Well today was Litchfields second Silverstone day and I popped along... after getting up at 5:30 and at Silverstone for 7:30, the fun began.
What can I say but that track was just GTR heaven. Looking at it, and the 3 tanks of petrol burned, was out there for between 3-4 hours track time and am absolutely ruined. Everything hurts, and mentally so tired keeping up the concentration needed.
The big highlight of the day? Chatting to Hiroshi Tamura.
A big shout out has to go to Iain Litchfield and John Misskin for their no small part in organizing these days, Iain and Neil have looked after me and the car, and kept it running in top condition. And John Misskin is lead organizing man, who makes these things happen.
It was such a fantastic day, a lot of great guys, some monster cars and apart from one moment early on when some guy nearly wiped me out after his brakes gave up on him (fortunately I noticed he was coming up rather too quickly and managed to get out the way with millimeters to spare) he did come down and apologize.
Onto the tyres....
I have been raving about the Sport4S Tyres since they went on the car, but, today I fell out of love with them, after a good few laps, they just seemed to give up on me and for about an hour I had no confidence at all in the grip. Near the end of the day the track was empty, so I went out and really gave them some abuse, and they did start to come back again, so maybe they just needed a scrubbing or a heat cycle, but to go from one lap of plenty of confidence to the next where I ended up mowing the grass at brooklands/luffield was unnerving.
Will be getting the tyres off tomorrow to see what condition they are in, but am currently deciding between R888R or Sport cup 2s.
One final picture before I go pass out!
I did wonder why a random M3 turned up in the Garage and assumed you were there with one of the other GTR guys haha.
