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Ok, so full disclosure, it's "our" car rather than hers, but I never get to use the thing as she takes it to work all hours.
Since I sold my Exige to focus on going racing, there was only one way I was going to take advantage of trackdays starting up again post-covid.
I had been keeping a spare set of wheels with R888s fitted since before we bought it, but when Opentrack announced Trackdays were up and running again, it was a rush to get some camber plates as I knew it would likely destroy the front tyres without it.
-2.5 degrees camber, some lowering springs and some R888s and it worked very well at Snetterton, but still a lot of understeer, you can hear the outside front complaining as I try to coax the front end around Riches.
Depite the handling complications, it still managed to match what my E92 M3 did around there on Cup2s, loaded with big brakes all round and £4000 Intrax suspension.
When the opportunity to get on the Brands evening the next day came, I quickly organised some more camber (-3 this time) and booked on with a friend.
The car was incredibly good for what is basically a standard car with a bit of geometry work. This time pulling out 55s in traffic (53.7 ideal over just 3 sectors). The best I ever managed in my E92 was a 56.
I'm just blown away with how capable a nearly stock, bottom of the range M car is. What's more impressive is that's a stock M140i I'm following round with nothing but adative suspension on hard and camber plates. He has much better tyres, though. (New V70A vs. 6 year old used R888s on the wear markers).
It makes you wonder why you'd bother building a dedicated track car these days.
Since I sold my Exige to focus on going racing, there was only one way I was going to take advantage of trackdays starting up again post-covid.
I had been keeping a spare set of wheels with R888s fitted since before we bought it, but when Opentrack announced Trackdays were up and running again, it was a rush to get some camber plates as I knew it would likely destroy the front tyres without it.
-2.5 degrees camber, some lowering springs and some R888s and it worked very well at Snetterton, but still a lot of understeer, you can hear the outside front complaining as I try to coax the front end around Riches.
Depite the handling complications, it still managed to match what my E92 M3 did around there on Cup2s, loaded with big brakes all round and £4000 Intrax suspension.
When the opportunity to get on the Brands evening the next day came, I quickly organised some more camber (-3 this time) and booked on with a friend.
The car was incredibly good for what is basically a standard car with a bit of geometry work. This time pulling out 55s in traffic (53.7 ideal over just 3 sectors). The best I ever managed in my E92 was a 56.
I'm just blown away with how capable a nearly stock, bottom of the range M car is. What's more impressive is that's a stock M140i I'm following round with nothing but adative suspension on hard and camber plates. He has much better tyres, though. (New V70A vs. 6 year old used R888s on the wear markers).
It makes you wonder why you'd bother building a dedicated track car these days.