A grand day out

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:17 am

Well done guys,
Stuart, this M3 is starting to give you a lot of fun. Nice to se you enjoying yourself now mate.
I bet you are glad you did not abort the Black Betty now.
Eddy

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:24 am

Great fun indeed with more to come. Much more

It really makes such a difference when you're out there with mates though; that's the clincher. Trackdays and sprints would be dull without that in my opinion.

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:04 pm

stuart wrote: Mr Houghton was clearly going gentle with me. I still think he's that bored by the lack of competition he's had in D8 all year, that it has lulled him into a slumber. My actions at Cadwell will almost certainly invoke the full wrath of his revenge when we hit the concrete at North Weald in a fortnight.

Lol, I had a great string of excuses ready and you go and trump the lot.

blacky · Post by **blacky** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:40 pm

I'm looking forward to Lord Houghton v's Man Mountain Staples in 2 weeks

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:15 pm

Maybe the D8 version of the Kim/Logan battles.

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:00 pm

Shake and Bake Baby

gidz_master_flash · Post by **gidz_master_flash** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:11 pm

Some videos i took during second practice in the morning whilst I still had Jim as a second marshal with me (so our post was sufficently manned whilst i had the camera in hand

) All taken at the gooseneck:

Matt in the S2000

Brian Winston in the GT3 RS

Colin in the Cozzie, trying very hard, not a one off misjudgement, he was driving like a madman on every run!

Adam in his Celica GT4 165

Logan with tyre squeel & plently of commitment

Kim with even more tyre squeel & even more commitment; i didn't see any break lights

Gerry in the wagon, sorry about poor filming, i nearly completley missed your run, nothing so reasuring as to know the marshals are benig vigilant :oops: !

Stuart pressing on in The BMW

A couple of guys i know well who were competing in their Judd Powered Gould in the National class, they weren't pressing too hard as it's practice but were really pressing on in thier timed runs & during the shoot out.

Bill Oliver (father) The self professed "tyre warmer"

Matt Oliver (son) Won the NAtional championship last year, just pipped this year by Rob Jr. in a newer Judd powered Gould but with a few more driver assists Eg. Traction Control

Marshalling wasn't as much fun as competing but was still enjoyable & the weather behaving probably helped. Our post (Gooseneck approach) was quite "busy" during first practice as people were runnning out of grip & talent on the damp track & not making the gooseneck......could have been worse, i could have copped for a really dull bit of track or collecting up bits of bunny after it met with a single seater

Great to see BP out in force :P

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:26 pm

Thanks for the videos :thumb:

I really need to get a camera fitted again. Just watching the differing lines on that one section showed such a variety of driving......it would be helpful to analyse what I'm doing (and doing wrong)

Maybe a pooled fund for a performance box and camera if there are a few of us doing this next year??

gidz_master_flash · Post by **gidz_master_flash** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:52 pm

I was thinking about buying a datalogger as i would love to know more about each run's terminal speeds, apex speeds Etc. So on a reccomendation from a fellow competitor in the Toyota Sprint Series i've been looking at this box of tricks: http://www.performancebox.co.uk/

Seems to do quite alot for the price, but with the BMW being RWD it may be worth spending a bit extra on the Driftbox so you can see what angles of sidewaysness you have achieved :twisted:

MiKa · Post by **MiKa** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:01 pm

Thanks for some great vids - at least I didn't lose the second or so at the Gooseneck...

Squealy tyres confirms my decision to get geometry looked at this week... just in time to knock it all out again over NWeald bumps.