Bigpower

Hi all,

FE have just released prices on their weekend dates at Oulton, Donington, and Snett:

http://www.focusedevents.com/car_event_list.asp

Oulton Sat 4 Dec
1. Andy916 (booked)


Any more takers? Bargain prices with these early bookings (price goes up as more bookings are taken)

Andy

I see snetterton for

[quote="Tk"]I see snetterton for

Mr Fletcher wrote:good value if you have a bike:)

is that what the spinning red and yellow i is
its showing snett on the sat and sunday in the car days
i see the one on sunday has gone up to

not sure trev just read the price per "rider" in the info although they have been known to run mixed days with sessions .

[quote="Tk"]
i see the one on sunday has gone up to

they all say riders i think

Yup, the car days say 'riders'. It'll just be that they haven't updated their pages properly (FE began as a bike trackday co)

Andy

Ive mentioned this to Kevin a number of times, change the 'Rider' to driver as it confuses people, and can potentially cost them a sale!

Good rates for a superb 2 days!! Get in quick!!

Well, Oulton we had a slippy but fun day at Oulton on Saturday:




Travel up on the Friday night was on snowy roads once beyond Derby into Cheshire. The scoob 4wd and Federal RS-Rs handled the conditions just fine! On to Oulton in the morning and there was snow round the track and in the paddock, so we blagged a garage:




I was in the blue scoob, which some of you know, and my pal Stui was in the MX-5 which he's in the early stages of converting into a track car. Conditions were wet all day (salt on the track meant that it never properly dried out) and well slippy. First session out, on RS-Rs, and I was just starting to enjoy the slidyness when I caught up Stui. We went round Druids tight together when he hung the back end out big style ... I backed off and sure enough he swung round 180degrees off to the right and unfortunately kissed the barrier side-on (but no major harm done). That section stayed treacherous all day (oil, I think), with non-existent turn-in and immediate side-slip with any positive throttle. Rest of circuit was great - with some lock on the centre diff and well-timed braking there was sharp turn-in, decent grip mid corner and lovely contollable oversteer on the exit. After first session I switched from RS-Rs to some RE070s which I wanted to use-up, which turned out to have a little less outright grip but were nicely progressive whilst sliding. The day was a great lesson in steering the scoob on the throttle. I remained on softish damper settings all day and just tweaked tyre pressures and centre-diff settings, which seemed pretty much spot-on. The only things to come past were a quick Evo 6 on 888s, a tracked-up old 5-series (dunno which one, sorry!) and surprisingly a 230bhp Megane on Pilot Sports. This was the most entertaining thing to watch, with the driver sawing wildly at the wheel everywhere, but wasn't actually that fast:



All in all, a top day. Now then, who fancies doing Anglesey track on 30th Jan for just