RE: Citroen AX at the 'ring: Time For Tea?
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Incredible - just goes to show you dont need exotic metal to be a car nut and this guy is probably having more fun wringing every last bit of performance from his car, totally on the edge of what it can do 
Love his reaction when he crosses the line - living the dream
I had a AX GT5, bought it 10 years old and 93000miles on the clock - amazing fun when it ran but slowly fell apart around me! Worst car i ever bought, but miss it!
Happy days
Love his reaction when he crosses the line - living the dream
I had a AX GT5, bought it 10 years old and 93000miles on the clock - amazing fun when it ran but slowly fell apart around me! Worst car i ever bought, but miss it!
Happy days
A couple of posters suggest that he's deliberately provoking understeer to control speed on approach to some corners - I've not heard of that before. Is that really what he's doing?
Best bit for me - the courtesy wave after that slow Toyota pulls over. Knowing how much a sub-10 lap means to him, I'm impressed that he can still be polite at that point - proper class.
Best bit for me - the courtesy wave after that slow Toyota pulls over. Knowing how much a sub-10 lap means to him, I'm impressed that he can still be polite at that point - proper class.
Digga said:
ribiero said:
Those memories you may have of ragging your first ever car after you pass your test, be it a crappy old 1litre or something close, I bet they flowed back watching this vid
I can remember me and a mate following each other back from our Saturday job, just after we'd passed our tests, both in Mk1 Fiestas. Him in his mum's 950 and me with the colossal 150cc power advantage of my 1.1. What we didn't find out about understeer wasn't worth knowing. And no one ended up in a ditch/hedge. Happy days.Best days of my life.
I wonder if this Citroen AX done 78mpg? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfiVJvA-z-E
I passed my test in one of these in 1990 but mine want quite that fast...
I passed my test in one of these in 1990 but mine want quite that fast...
Very impressive. What makes me love the ring is that with enough commitment, talent and a bit of courage you can really get incredible results. And you notice it when driving there, it is more like a crazy, poor paved and twisty mountain motorway than a track in most of the stretches.
The AX was also an hell of a car among very small motoring. My dad still owned a Lancia-Autobianchi car dealer here in Turin when I got my license and I was lucky enough to get a 2nd hand taken in Delta Integrale as first car but I was daily driving a tiny Y10 1.1 most of the time while a close friend got an AX, it was in another league in terms of handling. Thr Y10 was agile in city driving but pushing it hard as every 18 year boy would do put you in serious danger...
The AX was also an hell of a car among very small motoring. My dad still owned a Lancia-Autobianchi car dealer here in Turin when I got my license and I was lucky enough to get a 2nd hand taken in Delta Integrale as first car but I was daily driving a tiny Y10 1.1 most of the time while a close friend got an AX, it was in another league in terms of handling. Thr Y10 was agile in city driving but pushing it hard as every 18 year boy would do put you in serious danger...
He must have a seriously bad back! I had an AX 1.4i Forte, the insurance friendly version of the GT with no rear wing and steelies. To this day I don't think I have owned a better handling, more confidence inspiring car, and working right at the bottom of the cat and fiddle long before they ruined it with the average speed cameras, I had plenty of opportunity to test is out!
I only had it for 3 months as the offset steering wheel and pedals gave me serious back pain spending 2 hours a day commuting.
Possibly this ridiculous misalignment of wheel, seat and pedals was caused by a very poor conversion to right-hand drive, and the left-hand version is better, but still, he doesn't have the slightly more supportive gti seats!
Very impressive.
I only had it for 3 months as the offset steering wheel and pedals gave me serious back pain spending 2 hours a day commuting.
Possibly this ridiculous misalignment of wheel, seat and pedals was caused by a very poor conversion to right-hand drive, and the left-hand version is better, but still, he doesn't have the slightly more supportive gti seats!
Very impressive.
Ha ha ha...!
Loved this, well done that man - bar a couple of gauloises blondes being consumed during the lap, it's basically faultless...!!
You can see on several corners that his speed & pace through the apex could easily humble exotics...
I also love the Z car that bins it a few corners on... Tee hee...!
Reminds me of my 104 ZS - it telepathically new when 'understeer / grip / lurch / traction' was required...
Top hoot...
:-))
Loved this, well done that man - bar a couple of gauloises blondes being consumed during the lap, it's basically faultless...!!
You can see on several corners that his speed & pace through the apex could easily humble exotics...
I also love the Z car that bins it a few corners on... Tee hee...!
Reminds me of my 104 ZS - it telepathically new when 'understeer / grip / lurch / traction' was required...
Top hoot...
:-))
My first car was an AX 14 TRS and had many enjoyable and what seemed at the time, very quick drives. So light and agile and I loved it.
I couldn't afford a 205 and this was next best but for me was better than the Nova SRs the cool kids had.
Those were the days and when basic cars were just great fun. F179 OLY, where are you now?!
I couldn't afford a 205 and this was next best but for me was better than the Nova SRs the cool kids had.
Those were the days and when basic cars were just great fun. F179 OLY, where are you now?!
duncancallum said:
My daily is a 106 1.4d so the offers there any one reckon that they can sub 9. 50 in it?
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Yip I'll have a crack, sub 9.50 is a bit optimistic but 10 might be achievable. ...
Bring it out to the 2 day DN trackdays early July, give it a good service & new brake fluid & decent pads shove it on some decent R tyres & rip all interior out but drivers seat & there's a bunch of us with a lot of laps & many yrs experience out there that will give it a good go.
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