Cracking Day

 

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Did u Sort your motor?

It's still on the drive where it was dropped off by the AA

 

I have been 12 hour night all week so not had time, I was a little late to work after the 6 hour trip in the AA lorries.

The fiestas were called back to the pits because they were dropping stones everywhere

Might just point out the stone chip I received was one of the blue ones :p

Was an absolute cracking day as said above.

Thanks to all for such a great day.

Soo many cars that made my day.

The golfs they sounded amazing. And the little clio too.

Shame about pips car but that was somethimg. Didnt expect it to be that loud and fast.

 

Did a few laps early on b4 waiting for the weather to get dry so ended up going for a mackys breakfast. On our return saw the focus and fiesta in the gravel and initial thought was they colided.

 

After lunch thats when the fun started.

Track dried up and stretched the old girl legs. Lol

Did a few stints and cooled dwn inbetween. 

Wanted to do a few passenger laps but realised after a trip in my own car that i'm a bad passenger.

 

Gave my mates a few laps 2 drive about in my car and they really enjoyed it. They emptied the tank thats how much they enjoyed it.

 

All in all a good day out and car did well.

Wanted to do some fiddling about with the car ie) tyre pressures and anti roll bar settings but didn't get chance to as wanted as much time on track. 

 

I was in the silver fabia with the bright blue alloys.

T5 owner is my mate. Problem was he emptied the van (mostly) and the lack of weight caught him out.

Your mate didn't have a GoPro or similar recording, did he? I got it rather sideways in front of him at Graham Hill bend (not intentionally, may I add!).

Thanks everyone for the videos and feedback.

 

I only usually organise one or two of these each year and this is the first time I've booked a whole day for us rather than getting 20 or 30 spaces on someone else's commercial track day.

Learnt quite a bit, while the day was good overall there were clearly some things that could have been done better.

 

For me it beaks down something like this:

 

Good.

Being not for profit it worked out a lot cheaper than a normal day, especially once you work in free garage use and a few photography shots.

We could limit the numbers so very rare to see a queue on track or in the pits, waiting to go out.

Great social atmosphere due to closed nature of track day.

Very good track day etiquette in general. In terms of car to car contact a very safe day.

 

Bad.

Too many red flags due to slippery conditions which led to some gravel on the circuit.  Car should have been driven about off track to clear it out.

Not enough independent tutoring available for people new to the circuit or track days in general, which led to more reg flags IMO.

 

If/when we do one next year it seems a good format, with limited numbers and keeping it private.

 

Thats what scares me about gravel, sideways and digging in and flipping. That van apparently still had a full load of tools etc

 

That's why I went straight through.

Thanks for organising again Richard, despite the weather, numerous red flags and debris on the track it was another enjoyable day despite a few mishaps & accidents everyone got home safe

Thanks to Richard for organising, not my best track day, still enjoyed it despite the hiccups, spent the morning clearing gravel from underneath, still struggled with grip in the afternoon, only had my new coilovers for just over week so was still playing around with the settings and getting use to them. More tinkering was done at weekend, softer setting on RARB, feels  less twitchy, will keep on tinkering till the next one.  

Have to admit I was expecting to spin or go off at some point in the morning.

Is a testimony to the car's abilitythat I didnt, I think. At least next time I wont be a track day virgin

Have to admit I was expecting to spin or go off at some point in the morning.

Is a testimony to the car's abilitythat I didnt, I think. At least next time I wont be a track day virgin

Next time I'll be the one who chasing you lol.