On September 17th 2005 the first UK Tuner GP was held at Donington Park where many of the UKs best tuning companies put there cars against each others on the track.
We took this opertunity to enter our Clio 172 turbo to see what it could do against some much more power machinery. Unfortunately the organisers had not thought the classes out very well so we were up against four wheel drive and rwd drive cars as well as a few front wheel drive cars. Ths meant we were up against the likes of 500+bhp Imprezas and track cars powered by turbo charged motorbike engines.
This did not dampen the day though as we were there for a bit of fun and to give the car a shake down on only its second track outing.
The car perfomed superbly and quickly posted a 1 minute 25 seconds lap of the track which made it easily the fastest front wheel drive car in the whole event. This performance was further backed up by the car also recording a 5.11 second 0-60mph sprint also on the same day. We ran the car for 28 very hard laps of the track and did not suffer any problems with the engine what so ever which is very encouraging considering the car is producing well over 120bhp more that it left the factory with. What we did find is that we need to spend a little more time setting the car up for track use as the front tyres were overheating and the rear tyres were not getting hot enough. I think the front tyres were overheating due to it wheel spinning in 3rd and 4th gears around many of the tighter corners!
Overall we had a very good day in a completely reliable car and we are now looking forward to entering the event next year with more power and a fully set up car.
We hope to have a video of the car on the track on the website in the next few days so please keep an eye out as it is worth watching us waste a modified Focus RS.

Regards.

The K-Tec racing Team.