Castle Coombe 25th April

[Terzo204]

Who's in?

Barring any disasters I'll be there in my Black Westfield, if not, the GT86.

Looking forward to my first track outing this year.

I'll be there with two mates, one in a Radical SR3 and one in an Exige S.

Mike

Edited by Terzo204 on Saturday 12th April 00:18

[Sigmamark7]

I'm in, but currently don't have a car.
I'll be there with 2 mates, 1 in a Black Westfield and one with an Exige S (or depending on the weather, a Megane or a Clio!)
Hopefully my car will be ready, the sun will shine, the Black Flag will be reserved for others and the Red Flag will not be seen all day!!

[Terzo204]

Sigmamark7 said:

I'm in, but currently don't have a car.
I'll be there with 2 mates, 1 in a Black Westfield and one with an Exige S (or depending on the weather, a Megane or a Clio!)
Hopefully my car will be ready, the sun will shine, the Black Flag will be reserved for others and the Red Flag will not be seen all day!!

Being my first track day of the year, I'm sure it will be bright sunshine, 30 degrees and no Radicals going backwards at Quarry!

Edited by Terzo204 on Saturday 12th April 22:22

[Sigmamark7]

If it's going to be 30 degrees out there, I won't bother taking a car, I'll just wander around the paddock in my Speedos, getting a tan!!

[Terzo204]

What a horrible budgie smuggling image…

I think it's just you me and Team Principle at the moment!

[Sigmamark7]

My rebuilt Diff is looking like £4k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the sun doesn't shine and I don't break the outright lap record, I am likely to be very grumpy and may well resort to crying!! And if anyone even hints at waving a Black Flag at me.............................

I might still wear the Speedos though.

[Terzo204]

£4k, that's the Team Principals budget for fags over a track weekend.

[Sigmamark7]

Terzo204 said:

£4k, that's the Team Principals budget for fags over a track weekend.

True, but don't forget who buys his fags!!

Anyway my car is now back, we know MSE always run good days and so I'm hoping for a great day's entertainment and nice dry conditions.

[Terzo204]

Dry and 13 degrees apparently… Don't believe that for one minute!

[Sigmamark7]

Terzo204 said:

Dry and 13 degrees apparently… Don't believe that for one minute!

Dry and 30 degrees would be better!

[joe_90]

Well, that was soaking soaking wet... and now the sun is out :-/

[Terzo204]

Terzo204 said:

My boxer shorts were soaked in the first sighing laps with the stupid amount of rain - and never dried out all day. Were you in the BMW Joe?

[Sigmamark7]

I'm not entirely sure that soaking wet quite covers it, but at least the weather had the decency to dry up so that I could pack up without getting any wetter.

As for boxer shorts Mike, I had you down as a commando man!!

[joe_90]

Terzo204 said:

My boxer shorts were soaked in the first sighing laps with the stupid amount of rain - and never dried out all day. Were you in the BMW Joe?

Yep, unfortunately we couldn't use the new semi slicks, so used the 'road tyres' which were just 100% cheapo crap [I got them as part warns for free], it would spin up in 2nd. and 3rd and we had zero confidence.. Which was a shame, as I had new semi slick to try, all the geo etc setup and just put in a new LSD.

Now going to source some rainsports...

Edited by joe_90 on Saturday 26th April 11:09

[Terzo204]

My driving boots took 24 hours to dry…

What a wash out of a day?

[Sigmamark7]

Terzo204 said:

My driving boots took 24 hours to dry…

What a wash out of a day?

Which was 23 and a half hours more than you spent driving in them!!!!

[joe_90]

What cars were you guys in? The only people I saw on it was the Alfa, the 106 and the Puma, fwd was the way forward.

[Terzo204]

I was in my black Westfield. I only went out for 3 sessions as my brakes are knackered after winter 'upgrades'. I got it booked back into the garage today to sort it all out.

Gutted.

That was after an enormous unexpected bill on Thursday night - to cap it all off, someone ran into the back of my GT86 today.

A truly ste 4 days.

[Terzo204]

joe_90 said:

What cars were you guys in? The only people I saw on it was the Alfa, the 106 and the Puma, fwd was the way forward.

The Orange Radical was going well! Just don't tell the owner, he will get a big ego.

[Sigmamark7]

Terzo204 said:

joe_90 said:

What cars were you guys in? The only people I saw on it was the Alfa, the 106 and the Puma, fwd was the way forward.

The Orange Radical was going well! Just don't tell the owner, he will get a big ego.

I was carrying ballast in the Radical - a passenger and my own enormous bag of talent adds a huge amount to the weight of the car :-)