RE: Citroen AX at the 'ring: Time For Tea?
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It's video's like this that make me want too start up with trackdays once again.
Having driven tracks in fast cars and also underpowered cars, i have too say i had the most fun in the slower cars, you can't brake, if you do it's all over for that lap while you build speed again, anyone who's seen the Citroen 2cv race cars that frequent some trackdays, will know what i mean.
Anyone who's not done it, give it a go, you'll be surprised, Cadwell park is especially good fun in a low powered car
Having driven tracks in fast cars and also underpowered cars, i have too say i had the most fun in the slower cars, you can't brake, if you do it's all over for that lap while you build speed again, anyone who's seen the Citroen 2cv race cars that frequent some trackdays, will know what i mean.
Anyone who's not done it, give it a go, you'll be surprised, Cadwell park is especially good fun in a low powered car
There are two themes that run through this lap - preservation of momentum and understeer. Gut-wrenching, terrifying understeer - well for me at least, because I have no frame of reference for what going on a track in a FWD car like that must be like.
With so little power, you immediately see the contrast between this effort and those made with machines with much more abundant power. In this little Citroen a small error costs huge, because there's simply not the grunt to quickly get back to speed. You could see a few moments where the driver is very slightly baulked by other cars, even faster ones overtaking (like around 3min 30 sec) and it highlights what a knife edge it must have been stringing a good lap together.
With so little power, you immediately see the contrast between this effort and those made with machines with much more abundant power. In this little Citroen a small error costs huge, because there's simply not the grunt to quickly get back to speed. You could see a few moments where the driver is very slightly baulked by other cars, even faster ones overtaking (like around 3min 30 sec) and it highlights what a knife edge it must have been stringing a good lap together.
"It seems one Youtube user was determined to break the 10-minute barrier though - and finally, after seven years, 118 laps, nine engines and five gearboxes, at 8:37am on August 17 2013, said AX enthusiast nailed his goal with a 9min 55sec Bridge to Gantry lap."
The single best sentence I've read on this site.
The single best sentence I've read on this site.
///Mike said:
I bet he's had a few code brown's whilst trying to achieve that. He's certainly got the minerals - You'd need a tin opener to get him out if he crashed.
I've been round in a variety of 205's - some considerably faster than that time and basically, you are the crumple zone - even with a cage, helmet etc. They'd just bury you car'n'all.He's either got massive balls or little imagination what would happen if it all went wrong
jcl said:
"It seems one Youtube user was determined to break the 10-minute barrier though - and finally, after seven years, 118 laps, nine engines and five gearboxes, at 8:37am on August 17 2013, said AX enthusiast nailed his goal with a 9min 55sec Bridge to Gantry lap."
The single best sentence I've read on this site.
So he took 118 goes to get sub-10, and when he does, it's by 5 seconds?The single best sentence I've read on this site.
Doesn't seem particularly consistent lapping!
I started out at the Ring with a Pug 309 1.3 on carbs, back in 2001. 65 horsepower. You'd be amazed what you can pass whilst on 145-section crap tires on a mix of 0 fear (I was 21) and track knowledge. My record was 10.10 before I moved to a Sierra 2.0. Never getting below 10 BTG has always bugged me.
I miss those days
I miss those days
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