Nippon Challenge Race Race 3,4 and 5 – Pembray Race Report

18th May 2009

After our last race at Snetterton, we understand our car didn’t have the power we expected when we saw our competitor from our class pulling away from us on the main straight. We didn’t want to push more power from the engine because we wanted to keep it reliable, so to make us more competitive we have to focus in upgrade the other area, we decided to upgrade the aero package on our car because we understand no one on the grid focusing in this area and specially on a track like Pembrey a good amount of downforce will give us abit of advantage.

Qualify – 
Its my first time to go out with this aero package, so in the first few laps I was just trying out how the car behave compare to before, the different is huge, the way the front end turn it is completely different now. I managed to go almost 3 secs faster than last year (ref- 1mins 8.8 last year and 1mins 6.1 this season) and remember now we are on R888 instead of A048, if its was with the right tyres the different could be more than 3.5 secs. So we qualified 2nd overall, surprisingly in front of the GT500 class RX7 by 0.2 secs

Race 1 –
Had a pretty good start, but lose the place to the RX7 and Kris Civic because I was trying too hard trying overtake the RX7 on the outside of the hairpin, but Kris found a gap there and I didn’t want to repeat the accident like last year, so I was taking it easy because I still not 100% sure how the car going to behave with the new aero package with cold tyres so I stay behind Kris for a few laps, it was a really good race between me and Kris EK civic, we both pushing 100% and at lap 4 we both drift into the last corner, that’s how hard we are both trying! This is definitely one of the best race ever.

Managed to take a good line and brake later for the hairpin at lap 6, so I overtook him from there and start pulling a gap from him after a few laps and cross the finish line at 1st place without any problem with the car.

So here is the first race result –

GT250 class

1st Dixon Cheng (3rd overall)
2nd Kris Dunlop
3rd Michale Clark (well done for the first race)

Video of Race 1

Race 2
Had a great start and thought it will going to be easier than race 1 as I took a defensive line to hold Kris behind me but lost a place to the Subaru from the start as I was too defensive holding the position in front of Kris. So in the next 6 laps I was following the Subaru until he made a small mistake on the last corner before the main straight then I took the slipstream and outbrake him into the hairpin and gain the position.

Just 2 laps before the finish line, the front splitter drop on the main straight due to too much downforce and the wood couldn’t withstand the high pressure, the car was suffering massive understeering straight away at every corner and the back is catching up, but luckily I have pull abit of gap from the back so I crossed the finish line at 1st place again.

Video of race 2

1st Dixon Cheng (3rd overall)
2nd Kris Dunlop
3rd Michale Clark

Race 3 –
Had a bad start suffer with bad wheel spin due to the wet weather and running Semi slick so got overtook by a few cars already, after 1 lap the front splitter drop again due to the rain thought the night and it soften the wood, car was understeering and we lost the straight line speed as well. After 2 laps we have got a black flag from the marshall as they saw spark coming out from the splitter so we got DNF in the 3rd race.

It would be a perfect weekend if we didn’t have the splitter problem, the car was running very reliable without any problem and we had a really good race with the others, now we will focus in develop a new Carbon splitter so it should able to withstand high downforce, you will see us with a new aero package at Silverstone in 3 weeks time.

DMF performance – K20 forged race engine 
Camskill – tyre support 
Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oil 
Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad 
Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit 
HEL – Brake hose 
Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch 
DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel 
Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning 
Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping 
Buddyclub – Wheels
 Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup

Team support - 
Japanese performance 
Wincy Horological

Car built, prepared and developed by Dixon Motorsports

Thanks
Team Dixon Motorsports – http://www.dmsracingltd.com

Nippon challenge Race 1 & 2 – Snetterton race report

5th April 2009

All Nippon Challenge Race 1 and 2 report –

After a depressing year with engine reliability problems with the B20 engine, Hybrid racing and DMF Performance who were willing to Sponsor us a K20 engine with the full conversion kit approached us. During this winter break we understand as a private team we needed a fully equipped workshop to take our car to the next level, so in January 2009 I finally decided to setup my own race team. Found a new workshop within 3 weeks, so after 6 years of racing and trading with high performance car parts, Dixon Motorsports was finally officially up and running in February 2009.

Now we have a fully equipped professional running race team, racing is now an official part of our business. In the winter break we managed to find few more sponsors to support our racing in 2009.

We built our car from scratch again from new paint work, engine, roll cage, chassis upgrade with full K20 conversion, we started our new project in mid February our car was completed within 2 weeks. With our new engine from DMF performance fitted and mapped by Artech tuning. The engine was pushing 242bhp and after a testing session at Brands hatch we were happy with the new car.

So the first race event is up, we got to the track on Friday afternoon with everything setup on the track and we settle down for the night ready for the battle on Saturday.

Saturday –

Qualify –
With the new regulations we are only allowed to run either Toyo R888 or Silverstone tyres for this season, unfortunately only Toyo have an available size for our needs so we had no option but to go for Toyo’s this season. We have never raced with R888′s in the past 5 years of racing, this is our first race with these new tyres and the grip level was completely different to what we have used before so I had learn how to drive the car all over again.

We only managed 1 mins 24 secs in qualifying which was about 3 second slower than what we achieved with our old engine, pretty disspointed but we still qualified 7th in the overall class and 2nd in our GT250 class.

Race 1 –

Had a pretty good start and a good fight with the ex-touring car Honda Accord, after 5 laps of good battle I was finally able to outbrake him under the bridge at the back straight and got up to 2nd position in my class and 4th overall and I finally managed to feel the grip levels from the. The Best lap we had in the first race – 1 mins 22 secs so we gained 2 secs from the morning qualify session.

Race 2 –

Had a good start again, pulled away from the Accord and managed to stay in 2nd for the rest of the race, seeing Kris was only 4-5 secs in front of me but my car was suffering understeer from the R888 tyres so at the end we finished in 2nd and overall 4th in the class.

Not a bad start this season with no mechanical problems at all during the whole race weekend. After the first race, we now understand how competitive our car could be and we will continue to develop our car better for the next race at Pembrey.

Special thanks to the following, without their help we would never have been able to make it to the first race with a competitive car –

Camskill – tyre support
Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oil
Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad
DMF performance – K20 engine
Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit
HEL – Brake hose
Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch
DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel
Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning
Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping
Buddyclub – Wheels
Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup

Team support -
Japanese performance
Wincy Horological

Thanks

Team Dixon Motorsports.
www.dmsracingltd.com

dms racing at snetterton

Nippon Challenge race Results

5th April 2009

Nippon Challenge	Venue	Position
Race 1	Snetterton	2nd
Race 2	Snetterton	2nd
Race 3	Pembray	1st
Race 4	Pembray	1st
Race 5	Pembray	DNF
Race 6	Silverstone	1st
Race 7	Silverstone	1st
Race 8	Cadwell Park	2nd
Race 9	Cadwell Park	2nd
Race 10	Snetterton	2nd
Race 11	Snetterton	2nd
Race 12	Mallory Park	DNS
Race 13	Mallory Park	DNS
Race 14	Brands Hatch	1st
Race 15	Brands Hatch	1st

DMS 2009 Race Car Dyno Results

10th March 2009

With our new K20 engine into our DC2 Race car we have just had it mapped by Artech Tuning and the results are impressive, since the car weighs in at 1010kg with half a tank of fuel.

Peak power came in at 229.6 bhp @ the flywheel on the Dyno Dynamics at Hayes DynoTech.

We are looking to break in the new engine then Artech Tuning will be working their magic for some fine tuning.

Our first race is on 4th April at Snetterton, hope to see you there!

DMS Open 7 days a week

16th February 2009

From the 1st of March we will be open 7 days a week from 9am – 6pm. We will only be closed on race weekends, Christmas week and New years day.

We made this decision based on research for our customer requirements as many of you work hard all week and only have the weekends off.

Open for business

30th January 2009

We will be officially open for business on the 15th February 2009.

Come on down, take a look around our workshop and our state of the art equipment, or come and have a chat with us about your future plans or if you just need some honest advice.