NEW PRIZE UPDATE! COMPETITION: Design a Racing Team Logo!‏

August 24, 2016August 31, 2016 / jamescaterracing / 2 Comments

**EDIT**: Our sponsor, UK based action and dash camera company JooVuu, have offered one of their awesome JooVuu X cameras as a prize for this!

The JooVuu X is a high-spec micro camera than can be used as an action camera or in your car for the extra security provided by a dash camera. Offering Super HD 2.5k resolution and 60fps, it’s reliable and discreet, with constant support from a company who listen to what users want from these cameras, and build it in.

Go check out the specs and win a JooVuu X, GPS cable, a mount, a data cable, and a CPL filter – normally worth over £100!

https://www.joovuu-x.com/

As a celebration of the newly formed Formula Vee racing team, called RTV – Racing Team Vee, we would like to offer you a chance to help us out. The current decals we have on the car were rushed purely to meet a tight deadline.

We know that you guys can do better!

We would love to be able to put a logo on the cars and website that is distinctive, recognisable and memorable.

If you would like to see your own design on a racecar, we would love to see what you can do!

We would like the letters RTV to be the main focus, but feel free to use or incorporate the full name – Racing Team Vee – or the website www.RacingTeamVee.com in your design.

Designs do not need to be overly intricate, as a bold, clear design often looks better when you see it from a few feet away.

The Formula Vee car we currently run is yellow with a blue roll cage – you can use these colours or try something totally new.

If you can submit a design in as high a quality as possible, it’s a bonus – preferably using CMYK vector graphics. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry!

The prize (an ultra-high spec JooVuu X camera pack and other assorted goodies) and full credit will be given for any design we use.

We want to get the design on the car for the next race, so we would also ask that you get your designs in by Tuesday 06 September to give us time to get stickers made up for the car in time! Please send any designs to jamescaterracing@hotmail.co.uk or post them to the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/RacingTeamVee/

Thanks for any help!

Silverstone International – 20/08/16

August 23, 2016 / jamescaterracing / Leave a comment

Silverstone International – 20/08/16

Making up 8 places before the first corner at the start of the first race sadly came to nothing, as engine failure at the end of the first lap forced retirement.

Starting out the day with the aim of testing a newly rebuilt gearbox, James Cater had the added problem of a very cold and wet track – having only driven at Silverstone International last year in dry conditions.

A miscalculation with the suspension settings (we were totally focused on the gearbox and actually went out with the dry setup we’d used at Anglesey!) added to the problems, but despite a few spins James still qualified 23^rd of the 38 cars entered.

With the track almost dry for the first race, conditions were better suited on what is a brilliant circuit, exactly one year from when James had his first ever race there.

A demon start took the RTV Sheane closer to the B class podium finish we were aiming for, before a 120+mph spin at Abbey at the start of the second lap meant dropping back down the order.

Red flags a few corners later due to another accident caused a restart, but with the engine sounding off, James took the restart from the pit lane after checking in with Glenn Hay. Sadly, the problems got worse back on track, and he had to pull back in to the pits and retire from the race.

An inspection found two engine studs had snapped, one proving too tough to remove the remains of the broken thread from the engine case at the track.

Despite a valiant effort from Glenn to repair the engine, we unfortunately ran out of time before the start of the second race, and the weekend was over for us.

We’re disappointed with the result, especially as James had new sponsor decals on the car for British action camera company JooVuu, and also the newly formed RTV.

We will be hoping to make amends and get a solid result at Snetterton on September 24^th for the final race of the year.

As always, you’ll be able to read the more in-depth race report from James’ perspective on www.jamescaterracing.com shortly.

Here is the onboard footage from qualifying:

RTV at Dubtoberfest 2016

August 2, 2016 / jamescaterracing / Leave a comment

Dubtoberfest Festival 2016

Racing Team Vee had the honour of being asked to display the Sheane at Dubtoberfest at the weekend.

This is a great little festival for the VW camper van brigade, with a Bavarian theme and a family-friendly atmosphere, held at Throckmorton airfield near Pershore.

Displaying both the new JooVuu and RTV stickers in public for the first time, we joined Gary Richardson and David Leniewski with our three very different Vee’s on display.

With live music playing all through the day, loads of food on offer, a 2000hp ‘Mental Breakdown’ dragster, dog agility course, show & shine car competition, archery, and some rather nice partying each evening (in lederhosen, no less!), a great time was certainly had by all of us – and the equally friendly crowds of people seemed to be enjoying themselves just as much.

Some of them (including James’ fiancée, Julie) even got to experience riding on the Dodgems with a load of ultra-competitive Formula Vee racers!

It’s a great festival, still in its early days, and I’d heartily recommend it for next year!

Massive thanks to Damian Cottrell for the invite, organising things, and his hospitality! As a racer himself (and pretty good by all accounts) and being a local, it’d be good to see him back out on a grid again soon!

I’ll leave you with some pictures from the weekend.