Who is off to Blyton?

[flagwaver]

Well who is coming to play at Blyton?

[richorton]

Well i,ll be out to play just hope car dont cut out again.we ve changed everything we could ,new dizzy cap rotar arm,new coil ,new leads. changed ecu and new sparkplugs.off on rolling road on sat morning to have car sett up to drag some more horses out of it as the back striaght of blyton is really fast.all the family are coming up to watch and so is little brother got him doing my spannering along with my dad .

[bestrep]

Sixty cars at BLYTON on Sunday.Very well done, for a clubman event this is truly fantastic!!! All this for only £150 and two free meals thrown in and discount tyres for stockhatch all i can say is ENJOY!!!

[caravan man]

we'll all be there, we've been flat out working on the cars the last two weeks
and they're looking good and ready for action.Well we hope they are anyway.
Time will tell i guess.
See you all on saturday

[M.Lowe]

Any entry lists?

[HrRACING]

On mda site

[PhilChicken]

The tired engine struggled to pull fat git round Lydden. So I was hoping to be out on Sunday with a new one, Still hoping but waiting for bits!!

See you all Sunday.

[daz2202]

i will be there cos i best be giving back dave martins overalls

[richorton]

i better give him his dizzy cap back to were traveling up sunday me and si and criag .Think my misses and kids and mum and dad are traveling up tomorrow at some point .just hope the maggot farm dont smell so much at blyton

[rallycrosscraig]

Blyton is a great circuit, flows really well.

Let down by two things;

1) Do they still have those compressed tyre barriers? Has the same effect as ramming into a concrete wall; first event I raced there half a dozen cars were written off against those tyre lumps.

2) has less facilties than a Russian concentration camp in the off season!

[bigted]

so you wont be there craig

[Audi S1]

Originally Posted by rallycrosscraig

Blyton is a great circuit, flows really well.

Let down by two things;

1) Do they still have those compressed tyre barriers? Has the same effect as ramming into a concrete wall; first event I raced there half a dozen cars were written off against those tyre lumps.

2) has less facilties than a Russian concentration camp in the off season!

The simple answer to the above would be to avoid the tyre barriers which are there. If you avoid them then they dont hurt as much.

If you ever have the chance to travel to Valkenswaard in Holland most of the track is surrounded by a great big brick wall (no tyres) and funny enough the drivers avoid this and have very few accidents.!!

Just a bit of friendly advice.

The same as on the M25 there are barriers and brick walls for drivers safety and drivers avoid these, meaning no written off car.

Try it Craig!

[PhilChicken]

[QUOTE=Audi S1]The simple answer to the above would be to avoid the tyre barriers which are there. If you avoid them then they dont hurt as much.

The same as on the M25 there are barriers and brick walls for drivers safety and drivers avoid these, meaning no written off car.

So are you saying we should drive round Blyton like we do on the public High way? The lights turn to green, Right Im off down to the co-op!!

[richorton]

Great day and great weather,car ran brilliant all day just a driver error in the final.another lesson lernt went across the start finish and onto the loose expecting it to be dry and it wasn,t,car ran wide and sideways and lost five places .oh well just a little striaghting to do to front of the car for next event . cheers to little brother for spannering for me ,not that there was much for him to do if its not broke then dont fix it si As for the white bails ,you know there going to hurt if you hit them so stay away from them .I think at one time or other everyone has hit them and know how hard they are.Forgot just how fast that back striaght was and finding a braking point was really hard,good to see your car back on form again phill.

[silver bullet]

Originally Posted by Audi S1

The simple answer to the above would be to avoid the tyre barriers which are there. If you avoid them then they dont hurt as much.

If you ever have the chance to travel to Valkenswaard in Holland most of the track is surrounded by a great big brick wall (no tyres) and funny enough the drivers avoid this and have very few accidents.!!

Just a bit of friendly advice.

The same as on the M25 there are barriers and brick walls for drivers safety and drivers avoid these, meaning no written off car.

Try it Craig!

The difference is, a crash barrier or a normal tyre wall is designed to absorb some of the impact. The bales at Blyton are so tightly packed that there is no give in them at all, and their shape and construction means that any significant contact with them seems to rip a car to shreds.

Also, we all try to avoid the walls and barriers but you can be punted into them through no fault of your own.

[rallycrosscraig]

Originally Posted by Audi S1

The simple answer to the above would be to avoid the tyre barriers which are there. If you avoid them then they dont hurt as much.

If you ever have the chance to travel to Valkenswaard in Holland most of the track is surrounded by a great big brick wall (no tyres) and funny enough the drivers avoid this and have very few accidents.!!

Just a bit of friendly advice.

The same as on the M25 there are barriers and brick walls for drivers safety and drivers avoid these, meaning no written off car.

Try it Craig!

Thanks for the handy advice, I'll remember that next time someone punts me off.
I've raced there a couple of times and seen people pushed off, normaly you'd be ok but if you are punted into these barriers thats it, car destroyed.

[leonidas]

I'm a great fan of Blyton but I'm surprised these barriers meet current safety standards. If you got turned round into them at Div. 1 speeds you could end up with a very serious headache. At a couple of key points on the track there isn't any margin for error and the nature of the first chicane means some contact is often inevitable. Anyone know if the barriers are going to be changed in the proposed redevelopment plans?

[RXfan]

AudiS1 maybe in formula 1 they should get rid of gravel traps etc and go back to the tracks being surrounded by crash barriers and no run off areas then tell the drivers if they dont like it then dont have an accident.The word here is accident, no one goes off deliberately, in motorsport there are always going to be incidents and spins etc.