Healey Endurance car

[BUNDYRUM]

Just received an e-mail from DWR to say their endurance car is to go for a record this coming Sunday 15th November.

Go to www.healeyendurance.com to see details.

Best regards,

bundyrum.

 

[nevets]

nice web site...gorgeous car.

 

[BabaKahawa]

nice web site...gorgeous car.

Agreed... Will be waiting for results

 

[SledLover]

These guys sure have put in their work, and sure hope they are successful in the attempt.
I'm looking forward to hearing how they do.

 

[Cottontop]

nice web site...gorgeous car.

Because I was at Healeys Return to Bonneville, I had an acute interest in this trial also.

I poured all through the web site and failed to find out WHERE this "record" run will be held.

Tim

 

[BUNDYRUM]

Hello Cottontop,

You won't find out where the record attempt is because they don't tell you. I even sent an e-mail and was told it's a secret. I was tempted to say if it's so much a secret then why tell people. it's all about control you see.

Anyhow the pictures of the car do look nice and yes they have put some serious work into it. I wish them well.

Best regards,

bundyrum.

 

[Cottontop]

Hi Pete,

I understand keeping the 10-20 a secret. That way if they don't fair well, they don't have a bunch of witnesses to kill.

I wish them luck too. We can never have to many Healeys making headlines.

Tim

 

[BUNDYRUM]

Hello Cottontop,

All is revealed if you go to the www.healeyendurance.com website.

It's at Millbrook in the UK and they had something whereby you could have tracked the car and seen what it's speed was. I didn't do it because I was asleep and only just found out about it today (Sunday).

They will have info out tomorrow Nov 16th apparasntly.

Best regards,

bundyrum

 

[BUNDYRUM]

Hello all,

This is all off the website.

Congratulations to the team at DWR for achieving what they did.

The facts are, they achieved an average of 148.5 mph for 1000km (625 miles) subject to confirmation by the FIA. The fastest speed was 153.22 mph.

They set 6 International and 12 National records (yet to be confirmed).

Best regards,

bundyrum.

 

[Randy Forbes]

This just in...

Copied from JW E-mail:

International 1000 Km record attempt looks hopeful

November 15th 2009 Millbrook, England





Sunday 15th November 2009 saw the 'Healey Endurance' car built by Denis Welch Motorsport attempt the International and National speed record up to 1000 Km (International Group 2 Class 8 non supercharged). The car successfully completed 308 laps at record breaking speed, averaging 148.22 mph.

The ambition was to beat the non-supercharged 4 cylinder records set by the Healey works team in 1954 at 132.81 mph and the current National records held by Prodrive. So mission accomplished so far.

It is now subject to FIA & MSA homologation as to whether the 6 International and 9 National records under consideration are confirmed.

The car had a trouble free run with 3 scheduled pit stops and was driven by owner Martyn Corfield and Engineer Jeremy Welch in 4 stints of one hour each.





A further pit stop was made after Martyn was spun across the track at 150 mph due to the damp surface from that morning and previous day’s torrential rain and howling gales.

After such a mind numbing moment he was still able to gather the car, losing little time and after a safety check carry on unabated to the next scheduled stop.



“ We have made a great attempt at the 1000 km endurance record this weekend and subject to confirmation are happy that the car has performed brilliantly achieving near the theoretical maximum calculated by MIRA in 2009 which is better than we could ever have hoped for. It’s definitely the fastest Austin Healey in the World today at 153.44 mph, according to the stopwatch and is now the subject to FIA & MSA homologation to see whether the official International and National records have been achieved. We are looking forward to releasing more news shortly”
commented Jeremy Welch.