Fab day - Donington 8 Oct - Bookatrack

[tertius]

Just wanted to say what a great day it was today at Donington Park.

Great weather laid on by Jonny, not too many cars, oodles of track time, much of it with a clear empty circuit stretching ahead of you, (pretty) good track etiquette, and the icing on the cake: the GP circuit in the morning and the National in the afternoon.

I'd never done the GP circuit and now I know I don't need to do it agan ...

Oh, and special thanks to DiscoColin for bravely letting me drive his GT3.

[:J:]

Did anybody get any pics of the N24 ?

Ta.

[Mark Benson]

I had a good day too, I only got the Exige (the red one) a month ago, and that was it's first time on track.

And the first track day a Lotus of mine hasn't broken (despite finding the gravel when I decided to see if it could take the Craners without lifting - it can't, I need to do some work on the geo. I think or maybe my driving.....)

There was a good mix of cars on track, and some pretty exotic stuff making an appearance - how quickly did that Juno appear in the mirrors???

[chip*]

Almost a perfect day! Thanks to BAT too for organisation.

Mark Benson said:

I had a good day too, I only got the Exige (the red one) a month ago, and that was it's first time on track.

Hi Mark, you drove very well. I was the the blue exige that was behind you for a few laps.

Rgds
Tom

[AndrewD]

Mark Benson said:

There was a good mix of cars on track, and some pretty exotic stuff making an appearance - how quickly did that Juno appear in the mirrors???

Hi Mark, that was me, trying the car for the first time since bought it. it was awesome, much quicker than my old SR3. Can't wait to race it next year! Glad you enjoyed the day

[tertius]

AndrewD said:

Mark Benson said:

There was a good mix of cars on track, and some pretty exotic stuff making an appearance - how quickly did that Juno appear in the mirrors???

Hi Mark, that was me, trying the car for the first time since bought it. it was awesome, much quicker than my old SR3. Can't wait to race it next year! Glad you enjoyed the day

It was astonishingly fast.

I did feel sorry for you a couple of times - pretty sure I baulked you once or twice while I was dealing with slower cars and you were flying up behind us.

[AndrewD]

No problem, it was a track day and we all paid the same to be there so I'm happy to wait for a bit from time to time. Standard of driving seemed very good to me, loads of track time, even got a few clear runs down Craners and beyond, perfect!!

[marcusjames]

I can only imagine how quick that Juno would go with a decent driver behind the wheel :-)

[DiscoColin]

tertius said:

....Oh, and special thanks to DiscoColin for bravely letting me drive his GT3.

No problems mate - your hands are still probably a fair bit safer than mine, but by next year I'll get the geo done and some stickier tyres than PS2s on it, so the handling ought to be a bit more like you are used to then.

If Carlsberg did trackdays... Well done to the BaT guys

I would like to add a thankyou to everyone there as the driving standards and etiquette were the best I have yet come across on a track day and sorry if I held anyone up too much at any point, but I am still learning...

[AndrewD]

marcusjames said:

I can only imagine how quick that Juno would go with a decent driver behind the wheel :-)

Perhaps it was the "passenger ballast" that was slowing me down. Look, it took the whole team to squeeze him in: