The CPL Race Team recently broke their existing European record and became the first Honda and first front wheel drive car in Europe to break into the 9 second barrier.  On 9th July, in recognition of this achievement, ARP presented CPLs Guy Chamberlain with an ARP Performance Partner Trophy.

Everyone at CPL Racing would like to say a huge thank you to their partners ARP for the fantastic trophy and for coming such a long way to the CPL Racing workshop to visit us.  We would also like to express our sincere thanks for the exceptional products supplied by ARP for our race engines over the past few years.

We are pleased to announce that CPLs Guy Chamberlain gained 1st place in round 3 of the HKS Drag Series, with fellow CPL team member Paul Cresswell achieving 2nd place.

Guy is still leading the championship and Paul has improved his position from 3rd, up into 2nd place.

Congratulations to Guy, Paul and Neil who took Guy’s car to Santa Pod this weekend for the Summer Nationals meeting.  Yesterday was test day and the car ran 10.3 straight off the trailer.  Later on in the day the car was taken for a second run and managed 10.1.

Saturday morning, on the first pass out, the team broke into the 9’s with an amazing

9.91 at 149 mph

Which was backed up the following morning with a 9.93.  Here is a link to a video of the 9.93 run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCGkNTz34M

Congratulations to CPL Racing team member Paul Cresswell who ran an amazing 10.91 second pass on 19th May at a Santa Pod fun day event held by Redline Magazine. Paul's car has CPL turbo kit and a totally stock engine.

Congratulations to Paul Cresswell on winning round 2 of the HKS Drag Series 2010.

As well as winning, Paul Cresswell also ran his personal best of 11.11 seconds at 124.5 mph in his CPL Turbo'd Honda Civic Type R.  What makes these times particularly impressive is that Paul's car is still running a stock engine.

Well done Paul, an excellent result, and good luck for round 3.

We are pleased to announce that Hondata have now released the Flashpro for the European and JDM models of S2000, for years 2006 onwards.

For more information please go to our Hondata Flashpro page on this link

http://www.cplracing.co.uk/index.php?id=47

Wet weather severely impacted the racing for the 1^st round of the HKS Drag Series.  Heavy rain on the Saturday saturated the supporting roadways and grassed areas surrounding the track, and even though the Santa Pod track crew cleared and dried the track itself, early on Sunday morning, some of the road cars using the drag strip throughout the morning had deposited mud which had fallen from underneath their cars and this was posing a headache for the track crew.

Uncomfortable with the conditions and the poor state of the track Guy was not going to be able to set any records, so the objective was to win through the eliminations, achieve highest MPH and lowest elapsed time (ET) for maximum points.  This proved to be a very wise decision as during qualifying two cars from the HKS Drag Series crashed into the wall, both likely to be irreparable.  Luckily both drivers were unhurt.

Two further nasty crashes in the eliminations made all competitors extremely cautious in the final stages of the racing.   Despite the caution, Guy managed to take the win in the final against Richard Batty in a Mitsubishi FTO, thanks to quick reaction times and significantly more top-end power than his competitors.

A meeting of competitors and track officials was held last weekend and plans have been put in place to ensure that a repeat of the track conditions does not happen again.

Not the start to the season that we had all been hoping for, with some quick cars in other classes being put out of the racing for the start of the season, and lack of excitement in the later rounds of eliminations due to all drivers having to be highly cautious due to the conditions.

In the eliminations Guy took the win in the first round against fellow CPL team member Neil Knight, who had entered a reserve car due to his own car not being fully built in time for the first round of the series.  In the second round of the eliminations Guy had a bye run.