016 New South Wales Formula First (Vee) State Championship.
Ryan Reynolds in the orange Sabre 02 closed...
And here is Race 3 of Round 5.
Races 2 and 3 of Round 6, the final two races of the year, will follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rD5qcvP7Y
Below is a link to Race 2 of Round 5 of the CAMS New South Wales Formula First (Vee) Championship. Race 3 of Round 5, and Races 2 and 3 of the final Round, Round 6, will follow soon.
We always have...
Link to the August 2016 Formula Vee Association of New South Wales magazine.
Formula First gets a write-up - an update of an article published in the same magazine a few years ago.
...
This race took place later in the afternoon after the Race 2 in the last thread.
The end is exciting indeed.
Start with your volume down low, and turn it up slowly.
Videos of Races 2 and 3 of...
Link below to Race 2 of Round 3 of the 2016 CAMS New South Wales State Championship held at Sydney Motorsport Park in late May.
A typical Round of our State Championship is Qualifying on Saturday...
Here is one more rear suspension on an Aussie Formula Vee. This car won the 2014 Australian Formula Vee Series.
Yes on the damper travel sensors, but its an air flow switch, not a mass flow sensor. If the fan belt breaks, it simply shows a warning light on the dash. An engine at full load only lasts a lap or...
Here are pictures of the rear suspension of two of Australia's fastest Vees, possibly the two very fastest Vees.
The first is the Checkmate, (of which there is only one, but another will be finished...
I haven't posted our videos quite in sequence this year, but below is the link to Race 3 of Round 2 of our 2016 New South Wales Formula First State Championship.
This Round was held on the full...
A few pictures of Round 2 that took place last week at Sydney Motorsport Park.
To Bill, Jean Sebastian, and all our Formula First/Vee mates everywhere.
The June 2016 Formula Vee Association of New South Wales magazine is hot off the press and just loaded on to the FVANSW web...
By the way, that's Stephen "Mr Stinger" Butcher practising drifting in his Stinger.
Round 2 of the 2016 CAMS NSW Formula First (also known as Formula Vee) State Championship took place at Sydney Motorsport Park last weekend.
Ryan Reynolds in the orange Sabre wont two out of three,...
Round 1 of the 2016 CAMS New South Wales Championships took place at Wakefield Park on the 4th and 5th of March. This was also Round 1 of the Australian Formula Vee Championships.
Ryan Reynolds took...
The cows were the paying spectators.
Bob
That was one of our less interesting races. It didn't provide anything like what happened in the picture.
Nice circuit, don't you think?
Bill
You got your wish.
The Aussie dollar was US$1.10 a couple of years ago, and is now around US$0.72. All our economic optimists are saying it could fall down to around US$0.60.
Jacers and...
Jay
I don't have enough experience as yet to know the answer to that question, and I am not sure if we have the collective knowledge as yet to know that, because last year we could run both the long...
Jay
I can't tell you what the comparison with slicks is, because we have never used slicks in Australia.
The cost of the tyres changes with the US/AUS exchange rate relationship, but at the...
Just a clarification on the wheels on the F2K16.
The wheels I mentioned as being Chinese copies is not correct.
The wheels on the Jacer are THE NEW Performance Superlite wheels.
The original...
Jay
Wheels are 15 inch x 6 inch, and tyres are Hoosier 44405 Vintage TD Racers, 120/59-15 front, and 135/620-15 rear.
The wheel size is control, and the Hoosier tyres are now control.
This year...
Perhaps the coolest part of the Jacer F2K16 is the one-piece carbon fibre undertray, which wraps under the car from the high level under the legs like an F1 car, with a Vee splitter located under the...
Scott.
The scoops have small oil coolers behind them, one on each side.
Ray
Jacer say the wheelbase is 2,170 mm=85.43 inches (I did that in my head).
Bill wins the fiver.
Its 25.4 mm to the inch.
I'm bilingual.
I will find out and let you know, but I may have trouble converting millimetres to inches!
And here is another brand new Aussie Formula Vee (First) - well its Jacer F2k16 chassis 2, which will be departing the Jacer factory in Sydney tomorrow and making its way to other end of Australia in...
http://www.fvansw.asn.au/
Excellent! Well done.
This is an onboard of the entire 2015 Formula Vee Australia Titles (our Runoffs) 1600cc trophy race from the winner, Kieran Glover, who was driving the great Checkmate Formula Vee (which has won...
Here is a short highlights video of Formula Vee racing from the Aussie state of South Australia. They only have one circuit down there at the moment - Mallala is 80 km out of the capital city of...
TW
You have excellent observation skills! How did you know that?
The Stealth Van Diemens were also built in Perth, and these modified Van Diemens were incredibly successful for a few years in...
A new Formula Vee hit the Aussie racing circuits recently - the Ajay is the second built by former Western Australian Vee Champion Anthony Lees from his workshop in Perth. It uses most of a Formula...
Doug
It may not be a 2018 model, but it still looks so modern and fresh and professional, and it would be great to have a few more of them racing.
Like I said, I would love to get in it and tear...
Bill
That has got to be one of the best looking and engineered Formula Vee/First type cars anywhere. You just want to get in one and race its wheels off! Its a pity the Aussie dollar is so worthless...
I've been looking at the number of views for this video, but more people have been looking at this video, Race 2, probably because it is at the top, but Race 3 was a more exciting race.
So go to...
Thanks.
A few years ago, a conservative Australian prime minister attempted to bring in a rule that immigrants should be forced to learn English before they could come here. That rule went nowhere...
My pleasure.
I have to ask one thing.
Can you understand the Aussie accents? (Otherwise known as "Strine", or "Straylyan").
Do you need the videos dubbed?
Here it is Graham.
Race 3 of Round 6 of the 2015 CAMS NSW Formula Vee State Championship, the last race of 2015 in NSW.
Another great race, including some biffo!
No more videos from me this...