marshals track days

[mmm_five]

Originally Posted by SRPhoto

Hopefully they should have all uploaded in the next two and a half hours, once I pay my ISP for more bandwidth!

I was about to order some, but I'll wait to get the lot in one batch instead.

[Mark Smith]

Originally Posted by Crazy Marshal

That Clio was shifting whenever I saw it!
Hope I didn't get in the way too much!!

Yes it was shifting a bit! I think I lapped almost every car on the track apart from Fazza, the black BMW Z4, Tony's Nissan and a couple of other very fast cars! It just felt so good out on track that I stayed out there quite a long time.

[mmm_five]

Originally Posted by mark mercedes

Yes it was shifting a bit! I think I lapped almost every car on the track apart from Fazza, the black BMW Z4, Tony's Nissan and a couple of other very fast cars! It just felt so good out on track that I stayed out there quite a long time.

Ahh, and I even slowed down for you

Anyway it's called Ruby Black as there's supposed to be some red in there...somewhere...but it's covered in fly innards anyway!

[Mark Smith]

I did try to keep with you when you and Fazza were dicing late morning but didnt stand a chance!

[mmm_five]

That sneaky day at Oulton last week really paid off, otherwise I'd have been overtaken by everyone, including the Ka & broken Nissan!

[Red_08]

Originally Posted by mmm_five

That sneaky day at Oulton last week really paid off, otherwise I'd have been overtaken by everyone, including the Ka & broken Nissan!

You cheated!!! Haha!

Seriously though, it was great to watch the Z4. Nice and smoothly done.

Now if get my uprated suspension and new wheels.....

[mmm_five]

Originally Posted by Red_08

You cheated!!! Haha!

Seriously though, it was great to watch the Z4. Nice and smoothly done.

Now if get my uprated suspension and new wheels.....

It was my first trackday in a new car, so didn't know how it would handle compared to my old barge - it did rather well, although I realise I'm the weak point now!

And if only I had my carbon brakes, carbon roof, carbon diffuser, coilovers, sticky tyres, dymag wheels, etc. I could lose another 150kg (and about £15k too).

How long would it take to recover that £15k assuming I gain 1-2mpg from the weight reduction and do 20,000 miles a year at 25mpg?

[Red_08]

Originally Posted by mmm_five

It was my first trackday in a new car, so didn't know how it would handle compared to my old barge - it did rather well, although I realise I'm the weak point now!

And if only I had my carbon brakes, carbon roof, carbon diffuser, coilovers, sticky tyres, dymag wheels, etc. I could lose another 150kg (and about £15k too).

How long would it take to recover that £15k assuming I gain 1-2mpg from the weight reduction and do 20,000 miles a year at 25mpg?

Aaargh! It's way too late for those kind of calculations....

Seriously though, it was no problem letting you get past, just to see how you got through Knickerbrook. Looked great.

My 200 was great but let down by the standard suspension so it "boated" quite badly. Yet, it's way too hard on the shopping run.

Yup, stuff the eggs, we're getting some coilovers!!

[SRPhoto]

Originally Posted by mark mercedes

Excellent photos as always Steve!

Thanks!

[Robf]

Originally Posted by mark mercedes

That was an awesome day! I clocked up 180 miles on track in the Clio. The combination of some decent Toyo Proxes tyres and DS2500 brake pads has transformed the car!

Hi we were in the black nissan skyline we did around 200 miles which took nearly 2 tanks of super unleaded, got some brake fade think its fluid as the pads and discs were 100mile old. Those toyos are superb got the proxes t1r on ours.

Hope the 2 lads (chris and oliver in the vr6) enjoyed there hotish laps and thanks for the ride in the vr6 was great.

What a day!!!

Thanks
Bob(the slow old one) and Andy(the young one who drove her properly)

[mattt]

Originally Posted by mmm_five

And if only I had my carbon brakes, carbon roof, carbon diffuser, coilovers, sticky tyres, dymag wheels, etc. I could lose another 150kg (and about £15k too).

How long would it take to recover that £15k assuming I gain 1-2mpg from the weight reduction and do 20,000 miles a year at 25mpg?

About 50 years and that's using a gain of 2mpg

i have too much time on my hands

[mmm_five]

Originally Posted by mattt

About 50 years and that's using a gain of 2mpg

i have too much time on my hands

I don't think that mitigation plan is going to excite my bank manager or accountant then

[mattt]

Originally Posted by mmm_five

I don't think that mitigation plan is going to excite my bank manager or accountant then

You would save 70 gallons of crude oil a year though so the EU might like it