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David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:35 pm
by mab01uk
"In this, episode 46 of Powertec 10, David Vizard tells how Hi-tech and circumstances led to him setting a record at one of England's premier race track, namely Silverstone, that will probably never be broken. Not by even the F1 brigade and all done with a really slick 1293 Mini Cooper 'S'. At this point in time, that is before viewing the video, you will never guess, not even in a hundred years, how this came about."
David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elPuVP3OzTE
David Vizard Performance - More videos on the DV You-tube channel:-
https://www.youtube.com/user/marvingvx1/videos
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:44 pm
by Exminiman
Thanks for the post, this Mini and DV were pretty much the reason I got interested in Minis, I doubt if I am alone in this....
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:13 pm
by mk1
You aren't
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:40 pm
by Pete
Blimey I thought it was Tales Of The Unexpected for the first few minutes.
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:48 pm
by mab01uk
Here is the beam axle mentioned in the video developed by DV and Don Loughlin of Aldon Automotive...
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:12 pm
by AndyPen
A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:24 am
by mk1
That beam axle is strikingly similar to the examples produced by Harry Ratcliffe some 10 years earlier.
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:36 am
by Ronnie
He has made a neat job of the brake pipes routing
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:51 am
by mab01uk
AndyPen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:12 pm
A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!
DV posted online on his facebook page in 2020 that he had undergone emergency brain surgery and that since then he has had various issues getting things done and forgetting things, so he changed to doing more video production and less writing. Back in the 1980’s when DV was publishing his monthly 'Mini Tech News' he started spending the winter months in the USA and summer in the UK as doctors advised him that he needed to escape the damp UK winter climate to improve respiratory problems caused by grinding cylinder heads over many years.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/DavidVizardAuto/
David Vizard - 'Mini Tech News' Index 1980-83:-
https://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=33492
Re: David Vizard's - Silverstone track record set with his 1293cc Mini
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 5:10 pm
by AndyPen
mab01uk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:51 am
AndyPen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:12 pm
A strange presentation style but a great story. I wonder how many reshoots he had to do with al that editing!!!
DV posted online on his facebook page in 2020 that he had undergone emergency brain surgery and that since then he has had various issues getting things done and forgetting things, so he changed to doing more video production and less writing. Back in the 1980’s when DV was publishing his monthly 'Mini Tech News' he started spending the winter months in the USA and summer in the UK as doctors advised him that he needed to escape the damp UK winter climate to improve respiratory problems caused by grinding cylinder heads over many years.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/DavidVizardAuto/
David Vizard - 'Mini Tech News' Index 1980-83:-
https://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=33492
Thanks for that insight - I didn’t know - so well done DV