Another good weekend organised by RTOC, quite a number of ClioSport members took part too which was great. Good to meet a few new people and the usuals - Tom@Wests Renault, Steve, Stevieh, Barnesautos etc!
Camping was interesting as always as im sure the rest will agree, especially with the rain overnight. All good fun though. I was hesitant to do this day at Mallory again after destroying the diff in my gearbox last year, but I just went with it and took it a bit easier round Gerrards. Although, that didnt last long as towards the end of the day when the track dried out I ended up getting faster and faster round there - oh well. Managed to complete the whole day without even removing a tool from a toolbox, I think the same applied for the other Mk1s too which was a big suprise!
At the end of the day you cant go wrong with an Open Pit event for £80, which was made a bit more interesting with the variety of cars that attended. The rain was on and off for most of the day with dry bits inbetween, and a decent dry line at the end. The R888's were not as bad as people make out, although if you try and be a hero it does get a tad interesting.
Probably the best video of the day, can really feel how different it is to drive compared to last year with all the changes to chassis and compnents:
Tried something a bit different with the camera backwards this time too, had a really good battle with Whiteley. This was one of the first outings of the day and a very damp track, the speeds were getting a bit quick for the conditions towards the end so we came in..
There a couple more clips of other people (Tom@Wests Renault and AndyRG) on my YouTube if you are reading this. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwYw-Uma7c and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5G-C0CbqjU
Also Im sure everyone will appreciate Alex C driving down at daft (5) o' clock on Saturday morning with his camera gear to get pictures of everyone in the rain lol. A couple of my favourites are below, no doubt Alex, myself or the others will post some pictures in here too, thanks again.
Camping was interesting as always as im sure the rest will agree, especially with the rain overnight. All good fun though. I was hesitant to do this day at Mallory again after destroying the diff in my gearbox last year, but I just went with it and took it a bit easier round Gerrards. Although, that didnt last long as towards the end of the day when the track dried out I ended up getting faster and faster round there - oh well. Managed to complete the whole day without even removing a tool from a toolbox, I think the same applied for the other Mk1s too which was a big suprise!
At the end of the day you cant go wrong with an Open Pit event for £80, which was made a bit more interesting with the variety of cars that attended. The rain was on and off for most of the day with dry bits inbetween, and a decent dry line at the end. The R888's were not as bad as people make out, although if you try and be a hero it does get a tad interesting.
Probably the best video of the day, can really feel how different it is to drive compared to last year with all the changes to chassis and compnents:
Tried something a bit different with the camera backwards this time too, had a really good battle with Whiteley. This was one of the first outings of the day and a very damp track, the speeds were getting a bit quick for the conditions towards the end so we came in..
There a couple more clips of other people (Tom@Wests Renault and AndyRG) on my YouTube if you are reading this. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwYw-Uma7c and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5G-C0CbqjU
Also Im sure everyone will appreciate Alex C driving down at daft (5) o' clock on Saturday morning with his camera gear to get pictures of everyone in the rain lol. A couple of my favourites are below, no doubt Alex, myself or the others will post some pictures in here too, thanks again.
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