Grief Update - Goodwood Track Day & Videos

I attended the Hampshire TVRCC Goodwood track day earlier this month. £185 for a 105dB whole day at Goodwood circuit seemed like an opportunity too good to miss.

I love Goodwood, it is such a magical place and a privilege to be able to drive the track. There was even a 2 seater Spitfire taking lucky people out, very surreal racing around the circuit with various aircraft taking off and landing over the track, very distracting when one of those aircraft is a Spitfire.





There very not very many cars at the track day at all and only 2 other TVRs so I managed to get in many laps. When I added up the laps recorded on the two datalogging apps I had been testing it turned out that I had completed 93 laps, no wonder I got through 4 tanks of fuel!

Videos
I finally managed to get Harry's Lap Timer and the GoPro working together and here is the result, I am very impressed with the telemetry overlay and picture in picture. The GPS does lag a bit using the smartphone's internal GPS but short of a full blown data logger is works well:

Final Session - https://youtu.be/bWkE4Q27Ex8

Instruction was free on the day so I took up the opportunity. The instructor was adamant that I could take Fordwater flat in 5th which eventually I plucked up the courage to do, I didn't get it quite right and had a bit of a wobble at 120MPH, made worse be me lifting off. It didn't come out too well on video but you can see the car lose stability.

Fordwater wobble at 120MPH - https://youtu.be/znkS6oGkNzI

There was a stunning Porsche Carrera RS in attendance, I didn't get a chance to chat with the owner which was a shame but I did get the opportunity to follow it on track, copying the drivers's lines resulted in my fastest lap of the day, 01:37.32

Following a Porsche Carrera RS - https://youtu.be/r5GtqwD9Ti8



Nice bit of lap analysis from Harry's Lap Timer:



This was the second trackday with the Yoko AD08Rs tyres, I really pushed them and I can confirm they stick like st to a blanket.... 120MPH pulling 1G.



Goodwood is a quite a fast circuit and with continued abuse the tyres did start to melt a bit, no where near as bad as the T1Rs should I add.



Matthew