This weekend I have mostly being:

GT3

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- Getting sunburnt and more importantly...
- Tracking my car

Now I wasn't going to go due to having a near standard car, thought it would be pretty boring. But I was convinced to go and had a great time, I would reccomend anyone do it if they want to learn their car a little better. It was a single sprint event round a twisty track which means you get three laps on your own round a the track then its the next persons go. This means no worrying about a faster car coming to overtake you but instead just concentrating on giving it full beans.

I also didn't do too bad beating every other standard vtr there and also a supercharged vtr with 4 pot brakes. I was also only a couple of seconds off most of the vts's! Oh I also had budget tyres on the front which would have closed that couple of seconds gap if I had decent ones!

Not really much point to this thread but hey, here's a pic!

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Looks good, how much was it and how many laps did you get in total all day?

Nice magic tree, colour matching the car (but does it not annoy you dangling about there?) ;)
 
£70 for the whole two day event which included a bbq and stuff on the friday night. Think I got 30 odd laps? Not sure but it was quite enough to melt the poor ditchfinder tyres.

Yep magic tree smells fowl but at least it matches colour of the car, can't say it really annoys me either!
 
Thats decent compared to places like Oulton Park, where its pushing 200 quid, was there anyone giving you pointers about how you were doing or did they just time everyone and stick the times up on a board?
 
Berger said:
Thats decent compared to places like Oulton Park, where its pushing 200 quid, was there anyone giving you pointers about how you were doing or did they just time everyone and stick the times up on a board?
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Well yes it was a saxo sports club event and lots of people were giving tips for better lap times etc but it was more a bit of fun than a serious timed event. Apart from flashing up briefly at the end of your lap, times weren't given out till the end of the weekend to prevent the "I'm faster than you" attitude.
 
Sounds awesome. I'd love to track my car but I would be way too worried about banging someone elses car to have fun (especially seeing as I would most likely be the slowest thing on track) but a few blasts around on my own I would love.
 
GT3, do you have the info of anyone I can contact at the saxo club for some details.

Sounds like an ideal ocuk event :)
 
Tesla said:
GT3, do you have the info of anyone I can contact at the saxo club for some details.

Sounds like an ideal ocuk event :)
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There was talk of doing one at Curborough a while back, but interest wasn't that high.
 
You've being getting sunburnt with a magic tree that smells like chicken?

Nice :D

PS How on earth did you beat a car same as yours plus a supercharger with uprated brakes? Did he have a yellow dog on a lead and a white stick in his hand?
 
Gilly said:
PS How on earth did you beat a car same as yours plus a supercharger with uprated brakes? Did he have a yellow dog on a lead and a white stick in his hand?
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At the end of the day its all down to the driver, doesnt really matter what car your in ;).
 
I wudn't mind taking my VTR on a track, just to see how it performs.

I haven't got the balls to do crazy speeds around round abouts to see how well it sticks. :D
 
The Curborough track looks dead boring?

Anybody know of any others likely to be <£100 per day per person with exlcusive use.
 
TBH for a decent track its going to be around £120ish i think. As for exclusive use just for OCUK.. i think it might be even more :) Dont quote me on that though, but im sure if you attend an open track day where you can go on and off its all different types of people... Depends on the track mind you.
 
Tesla said:
The Curborough track looks dead boring?

Anybody know of any others likely to be <£100 per day per person with exlcusive use.
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That was what most people said last time, but the beauty of a sprint track like that is they basically give you the keys and off you go. Maybe something like Haynes would be worth looking at. All the sprint tracks are going to be fairly short and tight, proper race stuff like Oulton and that we'd have to all book onto a proper session.
 
Arc said:
At the end of the day its all down to the driver, doesnt really matter what car your in ;).
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Yes, thats right. An Austin Allegro with Alonso in it will beat an F430 with <insert random half-decent but not world class driver here> won't it :)
 
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