Hi Dangerous,
I managed a few laps and would be interested to see your photos as the official Javelin photographer wasn't able to make it, would you please let me know when they are uploaded.
Thanks,
mf.
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I had a really good day at Woodbridge & yes I did have a lot of fun! Scared myself silly fishtailing up the runway, couldn't hold it & span round to be faced with several very large cars bearing down at some speed!
Went a bit slower for the rest of the day - instead of getting a feel for the new engine in the car, I drove it like the old tired engine was still there & ended up spinning - lots.
The placard for "TYRE SQUEAL" could have been invented for my car (the tracking is way out) but it never got shown once. There was one unfortunate crash of a Westfield (?) into two large straw barrels which looked painful - but I think he had a mechanical failure rather than driver error.
The rain stayed away until about 3pm where it poured it down for 20 minutes & we came in to find that our Le Mans Spyker umbrella, which had been sheltering our laptop & stuff, had been nicked! Thankfully I stormed around looking angry and it was handed back quite promptly.
I'd broken down on the way & had to stop at Asda near Ipswich as the MAP sensor ECU link had corroded (from the Le Mans rain). Scott had forgotten half of his soldering iron so fashioned a rather impressive setup from a 15p toothbrush, spare bit of wire from under my seat, an inverter & a battery to solder a new link in. Wow.
Great to meet Jazzymonkey & Dangerous - pity I didn't get around to giving passenger rides - I went around with Scott in his 205 quite a few times - mental - and also Steve in his Lotus Sunbeam (wow) that I knew from Pistonheads.
My next track day is North Weald this Friday - can't wait.










Went a bit slower for the rest of the day - instead of getting a feel for the new engine in the car, I drove it like the old tired engine was still there & ended up spinning - lots.
The placard for "TYRE SQUEAL" could have been invented for my car (the tracking is way out) but it never got shown once. There was one unfortunate crash of a Westfield (?) into two large straw barrels which looked painful - but I think he had a mechanical failure rather than driver error.
The rain stayed away until about 3pm where it poured it down for 20 minutes & we came in to find that our Le Mans Spyker umbrella, which had been sheltering our laptop & stuff, had been nicked! Thankfully I stormed around looking angry and it was handed back quite promptly.
I'd broken down on the way & had to stop at Asda near Ipswich as the MAP sensor ECU link had corroded (from the Le Mans rain). Scott had forgotten half of his soldering iron so fashioned a rather impressive setup from a 15p toothbrush, spare bit of wire from under my seat, an inverter & a battery to solder a new link in. Wow.
Great to meet Jazzymonkey & Dangerous - pity I didn't get around to giving passenger rides - I went around with Scott in his 205 quite a few times - mental - and also Steve in his Lotus Sunbeam (wow) that I knew from Pistonheads.
My next track day is North Weald this Friday - can't wait.








