Stroke association Supercar Saturday 25th October

[tqadam]

i'll take a chance and assume i am ok in posting a couple links as i dont do advertising for anything lol.

heres a link to some rubbishy phone vids i took
http://youtu.be/RWlBKx5Qzyo

i dont really know what cars anyone on here was driving round so i wont dump loads of photos in here, instead heres a link to the online album i am slowly adding to. i took many photos but as im a novice and still trying to improve they arent brilliant
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tqadam/sets/72157646...

i really enjoyed the day. will definately be back next year

oh and to the guy that was driving the c63, i dont know your name but i enjoyed watching and listening to your car! shame your tyres didnt hold out

[andylaurence]

Awesome day out, cut short by a front splitter that just wouldn't stay on the car. Tore through the front crash box, snapped 4 aluminium stays, wore out 2 skid plates and then the whole floor. Too much downforce at Folly! That Honda Civic was stupidly fast - it took me a couple of laps to catch it. The few people who got rides with me seemed to enjoy themselves and it's the first time I've had a round of applause from the passenger seat.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

tqadam said:

oh and to the guy that was driving the c63, i dont know your name but i enjoyed watching and listening to your car! shame your tyres didnt hold out

Yep, perhaps I should have been a bit more conservative. . Did you get any pictures of it?

[tqadam]

hi andy and obiwonkeyblokey lol.

andy i was the one replying to you on the youtube vid. sorry about stealing your time last night. i will look into the requirements/licences needed for sprinting at some point. i might try and speak to a few people next time i'm at a sprint.

andy im 99% sure this is you/your car. having said that no doubt it wont be now and i will have got the model wrong too lol
ADR Sport 2 by torquayadam, on Flickr

this isnt the best picture but you can see your splitter was on the ground. this would of been out of quarry corner and around mid morning, from memory.
ADR Sport by torquayadam, on Flickr

and obiwonkeyblokey, i took a few of you but this is the best quality one by a good margin. im not exactly small and the wind was blowing me off balance at times this would of been around old paddock bend probably around lunch time ish.
Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe by torquayadam, on Flickr

i have added a few more pics to the album but as they aren't anyones pride and joy that i know of i havent put a direct picture in here

[1714dan]

Great day out really enjoyed it, still buzzing from it and still knackered!
Was a special day for me and friends as it was the very first outing in our Honda Civic type R racer which was finished after a 16 month rebuild at 9.30pm on Friday evening(in typical club racer fashion)
Thanks Richard Jones for all your efforts and look forward to raising some more money next year.

[andylaurence]

Yes, Adam, that's my car. You can see in the second photo that the splitter is pointing down as it's torn the crash box and snapped the forward stays. The first photo is interesting. It's on the pit exit, where I was on the limiter in 6th, which is 118mph on the gearing I was using (I need a bigger front sprocket). You can see the splitter and diffuser ride height is certainly less than 20mm, which considering it's 60mm in the paddock suggests quite a lot of downforce.

Dan - you were stonkingly quick. For a car that's based on a production shell and only just rolled onto the track, the pace was phenomenal. It took a couple of laps to catch you, which is considerably longer than it took to catch anyone else.

[Easy Life]

tqadam said:

i'll take a chance and assume i am ok in posting a couple links as i dont do advertising for anything lol.

heres a link to some rubbishy phone vids i took
http://youtu.be/RWlBKx5Qzyo

i dont really know what cars anyone on here was driving round so i wont dump loads of photos in here, instead heres a link to the online album i am slowly adding to. i took many photos but as im a novice and still trying to improve they arent brilliant
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tqadam/sets/72157646...

i really enjoyed the day. will definately be back next year

oh and to the guy that was driving the c63, i dont know your name but i enjoyed watching and listening to your car! shame your tyres didnt hold out

Some really good shots there buddy. I was driving the medium purple/carbon Evo 8 btw

[tqadam]

Yes andy I heard you were on the limiter.
Definately some downforce you were getting! Glad the pictures show how low it was for you.

Dan i have some pictures of your civic in my album also.

Cheers easy life. I think I had one of yours in my album. I still have a fair few to go through so I will still be adding to the album if there are any decent pictures left that is lol.

[hovlev]

Nice pics any of the Clio V6?

[tqadam]

dan
Dan Ludlow's Civic BTCC by torquayadam, on Flickr

easy life, found a better one of yours tonight
Mitsubish Evo by torquayadam, on Flickr

hovlev. the only decent one i have of what i assume is your car
Renault Clio V6 by torquayadam, on Flickr

i have uploaded a few more tonight to the album but im probably about done with that. i had no idea a lot of cars out there were from here lol

[themarshyboy]

I went out with Andy in the ADR. Awesome experience!!
Can't thank you enough for that Andy - gave me a break from working in the pits all day trying to allocate people to cars. Hopefully your hit rate went up after my ride - I talked about it enough!!

[andylaurence]

themarshyboy said:

I went out with Andy in the ADR. Awesome experience!!
Can't thank you enough for that Andy - gave me a break from working in the pits all day trying to allocate people to cars. Hopefully your hit rate went up after my ride - I talked about it enough!!

You have a tough job in there pairing people up with the cars they want. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The front splitter was my biggest trouble, so that limited my runs. Also, the fact that nobody seemed interested in going out in my car in the morning, although I didn't do a lap alone after you had a run in it.

[hovlev]

That's top notch cheers tqadam !

[tqadam]

hovlev said:

That's top notch cheers tqadam !

No problem and its just adam.
Tq is the post code for torquay which is where I live

Edited by tqadam on Wednesday 29th October 17:04