Castle Combe - MSE - 31st July

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Booked this last night, anyone else going?

Have never driven Castle Combe before and this will be my first track day in the car not on an airfield. Looking forward to it.

Will be in my stylus...



Cheers,

Mark

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I' haven't read anything about a drive by test and doesn't say anything here...

http://www.motorsport-events.co.uk/castle-combe.ph...

If you're concerned give them a call. they're very helpful.

Mark

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OliilO said:

Looks like it's going to be sunny tomorrow...

Very relieved about that

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Had a great day yesterday and really nice to meet everyone.

Bit of a self-indulgent video but what the hell...

https://youtu.be/M0-zm8-5Pu8

Cheers,

Mark

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ptj said:

I enjoyed your video Mark, thanks for posting.
Thought that you might like a photo I took on the day – no I wasn’t taking part only snapping away.

That's very cool, thanks. Where was that taken?

Cheers,

Mark

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ptj said:

Hi Mark
Castle Combe....heheh

It is on the exit from Quarry Corner.
I have a few more which should be downloaded to my Flickr account by tomorrow night or Tuesday – www.flickr.com/photos/pauljudge
It was good to see how well your car was going. What engine is in it please?
Paul

Cool, can't wait to see the other pictures.

It has a rx7 turbo engine in it running roughly 400bhp.

Turns out the bolts holding the turbo on were working their way loose, gas was escaping and melting the gasket... I thought it was getting louder and slower during the day

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ptj said:

RX7 Turbo – No wonder it goes so well. It also sounds great.

It's good fun to drive. Having said that it was a bit hairy before I softened off the shocks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUYdO_bg-7s

Cheers,

Mark

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MPoxon said:

Doh, I clearly need copy and past lessons! Correct link

https://youtu.be/wx2kxjXPAps

Sounds really nice. Reminds me of my old 4.6l v8 westfield. You had a lot more respect for avon rise than I did... had no laptime software but glanced at the speedo and saw 135 before braking on a couple of occasions

How have you got the lap timer set up with the camera? I can see you're using Harry's laptimer but do you use the phone camera or something else? Would love to get a setup like that working.

Cheers,

Mark

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MPoxon said:

Thanks Mark, yes probably very similar to your 4.6 westy. I am sure I could have gone though the Avon rise much faster but the man in the briefing kept popping into my head where he said it is the most crashed corner of any UK track.

Very wise, I really pushed my luck going into that corner on a couple of occasions.

MPoxon said:

Yes you are correct, Harry's lap timer. I am using the app running on my iPhone to capture the telemetry and the internal cam, then I have a GoPro mounted on top of the car which is the main picture. You can control the GoPro from Harrys lap timer via wifi and import into the app and render the two videos together with the telemetry overlaid. I have not had any luck at this so what I do is set the GoPro and app off manually before I leave the pits and sync them up manually on my Mac when I get home. It is a bit of a ball ache but the result is good.

I am hoping GoPro are going to release a GPS bacpac or a new camera with GPS built in as I see they have recently acquired Dashware. That would make the whole process much easier.

That looks very cool. I only have a gopro hero 2 at the moment which doesn't have wifi although I could sync them up manually as you're doing. When you do that what software do you use to merge the two feeds and what does harrys software produce that allows you to overlay it on the gopro video?

Sorry, hope you don't mind the questions.

Thanks,

Mark

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That's fantastic, thank you very much indeed. I'll get a copy of the app and give that a go.

All the best,

Mark