Curborough this Friday! £40
Discussion
After a double booking and a date change there is some last minute availability dor a track day I'm going to this Friday (23rd june)
No noise regs
No helmet requirdd
Very friendly atmosphere with a top gear style leader board if you want to join in
I've been to a few now and you get all manner of cars going from GTRs to atoms to hot hatches.
I'll be there in my TVR along with a few others, never have to queue for long as they don't over fill it. If you want more info or want to get added to the mailing list email Dan sprintandtrack@hotmail.co.uk
No noise regs
No helmet requirdd
Very friendly atmosphere with a top gear style leader board if you want to join in
I've been to a few now and you get all manner of cars going from GTRs to atoms to hot hatches.
I'll be there in my TVR along with a few others, never have to queue for long as they don't over fill it. If you want more info or want to get added to the mailing list email Dan sprintandtrack@hotmail.co.uk
Assume you mean 23rd May
Saw some more info on this TVR thread
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Looks like a bargain day out.
Saw some more info on this TVR thread
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Looks like a bargain day out.
Bit of a whirlwind day! 1st time I had driven my car full stop this year so took a bit of getting used to again, around 6/7 TVRs which was great to see along with an ultima new guy, new faces were a blue there were so many! There were a couple of incidents,both nothing serious but one atvthe end of the day was a bit of a downer!
But on the whole fantastic day,and also great to see a Tuscan beat the dominate GTR by 2 seconds! Only beaten by an R500 and I think the race car in a previous meet!
But on the whole fantastic day,and also great to see a Tuscan beat the dominate GTR by 2 seconds! Only beaten by an R500 and I think the race car in a previous meet!
A great day and a different experience from track days!
Interesting to see what cars post what times and a few surprises.
Kudus to the Tuscan driver for such a great lap time and to Rib who was a tad quicker then me in a less powerful car,(obviously less power was to his advantage and cheating in my book!).
Real sorry for QBee who on his probably last run made contact with a bank, ( not one that dishes out money
).
Hopefully it looks worse then it is.
Good to meet others and I could be tempted by more sprints but they would have to be nearer then 150 miles away!
Interesting to see what cars post what times and a few surprises.
Kudus to the Tuscan driver for such a great lap time and to Rib who was a tad quicker then me in a less powerful car,(obviously less power was to his advantage and cheating in my book!).
Real sorry for QBee who on his probably last run made contact with a bank, ( not one that dishes out money
).Hopefully it looks worse then it is.
Good to meet others and I could be tempted by more sprints but they would have to be nearer then 150 miles away!
Right, bit delayed but here's my round up of the day
1st of all, just a quick thanks to Dan and the team for organising it and despite the last minute change of date due to the track organiser, we had a fantastic turn out, including 7 TVR's which for me was fantastic! Along with these though one of the regulars was there in his face bending supercharged Atom, a self built Can Am Ultima which I think stole the show, an R500 caterham which seemed to ignore the laws of physics at times aswell as a great mixture of cars from Fuegos and clios, to EP3's and Imprezzas.
Despite the forecast we had a pretty dry day, the odd spit of rain but nothing major. This ment the track was busy as everyone was wanting to get some times in before the rain might of come! despite this the wait was still never too bad but was probably the busiest I've know it from start to finish!
Within the TVR lot, we had a few new faces, 3 of which were all crazy in their own right. 1st up, Steve in what I believe is a relatively standard Tuscan, and the 1st driver I have met who truly knows how to handle them round the track! Truly driving on the edge and set some times which raised everyone's eyebrows within just a couple of laps. After a quite spectacular spin and hitting a mud mound he slowed down (not by much!) and gradually brought his times tumbling down and by the end of the day he set a fantastic time even beating the dominant GTR (aside from the caterfields etc)
Then there was Peter (Phazed) in his 5.5 Chim which really threw you back into your seat and certainly gave me engine envy! A good base time was set but struggled to beat it untill towards the end, as he said to me, its alot less relaxed than a traditional track day and can be very frustrating at times! Once he started to bring his times back down though the smile started coming back and set a very respectable time for a first day there, and I think could still shave around 2 seconds off his time with abit of fine tweaking.
Lastly was Steves LS3 Tamora, I believe was giving it a bit of a shakedown, and like the ultima struggled with traction at times but looked to be thoroughly enjoying himself with a sound akin to an old WW2 Spitfire!
Also we had Matt in the tuscan with no dash which certainly made gear changes plenty of fun! He set a 1'40.2 In seventh was Richard Cresswell with a 1'41.4 which I'm sure will be improved on as he's very keen on returning soon!
Nigel Pugh smashed the joint record with an incredible 1'21.8, which is a massive 0.9 seconds quicker than the previous time - considering the conditions, we were all surprised with the time! It certainly gives Nige an edge in the light hearted banter war! Kev in the Atom returned to his second home to set a new PB of 1'25.4 which moved him upto third in class, just above Russ Halley. With a set of new front tyres Kev could certainly be challenging the 1'22s! Third in class, and possibly stand out car of the day, was probably Mark Harries' wonderful LS powered Ultima. A tad big for the small confines of Curborough perhaps, Mark had oversteer on tap, and was very exciting to watch all day, he ended the day with a 1'29.0.
With being busy trying to get on track and take pics I didn't get chance to talk to everyone but was a great day ended as the rain started to come down come 5 o'clock and everyone I did manage to speak to had said they would love to come back again and had really good fun whilst not being pressured with other cars on track.
Master Leaderboard
(Turbocharged and supercharged cars are capacity times 1.4)
Lap record - Nigel Pugh - Caterham R500 - 1'21.8
Track/none road legal class
Michael Andrews - Westfield (VX engine) - 1'22.7 (FTD)
David Sibley - Renault Fuego race car - 1'31.1
Dan Smith - Renault Clio 1.2 - 1'35.8
Specialist production
Nigel Pugh - Caterham R500 - 1'21.8
Marcus Hickling - MK Indy (R1) - 1'22.7
Kev Jarman - Ariel Atom 300 - 1'25.4
Russ Halley - Westfield (Ford engine) - 1'25.6
Mark Harries - Ultima Canam - 1'29.0
Michael Ratcliffe - Sylva Striker - 1'38.5
Supercar
Andy Green - Nissan GTR - 1'24.9
Carson Wong - E92 BMW M3S - 1'29.7
British Sports car class
Steve - TVR Tuscan - 1'22.9
Jony Ellis - TVR Chimaera 4.3 - 1'28.0
Peter High - TVR Chimaera 5.5 - 1'28.4
Anthony Bristow - TVR Chimaera 5.0 - 1'29.5
Steve Gullick - LS TVR Tamora - 1'32.0
Matt - TVR Tuscan - TVR Tuscan - 1'40.2
Richard Cresswell - TVR Griffith - 1'41.4
Over two litre class
Gary Meredith - Mitsubishi EVOX - 1'28.8
Mark Wood - BMW 135i - 1'30.3
Shaun Fisher - Nissan 350Z - 1'32.0
Mark Chambers - Toyota MR2 Turbo - 1'32.9
Russ - Nissan 350Z - 1'33.3
Paul Ullah - Subaru Impreza - 1'36.1
Peter Kaiser - E90 BMW 330i - 1'39.1
Daniel Smith - Land Rover Discovery V8 - 2'04
Over two litre class (FWD)
Alex Wallis - Volkswagen MK2 Golf GTI (1.8T VAG) - 1'32.3
Tom Glibbery - R56 Mini Cooper S Mayfair - 1'37.9
John - R53 Mini Cooper S JCW - 1'41.2
Craig Farrow - Skoda Octavia VRS - 1'40.3
1600-2 litre class
Ashley Brown - FN2 Honda Civic Type-R - 1'29.3
Stefan - EP3 Honda Type-R - 1'29.4
Paul Hammant - MK1 Mazda MX5 - 1'30.9
Daniel Morris - Renault Clio 172 Cup - 1'31.2
Matt Harvey - Renault CLio 172 Cup - 1'31.6
Chris Hammant - Renault Clio 200 - 1'33.8
Geoff Heath - Toyota GT86 - 1'34.9
Raymond Chan - Civic EK - 1'35.0
Bede - Renault Clio 197 - 1'37.3
Michael Durnell - Ford Fiesta ST - 1'38.4
William Locock - Subaru BRZ - 1'38.7
Glen Jackson - Toyota MR2 Convertible - 1'39.7
Upto 1600 class
Rich Harman - 106 rallye - 1'33.5
Jake Brown - Fiat Punto 1.4 - 1'46.7
Alternative Fuels class
Michael Andrews - Volkswagen Passat Estate - 1'38.1
anyway enough Jibbering here are some pics, for all the rest please have a look on my page here:
https://www.facebook.com/jonpaulellisgraphics
and if you want to book for next month get in touch with Dan and I shall be there again next month for sure
sprintandtrackday@hotmail.co.uk
[url]https://www.facebook.com/SprintAndTrackday?fref=ts[/img]
Also some images here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_s_gullick/sets...
1st of all, just a quick thanks to Dan and the team for organising it and despite the last minute change of date due to the track organiser, we had a fantastic turn out, including 7 TVR's which for me was fantastic! Along with these though one of the regulars was there in his face bending supercharged Atom, a self built Can Am Ultima which I think stole the show, an R500 caterham which seemed to ignore the laws of physics at times aswell as a great mixture of cars from Fuegos and clios, to EP3's and Imprezzas.
Despite the forecast we had a pretty dry day, the odd spit of rain but nothing major. This ment the track was busy as everyone was wanting to get some times in before the rain might of come! despite this the wait was still never too bad but was probably the busiest I've know it from start to finish!
Within the TVR lot, we had a few new faces, 3 of which were all crazy in their own right. 1st up, Steve in what I believe is a relatively standard Tuscan, and the 1st driver I have met who truly knows how to handle them round the track! Truly driving on the edge and set some times which raised everyone's eyebrows within just a couple of laps. After a quite spectacular spin and hitting a mud mound he slowed down (not by much!) and gradually brought his times tumbling down and by the end of the day he set a fantastic time even beating the dominant GTR (aside from the caterfields etc)
Then there was Peter (Phazed) in his 5.5 Chim which really threw you back into your seat and certainly gave me engine envy! A good base time was set but struggled to beat it untill towards the end, as he said to me, its alot less relaxed than a traditional track day and can be very frustrating at times! Once he started to bring his times back down though the smile started coming back and set a very respectable time for a first day there, and I think could still shave around 2 seconds off his time with abit of fine tweaking.
Lastly was Steves LS3 Tamora, I believe was giving it a bit of a shakedown, and like the ultima struggled with traction at times but looked to be thoroughly enjoying himself with a sound akin to an old WW2 Spitfire!
Also we had Matt in the tuscan with no dash which certainly made gear changes plenty of fun! He set a 1'40.2 In seventh was Richard Cresswell with a 1'41.4 which I'm sure will be improved on as he's very keen on returning soon!
Nigel Pugh smashed the joint record with an incredible 1'21.8, which is a massive 0.9 seconds quicker than the previous time - considering the conditions, we were all surprised with the time! It certainly gives Nige an edge in the light hearted banter war! Kev in the Atom returned to his second home to set a new PB of 1'25.4 which moved him upto third in class, just above Russ Halley. With a set of new front tyres Kev could certainly be challenging the 1'22s! Third in class, and possibly stand out car of the day, was probably Mark Harries' wonderful LS powered Ultima. A tad big for the small confines of Curborough perhaps, Mark had oversteer on tap, and was very exciting to watch all day, he ended the day with a 1'29.0.
With being busy trying to get on track and take pics I didn't get chance to talk to everyone but was a great day ended as the rain started to come down come 5 o'clock and everyone I did manage to speak to had said they would love to come back again and had really good fun whilst not being pressured with other cars on track.
Master Leaderboard
(Turbocharged and supercharged cars are capacity times 1.4)
Lap record - Nigel Pugh - Caterham R500 - 1'21.8
Track/none road legal class
Michael Andrews - Westfield (VX engine) - 1'22.7 (FTD)
David Sibley - Renault Fuego race car - 1'31.1
Dan Smith - Renault Clio 1.2 - 1'35.8
Specialist production
Nigel Pugh - Caterham R500 - 1'21.8
Marcus Hickling - MK Indy (R1) - 1'22.7
Kev Jarman - Ariel Atom 300 - 1'25.4
Russ Halley - Westfield (Ford engine) - 1'25.6
Mark Harries - Ultima Canam - 1'29.0
Michael Ratcliffe - Sylva Striker - 1'38.5
Supercar
Andy Green - Nissan GTR - 1'24.9
Carson Wong - E92 BMW M3S - 1'29.7
British Sports car class
Steve - TVR Tuscan - 1'22.9
Jony Ellis - TVR Chimaera 4.3 - 1'28.0
Peter High - TVR Chimaera 5.5 - 1'28.4
Anthony Bristow - TVR Chimaera 5.0 - 1'29.5
Steve Gullick - LS TVR Tamora - 1'32.0
Matt - TVR Tuscan - TVR Tuscan - 1'40.2
Richard Cresswell - TVR Griffith - 1'41.4
Over two litre class
Gary Meredith - Mitsubishi EVOX - 1'28.8
Mark Wood - BMW 135i - 1'30.3
Shaun Fisher - Nissan 350Z - 1'32.0
Mark Chambers - Toyota MR2 Turbo - 1'32.9
Russ - Nissan 350Z - 1'33.3
Paul Ullah - Subaru Impreza - 1'36.1
Peter Kaiser - E90 BMW 330i - 1'39.1
Daniel Smith - Land Rover Discovery V8 - 2'04
Over two litre class (FWD)
Alex Wallis - Volkswagen MK2 Golf GTI (1.8T VAG) - 1'32.3
Tom Glibbery - R56 Mini Cooper S Mayfair - 1'37.9
John - R53 Mini Cooper S JCW - 1'41.2
Craig Farrow - Skoda Octavia VRS - 1'40.3
1600-2 litre class
Ashley Brown - FN2 Honda Civic Type-R - 1'29.3
Stefan - EP3 Honda Type-R - 1'29.4
Paul Hammant - MK1 Mazda MX5 - 1'30.9
Daniel Morris - Renault Clio 172 Cup - 1'31.2
Matt Harvey - Renault CLio 172 Cup - 1'31.6
Chris Hammant - Renault Clio 200 - 1'33.8
Geoff Heath - Toyota GT86 - 1'34.9
Raymond Chan - Civic EK - 1'35.0
Bede - Renault Clio 197 - 1'37.3
Michael Durnell - Ford Fiesta ST - 1'38.4
William Locock - Subaru BRZ - 1'38.7
Glen Jackson - Toyota MR2 Convertible - 1'39.7
Upto 1600 class
Rich Harman - 106 rallye - 1'33.5
Jake Brown - Fiat Punto 1.4 - 1'46.7
Alternative Fuels class
Michael Andrews - Volkswagen Passat Estate - 1'38.1
anyway enough Jibbering here are some pics, for all the rest please have a look on my page here:
https://www.facebook.com/jonpaulellisgraphics
and if you want to book for next month get in touch with Dan and I shall be there again next month for sure
sprintandtrackday@hotmail.co.uk
[url]https://www.facebook.com/SprintAndTrackday?fref=ts[/img]
Also some images here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_s_gullick/sets...
Edited by Rib on Monday 26th May 21:56
quick video from the day aswell to give you an idea of the lap you do, believe me its harder than it looks!
http://youtu.be/wibI0vy5WtY
http://youtu.be/wibI0vy5WtY
Like Jony said, if anyone's got any questions please just PM me
The day's all about having fun with a little bit of competition thrown in! Certainly different from the traditional day and is meant to be as laid back as possible.
- Dan
PS - I notice the Caterham part is from my report Jony
The day's all about having fun with a little bit of competition thrown in! Certainly different from the traditional day and is meant to be as laid back as possible.
- Dan
PS - I notice the Caterham part is from my report Jony
Rib said:
quick video from the day aswell to give you an idea of the lap you do, believe me its harder than it looks!
http://youtu.be/wibI0vy5WtY
Now I see where I was going wrong!http://youtu.be/wibI0vy5WtY
You had no wheelspin or tail sliding at all, very smooth!
I was very late braking and as the car attitude was upset before the corner at the end of the straight, my corner speed was lower, etc, etc.
Sitting in the traffic on the way back I thought that I wouldn't bother travelling that distance again................I now need another shot
I thought your car was a 4.0 but am pleased to see it is a 4.3, made me feel a little better.
Max praise for the orange Tuscan driver, what a fantastic time.
It would be good to see the usual suspects up there and see what they can really do
let us know when the next meet is please.
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