RE: Citroen AX at the 'ring: Time For Tea?

[mwstewart]

Truly wonderful and in an era of overly-powerful (ignoring my own project) and overly-grippy cars, also quite profound.

[Motorrad]

That's great- it took me almost 13 mins to get round in my 306 XUD non-turbo albeit on ling-long tyres and 2 fat people up.

[Kong]

Hang on, this is pistonheads so where are all the usual "who cares about 'ring lap times? It's pointless" posts?

This guy is a legend without question. I had a couple of passenger laps in an AX GT a few years ago, so much fun trying not to lose any momentum!

[supertouring]

He is obviously wringing every last mm of track and every last second out of that thing, would love to see what he could do in something reasonable.

[Citman]

Video from the outside - this shows the 350Z crash and him smoking past it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQ9aK7sJbk

As has been said, just shows that it's not all about power - momentum, the right line and weight!

As someone who did about 60k miles in a Peugeot 106 with the same engine in the early nineties (the later 1.5D felt luxuriously powered by comparison!) I can only doff my hat to the man. I once found myself unable to go any faster than 60mph in a howling gale on an uphill section of the M8, with an articulated lorry up my chuff. That was hairy enough for me!

[LordFlathead]

Brilliant watch! Shows the determination required to achieve his goal.

Sub 10 minutes in a 52hp diseaseal? Cracking result

[skyrover]

Citman said:

Video from the outside - this shows the 350Z crash and him smoking past it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQ9aK7sJbk

As has been said, just shows that it's not all about power - momentum, the right line and weight!

As someone who did about 60k miles in a Peugeot 106 with the same engine in the early nineties (the later 1.5D felt luxuriously powered by comparison!) I can only doff my hat to the man. I once found myself unable to go any faster than 60mph in a howling gale on an uphill section of the M8, with an articulated lorry up my chuff. That was hairy enough for me!

judging by the amount of black smoke pouring from his exhaust, that's not standard fuelling.

[Maty]

skyrover said:

judging by the amount of black smoke pouring from his exhaust, that's not standard fuelling.

It does say slightly increased fuel pressure.

I thought I'd seen that 370 crashing before!

[skyrover]

I wonder how much of a horsepower increase we are looking at with the fuel whacked up. 5-10?

[Quhet]

That was fking brilliant!

[Baryonyx]

That is a truly fantastic drive. I'd love to see what he could do in something like a 106 Rallye!

[Craig85]

Even though I knew how the lap would end it still nearly brought a tear to my eye, what an achievement! He used every mm of the track, kerb and sometimes more. He used understeer to scrub off speed after entering a corner instead of braking before it to maintain speed for longer, great lap.

The most dangerous bit was brunchen with the nissan about to roll back onto track...

[Matt_L]

What a guy!

110% commitment, and having a barrel of laughs, just shows you don't have to be doing it in a 100k supercar.

[Lordbenny]

I wish I'd never sold my mint GT 2 years ago, one of the most fun cars I've ever had and I've had some fun cars!

[mollytherocker]

That my smelly friends, is driving.

[4lf4-155]

///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 sponge to get him out if he crashed.

[Art0ir]

skyrover said:

I wonder how much of a horsepower increase we are looking at with the fuel whacked up. 5-10?

I wouldn't have thought much more than that on a N/A.

[Debaser]

Brilliant! The driver is a cool dude!

[Debaser]

It's not what you drive it's how you drive it.

[secretagentbloke]

One of the best laps I've watched. As has been said before, a great example of maintaining control of both momentum and sphincter

Makes me wonder who has more FUN, the guy in the nomex romper with his GT3 or the bloke in his shorts ragging the a*se off his car that probably cost less than a carbon Arai? Less is definitely more here..........