Silverstone GP - Feb 15th

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Well bloody hell, just bagged open pit lane on the full GP circuit for £225 with Opentrack - what an absolute bargain!

Anyone else coming along - i'm excited already, feels almost like a privilege to actually get to drive the famous circuit in anger in my own car

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Great stuff, I've only ever spectators at Silverstone so lots to learn but can't wait!

As you said, fingers crossed for reasonable weather...

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bumpety bump, anyone else?

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Nice, that was a real bargain i thought, i couldnt sadly do the second one

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This! Having a few teething issues with a recent rack change, it suddenly seems very close!

My first time so need to get some practice in on Forza so I'm not too much of a rolling road block

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Yes power wise bar exhaust/induction it is standard so I'll be intrigued to see how it gets on at a faster circuit like silverstone (it faired remarkedly well at Bedford a few months ago)

It is very light and has tonnes of other upgrades focussed on handling/gear change etc so I shouldn't be too much of a rolling road block all being well....

Time to start praying to the weather gods

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Tacagni said:

That's good I was hoping that there would be a few cars of similar power to mine going round, my mate is taking his st instead of his saxo so I won't see much of him and I'm to chicken to take my road car.

You say that, but I've been to Bedford a number of times recently with a good mate in his ST (circa 300bhp stage 2 or 3 from memory) and yes on the straight he's gone, but over an entire lap I was quicker and that is fast 4 mile track with a long straight

http://youtu.be/hPkTiVnUZ9Y

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Hi Dave,

Have you hired it out? Would be great to see it on track!

How full is the day now, is it set to be a busy one? - Massively looking forward to it

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Does anyone know how the garages work at Silverstone, I assumed it was the new pits setup, so effectively everyone gets a garage as they open front and back?

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Cool thanks gents - cant wait!

I'll have a look into garages

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Altrezia said:

More likely to be old pitlane for a trackday!

Edit: booked in and see you all there

Just been confirmed by Opentrack that it's the new pits :-)

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Yes good to meet you guys! What a track and the weather was fantastic too :-)

Very impressed with the Elise I must say!

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2BarBoost said:

I wasn't timing as such however did have my Harry's lap timer on in my glove box

Is 2m 32s any good first time round the track or not.

It was my first time too at Silverstone too, what car were you in?

Time wise that sounds reasonable but I'm not sure as I wasn't timing/had any way of even checking!

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V800MJH said:

Great day yesterday.

Some really fast cars out there.

I was in this.

This sounded amazing!! I desperately want tb's on mine

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2BarBoost said:

Tommo Two said:

In what car?

Edit: But yes unless you are in something exotic, thats a nice time

Edited by Tommo Two on Tuesday 16th February 08:29

Evo V

Not the quickest laps I did however the only one I've uploaded yet

http://youtu.be/NAk25zWz8LU

Holy crap that looks massively fast! What power is it running?

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V800MJH said:

Chr1sch said:

This sounded amazing!! I desperately want tb's on mine

Cheers mate. What car were you in?

There was a few other Clios there on the day with ITBs too.

I was in the white 306 Gti6

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V800MJH said:

If anyone has any footage could you post the links up in here please.

Cheers

Here is mine - for some reason it cuts off at 17mins - but you'll be sick of my driving by then anyway lol

https://youtu.be/bYSQveHD0y8

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V800MJH said:

Some footage from my car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orc27NF4HUA

That looks and sounds great, quite a calm place to sit from the perspective of the gopro!

Love the fact you've got the flocked dash etc, all in the pipeline for me :-)

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V800MJH said:

Chr1sch said:

That looks and sounds great, quite a calm place to sit from the perspective of the gopro!

Love the fact you've got the flocked dash etc, all in the pipeline for me :-)

Thanks mate.

What do you mean calm place? It's noisy and bumpy as fk in there haha!

Haha! Just sounded like you didnt need to thrash every last rpm out of the car to be as quick as the other Clio's etc. My poor old pug spent the entire day at 7k rpm

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Brilliant pics!!