There were a lot of accusations thrown around following the events that unfolded at Oulton Park on the 2nd of July at the Monoposto 2000 race. I would like to set the record straight as to what really happend. Yes we removed the restrictor to give Kourosh half a chance of victory in the race. During testing on the Friday we had found that we were a second off the pace pace of Tristan Cliffes 210bhp Dallara 398 and upto 2 seconds with the restrictor. As qualifying demonstrated, Kourosh Khani ended up 3.045 seconds off pole having driven the perfect lap as our data showed, he had pushed the Renault FR2000 to the absolute limit.

What should have been a nice weekend of racing at the Monoposto 2000 race at Brands Hatch a few weekends ago ended with Monoposto's Tristan Cliffe having the audacity to question the driving ability of Kourosh Khani who is an experienced driver and has competed in BARC Formula Renault Championship. Kourosh battled hard but fair to claim an excellent second place in Saturdays race despite having a power disadvantage. Currently the Formula Renaults are hard pushed to compete against the Dallara F3 cars, they are losing anything between 20-40bhp depending on the engine setup that the Monoposto F3 car has. A good driver can make up some of the deficit, but not all of it.

The most potent combination is the use of a Toyota 3SGE series 3 engine fitted with throttle bodies gives the potential of over 200bhp. The Renault on the hand with a 37mm restrictor has an output of around 165-170bhp (195bhp non restricted).