Thanks & 211mph

[goodlife]

Just back.

Thanks to Craig and team for another well organised and excellent event.

That 9ff. 211mph roof up and 202mph roof down. What can we say

ff muct stand for effing fast!

Edited to add picture

Edited by goodlife on Sunday 19th August 18:36

[Seasider]

goodlife said:

202mph roof down.

[tomtom]

Passed you going the other way on the road to Lutterworth as I left, car looked very mean.

edit: The 9ff, that is.

Edited by tomtom on Sunday 19th August 18:46

[outnumbered]

Thanks to Craig and team from me as well. 7mph up on last time @ 165, finally my E46 M3 went faster than my E36, and apparently same VMAX as at least one of the CSLs (both of us derestricted). So well chuffed with that! Thanks to Paul for the RS4 lap too, that was fun - 4WD off the line is quite effective!

Edited by outnumbered on Sunday 19th August 18:56

[S3am]

Thanks Craig and James. Great day out... again.

Thanks Steve for the tuition, now I just have to find an empty track to practice.

Sam

[R1_JON]

Great day again. Thanks Craig and team.

[derestrictor]

Just got back, gathering thoughts, basically involving Jan Fathenfathuerkreigschnellerhausenbachhimmel.

Berloodyhellfire.

[tdm34ds]

Craig what a brilliant day thanks mate cant wait till the next one

Regards Robin

[Camel]

Cracking day - thanks Craig and team. Some very impressive speeds on the results page, brilliant to see all that machinery getting used properly

[VXR_Daz]

Thanks Craig and team.

Hopefully drier next time, certainly was "fun" from the standing start

Edited by VXR_Daz on Monday 20th August 11:19

[Dangly]

well just got back and i'm knackered!

Cheers to Craig it was a fantastic day and extra special thanks to all the BMW crew drifting on the corner before the big straight!!!

Major thanks to LuckyP who let me put a camera on top of his Ultima GTR and than than 171mph with it on his roof! - Legend!

I'll cut the video over the next week

Wicked day!

Edited by Dangly on Sunday 19th August 20:51

[neil_bolton]

Got home safe and sound, and very very knackered!

Thanks to Craig and the crew for their continued hard work (although put a boot up the timing dudes arse); always well organised!

Major thanks to Daz for very kindly allowing me to pop my supercar cherry by allowing me to drive his awesome machine to 182mph! Absolutely mind blowing, and as always you are a gent!

Ta to Simon for allowing us all to waft about in his steeds - absolutely bananas both of them - the M6 is simply bloody fantastic!

Major thumbsup to Steve for larking about with me - hopefully we'll get a small slot on the VMax DVD! I really enjoyed that - and learnt quite a bit whilst every so often feeling like a drift god (whilst drifting past a spinning Z4 )..!

Apologies to Pod for scaring him to death whilst exploring the outer limits of the grassy bits

Also, very nice to meet Tony and it seems we have a new VMax member - he's already planning to come to the next one with something special! also as always, pleasure to co-pilot with our Alec

Great day everyone - cheers!

[neil_bolton]

Dangly said:

well just got back and i'm knackered!

Cheers to Craig it was a fantastic day and extra special thanks to all the BMW crew drifting on the corner before the big straight!!!

I'll cut the video over the next week

Wicked day!

I'll email you chap - I'd happily pay for your services and get any footage you have of the high jinks, if you don't mind?

[Dangly]

I think I caught the 9ff on a major spin in the dry as well

Edited by Dangly on Sunday 19th August 20:26

[dace]

Great day Craig thanks alot.

Nice to meet Paul, Simon (your cars were fantastic. I think the blue cloth, to clean the wheels, must have been worth 3mph!?) and the chaps. Great breakfast to boot.

Here's to the next one.....

[ParkLane]

Thanks Craig for letting me do a 'gentle' run on the way out.
Maybe next year we can sort out some stratstone corvette sponsership - I'm sure that you're in need of one for a course car.

James

[LuckyP]

Again, throughly enjoyable. Faster as the day dried out, goes to show how important the exit speed of the top bend is on Vmax. A 188mph best for the day (outside lane after lunch), they were accurate weren't they? It's just I did 171, 172, 175, 177, 178, 181, 188 etc and didn't think that I did much differently. The big difference was when the timing beacons were moved further down:

Suggestion. For those of us that like to mod and try, can we set a distance and then mark it for reapeated visits? I for one like to keep the variables in check.......science background , soz.

Lucks

[bluesatin]

As Usual thanks to Craig and the team. Usual first class organisation but bit concerned about the the ratvan going upmarket!

Also thanks to Daz for the ride in Simon's M6- another contender to replace the porker.

[Podie]

neil_bolton said:

Apologies to Pod for scaring him to death whilst exploring the outer limits of the grassy bits

Was quite funny until we hit the tall grass, then I suddenly thought - are there any concrete posts in here..?!?!

Got some nice photos during the day, will post them during the week, as time allows.

[W8PMC]

Thanks again to all the team for making this yet another excellent VMAX.

Best i managed was a 172MPH in the RS4 after the timing beams were moved down the runway, as up until then i could only get 164MPH. Slight departure from the mid 180's i managed previously in the E60 M5 & the low 180's in the RS6, but i was having more fun in the RS4, getting to grips with it's better than i expected traction of the line & acceleration.

Only shocker for me is just how long 5th gear is, as my fastest speeds were all in 5th gear just hitting the rev limiter, so with a full gear left, i'm fairly sure the car overall would get very close to 200MPH if i could find a quiet 5 mile runway.

Great to see friends again & a few new faces (those Vettes looked fun) & huge respect to our German friends in that plainly bonkers 9FF Turbo. It must have intergalactic speed, as the roof down run at 202MPH, i had commented on just how far ahead the Ultima was down the main straight & the 9FF really didn't look like it was gunning it, then it posted a speed of 202MPH roof down.

Looking forward to the next one.