Rotorstock 7 Report - Sat 21st August 2010 in association with the Mazda Rotary Club

Rotorstock 7 started out grey and overcast but as they day went on the weather brightened up providing us with some great entertainment on track with the HKS Drag Series and RWYB and elsewhere around site including the new sprint track.

View more photos on the Rotorstock 7 Gallery page.

Despite some threatening looking weather the track opened to the first few eager RWYB'ers on time with some HKS racers also taking advantage of the early track time for some testing before their first qualifying session.
The Show n Shine started off relatively slowly but after a quick scout round of the club areas we soon had it populate with some top quality cars which led to some tough decisions being made in the judging for the top 3 cars in the show. The winners are as follows:

1st - Rob Sarson– Toyota Supra Rob's Supra was a clear winner in the show n shine, not only was it in immaculate condition inside, outside, underneath, in the engine bay and everywhere else, all of the custom installations had clearly been carried out to the highest possible standard.

2nd – Emma Mckay –Subaru Impreza WRX A very tidy example of a Subaru WRX both inside and out which gave Emma a very well deserved 2nd place.

3rd – Miss J White – Suzuki Swift Sport This very clean Suzuki Swift was one of the first cars to turn up and the owners put a great deal of effort into cleaning the car itself, and they were very unlucky to miss out on second place. When the sun came out the Cosmic Black Metallic Pearl paintjob really caught the eye.

As ever the RWYB competition was fiercly fought between all those taking part with the leaders changing throughout the day. The final winners are as follows:

Class A – Front Wheel Drive Amy Bradley Honda Civic Type R 13.6073 seconds

Class B – Rear Wheel Drive Colin Chadwich Mazda RX7 11.4457 seconds

Class C – Four Wheel Drive Michael Latimer Subaru Impreza 10.8299 seconds

Class X – Non Road Legal Anthony Kirk Tiger Avon 14.2300 seconds

Class Y – Inter Club Competition Adam Rowe Beds and Bucks Scooby's Subaru Impreza WRX STI 12.0333 seconds

The cars of the HKS Drag Series were the ones to watch throughout the day and although there were some big names missing, those that were here had some excellent battles in all of the classes. We even saw an excellent 7.53 second pass from Leon Green in his Pro Toyota Supra and an equally impressive 9.8 second run from Rob Shadwell in his Street class Skyline. The full race report will be published shortly at www.japdragseries.co.uk.

HKS Drag Series FWD class: Winner: Guy Chamberlain, Honda Civic Runner Up: Paul Cresswell, Honda Civic

HKS Drag Series Street class: Winner: Rob Shadwell, Nissan Skyline Runner Up: Malcolm Thomas, Nissan Skyline

HKS Drag Series Pro class: Winner: Leon Green, Toyota Supra Runner Up: Chris Impey, Mazda RX7

HKS Drag Series Factory Modified class: Winner: Stewart Taylor, Subaru Runner Up: Keith Carr, Toyota Supra

For the first time ever, we ran a HKS Academy competition which acts as a feeder class for the HKS Drag Series, intended for those who would like to try out racing in a competition format before comitting and investing in upgrading their cars and equipment and it proved to be a huge success.
Thanks to all those that took part, here is the result of the final

HKS Drag Series HKS Academy class: Winner: Shahin Fard, Nissan Skyline Runner Up: Stuart Nice, Mazda RX7

The sprint track made its debut at Rotorstock 7 and what great addition it was to the show! The track was continuously busy from start to finish, and with just under 40 people entering the competition was tough. All were battling it out to claim trophies for the top three fastest times of the day and the inter-club competition prize.

The track was a mixture of fast sweeping right hander’s, 90 degree left and rights and hairpins; perfect as it didn’t favour any one type of car. There was great variety of vehicles from, of course, the newest RX8’s, to Lotus’s, to drifting Nissan Skyline’s. One for the more usual cars was Tony Kirk’s Tiger Avon fitted with a modified RX8 engine. The car, which looks like a Caterham, flew round the track and was holding the top spot for the majority of the day.

Other notable entries were Umar Masood in his Mazda RX7, who started very steadily at around 52’s per lap but by the end of the day posted a very respectable time of 41.84, just 1.7 seconds off the eventual winner. Leroy Anderson also entertained in his Mitsubishi Evo 3 by launching off the line in spectacular fashion and four wheel drifting around the track.

The day though belonged to Robbie Kazandjian who had studied the track by walking it first thing and worked out how to get his yellow RX8 around the track the quickest. He posted the fastest time on his very last run of the day which dropped Anthony Kirk down to second and Mark Nash, in his very fast Lotus Elise Turbo (fitted with a very good handbrake!) to third. Robbie also claimed the inter-club competition win for the RX8 Owners Club. For a full table of results please visit The Sprint Circuit Page.

Thanks again to everyone who supported the event, particularly those that got involved with one of our competitions. We hope to see you all again next year.

More photos on the Rotorstock 7 Gallery page.

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