Winner of Norwegian Cup 2010

Here's the proof - and also the greatest trophy so far in my racing career :-)

These are the buckets I collected through 2010. Not very impressive maybe, but considering I have started 5 races this year... Yep - I'm quite satisfied !!

My races during this year:

Norgescup #2 - 2.place
Sørlandscup #1 - 7.place
Eurotrial 2010 - 32.place
Norgescup #4 - 3.place
Norgescup #5 - 2.place.

Technically approved for the Eurotrial.

Today we was forced to make some upgrade to the body of the car in order to pass the technical control for the competition. The car is now ready, and nicely parked beside a BIG jeep for the night. Lets hope the driver also will be ready after a good nights sleep.

Almost ready

The car is slowly getting ready. Needs charging and a little more paint, and I think we get on the road to Eurotrial.

Eurotrial next

Only one participated in one more race since I qualified for the Eurotrial (check: http://www.eurotrial.se/). There's been som technical issues with the racecar, but it seems to be working ok now.

Still needs a little cosmetic work, but expecting it all to be done in a couple of days. offcourse I will update again when the car is loaded on the trailer and "ready to run."
I will bring my 1 year old son, Thomas, with me to the competition, and his grandfather will come along to take care of him when I'm busy with the competition.

Overtime

Lucky for me the first race this season was cancelled, and I have been resting too much so now it is going to be thight to reach what is going to be the first race 1.May.

I am tired of crawling under the car when changing parts, so today I tilted it when installing the transfer case.

I am getting there, but still need to install driver seat and seatbelts. Hopefully a couple of new tires and the arb.locker will be in place during the comming weekend.

7 days to go

Yeah - counting 7 days to the first race, I'm getting a little stressed. Very little has been done in the past weeks, and the "to-do list" is still a little to long. What has been done is that I have bought all the parts I will be needing; Transfer case, radiator, seats, arb.locker for the front differential and 2 new tires. Here's the new seats:

I have installed the radiator, fixed new fuel-piping and now the engine is running. I have also taken out the front differential whis presently is beeing upgraded with the arb.locker.

The transfer case has been serviced and is now ready to be installed. Hopefully during this weekend the seats and new seatbelts will be installed and I'm strickly ready for race. However I would be very happy if I also can manage to put on the 2 new tires and give the body a little paint-job.

Ready in 5 weeks?

Finally I have bits of a Suzuki to prepare to something that might become a racecar... It's not shining (yet), but hopefully it performs better than it looks as it quite likely goes from being "back-up" to the racecar for 2010. When, or if, it comes to looks, it will probably not be the greatest challenge this racer will give me.
The racer will need a radiator and change of oil and filter, a transfer case, new seats and seatbelts before it can race. However it will also desperately need better and a little bigger tires, some bodywork and not at least a paintjob. ARB locker for the front differential and beadlocks are also on the shoplist if everything seems to be working fine with the machine.