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I don’t know what
it is about motorsport, but it gets into your blood and when it
does, it stays with you.
Motorsport has, for
a long time, held a great fascination for me. After many years
of watching it I started to marshal at meetings – getting closer
to the action. My latest venture takes that final step and puts
me in a racecar.
My metro is a 1994
Rover Metro GTi, with a 1.4 litre K-series twin cam engine, but
has been extensively altered and modified to covert it into a
racecar. It was bought in late July/early August after first
having been seen on Ebay (where it attracted no bids). The car
was ‘almost’ race ready, but there are still things that need
doing.
My chosen
championship, The Drayton Manor Park MG Metro Cup, strictly
limits what can (and what cannot) be done to the car.
The car still looks
like a standard Metro (indeed the regulation state that it must
retain it’s original silhouette, no massive spoilers allowed),
and still retains its original colour of British Racing Green.
Closer inspection shows that it is far from standard though.
The car sits
considerably lower than a road going Metro, so much so that
there is very little (if any) space between the wheels and the
wheel arches. Although It sits lower, the Hydrogas suspension is
run at a higher than standard pressure to stiffen the
suspension.
The interior of the
car is vastly different to a standard Metro. Much of the
interior trim has been removed – only the original dashboard
remains.
By John
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