Car - BYP Racing Time Attack DC2R
Event - AUS Time Attack 2024
Class - Open Class
Driver - Benny Tran
Track - Winton Raceway
Date - June 29th - 30th
Weather - Dry - 14deg
Best Time - 1:21.0
Trophies -
- 1st Place Open Class
- 2nd Outright (0.3 off 1st)
- 1st 2WD Open Class
The team decided at the 11th hour to make the 7hour road trip to compete at AUS Time Attack. The Time Attack car got loaded up with its track package on the trailer and left Sydney at 4am. We just made it to the track just in time for the session 2 with only 15mins to have it ready. Managed to put in a banker lap 1:23 before the heavens opened up ending day 1.
We had an exhaust issue that required some work and thanks to a local guy, he welded up the broken titanium exhaust section. Day 2 forecast looked more promising and the track started to dry up after the night rainfall. By the first session, there was a dry line and we banked in faster time of 1:22.3 before encountering another exhaust issue. This time it cracked at another place. Just our luck considering there hasn't been any exhaust issue for 3 years!
Welder guy isn't around on Sunday so we had to do a bush fix and that fortunately held up. We just managed to fix the exhaust with minutes to spare to run session 2. Benny got strapped in and laid down a 1:21.0, putting us 1st Outright at this point.
AUS Time Attack crew popped over to carry out some measurements to check eligibility of the car after a few people raised some concern. We find it amusing when its the same front bar since 2014 built and designed by Top stage Composite. They were happy with the measurements and other check around the car and we got the car ready for session 3 with the goal to go faster.
Unfortunately, the car and driver didnt go faster in last two session. The Advan 050s were pretty cooked at this point (5laps at SMSP, 25 laps at Winton) and got held up with traffic in session 4. On the in lap, we had an oil fitting on the block break and cause a mess of around the car. Ezy out the fitting, new fitting, new oil and this BYP Built K24 engine keeps on giving
Recent changes from the Prac-works side feed to Prac-works centre feed intake manifold with a forced feed velocity stack set-up has seen a positive increase in speed. Managed to pickup 6kph on the straights even with a changed in boost pulley.
Next Stop is WTAC 2024 Aug 30th! Plenty of prep work to be done in the next couple of weeks to have it ready.