Roll call - October 8/9 - Nurburgring and Spa
Discussion
t you were on it! the most commited driver I have seen for a long time around there! awesome duderingweekends said:
His mate was driving it ........
I have some videos of me attempting to follow him.... I will put them up. I was in a car with 800bhp per tonne, a sequential gearbox, cage, proper tyres, I was even wearing fireproof undies and socks... all the gear, no idea!
and this and I dont mean to be rude or offend, but slightly tatty looking E36 (maybe it was just dirty?) came up behind me on a bend... so I let it past and TRIED to follow.... however he then made me look like I was out for a sunday pottle in chitty chitty bang bang!!!!
The body roll and attitude of the car makes me think it was bog standard as well? and there was some blue smoke coming out the exhaust!
but the driver... HERO!
and I am no Ring Virgin.... I am not quick at Ring really (apart from in my Clio where I would murder Darren and his pony race one
) but that Lizard M3 will be forever in my memory! EPIC. Love to buy you a drink at the next one. I think Darren pointed you out in the briefing?
will dig out the video for ya!
Porkie said:
I have some videos of me attempting to follow him.... I will put them up.
I was in a car with 800bhp per tonne, a sequential gearbox, cage, proper tyres, I was even wearing fireproof undies and socks... all the gear, no idea!
and this and I dont mean to be rude or offend, but slightly tatty looking E36 (maybe it was just dirty?) came up behind me on a bend... so I let it past and TRIED to follow.... however he then made me look like I was out for a sunday pottle in chitty chitty bang bang!!!!
The body roll and attitude of the car makes me think it was bog standard as well? and there was some blue smoke coming out the exhaust!
but the driver... HERO!
and I am no Ring Virgin.... I am not quick at Ring really (apart from in my Clio where I would murder Darren and his pony race one ) but that Lizard M3 will be forever in my memory! EPIC.
Love to buy you a drink at the next one. I think Darren pointed you out in the briefing?
will dig out the video for ya!
I overtook Lizard on the inside going into Eau Rouge.....I'm pretty sure he knew I was there I was in a car with 800bhp per tonne, a sequential gearbox, cage, proper tyres, I was even wearing fireproof undies and socks... all the gear, no idea!
and this and I dont mean to be rude or offend, but slightly tatty looking E36 (maybe it was just dirty?) came up behind me on a bend... so I let it past and TRIED to follow.... however he then made me look like I was out for a sunday pottle in chitty chitty bang bang!!!!
The body roll and attitude of the car makes me think it was bog standard as well? and there was some blue smoke coming out the exhaust!
but the driver... HERO!
and I am no Ring Virgin.... I am not quick at Ring really (apart from in my Clio where I would murder Darren and his pony race one
) but that Lizard M3 will be forever in my memory! EPIC. Love to buy you a drink at the next one. I think Darren pointed you out in the briefing?
will dig out the video for ya!
he was going very well
Edited by shim on Tuesday 16th October 22:43
Alex said:
Some pics of your car at the 'Ring on this site:
http://www.tourifotos.de/galerie/album=2012-10-09/...
Thanks Alex, some good shots on there. Did your cooling problem stay away? It looked as though you left early as I din't see your car about much after lunch.http://www.tourifotos.de/galerie/album=2012-10-09/...
The Walrus said:
Hey Andrew trust you all made home in reasonable time in the end, I was in the green 997 with John / Wilko.
We stayed an extra day at Spa. Some very decent people helped us get back and Lizard took the car home on his trailer. Steve, the wheel is from the Seat/armco interface on Monday.
Alfa Al said:
Thanks Alex, some good shots on there. Did your cooling problem stay away? It looked as though you left early as I din't see your car about much after lunch.
There was still a problem. I tried removing the thermostat, but the temperature would still creep up after a few laps. It's with Dan at Surrey Subaru who is investigating further. It ran fine on the way home except that without the thermostat it ran too cold on the motorway, so I had to use the old trick of shoving a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator!
Porkie said:
I have some videos of me attempting to follow him.... I will put them up.
I was in a car with 800bhp per tonne, a sequential gearbox, cage, proper tyres, I was even wearing fireproof undies and socks... all the gear, no idea!
and this and I dont mean to be rude or offend, but slightly tatty looking E36 (maybe it was just dirty?) came up behind me on a bend... so I let it past and TRIED to follow.... however he then made me look like I was out for a sunday pottle in chitty chitty bang bang!!!!
The body roll and attitude of the car makes me think it was bog standard as well? and there was some blue smoke coming out the exhaust!
but the driver... HERO!
and I am no Ring Virgin.... I am not quick at Ring really (apart from in my Clio where I would murder Darren and his pony race one ) but that Lizard M3 will be forever in my memory! EPIC.
Love to buy you a drink at the next one. I think Darren pointed you out in the briefing?
will dig out the video for ya!
Oh dear, he`ll be insufferable now I was in a car with 800bhp per tonne, a sequential gearbox, cage, proper tyres, I was even wearing fireproof undies and socks... all the gear, no idea!
and this and I dont mean to be rude or offend, but slightly tatty looking E36 (maybe it was just dirty?) came up behind me on a bend... so I let it past and TRIED to follow.... however he then made me look like I was out for a sunday pottle in chitty chitty bang bang!!!!
The body roll and attitude of the car makes me think it was bog standard as well? and there was some blue smoke coming out the exhaust!
but the driver... HERO!
and I am no Ring Virgin.... I am not quick at Ring really (apart from in my Clio where I would murder Darren and his pony race one
) but that Lizard M3 will be forever in my memory! EPIC. Love to buy you a drink at the next one. I think Darren pointed you out in the briefing?
will dig out the video for ya!
Bruski11 said:
Is anyone else having trouble accessing xtreme-sports-photography.co.uk website? (for the Spa photos?)
Anybody have any more info on this? Website still down and I've tried the email address which also doesnt work. Not very happy as the CD I paid £35 on the Tuesday doesnt work! Pretty poor service.mrpbailey said:
Anybody have any more info on this? Website still down and I've tried the email address which also doesnt work. Not very happy as the CD I paid £35 on the Tuesday doesnt work! Pretty poor service.
The DVD we got worked but I'm sure they will sort you out mate Contact details from Javelin (also use the same photographer) www.xtreme-sports-photography.co.uk
email xtremephotography@live.co.uk
Tel 07957596390
Porkie said:
My other new hero is Mark Sumpter... who yesterday took me out at Spa in his Paragon 964 racecar and showed me the Spa I was driving wasnt the Spa he drives....
and in fact.... what I call driving... again isnt REALLY driving!!!!
That would have been fantastic...he's a great driver. What did you think of the 964 and what sort of times was he taking you round in? and in fact.... what I call driving... again isnt REALLY driving!!!!
Alex said:
There was still a problem. I tried removing the thermostat, but the temperature would still creep up after a few laps. It's with Dan at Surrey Subaru who is investigating further.
It ran fine on the way home except that without the thermostat it ran too cold on the motorway, so I had to use the old trick of shoving a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator!
Sorry to hear that Alex, I mentioned this to Chris who has worked on a couple of Imprezas in the past. He reckons it is a head gasket issue. He said they only stay reliable in standard spec, as soon as they start to increase the power they get problems. At least you got home without the need for recovery!It ran fine on the way home except that without the thermostat it ran too cold on the motorway, so I had to use the old trick of shoving a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator!
What you need is a nicely prepped GTV 6 fast road/track day car. Drove out, 22 laps at the 'Ring, at least 8 or 9 7 or 8 lap seesions at Spa, drove home. She din't miss a beat and used just half a litre of oil. Who says old Italian cars are crap!!
Alfa Al said:
What you need is a nicely prepped GTV 6 fast road/track day car. Drove out, 22 laps at the 'Ring, at least 8 or 9 7 or 8 lap seesions at Spa, drove home. She din't miss a beat and used just half a litre of oil. Who says old Italian cars are crap!!
You know I love GTV6s Alex, but I suspect yours gets a *lot* of attention.Having maintained examples of other marques since my exclusive Alfa period, I have realised how tricky 116-series Alfas are to work on!
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