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Rochdale
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Recent news just received is that our lightweight
Rochdale Olympic is eligible for the FISC Euro tour. Since the car was
originally built for racing purposes I think it is only proper that we
should try to support this series. The biggest problem however could be
finance, watch this space to find out what happens.
In the meantime why not visit the Fisc Europe site
using our link on the links page. |
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Bike
sports series |
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The 750 Motor Club have recently announced the
formation of a new series of races specifically aimed at racing sports cars,
prototypes etc which are powered by a Motorcycle engine, this new series is
to be called
Bike Sports
and is to be the new home for all existing Sports 1000 cars. These cars are
to run in class 'D' of the new formula. We are hoping to have 2 of our cars
competing this season. One being our works prototype in its new livery, the
second car being the 983SR coupe which is currently under development. |
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As a direct result of the changes in the regulations
governing what was the Sports 1000 series we are now able to offer our cars
with a choice of any engine/gearbox combination from a production
motorcycle. As a small company we are able to tailor our basic package to
your requirements and we are more than willing to discuss your requirements,
why not contact me for more information on
keith@scholar-racing96.com I
am always happy to talk. |
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Scholar
983s prototype |
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After a shaky start to the 2003 season the Scholar 983S
takes the chequered flag. Mallory Park in October 2003 was a turning point
for the small and massively under funded works team of Scholar Racing 96.
Having built a Sports 1000 racing car from scratch in a little over 6 months
the new Scholar 983S has been suffering reliability problems. The main issue
being with the reversing gearbox which has taken some time to get working
properly. |
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Finally Simon Hamer who is in his first season
of racing was able to bring the car home in 3rd place behind the ADR of Neil
Burrows (1st) and the Farrington Fandango driven by close friend Trevor
Farrington (2nd) |
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Simon said that the team were really looking
forward to next season and with the developments due to take place on the
car over the closed season, he thinks that the Scholar 983S should be closer
to the pace required to be competitive, all he has to do now is hone his
driving to be in with a chance of some podium places. |
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Scholar
983SR |
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Scholar Racing 96 announce development of new Sports
1000 rear engined coupe.
This new project which is being developed by Scholar
racing is as a direct request from one of there customers. 'This is an
exciting project' says Keith Hamer of Scholar racing. We are always looking
to developed new ideas and this one falls perfectly into the ethos of our
company. |
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Currently we are still at the chassis design and build
stage. We do feel that the concept of a small rear engined coupe is one
which offers a challenge to a small company like ours, however because we
are small and highly motivated we feel that we can work in close harmony
with the customer. We are really looking forward to seeing this car take to
the circuits to race in the Sports 1000 series. |
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The chassis of our Scholar 983SR sports 1000 coupe is
now complete, the tasks remaining are to design and build the fully enclosed
body for the car and to finalise the mounting of the engine / gearbox and
final drive into a space which seems to be getting smaller every time I look
at it. To enable us to do this we have had to come up with some very lateral
thinking, the result has been that we have had to mount the engine alongside
the gearbox driven by a toothed belt system which incorporates not only the
clutch but also the |
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mechanism which gives us the mandatory reverse gear.
The rear axle has also had to be offset to the drivers side. The rear axle
has been mounted onto the rear of the space frame using a variation of our
unique wishbone set-up which uses pull rods to operate the spring and damper
assemblies, which is the method used on the front of the car. By using this
method to hang the live rear axle we felt that the basic space frame could
be adapted for a number of different applications. The theory of building
the chassis in this |
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manner is so that in the future we can possibly adapt
the chassis to run, for instance, the complete front suspension from a
production car such as the Metro GTi or Vauxhall Corsa GSi, in fact the
choice of set-up using a basic 'space frame tub' is almost endless. |
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