E30 Zone

Hi all,the Brighton Speed trials were held today so thought i'd post up some pics.If you're not familiar with it,its basically a 1/4 mile time trial event held on a closed off public road on Brighton seafront,I had press passes so was fortunate enough to be right on the startline all day,imagine how happy i was when these pulled up




















Sadly these were the only two e30's running but there were some fantastic cars there all the same-

MK2 Escort Thundersaloon



























This is the track,1/4mile of public road!!!




Took almost 500 pics in all but these are my favs,hope you like them.Im not sure what the fastest time of the day was,i think it was set by a 1000bhp Nissan Skyline

Did anybody else go?

Great stuff!

There isn't a single car that I don't like in those pics!

Was too busy to attend this year, hopefully next year!

sweeeeet!
i love mk1/2 escorts!
that escort thundersaloon is based on the zakspeed ones (may be one of them?).
the roadgoing version (X-pack RS2000) was my second car excuse the cheesy pose!

good pics by the way. are you a pro photographer then?

The rs200 is pure sex.

Also love all the mk1 and 2 escorts, I so want one but can't be arsed paying through the nose for a rotten ford shell

m3's aint bad niether

Jon_Bmw wrote:Also love all the mk1 and 2 escorts, I so want one but can't be arsed paying through the nose for a rotten ford shell

agreed, that's what's driven me to E30's.
a mate of mine has just bought a bubble arched MK1 shell as a home for a naturally aspirated cossie lump... set him back £6k for the shell

gareth wrote:good pics by the way. are you a pro photographer then?

Nope,just like taking pics

i was thinking about going to this, its righ on the sea front by the roundabout ??

oh as usual shane, good pics mate

fastest car was a carbon bodied twin hyabusa engined radical 138mph and fastest bike was 1500cc turbo hyabusa 160mph not bad on a public road.

Kos wrote:oh as usual shane, good pics mate

Cheers fella

Tis right on the seafront yea,just to the south of the road is the beach!Its the road that runs from the roundabout by Brighton pier along almost to Brighton Marina,should defo get down there next year.

its a fantastic event - got within sniffing distance this year and then the youngest sprog kicked off so had to dive off to the beach to to get him fed and entertain the older one.. gutted. That 1000hp Skyline belongs to Gary P of GT-ART - bloody genius and a top geezer to boot. I heard it go up the strip on Saturday from the beach, posted a sub 11 at 130. and it was hot.

I was in the area, but all the bikers kinda put me off! lol, so kept away!

Some stunning cars!

Don't suppose you know specs of the M3's and the times they were putting down?

I did try to catch the owners of those m3's but each time i walked down the pit lane they wern't about

The first one looks a fair sorted car.

Slicks too

I went down for acouple of hours in the morning, there were some stunning rapid motors down there, as for the ///M3's i would say the silver one was standard engine wise and did not look quick at all, but the black one must of had a 2.5 conversion running a carbon airbox, it sounded awesome with the sound echoing though the arches

Ahhhh, you can't beat the sound of a C/f'ed airbox M3 bouncing off the limiter

I never knew it was going on, just thought it was something to do with bikes as there must have been a few thousand of them there!

Saying that, the lanes was nice and quiet!