Experieces in Racing an Europa

[Mecky]

Hi Valerio,

I know that, but at least now I don't want to join for example the CER or similar competitions, because the Europa must show its reliability first. Maybe when the Europa has seen the checkered flag in some endurance races and when the body is nicely repaired, we could think about entering such a race with this kind of great opponents. But even if we set up the car at its best and are driving really fast, we still would not be very competative there...

That's why we like the FHR endurance cup. There are most of the opponents GT and touringcars and our Europa is fast enough to finish in the top 15 or at least top 20 of mostly more than 50 cars, if it's able to run properly over the whole three hours. And even there you have great opponents on track. For example in Spa 2012: http://www.motorhome1.de/index.php/foto-navigation/spa-francorchamps/foto-navigation/spa-francorchamps/spa-francorchamps-2012/race-festival-spa/fhr-langstrecken-trophy-htgt?page=1#category. Porsche 907, Ford GT40, Chevron B16, Lotus 23 B, BMW 3,0 CSL, Mercedes 300 SL (wing doors) and the greatest Renault Alpine A110 I've ever seen. This Alpine is prepared and raced by the Renault tuner, who made our engine, as well. And his A110 was faster than all the great cars, which I named before!

Best regards

Stefan

[Valerio Leone]

I didn't know FHR series do you have a link?
CER is one of my dream, and here you can even enter as GTS.
They are pricy thou, like 2000 euro entry fee!
Master is like half and is a FIA official event.
I really don't know what to do, and so I stop thinking about.

The Wedge engine has a great lack of power, mostly due to a really bad port design.
Potentialy it could get 160HP but we should work a lot and spend a bunch of money to figure out how to squeeze out HorsePower from a donky...

The Cross Flow engine is already developed and Carcreff has reached 160 HP on a very reliable version.
 

[Mecky]

Hi Valerio,

our series is the Dunlop FHR Long Distance Cup (German: Dunlop FHR Langstreckencup). As they say, it is the world's biggest Endurance race series for historic race cars made after FIA Appendix K. And it is an official FIA approved international race series.
It offers the possibility to race cars from period E, F, G, GR and touringcars from period H. That means every car from 1947 - 1971 and also touringcars from 1972 - 1975 are allowed (but not the Porsche 3,0 RSR for example). Here is the link: http://www.fhr-langstreckencup.de/
The entry fee per race is between 750 € - 1000 € per race and to enter the championship, you have to pay around 600 € before the season starts.

Our engine has 158 HP and a torque of 181 Nm. And it ran already 10 hours on the dyno. With the cars weight of 669 kg it should go quite fast. Do you know your cars weight? I would love to see some detailed pictures of your Europa.

Best regards

Stefan

[Mecky]

Hi boys,

a man from Germany contacted me and told me that he is going to race his Europa in the GT1600 class of the FHR Long Distance Cup in 2014.
After lots of years without any Europa, there could be a glut of Europas in the next few years.

[Valerio Leone]

this is a good news, any photos?

[Serge]

There is also someone in Sweden building an S1 race car, I have seen some pictures and it looks very nice!

[Mecky]

The Europa from Germany is still being restored. I just saw a picture of the body been taken off from the chassis. Maybe the owner will join this Forum soon. I recommended it to him.

[Valerio Leone]

Maybe the owner will join this Forum soon. I recommended it to him.

This is a good idea, Serge you could suggest the same to that guy in Sweden.
we can build up a kind of race comunity here.

[Valerio Leone]

hehehehe,

look at what I have found.
this is a lotus 46 racing at Chamrous early 70's.
nice FIA configuration hein?

[Mecky]

This is great! Do you know, what kind of race that was and the date and maybe an entry list or result?

Are you sure, that is not a Type 47?

[Valerio Leone]

Ciao Stefan,

this was a hill climb in France.

Course de cote Chamrousse
the driver is Jean Jacques Cochet
early 70 may be 1971 or 1972.
I have no entry list, unfortunately.
we could ask to the oganizers since this race still nowadays.

It is not a 47, since this is never been built as LHD.



 

[Mecky]

Hi Valerio,

I think, I have to disappoint you. http://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/archive/Jacques-Cochet-CH.html Jacques Cochet drove a Type 47. He had VIN 47-GT-73. This car is LHD. http://lotus-europa2.com/picview.asp?page=47-GT-73

Also, I have never seen a Type 46 with central locking wheels.

[Valerio Leone]

 

[Valerio Leone]

Ciao Mecky,

how is going with your Europa?
Mine is sleeping under a cashmere blanket this year.
....waiting to decide what to do.
   

[Mecky]

We had a dyno test last week, but the clutch was not able to cope with the engine's torque above 4800 revs. 

We have to use a strengthened racing clutch now. But we are not sure, if we are taking part at the first race on 27th April. It's more likely that we race in July at Spa for the first time.