Snetterton 300 trackday Sun 19th Jan

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:52 pm

Sunday drive made me laugh

Nice video.

gary@apt · Post by **gary@apt** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:52 pm

haha ben you do make me laugh

Andy916 · Post by **Andy916** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 12:40 pm

Great to see you all yesterday, and good to have the full range of track conditions by the end of the day

The new-to-me MX5 went well in the corners, but after years of 4WD I have a bit of learning to do. My old scoob was awesome on a wet track (Ben's would be too with geometry and a swap of brakes and tyres!) but honestly it didn't require that much skill on corner exit. With RWD in yesterday's conditions I was tending to back-off momentarily when the back twitched, only occasionally managing to smoothly drive through the slide. Anyone have ideas on fun learning opportunities, without spending 220-quid on an Andy Walsh day?

Wonder if there's a cheap venue somewhere suitable for a drift session, like we used to have at Snetterton...?

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:59 pm

Norfolk Arena Andy. They hire it out for drifting and it costs around

andycaca · Post by **andycaca** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:35 pm

i popped down with the lady friend to watch for a couple of hours after lunch, it looked very wet still when we arrived so i hate to imagine what it was like first thing in the morning!

just about the only car i recognised was the obvious APT evo and the morgan 8 thing that seems to ALWAYS be at trackdays at snetterton

i am planning to do a sunday at snetterton soon, probably the javelin event on the 23rd of march if anyone else from BP fancies it? the aim this year is to do all 6 events in the toyota sprint series and a couple of trackdays too. maybe i will even take my celica down the drag strip and see how fast it is in a straight line.

stay lucky

edit: it turns out my girlfriend's friend is a sponsor of the APT evo and also logan's white one! they went to school together and also worked together. small world innit!

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:31 pm

andycaca wrote:small world innit!

Don't say 'innit' otherwise we will have to beat you with the bigpower spoon !!!

andycaca · Post by **andycaca** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:42 pm

RX7 wrote:Don't say 'innit' otherwise we will have to beat you with the bigpower spoon !!!

i know

dont worry, i dont really speak like that in real life

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:57 pm

Hi Andy

Would have been nice to have seen you but I was cold by 1pm ish so I bailed!

Maybe see you at the TSS sprints as I think a few of the lads on here are looking at the open class for that

Post by **Ben** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:30 pm

One lap upto being blinded on corum. Basically maxed out on back straight - just over 180km, I eased off at 7000rpm - Red line is 8500 but avoided reving over 6500 during the day. Just a nice easy session to learn the car.

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Post by **Stuart** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:39 pm

I still love the Impreza noise

A great way to get to know and trust the car Ben, and you certainly looked like you were enjoying the experience.