badobsessionmotorsport

October 2021 Update

Added 2021-10-14 17:02:50 +0000 UTC

We never thought it would be easy...

However we didn't reckon on the mini fighting us at every turn lately. The show we took it to threw up some issues that have been complicated and difficult to fix. The car is significantly less finished than it was two months ago.

The clutch actuation has been particularly problematic, we're now a couple of flat out weeks and five iterations into it. Think it's okay though, finally. There's no point in not doing the work now despite it putting the scheduled filming weeks behind. If the car is unusable, it's useless and we didn't want to pull the entire dash, HVAC and bulkhead apart once the interior had been installed to fix it.

Along with the clutch issues, it selected all the gears at Weston Park, but a week later it didn't. The alternator drive exploded before the event. The rear brake discs were the wrong size, and we only found out after drilling them both to the four stud fixing. The matching new gauges don't actually match and you can imagine how that makes Nik feel... Grr. It's been a battle.

Providing we haven't burnt it over the next few days, we hope to start filming the rest of episode 37 next week.

In addition, we've been invited to race a Mazda MX-5 at Brands Hatch at the end of the month along with the Race of Remembrance in November so we'll be bringing you both of those events along with episodes 37 and 38 so there's a lot to look forward to.

Thanks as always for sticking with us, we really, really appreciate you all.

Cheers,

Nik and Richard.