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2002 Season
1995 Swift SC95R Formula Renault
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Specifications
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Engine |
2ltr. Renault Laguna based engine
with fuel injection |
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Transmission |
Hewland 5 speed H gate gearbox |
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Suspension |
Ohlins dampers |
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Wheels & Tyres |
3 sets of Madin wheels with
slicks and wets |
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Chassis |
Swift space-frame with GRP bodywork, F3 carbon
front wing and carbon full rear diffuser |
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Datalogging |
None fitted. RenaultSport Digital Dashboard |
This was an ex- DC Cook car, first run in the
1995 British Formula Renault Championship by Paul Cook. It was an steel
space-framed car, with fibre-glass bodywork designed by a French RenaultSport
engineer for Swift.
Several of its sister cars made their way to Canada. Its large sidepods were not
aerodynamically efficient.
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This was my first race car and it proved to
be an extremely reliable if underpowered car. It (In the whole season, there was only 1 mechanical glitch when a bolt fell out of the
gear linkage at Rockingham. I did managed to wrap it around a tyre wall in the
wet at Brands Hatch, causing a £4000, 2 month re-build project.
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The car was subsequently sold to Trevor
Stacey for hill-climbing, then sold back to Dermot Healy in 2006. It was
exported to Austria in May 2006. |
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