loggyboy
ClioSport Club Member
Thought i'd share some photos and the experience.
Went with my brother in his Mk2 Scirocco (2.0 16v Seat powered). It was only our 2nd time on track, the first time was at Brands in december last year - in the wet sharing his MX5 - very sideways but not fast!
We were much luckier with the weather this time, so the 1st time in my own car and in the dry.
Arrived early and grabbed a garage, which we shared with a nice chap in Blue 172 Cup and his mates in Mk2 Golf GTi and a Caterham.
Before the pits filled up:
Ran on some used 15" Avon ZZRs on the front, these were great, only used about 1-2mm of tread and did alot of laps. Rears were some cheapish BF goodrich's which felt quite weak walled but once topped up with pressure and warmed up were very predictable.
Cheekily ran my Racechrono so kept a log of times and laps. I did 113 laps (£1 a lap then!) best time was 59.8 seconds, and was consitantly running at 61-62 seconds on the clear laps.
Was nice being on a road car only day, meant there were no idiots in real race cars using it for testing. And not many stopaages that I noticed. Early on someone (i think 172jack) spun on padock hill and a porsche dived in to the gravel to avoid him. An M3 ended up sqaushing his N/S everything on the armco and about 3ish another BM dumped a fair amount of oil and water on Graham Hill bend which meant the last half hour was spoilt by having to avoid the apex.
There were a couple of clueless morons, mainly old guys - one in a merc who when the red lights went on for the oil/water, failed to find the pit entry TWICE! another in a bog standard late model 5 series touring who thought queing for the noise test was for everyone except him, then asked the classic 'did I pass' - go home mate! (funilly enough I didnt see him on track one so he may well have done!)
Cant wait to go back again.
Will get some videos up soon too.
Some professional shots:
Didn't have any scary moments, this was the closest I came to getting it wrong:
Went with my brother in his Mk2 Scirocco (2.0 16v Seat powered). It was only our 2nd time on track, the first time was at Brands in december last year - in the wet sharing his MX5 - very sideways but not fast!
We were much luckier with the weather this time, so the 1st time in my own car and in the dry.
Arrived early and grabbed a garage, which we shared with a nice chap in Blue 172 Cup and his mates in Mk2 Golf GTi and a Caterham.
Before the pits filled up:
Ran on some used 15" Avon ZZRs on the front, these were great, only used about 1-2mm of tread and did alot of laps. Rears were some cheapish BF goodrich's which felt quite weak walled but once topped up with pressure and warmed up were very predictable.
Cheekily ran my Racechrono so kept a log of times and laps. I did 113 laps (£1 a lap then!) best time was 59.8 seconds, and was consitantly running at 61-62 seconds on the clear laps.
Was nice being on a road car only day, meant there were no idiots in real race cars using it for testing. And not many stopaages that I noticed. Early on someone (i think 172jack) spun on padock hill and a porsche dived in to the gravel to avoid him. An M3 ended up sqaushing his N/S everything on the armco and about 3ish another BM dumped a fair amount of oil and water on Graham Hill bend which meant the last half hour was spoilt by having to avoid the apex.
There were a couple of clueless morons, mainly old guys - one in a merc who when the red lights went on for the oil/water, failed to find the pit entry TWICE! another in a bog standard late model 5 series touring who thought queing for the noise test was for everyone except him, then asked the classic 'did I pass' - go home mate! (funilly enough I didnt see him on track one so he may well have done!)
Cant wait to go back again.
Will get some videos up soon too.
Some professional shots:
Didn't have any scary moments, this was the closest I came to getting it wrong:
