Soldato
Hey all,
Just thought I would share some pics and videos of my outing to Curborough Sprint Course.
Went there with the guys over at www.yamMINI.com and had a lot of fun.
I was using some pretty old tyres, which I am kind of regretting due to a big lack of grip, and extremely mushy sidewalls. I pretty much rubbed off all the writing on the front passenger tyre and a lot of the guys were commenting on how it looked like it was going to come off the wheel!
But despite the poor tyres, I definitely had fun, I think I will just have to run my normal wheels and tyres, or just get some decent tyres fitted to my BBS wheels for when I go on track again. I would also definitely benefit from some uprated anti roll bars! It was a bit like a boat out there with it's old standard suspension and roll bars.. but it gives me something to change for the future.
A couple of the guys had R888s fitted to their MINIs and they could literally point the steering and go, I was very VERY impressed with them
The course is only short, so we just did a good few laps at a time to really make the most of it, and being most peoples first encounter of a track of any sort, was quite a fun learning experience.
The day started out pretty damp, it wasn't raining, but had done the night before I presume, but either way slippy! On my second set of laps I spun it coming on to the straight, and later on nearly lost it just taking it steady heading to the main part of the track
But it eventually dried out and that's when I started to remove the writing from my sidewall
I had great fun towards the end of the day in the little S-bend section where I literally was swinging the tail out each way, fantastic fun! Even laid down a trail of 4 tyre marks all around that section!
So anyway, pics:
My first spin
Standing on the brakes hard!
The poor sidewall!
And my poor brakes!
Some videos - please bare in mind all of these were taken earlier on in the day so everyone in the videos was still getting to know the course Unfortunately the battery died on the camera so I didn't get anything later in the day.
Me:
Inside mine:
Sweet MINI oversteer:
Same MINI compilation (sounds awesome
)
My Dad's WRX:
MINIs:
There are other clips floating around on youtube by the other guys if you're interested, just search Curborough and filter this weeks results. Thanks for looking
Just thought I would share some pics and videos of my outing to Curborough Sprint Course.
Went there with the guys over at www.yamMINI.com and had a lot of fun.
I was using some pretty old tyres, which I am kind of regretting due to a big lack of grip, and extremely mushy sidewalls. I pretty much rubbed off all the writing on the front passenger tyre and a lot of the guys were commenting on how it looked like it was going to come off the wheel!
But despite the poor tyres, I definitely had fun, I think I will just have to run my normal wheels and tyres, or just get some decent tyres fitted to my BBS wheels for when I go on track again. I would also definitely benefit from some uprated anti roll bars! It was a bit like a boat out there with it's old standard suspension and roll bars.. but it gives me something to change for the future.
A couple of the guys had R888s fitted to their MINIs and they could literally point the steering and go, I was very VERY impressed with them
The course is only short, so we just did a good few laps at a time to really make the most of it, and being most peoples first encounter of a track of any sort, was quite a fun learning experience.
The day started out pretty damp, it wasn't raining, but had done the night before I presume, but either way slippy! On my second set of laps I spun it coming on to the straight, and later on nearly lost it just taking it steady heading to the main part of the track
But it eventually dried out and that's when I started to remove the writing from my sidewall
I had great fun towards the end of the day in the little S-bend section where I literally was swinging the tail out each way, fantastic fun! Even laid down a trail of 4 tyre marks all around that section!So anyway, pics:
My first spin
Standing on the brakes hard!
The poor sidewall!
And my poor brakes!
Some videos - please bare in mind all of these were taken earlier on in the day so everyone in the videos was still getting to know the course
Unfortunately the battery died on the camera so I didn't get anything later in the day.Me:
Inside mine:
Sweet MINI oversteer:
Same MINI compilation (sounds awesome
)My Dad's WRX:
MINIs:
There are other clips floating around on youtube by the other guys if you're interested, just search Curborough and filter this weeks results. Thanks for looking
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