Following on from going to Oulton Park at the end of January, pictures here and here.
Riding on a wave of good feelings from the car behaving well at Oulton I booked to go back to Cadwell Park. I last came here at the end of October last year which was my first proper trackday in nearly 2 years and first full day.
Got home OK, just totalling up the damage to my wallet now! Need new rear pads/discs, brake fluid change, oil change and then have to see about the windscreen since it now has a chip/crack in it.
Oh and I hit a bird on the way home too
I did spend £170 (12mpg while on track..) on super unleaded in total and got home with the light on...
Got to say though, they are amazing cars on track, I was passing pretty much all the "normal" stuff, just the caterhams and the race cars coming past. The car was massively fast through Barn, Coppice and Charlies 1 & 2, not quite so good in the tighter stuff compared to another 306 that was modified (stripped, coilovers, buckets) that a member of the owners club brought but it was equal to or greater than it in the quick sections!
New hot hatches are a royal PITA with poor drivers, I spent 2-3 laps sat behind an S3 and a mk1 FRS who I was miles faster than in the corners but come to a straight and one stomp of the loud pedal sees them pull out a large gap and they refuse to pull over. Both sporting novice stickers so it figures, the S3 did improve in the afternoon and looked to be going OK then.
Video!!!!!!!!!!
GO BABY GO!
Chase car is a stripped 306 GTI-6 with gaz coilovers, hybrid arb, Team Dynamics 15" wheels with R888s.
Riding on a wave of good feelings from the car behaving well at Oulton I booked to go back to Cadwell Park. I last came here at the end of October last year which was my first proper trackday in nearly 2 years and first full day.
Got home OK, just totalling up the damage to my wallet now! Need new rear pads/discs, brake fluid change, oil change and then have to see about the windscreen since it now has a chip/crack in it.
Oh and I hit a bird on the way home too
I did spend £170 (12mpg while on track..) on super unleaded in total and got home with the light on...
Got to say though, they are amazing cars on track, I was passing pretty much all the "normal" stuff, just the caterhams and the race cars coming past. The car was massively fast through Barn, Coppice and Charlies 1 & 2, not quite so good in the tighter stuff compared to another 306 that was modified (stripped, coilovers, buckets) that a member of the owners club brought but it was equal to or greater than it in the quick sections!
New hot hatches are a royal PITA with poor drivers, I spent 2-3 laps sat behind an S3 and a mk1 FRS who I was miles faster than in the corners but come to a straight and one stomp of the loud pedal sees them pull out a large gap and they refuse to pull over. Both sporting novice stickers so it figures, the S3 did improve in the afternoon and looked to be going OK then.
Video!!!!!!!!!!
GO BABY GO!
Chase car is a stripped 306 GTI-6 with gaz coilovers, hybrid arb, Team Dynamics 15" wheels with R888s.
Last edited:
