Oulton Tues 29th April

[RetroWheels]

Anyone here ?
I'll be taking the Chimaera for a play, hoping the weather stays reasonable..

[sniff petrol]

I'll be there passengering in my mates Tiger.

Could I be cheaky and ask for a ride in the Chimera Darren as I'm ashamed to admit I've never even been in a TVR. Many thanks.

[RetroWheels]

No problem, i'll be there for the pm session only - parked in Easytrack's garage - sheltering from the rain .

[shawn 968cs]

Had it booked, but car is not back from 9M yet.
Hopefully make the one on June 25th at Oulton.
Hope it stays dry for you.
Shawn

[djf67]

latest weather is dry until 4ish - maybe.
Bunch of 911s from impactbumpers sharing a garage or two - I lurk on here from time to time. Come and say hi.

[tony.t]

RetroWheels said:

Anyone here ?
I'll be taking the Chimaera for a play, hoping the weather stays reasonable..

Well that's the weather screwed.

[RetroWheels]

Hi Tony ..
Are you there Tommorow ?

[tony.t]

RetroWheels said:

Hi Tony ..
Are you there Tommorow ?

That's the plan

be good to meet up again

[BenElliottRacing]

:wavey

I'll be there with this



My sponsors first go in it!

[sniff petrol]

Cool, gotta love those G50's












Does it have a passenger seat?

[sniff petrol]

Well the weather's looking better than first forecast - bright and sunny if a little mist first thing. Will bring my camera. See you there.

[sniff petrol]

Had a great day, Darren thanks so much for those laps in your Chimera - I can't believe how much abuse that car takes and how much speed it carried even in drizzly conditions.

Have many photos to trawl through, will post up any worthy ones.

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Popped into to Oulton Park this morning for 20 minutes as I was on my way from Derby to Chester to see a client. Put the camera in the car as I hoped I would have a bit of spare time.

Needed to work on the panning with my Canon 40D as I have not done alot of panning since I got it. Also needed to play with the ISO settings as I was not happy with the camera in the auto mode for ISO.

Some really nice cars out on track, seemed to be a Lotus theme today. Have to say the Silver/Black 997RS that was out was a stunner.

Here are a few of my pics, as mentioned didn't stay to long.

Lotus 2 Eleven


Lotus Exige


New Supercharged Lotus Elise


Impreza and Lancer Evo




As Ben mentioned above he was out in the Ginetta G50


One of my all time favourite track cars - M3 CSL


A couple of Jap Drifters




Sorry they are all a bit samey, as I said only a flying visit for me today.
Hope you all had fun.

Let me know what you think of the pics.

Regards

Tim

Edited by autofocus on Friday 2nd May 14:13

[sniff petrol]

Tim, I remember seeing you down near Cascades - I was also photographing (I was on a white mountain bike and wearing a black PH top)

Some nice shots there

[RetroWheels]

Richard , glad you enjoyed it.
It still amazes me how the Chimaera holds together... 7 years of mostly Oulton track days , with a turnip like me at the wheel ! and it's still going strong !

[JeffC]

myself and a couple of pals were there, followed an evo for a while it was phenominal down the straights! I was in a westy, unfortunatly my engine expired but it waited til 4.55 just as track was closing so I had a good day if nothing else..

video of said engine letting go causing a big off coming out of shell oils

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeTosKBY5_E

[RetroWheels]

Good video ,reminds me how good Track days can be, when you've got the right circuit and good drivers.

Typical of an EasyTrack day.

Fast little buggers ,those bike engined Se7ens , comiserations on having yours blow, but like you say, at least it waited till the end of the day...

[nielsen]

Good video. You passed me a few times when I was on one of my cooling down laps.... in the silver Astra VXR.
Hopefully your car will be back on track soon.

Bo

[sniff petrol]

nielsen said:

Good video. You passed me a few times when I was on one of my cooling down laps.... in the silver Astra VXR.

Every one I was with commented how quick that was - you could hear the ABS cutting under braking.

[BenElliottRacing]

sniff petrol said:

Cool, gotta love those G50's












Does it have a passenger seat?

Yes it does have passenger seat. Fitted it myself the day before, so i could coach my sponsor. Keeping it in to offer passenger rides to anyone who wants them? (trying to make some money to continue racing!)