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FMOC (Ford Mustang Owner's
Club of Finland, www.mustangclub.fi) is a 700+ member car club.
Third year in a row our club had a FoMoCo Track & Drag Weekend
together with Ford Freak Club of Finland and a couple of other
local car clubs. This event is held two places - Bothniaring
Race Track in Jurva and Kauhajoki Air Field. Bothniaring is a
2.6km long race track some 250 miles north from the capital of
Finland, Helsinki. Kauhajoki Air Field is a small hobby air field
that is also occasionally used for drag racing. The last (5th)
race of our club's Slalom Cup was also arranged at the Bothniaring,
as well as our club's Race Track Championships.
I had a chance to test
the GEN2 engine and benchmark it against the lap time with GEN1
engine last year. It resulted in a 4 sec improvement in lap time
which was satisfactory enough. Wish I would have had the chance
to install the T5 tranny before the event as I believe it would
have helped a second or two with the "existence of a 3rd
gear" ... SROD is awful on the race track due to the huge
gap between 2nd to 3rd. Anyway, it was fun again and everybody
enjoyed it to the full. Here are some pics. |
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Swapped these Boss 17" rims
with some worn tires just for racing purposes as I didn't want
to ruin my good new street tires on the track. |
Lining up for qualifying. A '79
V8 Cobra following. |
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WOT... |
A '87 GT convertible chasing.
It was wet for starters but did dry out after an hour or so.
At this point the track was very slippery. |
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Lining up for the first 1/4. |
First 1/4 mile ever. Got better
reaction and was leading half the way, but V8 power finally took
over. 15.88 vs. 17.3 against stock '79 302 Cobra. |
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The second run down the strip
starts here. |
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Cornering at the Slalom Track,
which was pretty fast this time. |
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