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ooo now theres a nice gas pipe 
Photographers got some great photos yesterday, here is some of them:
The new alignment has improved the car, understeer far less an issue now, still prone somewhat whilst warming tyres but once upto temperature and pressures are up it handles more neutral now.
Yesterday did not go to great though, was black flagged around 20 minutes in for triggering noise meters at 98.9Db, so the strap on got attached, no further noise issues. Was then black flagged again shortly afterwards, fearing the worse that the silencer was not working, but they were unhappy with the camera in the car, so had to ditch that, so have little to no footage.
I was a little out of my depth yesterday, a lot of race teams turned up in some very capable machinery, had some good fun trying to hang onto a couple of the stock GT3 RS's but they are faster and had some fun with some GT4 and GTS Caymans which all seemed quite evenly matched.
A lot of red flags yesterday, I almost felt like it was a race day, not a track day lots of dangerous passing of people just throwing race cars down the inside on corners, if you blinked you'd risk crashing, mirrors were vital, this is ok for professional racers but I was a little out of my depth, but keeping a close eye on my mirrors kept everything all fine, but no way I could let Mrs have a go, was an extremely fast track day and I doubt anyone was lapping slower than 1:20 (national layout). This did seem to cause many red flags though as people were pushing very hard but there was a lot of race teams present who seem to be setting up cars so fair enough, weather was perfect.
The tyres also seemed to handle stuff much better. At the end of day I decided to have a go at recording some laps and go solo but once I'd got my tyres upto temperature I was getting quite a worrying knocking in right handers, so most of the circuit, it was extremely worrying and so I came back in, turns out a large pebble had integrated itself into my rear left tyre and all the tyres had quite a bit of pickup, by the time I'd cleaned tyres off and the car seemed happy it was time to go home.
Overall happy with the car, I did manage to get some stints where tyres were hot and the car was feeling blistering fast, but yesterday I did struggle to find a groove, it has made me find more a liking for the GP layout as it is still only 30 cars on circuit at once but been another 1/2 mile longer it spaces cars out more.
I also found that yesterday no one was willing to yield or signal consent, because of overtaking either side people just went full race mode so as the day progressed I also just started throwing the car down the inside on corners, had no issues and room was given, I've just been very used to the whole track day mentality of if a car catches you up then just throw the indicator on and let them pass safely, whereas yesterday it was far more a race feel to the day, I still had fun, still manage to go through three tanks of petrol so got plenty of seat time, just it was very busy and a lot of red flags and couple of black flags for myself. I still like RMA days though, seem quite well organised.
Also this Mustang was absolutely insane:
Full carbon body, full air jack system built in, and sounded insanely fast, though the driver when he came into the pits told the crew its miles off, it only did a hand full of laps which was a real shame as was hoping get some flyby of it.
The new alignment has improved the car, understeer far less an issue now, still prone somewhat whilst warming tyres but once upto temperature and pressures are up it handles more neutral now.
Yesterday did not go to great though, was black flagged around 20 minutes in for triggering noise meters at 98.9Db, so the strap on got attached, no further noise issues. Was then black flagged again shortly afterwards, fearing the worse that the silencer was not working, but they were unhappy with the camera in the car, so had to ditch that, so have little to no footage.
I was a little out of my depth yesterday, a lot of race teams turned up in some very capable machinery, had some good fun trying to hang onto a couple of the stock GT3 RS's but they are faster and had some fun with some GT4 and GTS Caymans which all seemed quite evenly matched.
A lot of red flags yesterday, I almost felt like it was a race day, not a track day lots of dangerous passing of people just throwing race cars down the inside on corners, if you blinked you'd risk crashing, mirrors were vital, this is ok for professional racers but I was a little out of my depth, but keeping a close eye on my mirrors kept everything all fine, but no way I could let Mrs have a go, was an extremely fast track day and I doubt anyone was lapping slower than 1:20 (national layout). This did seem to cause many red flags though as people were pushing very hard but there was a lot of race teams present who seem to be setting up cars so fair enough, weather was perfect.
The tyres also seemed to handle stuff much better. At the end of day I decided to have a go at recording some laps and go solo but once I'd got my tyres upto temperature I was getting quite a worrying knocking in right handers, so most of the circuit, it was extremely worrying and so I came back in, turns out a large pebble had integrated itself into my rear left tyre and all the tyres had quite a bit of pickup, by the time I'd cleaned tyres off and the car seemed happy it was time to go home.
Overall happy with the car, I did manage to get some stints where tyres were hot and the car was feeling blistering fast, but yesterday I did struggle to find a groove, it has made me find more a liking for the GP layout as it is still only 30 cars on circuit at once but been another 1/2 mile longer it spaces cars out more.
I also found that yesterday no one was willing to yield or signal consent, because of overtaking either side people just went full race mode so as the day progressed I also just started throwing the car down the inside on corners, had no issues and room was given, I've just been very used to the whole track day mentality of if a car catches you up then just throw the indicator on and let them pass safely, whereas yesterday it was far more a race feel to the day, I still had fun, still manage to go through three tanks of petrol so got plenty of seat time, just it was very busy and a lot of red flags and couple of black flags for myself. I still like RMA days though, seem quite well organised.
Also this Mustang was absolutely insane:
Full carbon body, full air jack system built in, and sounded insanely fast, though the driver when he came into the pits told the crew its miles off, it only did a hand full of laps which was a real shame as was hoping get some flyby of it.
No plans to do so shall run both alongside and move the one I like least on. Or if someone offers me 90-100k for it I’ll just sell it and order another potentially, shall see what happens I’m more inclined to think the Exige will win out as it’s a proper race car and very limited numbers so if I sell it getting another may not be easy.
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Fully clayed the car, hand polished and then waxed a few weeks ago. Took more time then I'd like to admit but worth it. Needs a proper detail with a machine polisher and I'd like to get it ceramic coated.
Drove up towards Snakes Pass and stopped near Derwent reservoir.
Drove up towards Snakes Pass and stopped near Derwent reservoir.
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That's what I like to hear! Sounds like a plan.
Just joined and booked the Donington evening in July for £150.
Are there any other good track day organisers people can recommend, I checked my old favourite Bookatrack but they are now just doing unsilenced days at £995 lol.
, GoldTrack also good but not cheap. Also I find any MSV direct at Bedford is OK because it's such a large track, but too busy elsewhere. Silverstone direct also good but not cheap.
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Nearly on 10k miles now can't fault it!!
can't fault it!!
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Its definitely multilink rear. I'm 100% certain my older MK3.5 was the same?
On the Octavias it used to be that anything over 150bhp was IRS, up to and including 150bhp was torsion beam (I think 150bhp was the key, rather than engine size). I suspect the Leon is similar and it wouldn't surprise me if the same sort of difference has carried forward into the latest generation of the cars.
Looks like it's the same on the Leon regardless of trim but >110kw (150hp) it goes multilink as you said.
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