Securing the Oil Cap

What I didn't mention about Japfest 2 was that I was all over the place on track, I wasn't able to concentrate completely on any of the racing lines. Most of it was driving error thanks to me mis-shifting (selecting 5th instead of 3rd), and a few other distractions one of which was the engine light suddenly appearing..

After coming in from our session I opened up the bonnet and saw that my oil cap was the tiniest turn from coming off!

Cap tightened I decided to always keep the spare oil cap in the car for track days and to secure the existing one this week.

The first time I've seen an oil cap secure down was with a bracket and wire on a J's Racing car (you can tell this picture is old as they are still using the GruppeM haha).

I wanted a neater solution so I used a spring instead. An idea I got from Rob's car at HOT

And whilst I had the bonnet open I thought I would take one of the engine bay :)

Japfest 2 - 2011

Yesterday was Japfest 2 at Donington. Good turn out by the itr-dc5 forum; great bunch of people who made the day more enjoyable. A number of us were on track but it was a bit hit and miss as there were 2 red flags in our 15 minute session :(

Luckily nothing serious happened; only 2 offs into the gravel at the chicane before Goddards.
(Very) short footage below of us going back on after the 1st red flag.



.....And some pictures

Thanks to my acting wing man on the day F2K for taking some snaps of our session

Helmet refresh

I was getting bored of my Lid but still wanted to keep it discreet :)