Testing our Mk2 Cortina race car at Silverstone with an appearance from an Aston Martin Valkyrie! 

Yeah we prefer the old stuff, a lot more character, but the noise of the Aston’s V12 when it opens up a bit is magic

@@avin_the_crack I expect in just a few years time, an original classic mk2 Lotus Cortina will be worth as much as that Valkyrie anyway! 👍🙏😁

She goes well for an old girl!

Cheers 👍🏻

Cheers 👍🏽👍🏽

Cheers Mark 👍🏽👍🏽

Nicely done! Fair play for sticking with her all these years 👏🏽👏🏽

Next Sunday for the race day video 😁

Snap away 👌🏽👍🏽

Nice to meet you to 👍🏽👍🏽

There’s been a lot of work gone in to it to try and make it a decent track car. As you can imagine there’s not a lot of “off the shelf” parts for it, so a lot of making what we know works fit. There’s a few more things we need to iron out but more than happy with how it performed on its debut 👌🏽

Yeah rallying definitely helped out in the slippy conditions I think Josh felt more at home sliding about a bit! The onboard camera from the 2nd race is a good watch 👍🏽

@@avin_the_crack Looking forward to that one👍

Welcome aboard! Yeah the old Cortina turned out better than we thought it would to be honest. Not allowed near lawnmowers anymore, Jack had a go at one once and ended up getting himself impaled 🤦🏻‍♂️

Video from the race day will be out this Sunday 👍🏽

One of the reasons we chose it was to have something a bit different. Still working a few bits out, but seems like we’ve got a good car underneath us 👍🏽

Cheers 👍🏽👍🏽

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Yes there is 👌🏽👌🏽

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She sure does 👍🏽

She does have a nice soundtrack!

Cheers 👍🏽👍🏽

The V12 in that Aston did sound nice, but definitely prefer the noise of the Cortina!

We’ll be doing a rolling shell to race car build video when we’ve got 5 mins 👍🏽👍🏽

Cheers 👍🏽👍🏽

Yeah we need to coax that out of him for circuit racing! 😂

Cheers 👍🏽👍🏽

She’s patched back up now looking like new 😁

@@avin_the_crack very well done I'm happy now 👍 , I have work done on my track car by a guy who builds and prepares race MK1 Cortina's , so I get to have a look around the work shop that's the first MK2 proper spec I've seen , like I said very well done 👍 !

Yeah we wanted to try something different, looks good with the arches 👍🏽

Cheers! She’s all patched up now ready for the next race 💪🏽

Indeed 💪🏽

On board is in the next video on Sunday 🥳

Cheers 👍🏽

Cheers 👍🏽

Sturdy old bus is the cortina, no wonder it dragged the lamppost home 😂😂

Every race car needs a wound! Wasn’t expecting to pick it up on our first ever couple of laps in it but it happens. We’ll get it fixed before the next race though 👌🏽

That’s what testings for 👍🏽

They are both nice for different reasons but I admit the Cortina gets it , nostalgia and not factory built wins every time 👍!

@@lyntonryan4766 a great cortina fan

She turned out well 👍🏽

Cheers! Glad you enjoy it 👍🏽👍🏽

Gotta have a go 👍🏽

We custom made them from a set of Escort Zakspeed arches 👍🏽

Yeah she doesn’t hang about 💨

Very entertaining on boards from the 2nd race!

@@avin_the_crack get editing 👍🏻😂

@@brookerracing888 race day video is already set up to premier on Sunday at 6.45 😁

Yeah wasn’t expecting it to sound as good as it did 😁

Cheers 👍🏽

It does a bit to be fair

Nothing off the Escort on this one 👍🏽

Ah nightmare, time to get another one!

No not this weekend, will be there with the Cortina soon though

@@avin_the_crack shame , take it you’re fellow Bristol lads , spoiler alert cortina survived silverstone then 💪👍🏻

She’s still collecting dust 😂

We’re in the Modified Ford Series 👍🏽

@@avin_the_crack Cool, Cadwell in August then!

@@temporarynoble 👍🏽👍🏽

No idea, we just wanted the V12 😂

@@avin_the_crack "speed's just a question of money... how fast you wanna go?" Is a quote from the film Mad Max 1. Max and the gearhead police mechanic Grease Rat, are discussing if it's possible to build a car fast enough to outrun the biker gang. The police are supposed to be the good guys and the bikers are supposed to be the bad guys, but the police have an unlimited budget whereas the bikers have to resort to petty crime to survive 🤔🤔🤔 Well, sure - speed is just a question of money and Aston Martins are very fast and expensive, stands to reason. But they are also shit. Too fast, too expensive. Too wide, too complicated, eg only all-steel monocoque they made was DB7 which was for front mounted V8 or V12 motors. You don't want the V12, imo even if I said here's ten million quid what would you do? Some people probably would get suckered and blow the whole lot on a couple of Astons. Other people would start a small business and build hot Cortina racecars to order. The whole point of remaining at the 4-cylinder level is smaller cheaper narrower less powerful less complicated. I'm a Fiat guy I dunno Fords but an approximate Italian equivalent would be a Group 5 Mirafiori 131 Abarth Rallye or some homologation thereof. It would be a 2-litre NA 16V DOHC Lampredi making around 375bhp and weighing about 850kg, basically a track focused version of the green and black one driven by PAOLO DIANA. Be interested to know what's the power and what's the weight of the Cortina? Also on RU-vid is a black X1/9 by Polini Racing for DAVIDE CIRONI, 1300cc bike engine, 200bhp 580kg And a blue X1/9 driven by MANUEL DONDI which has a Alfa D2 motor 395bhp 625 kg. These old steel monocoque shells make for great projects and the red Cortina is just gorgeous.

I think that’s on the to do list!

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Not ideal, but we’ll get her patched up 👍🏽

Marcus was our mate, and our co-driver when the rallying began way back when. He was a massive part of getting Avin The Crack up and running but he passed before we started the RU-vid adventure. He would have loved it though, and I’m sure he’s having a good old laugh at us somewhere!

@@avin_the_crack cool, he sounds like a great loss. We are here for a good time, not a long time. Nice touch to Marcus, bet he’s looking down having a laugh with you guys, enjoy while we can I guess. Here’s to Marcus🍻

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In the Modified Ford Series we did yes

We’re big fans of the old school stuff, can’t beat them! Not often you get to see a £3million car though so had to have a peek! Would still take the cortina 😁

​@@avin_the_crack Oh yeah absolutely, I would also eyeball, maybe even drool a bit, Valkyrie if seen live. It's fairly rare to see super cars and such in Finland, especially Astons so I would def be pleased to see one.

The V12 sounds lovely!

She’s not bad is she 👌🏽

Ummmm lights and front grille!

Creates a good balance 👌🏽

Cheers, I’ll pass that on to the lads they’ll be ecstatic 👍🏽

It’s “crack” for us because we didn’t want it to be the same 👍🏽

@@avin_the_crack grand job, come over to 'The Donegal Rally' sometime, you'll definitely enjoy the craic there, mk 2 central!! Run your Cortina in the Historics, flat to the mat them boys! 👌 My father had a 1600e and a MK2 Lotus Cortina. I've a 22b.. Keep er country lads!! 🙌☘️

Sound mate 👍🏽