RTV Logo Competition Winner!

September 6, 2016 / jamescaterracing / 1 Comment

We are proud to announce that the winner of the competition to design us a logo is Dan Traynor, for this brilliant design!

I’m sure you’ll all agree the sleek and modern-looking design will look amazing on the car, and we can’t wait to get it on there. Dan also wins a brand new, super HD JooVuu X micro camera, very kindly donated by UK based camera company JooVuu.

Dan is a web developer for Proportion Marketing and lives in Middlesbrough – which he swears isn’t the worst place in the world to live, and judging from the other designs he submitted isn’t a bad place at all for inspiration.

Dan is a big lover of motorsports and graphic design, and first saw the competition from a post on the Piston Heads forum. He’ll be using the JooVuu X as a dash camera for extra security on the roads – and this competition came at the perfect time as he has just decided he needs one after driving to watch Formula One in Belgium!

Huge thanks for the very professional looking design! You can follow Dan on Twitter at @hookdesignalter.

And another massive thank you to everyone who submitted designs!

Glenn and myself had a very tough job trying to narrow the entries down and choose the winner. They ranged from retro designs to ultra-modern, reflecting the minimal brief we gave which made it so hard from both sides of the competition! You all really stepped up to the plate and we loved the creativity and diversity.

There is some serious talent out there, and thank you all for doing what we couldn’t!

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.

RTV – The Newest Race Team in Formula Vee

July 28, 2016 / jamescaterracing / Leave a comment

RTV – The Newest Race Team in Formula Vee

I’ve hinted before about the pending formation of a race team, both to give Glenn more credit for his untiring work on the spanners, and to also make it clear that we are a team when we get more cars out of track.

I can now proudly announce the formation of RTV – Racing Team Vee.

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The name is inspired by the professional Super Vee teams of the mid-70s, who used similar naming styles, and reflects our focus to both push and strengthen Formula Vee in the UK and across the globe.

Combined with the new stickers on the car for our sponsor JooVuu, it’s been an exciting few weeks!

I have made this page for RTV, where you will find race reports, updates on the other cars/drivers, and maybe even some history. I’ll even see if I can coax some Super Vee information out of Glenn, as there isn’t much around about that.

But don’t worry! I’ll still be doing my thing over at www.JamesCaterRacing.com – in depth warts ‘n all reports, thoughts, answering your questions, and giving my perspective of things!

So please like/subscribe/follow the new RTV page on Facebook and WordPress.

A huge thank you to everyone for your support, and contact me if you want to get involved in any way.

RTV – Racing Team Vee:

Website/blog: www.racingteamvee.com

Facebook: RTV – Racing Team Vee

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Welcome To RTV

July 23, 2016July 26, 2016 / jamescaterracing / Leave a comment

Welcome to RTV – Racing Team Vee!

RTV run in the Ravenol UK Formula Vee Championship, currently with a Class B Sheane.

Glenn Hay – Glenn started racing in Formula Vee in the early 70’s, winning the UK championship himself in 1979, having a brief stint in Super Vee in the mid-70’s, and racing his championship winning Scarab into the 90’s. He then ran cars for Robert Cowburn (winning the Class B championship in 2009), and latterly for James Cater.

James Cater – The current driver competing in Class B in his first ever season of racing. For his more in-depth views, blogs and thoughts, please go to www.jamescaterracing.com.

This is a new site – please check back for regular updates!