RAF Marham Pictures and Comments thread

[B'stard Child]

Great day - as the organisers said they booked the weather

Well done to all the RAF guys and girls for a well run event

Sat Pics only from me (sorry) and most of the track shots are taken by Kath (I loaned my camera to a non participating support) so it was what caught her eye



































Loads more in the album but they will be repeats of the cars above - anyone want high res versions let me know

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii303/opeltuner...

Edited by B'stard Child on Sunday 25th April 17:52

[mrB10]

brilliant day out, loved it as usual and its nice to see my white 205 up there Ian!

Mine were all static pics of cars at rest but they're here on my link >>

http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/andyandcher...

Edited by mrB10 on Sunday 25th April 18:28

[Spottedlaurel]

A big thanks to all concerned from me. After visiting as a passenger last October this was my first trackday ever, and the Camry might not have seemed an obvious choice but I had a blast in it! Front tyres down to the canvas when I'd finished my last session, fuel light starting to come on and it had behaved impeccably all day for the 150-odd track miles I did in it.

Hopefully I didn't get in anyone's way too much, the Camry doesn't have a lot of grunt, but I was more than happy with how I did behind the wheel and I was gaining confidence through the day. Thank you to Stuart for giving me some guidance on a few laps.

Despite low numbers there was an excellent array of cars. My passenger (with the black Riley in the pits) was very impressed with it all and will be back in october with something from his own fleet. He does plenty of car activities with SCCON and on historic rallies so knows his stuff.

Ian, everyone from the RAF and anyone else who helped out, thank you!

Edit: A photo or two...

Edited by Spottedlaurel on Sunday 25th April 19:28

Edit 2: Thanks also to Rob for taking me out on some entertaining and instructive laps in the Nova. A shame for him and all concerned over the Skoda roll.

Edited by Spottedlaurel on Sunday 25th April 20:14

[MG Mark]

What a lovely day Saturday was - the usual ecelectic mixture of cars and the best weather I think that I can remember at any of the Marham track days. The MG behaved herself, although track time was a bit self-limited by needing to keep the engine and tyres in one piece for Le Mans in June, it was fun out on the track and, for a change, watching some of the action from the paddock. Hope sunday was equally good, many thanks as usual to all of the marham volunteers for their time and effort in putting together the traditionally slick, relaxed and enjoyable event.

MG Mark

Edited by MG Mark on Sunday 25th April 20:28

[corsa xe]

have to agree, saturday was a awesome day, good weather, good company and really good fun, as my car didnt break this time, had a couple of chats with ian, one quite early on and one during the lunch break, thanks to the lads with the subarus who took my wife and my mates round the track a few times was very good of them, which made the day even more enjoyable and a big tank you to the RAF allowing us to use the airfield once again and the marshalls for makng the day run smoothly.
Roll on october

jason

[V10Mike]

Big thanks to everyone from me too -as others have said, it was a fantastic day, well organised, great weather (on Saturday) and courteous driving. I met some great people and the Gordon-Keeble behaved itself, though I was down a bit on power as the secondaries were not opening fully. I also wished I'd had a set of old tyres to rip up, as tyre wear was frightening!

No stills, but I've posted a couple of in-car videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2K-MEDAVs
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZue2ZpzES0

Note: edited to change url for second video -the sound was out of sync on the first upload.

Edited by V10Mike on Monday 26th April 18:16

[HairyChineseKid]

Heres the URL for the guy taking pictures out the back of the Car

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

Cant wait for him to upload em

[bodieanddoyle]

I had a blast on the saturday! I have a few pics from saturday, not many though. Swift behaved impecably considering it hasn't been on the road for over a year, and MOT'd on the tuesday before the event. I think many people enjoyed a quick drive/passenger in it over the day.
2 things,

1) as Christoff said, the marshall point before the pit complex was a little difficult to see at any distance and I for one went past the pit entry as I didn't see the red and yellows in time. But there isn't anything much that can be done there- the marshalls need to be "on" the corner to see events as they occur. Maybe a bit more "vision express" from me was required.

2)anyone else find the yellow bits entering the "piano keys" a bit slippery? I was suffering from an amazing lack of grip all day though, so it might have just been me. Added to fun

Those are not gripes at all, it was my best Marham so far (my 6th!). Only dissapointing thing is I only killed one tyre- booo!

My pics will be along later. The chap with the E28 BMW posted his pics on forum5- http://forum.bmw5.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=55...
And if anyone pics of my swift in action, I'd love to see it

Big thanks to all the organsisers and volunteers- you are all awesome!

[rob0r]

Another great day (saturday for me), I'll echo Bodieandoyle to say I reckon it was my best one yet too. I was a bit disappointed that there was no 2nd drift session which I was really looking forward too! I was told it was to be the final session of the day, but when I pulled up I asked the guy on the track gate and got a resounding "NO".

Apart from that I had a blast. Oh and thanks to Ian for the lift in the awesome Monza!

Edited by rob0r on Monday 26th April 12:55

Edited by rob0r on Monday 26th April 12:56

[Spottedlaurel]

Some good action pic's on this Flickr account, I think from people with the black Accord.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo-equestrian/

Though sadly none of your Swift Edd. I'm pleased to have found a few of mine, I thought it would be somewhat 'invisible'.

[Spottedlaurel]

V10Mike said:

No stills, but I've posted a couple of in-car videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2K-MEDAVs
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sL3NLZFROY

I've just spent an enjoyable chunk of my lunchtime watching them, I look forward to seeing them again tonight with sound! Looks like you've caught the laps where we drove around in close company - leaving aside the fun I had driving my own car, watching such wonderful cars like yours in action at close quarters is a real highlight of this for me!

[V10Mike]

Spottedlaurel said:

V10Mike said:

No stills, but I've posted a couple of in-car videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2K-MEDAVs
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sL3NLZFROY

I've just spent an enjoyable chunk of my lunchtime watching them, I look forward to seeing them again tonight with sound! Looks like you've caught the laps where we drove around in close company - leaving aside the fun I had driving my own car, watching such wonderful cars like yours in action at close quarters is a real highlight of this for me!

Just as well you didn't listen to the sound yet as it's out of sync for the second video! I'm uploading it again now.

I had a long and enjoyable chat with your friend with the Riley -nice guy, and he's got quite a collection.

[SnapperLad]

Hi guys. I'm one of the photographers (I'm the one who was hanging out the back of the safety car on Sunday) who was covering both days and I'm currently sorting through over 1000 photos so hopefully they should be here:

www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

By the end of the week. We are only selling them for cheap but all proceeds go to charity so please buy as many as you can - it really helps a worthy cause.

Any probs post here.

Cheers

[Jonesy CRX_Turbo]

Was an awsome weekend watching you all enjoying yourselves!! Good to see some of the usuals and a few new arrivals, always a really good mix of cars and everyones always really friendly. I only managed to get on the track a few times with the Rex but hope i didnt hold anyone up too long (sorry to the lads in the older grey 3series i was holding up in the first twisties).

looking forward to seeing the pics, ive been checking every half hour i think!!!

Edited by Jonesy CRX_Turbo on Monday 26th April 18:11

[B'stard Child]

SnapperLad said:

Hi guys. I'm one of the photographers (I'm the one who was hanging out the back of the safety car on Sunday) who was covering both days and I'm currently sorting through over 1000 photos so hopefully they should be here:

www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

By the end of the week. We are only selling them for cheap but all proceeds go to charity so please buy as many as you can - it really helps a worthy cause.

Any probs post here.

Cheers

Questions in the other thread

[GeorgeyDee]

More photos will be uploaded as soon as possible. We have some good ones from all round the track

[bodieanddoyle]

my pathetic efforts are here- http://www.flickr.com/photos/bandd_uk/sets/7215762...








just a few, have a look in the link, there's 36 in there. Not many, but I was had to drive some of the day....

[SnapperLad]

Hey bodieanddoyle those are really good - especially like the fish eye ones.

[perdu]

bodieanddoyle epic fisheye shot of Gary's Frogeye

(I won't tell him 'cos the picture makes Gaps look clean and she isnt...)

Great pictures from all I have seen in here, thanks guys.

thinks.. must download mine to see if any of them are OK




bill

[spacekadett]

Once again a fantastic day made better by the Mini still being in one piece at the end of it Old thing doesn't have the best reliability record and buzzing a stock scrap pile found A+ at 6k for most of the track I was braced for an epic fail but it seems to have taken the abuse in it's stride. Unlike the dynamo that squealed like I don't know what by the end of the day, but you can't have everything
Thanks to all who organized and to Rob0r for throwing my trackday virgin bro the keys for his 318is. He's now talking about prepping his Sapph' for the track, may have created a monster