PH @ Spa & the Ring

[FrenchTVR]

bad_roo said:

FrenchTVR - this you?

Hi, I went round asking loads of people if they knew anyone who posted on PH as Bad-Roo and had plenty of "are you barking mate?" kind of looks but couldn't find you. Have to admit I couldn't remember which cars you said you would be with.

excellent photos your mate took there, I'll have to mail him and ask for them in full res.

Did you have a good time?

Cheers,

Mick

edited for speeling

>> Edited by FrenchTVR on Sunday 24th July 19:44

[safetystop]

FrenchTVR said:

Excellent day, did about 200 miles around the track, averaged 12.3 mpg, scrubbed in the front tyres and ended up with face ache for grinning so much A big thanks to the Radical team who took me for a five lap tour of how Spa should be driven, an absolutely incredible experience. Thank you to Scott for putting up with my driving during my instruction session, was well worth it and I felt much more confident afterwards, just ask my tyres and brakes Some great company during the day and in the restaurant afterwards, big to safetystop, his lovely wife and friend Julian(?) for being great company in the evening. I hope you all enjoyed the 'ring as much as Spa. Well done to Gold Track for organising a really good, well run day, thank you.

Great day at Spa and right back at ya!
Both car and sanity survived the Nurburgring. What a giggle that place is! It could become addictive. I laughed out loud every time I went round the Karrussel.

PS. "Julian" is in fact Jason.


>> Edited by safetystop on Monday 25th July 09:25

[simonpac]

Sorry, didn't get to run with you guys. I was supposed to be there for both days. The first, Wednesday, being a present to my dad who did most of the driving till he stuffed it at the exit of Eau Rouge. He totally missed the entry, span at the apex on the hill, forgot to lock the wheels up with the brake and decided the barrier was the best place to slow the car down. Not nice being a passenger, especially when I'd been gesticulating a whole lap for him to back off as he was driving like a loon for his experience. Why, why, didn't I send him in to the pits to cool off. Oh well hindsight eh.

Only up side, won a load of dosh at the casino that night which will pay for a few suyspension pieces. Dad managed to take out the front nose, rear body work, side pod, all the right side suspension, a few brake lines, rear wing and uprights on my once lovely black Radical SR4.

Sympathy please!

[ze_shark]

Red 355 which was under a Covercraft cover in one of the pits garages ? Yours or his ?

[bad_roo]

At least Daddy-o didn't contrive to close the circuit for hours on end unlike that F355 guy. To be fair to him, I think the circuit was at fault to spend over four hours making good a section of armco.

[gtdc]

Not that fair on the circuit - the guy took out 5 sheets of armco, and about 20 posts. they had to be gas cut and he'd damaged it so much that a specialist crew had to be brought in to fix it... Mind you, we made up for it the next day with 9 hours of uninterupted running.

The bit that made me seethe in a most unladylike (!!) fashion was when he started arguing with the circuit manager about paying for the damage... something about the design of Spa being dangerous!

I think he would be more suited to a supermarket car park in future.

[bad_roo]

A double thickness padded tyre wall in that position would have done the job in about forty minutes. Get the barriers fixed after the session has finished.

>> Edited by bad_roo on Monday 25th July 20:00

[tail slide]

bad_roo said:

T350 at the Ring. This car was tidily driven at Spa. Nice one.

Thanks roo. That’s my car – with fellow sprint racer Matthew driving it like he stole it, as usual!

Thanks to PH, Goldtrack & Dettaglio for excellent few days. Will post pics soon, if anyone can advise how to paste them in directly (my Fotango links just appear as links, & their site is down at the moment)

Spa was well organised, with lots of interesting machinery driven with flair, speed and a safety margin. Everyone was friendly, we enjoyed chat with French TVR & Safety Stop at Spa. Melindi, you were right the Pistenklause restaurant was worthwhile for the motorsport ambience and exotics in car park.

In Nurburg met the infamous Benno, now armed with a sensible-shoes Monaro that is being ‘improved’. Particular thanks to Guillotine at the ‘ring, who led me on an early flying lap in his bellowing modded Griff, giving me early confidence for some very quick laps later. Suffice to say that no locals on road tyres had it their own way that day…

I’m pleasantly surprised that the T350 is proving so friendly on the limit (or a smidgen over it) which helped it to be super-quick on the writhing sweeps of the ‘ring - surely sub 8-minute potential- and reassuringly stable when briefly over 170mph on the Autobahn. Such fun and legal too!

[bad_roo]

It was Guillotine in the Griff that I was having such fun with on the Nordschleife in the M5. He seemed to be doing a lot of sawing at the wheel mid corner which was entertaining to watch. Heroic stuff.

[davyboy]

Me and my GF were having fun in the clio (C172 CUP) last weekend too. I seem to remember seeing some of the cars being talked about here.

Shame it rained........did anyone find out how 4 bikers and a car came together at Wipperman?

[safetystop]

I saw you guys.
Are you connected in any way to the other, similarly hued, Clio (S 8ORED) ?

[davyboy]

Nope, not connected, but we did end up doing a few laps in convoy on Saturday evening with my GF driving the Clio.

[bad_roo]

Dave,

Hope you weren't in too close a convoy...

[davyboy]

Thankfully not

Dave

[Guillotine]

Bad roo,

that was you in the M5 then. cool

you've bin there before...the ring that is.

I left you for dead thru the stadium bit then after the bidge you came STONKING up behind, so i thought i'd let you thru...GOOD MOVE!

2.4tonnes of beamer on road tyres doing easilly sub 9m possible 8:40? very impressive

should have that whole lap on the camera (thats what i was doing as you came out of the pits...sorry turnstiles)

only managed 10 laps or so this year...
must do more
must do more
must do more

see you next time, when hopefully i wont be blowing oil out of the dry sump catch tank

cheers
andy

[bad_roo]

Andy

Yep, the Griff was blowing a bit of oil. As I was tailing you out of T13 my brother's saying "Back off here, he's laying oil down." I was wondering whether it was going to get worse and when it didn't it was game on. That car looked a whole lot of fun and sounded brilliant from behind. Completely drowned out the V10! The M5 felt pretty poor round the Ring. Wasn't too happy with the body control of the thing.

[Guillotine]

well that was BLOODY quick for a poor handling car!



just shows what can be done with a bit of tallent!

>> Edited by Guillotine on Tuesday 26th July 23:15

[bennno]

tail slide said:

bad_roo said: T350 at the Ring. This car was tidily driven at Spa. Nice one. Thanks roo. That’s my car – with fellow sprint racer Matthew driving it like he stole it, as usual! Thanks to PH, Goldtrack & Dettaglio for excellent few days. Will post pics soon, if anyone can advise how to paste them in directly (my Fotango links just appear as links, & their site is down at the moment) Spa was well organised, with lots of interesting machinery driven with flair, speed and a safety margin. Everyone was friendly, we enjoyed chat with French TVR & Safety Stop at Spa. Melindi, you were right the Pistenklause restaurant was worthwhile for the motorsport ambience and exotics in car park. In Nurburg met the infamous Benno, now armed with a sensible-shoes Monaro that is being ‘improved’. Particular thanks to Guillotine at the ‘ring, who led me on an early flying lap in his bellowing modded Griff, giving me early confidence for some very quick laps later. Suffice to say that no locals on road tyres had it their own way that day… I’m pleasantly surprised that the T350 is proving so friendly on the limit (or a smidgen over it) which helped it to be super-quick on the writhing sweeps of the ‘ring - surely sub 8-minute potential- and reassuringly stable when briefly over 170mph on the Autobahn. Such fun and legal too!

Good to meet you too, you had the best of the weather on the Saturday.

The track was open all day Sunday but many accidents and then it started raining.

With rain assistance I managed to do a 720' spin in the Monaro, but remained on the narrow track throughout, narrowly missing armco on both sides!! Phew, still I got a cheer from the spectators.

Bennno