DC2 R Beats Top Gear Team In Britain’s
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DC2 R Beats Top Gear Team In Britain’s
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"Bearing the slogan ‘Kaspersky, the fastest anti-virus’, a scratch, amateur IT industry team came an amazing 29th out of 80 entrants in the Britcar 24 hours race at Silverstone at the weekend.
The team beat many professional, domestic and international teams and also BBC 2’s Top Gear team, in the endurance event, which is Britain’s answer to the Le Mans 24 hrs race.
The IT industry team, consisting of Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of IT security distributor Wick Hill Group, Darron Anley, managing director of reseller Security Partnership, David Joseph, IT Consultant and Paul Armitage from HSBC had only been formed four weeks previously, with some of the initial ideas coming from an IT industry awards dinner in May. Sponsorship from Kaspersky and Barracuda helped the team along.
The team of four, driving a seven year old Honda Integra Type R DC2 with an 1800 cc engine, can only be described as amateur and were battling against proper professional teams driving BMWs, Porsches, Astons, Moslers and GT3.
While the professionals had large spare parts packs, mechanics, private catering and other luxuries, the IT industry team had just the four drivers and three volunteer mechanics, including Adrian Duckenfield, an IT security consultant from Security Partnership. Everyone handled refuelling, back up and pit stop work, with the four drivers taking turns at solo driving stints.
“Ian Kilpatrick commented: “It was a great show of effective IT industry teamwork in action, including three gearbox rebuilds. Getting third in class on our first outing was great and finishing ahead of so many cars in higher classes was a fantastic result. Beating the Top Gear team was just a very nice additional bonus.”
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Modified by soeurm at 5:45 PM 9/21/2007
"Bearing the slogan ‘Kaspersky, the fastest anti-virus’, a scratch, amateur IT industry team came an amazing 29th out of 80 entrants in the Britcar 24 hours race at Silverstone at the weekend.
The team beat many professional, domestic and international teams and also BBC 2’s Top Gear team, in the endurance event, which is Britain’s answer to the Le Mans 24 hrs race.
The IT industry team, consisting of Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of IT security distributor Wick Hill Group, Darron Anley, managing director of reseller Security Partnership, David Joseph, IT Consultant and Paul Armitage from HSBC had only been formed four weeks previously, with some of the initial ideas coming from an IT industry awards dinner in May. Sponsorship from Kaspersky and Barracuda helped the team along.
The team of four, driving a seven year old Honda Integra Type R DC2 with an 1800 cc engine, can only be described as amateur and were battling against proper professional teams driving BMWs, Porsches, Astons, Moslers and GT3.
While the professionals had large spare parts packs, mechanics, private catering and other luxuries, the IT industry team had just the four drivers and three volunteer mechanics, including Adrian Duckenfield, an IT security consultant from Security Partnership. Everyone handled refuelling, back up and pit stop work, with the four drivers taking turns at solo driving stints.
“Ian Kilpatrick commented: “It was a great show of effective IT industry teamwork in action, including three gearbox rebuilds. Getting third in class on our first outing was great and finishing ahead of so many cars in higher classes was a fantastic result. Beating the Top Gear team was just a very nice additional bonus.”
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Modified by soeurm at 5:45 PM 9/21/2007
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Re: (RTW DC2R)
Way to go 
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RTW DC2R »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I wanna know what other two cars in the class finished ahead of the ITR?</TD></TR></TABLE>
They were a CTR in 20th and another ITR in 21st.
http://www.msttiming.com/eerc/2007/73663.pdf <- go to page 181 of 397
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RTW DC2R »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I wanna know what other two cars in the class finished ahead of the ITR?</TD></TR></TABLE>
They were a CTR in 20th and another ITR in 21st.
http://www.msttiming.com/eerc/2007/73663.pdf <- go to page 181 of 397
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Re: DC2 R Beats Top Gear Team In Britain’s (YellowKahuna)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by YellowKahuna »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Bloody hell mate!!! Thats Fantastic!!! Going to drink me into a whole tonight!! CHEERS!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>
Haha E-Beerr 
What are you drinking mate?
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Re: DC2 R Beats Top Gear Team In Britain’s (sohcT)
These guys did an astounding job in this race; a real David vs. Goliath outcome! Going through three stock gear boxes in an endurance race is not over the top. They used what they had available and still did well. I wonder how much better they would have done if they were running a $25,000 Hewland sequential like some of the big boys!
Edit: ITR's = f'in bulletproof.
Edit: ITR's = f'in bulletproof.
