Just dropped a deposit on some M Power - Trackday Project Car

~>Dg<~ said:
not time attack cars some of them do 1:15-1:16 i mentioned them as he tried to make out that the m3 would do it quicker but it is unfair to compare those times.
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I'm not really sure what you're getting at. it sounds like you're just having an argument for arguments sake.

a road car - evo or impreza isnt lapping donington in 1:15.

do you have anything other than what you read on the internet to show your experience of the track or these cars on it?

Gibbo has owned an Evo and an M3. you have owned neither.

you posting crap you read on the internet and proclaiming it as gospel is frankly the reason you are baited so often in the PC Games section. I thought you had learned your lesson. Clearly not.
 
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~>Dg<~ said:
not time attack cars some of them do 1:15-1:16 i mentioned them as he tried to make out that the m3 would do it quicker but it is unfair to compare those times.
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www.timeattack.co.uk said:
Results from Time Attack 2013 Round 5 Results @ Donington Park - Club Challenge.
This is Club Drivers and NOT Pro Drivers.

CLUB 4WD

1st - Jason Ogg - Subaru Impreza - 1:16.292

2nd - Chris Bennett - Subaru Impreza - 1:16.779

3rd - Lee Bullen - Subaru Impreza - 1:17.644

4th - Gary Searl - Mitsubishi Evo - 1:18.675

5th - Jason Bird - Mitsubishi Evo - 1:18.957

6th - Dave Coe - Subaru Impreza - 1:19.000
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where is there a 1:15 in that list?
 
rjkoneill said:
where is there a 1:15 in that list?
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So hugely modified, no expense spared, time attack cars with huge power, stripped out and on slicks.

Not a single one manages 1:15, yet you think road going mildly tuned EVO's a and Scoobs can do 1:15, hahahahahahahaha, whatever. 1:25ish as I've being saying all along.

Like I said, modified road going EVO/Scoobs with 400ish horsepower are around 1:25, slower even than my M3 with boiled fluid.


I had an EVO X tuned to 415BHP, it was probably one of the best road handling cars I have ever owned, it was amazing. But on a track well an M3 or 911 all day long, or even a sorted hot FWD hatch.
 
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go over evo forums some guy did 1:19 400bhp fq 360. that's first one picked out. so nothing in it between evo and m3 or decent scooby if driven well.

those time attack times arnt really fair ill give you that .

anyway look forward to seeing your car progress and seeing the time shaven.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
go over evo forums some guy did 1:19 400bhp fq 360. that's first one picked out. so nothing in it between evo and m3 or decent scooby if driven well.

those time attack times arnt really fair ill give you that .

anyway look forward to seeing your car progress and seeing the time shaven.
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Got a link? Back up what your saying...

Lancer forums there is a guy called Blade who has managed 1:22 and is running big power and heavily modified.

Point is you've being proven wrong, you said 1:15's were possible, now your saying 1:19's, which is it?
 
~>Dg<~ said:
go over evo forums some guy did 1:19 400bhp fq 360. that's first one picked out. so nothing in it between evo and m3 or decent scooby if driven well.

those time attack times arnt really fair ill give you that .

anyway look forward to seeing your car progress and seeing the time shaven.
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Take the fanboy goggles off old boy, you are talking bum gravy and grasping at straws. A load of my buddies in CSL's run with a load of the chaps from MLR, the stock Evo is not a great track car, it is a very good road car. Scooby is much the same, but with more understeer, RS4 was even more so but with even more understeer and nice leather.
 
Hi there

I am a member of Lancer register, check this thread out:-
http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=62580&highlight=donnington

Guy called Gaz has a fully track prepared EVO running 558BHP on slicks, stripped, caged, the whole lot, he is yet to achieve a sub 1:20, though firmly believes it can probably do a 1:17 on a perfect lap pushed to the maximum with driver getting everything right. Which I agree with completely, but he like me probably does not want to throw it at the scenery and is enjoying his car, not going for the fastest lap time.

The same guys in the same thread with M3 CSL's were hitting 1:18's, which the EVO's guys are envious off because they can't get there with even 200+ more horsepower. Al Clarke has also done a 1:18 in his M3 which is very similar to mine but about 100kg heavier.

The stock EVO's were struggling to put in sub 1:30's, see the thread for youself, no fanboy's their just owners who love their cars sharing times. An EVO takes huge power to get round Donnington fast even when its caged up, on slicks and stripped out. Even the time attack cars cannot manage sub 1:15, whereas race prepped M3's are doing sub 1:10's and are still under 400BHP.

A M3 can't rally, its crap and poor in the wet, but on a dry race track the M3 is the better package, full stop. On a bumpy country UK dry road, the EVO is so much easier to drive fast and in most cases would spank an M3, unless the M3 has someone with huge talent behind the wheel. EVO/Scoobs are superb road/rally cars, but they are not circuit cars, the M3 owns them here.
 
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Gibbo said:
A M3 can't rally, its crap and poor in the wet, but on a dry race track the M3 is the better package, full stop.
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Yea, but only people with facts would think that, people with internets and cut and paste googlies are the really informed!!!!
 
rjkoneill said:
so not 1:15 at all then?



he can't.

he is talking the same rubbish he does in the PC games section.
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its because a guy with a stock 360 has not done a 1:19, not unless it was stripped to the bone, on slicks and he was a race driver, even then it might be a struggle, consider my own mate could only manage a 1:25

Considering there are guys with stripped EVO's running 500+ horsepower on slicks struggling to break the 1:20's which I have provided proof off.
 
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Anyway back on topic, an action photo of Saturday. :D


Donny1.jpg~original
 
Havana_UK said:
Looks nice and flat through that corner Gibbo!
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Yep Clarkey commented on how amazingly flat the car felt, impressive considering its still on standard anti roll bars, was considering upgrading to CSL ones, but I think I might leave them as is. Car was neutral, no understeer unless provoked to do so and as can be seen its cornering pretty flat for a big car. :)
 
Talk about completely off topic saying why other cars would/would not be faster than Gibbo's M3. Who cares? Gibbo has got this car just to do track days for fun, he doesn't need to compare it to anything else, as he's chosen this for track work/fun.

Ultimately it's about having fun and I'm pretty sure Gibbo is doing that.

Glad you're making progress with it Gibbo, sounds like it's going to get faster and faster!
 
Gibbo said:
So hugely modified, no expense spared, time attack cars with huge power, stripped out and on slicks.
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Not looking to get invloved in a speculation debate but those are Club Class cars running on List 1A and 1B tyres, so treaded road-legal tyres. The Club Class lap record for Donnington is 1.13.885, in an Impreza.

Pro Class lap record is 1.12.546, again, by an Impreza.
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
Talk about completely off topic saying why other cars would/would not be faster than Gibbo's M3. Who cares? Gibbo has got this car just to do track days for fun, he doesn't need to compare it to anything else, as he's chosen this for track work/fun.

Ultimately it's about having fun and I'm pretty sure Gibbo is doing that.

Glad you're making progress with it Gibbo, sounds like it's going to get faster and faster!
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Yep really enjoying it, three trackdays under its belt now, still improving both myself and the car, when things warm up more shall be more fun again. :)
 
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