Ring Ride!

[Ben]

Awesome - not bad at all

[rayman gtir]

nice well done

[russ979]

That looks rather sweet chap! infact probably the best car i`ve never owned!?!!!!???;):D

[IWANT1]

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[Stuart]

Best of luck Lee Hope it goes well for you......(how heavy are they on wheel bearings? If you can bag some spares easily enough, take some with you)

[IWANT1]

AWESOME TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pablo]

Take it you had a good time then Lee:thumbs:

[Ben]

Come on Lee - where is the write up

[Ian200sx]

was it the 21st/22nd weekend you were there? I was, and was a great weekend. My first time there!

[IWANT1]

<o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src=" images="" smilies="" redface.gif="" border="0" alt="" title="Redface" smilieid="2" class="inlineimg"></o:smarttagtype> The whole story ,my mad month!

Beginning of the month I nipped to Amsterdam for a quick visit to KLM and a HPT rotor balance, overnight ferry out, a days work then overnight ferry back.

Then down to Manston airport for 5 days for an engine install and test run, that messed me around for the BP meet and testing the car so a mad rush to get ready for the ring.

Evo was faultless, done 11 laps, love the car its so light and easy to drive at speed, power delivery is smooth and all the way to the rev limiter, handling is tight and the coilovers are nicely set up, brakes are very good but can't take the 15 miles of abuse a decent set of pads and some brake cooling I think would sort this.









A busy weekend and seeing too many crashes showed me a side to the Ring I didn't see on my first visit. Its an awesome place but when it bites it bites REALLY hard. The adrenalin and excitement of first trip masked the dangers of the circuit (