fastest track day cars

[Lonman]

For fear of sounding argumentative, a well driven Caterham (high end) will see of most cars on a track day apart from a GT3, GT2, Ultima, etc.....

They are great track cars, but can you drive them everyday.......no. My GT2 blew everyone away at Folembray, bar none. I've had TVR's, Ferrari's, et al...but once you've tried a Porsche, you'll never go back!!

[AndrewD]

Rob

Loved your car and it was well driven but let's get you to somewhere twisty where I think your 465bhp will be less of an advantage and you 1300+ kg will be a positive disadvantage.

I'd love to be proved wrong though as I am well impressed by the GT2. You coming to Anglesey in late Oct?

Andrew

[AndrewD]

PS. Radical still has my vote as you are now into pretty serious race car territory

[james]

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For fear of sounding argumentative, a well driven Caterham (high end) will see of most cars on a track day apart from a GT3, GT2, Ultima, etc.....

They are great track cars, but can you drive them everyday.......no. My GT2 blew everyone away at Folembray, bar none. I've had TVR's, Ferrari's, et al...but once you've tried a Porsche, you'll never go back!!

Odd. I don't remember you blowing me away at Folembray. In fact, I seem to remember passing you the one time I saw you on the track.



James

[FourWheelDrift]

Any hire car

[MikeE]

quote:

quote:
For fear of sounding argumentative, a well driven Caterham (high end) will see of most cars on a track day apart from a GT3, GT2, Ultima, etc.....

They are great track cars, but can you drive them everyday.......no. My GT2 blew everyone away at Folembray, bar none. I've had TVR's, Ferrari's, et al...but once you've tried a Porsche, you'll never go back!!

Odd. I don't remember you blowing me away at Folembray. In fact, I seem to remember passing you the one time I saw you on the track.



James

I'm confused james, that's not the way it appeared to everyone else on the pit wall

[AndrewD]

I think the Porker was on the in-lap

[ultimaandy]

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Odd. I don't remember you blowing me away at Folembray. In fact, I seem to remember passing you the one time I saw you on the track.



James

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I'm confused james, that's not the way it appeared to everyone else on the pit wall

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I wasn't there but I think i've seen the in car video from JAMES's car that showed a porsche being caught and overtaken.

Could this be proof

[james]

The in car video was of me following Beaver in his GT3. I was deliberately following him to get some video.

James

[MikeE]

Do you mean you'd bribed Beaver to drive slowly so you could get a video of you overtaking a Porker?

[V8-woose]

Blimey James,

i knew your Ultima was Quick, I just thought the driver was slow ! I never saw Wilma go above 30 !

[james]

Actually, I was driving slower than normal, to avoid overtaking him. I'd already gone past him and pulled away earlier in the session. Then he came back past me when I was on my cooling down lap. I decided to take the opportunity to get some in car footage.
His car and mine were prety well matched on accelleration, but I think you can see from the video that I could brake a lot later than him. Something to do with less weight, better brakes, and grippier tyres.

Wilma was a bit dog slow. However, Betty was another matter. Once Steve and I got her bolted together properly....

James

[V8-woose]

Yeah right James,

I thought it went like a wet sponge !!! only kidding mate !

[Smifffy]

Ah yes James,

That'll be when you spun following the GT3 with me in the car.

Well, to be fair, you were on your in-lap and got passed by the GT3 who you then decided needed teaching a lesson.

[gtir]

I dont know, you guys tsk.

I do remember wondering if we were going to actually stop at the end of the straight in the GT2, what with sideways satan obviously thinking about futures and share options rather that the immediate 1.2secs!

I lived to tell the tale though.

[JMCerb]

Any well-driven single seater above FF1600 will show all these cars a clean pair of heels easily...

[MikeE]

Gtir,

Your car has now become even more exclusive, I was at a trackday at Brands yesterday where a Gtir similar to yours got rolled in a gravel trap

Thankfully the guy seemed to come out of it unscathe....

Mike.

[gtir]

Oh dear!
I thought brands was a driver friendly track?

I was at Donnington last thursday and a BMW M3 (late 90's left hand drive jobby) somehow managed to spin the car and slide into the wall (which had no tyres on as it hardly ever gets hit), while smashing up every other side apart from the drivers side.

Talking of smashing up R's;
A friend of a friend bought a GTIR last week, but some cowboy company who delivered it "dropped" it off the transporter at his house! Not only that it landed on his bosses Jag! Both cars written off.

[jeremyc]

gtir said:I was at Donnington last thursday and a BMW M3 (late 90's left hand drive jobby) somehow managed to spin the car and slide into the wall (which had no tyres on as it hardly ever gets hit), while smashing up every other side apart from the drivers side.

I'm willing to bet that's the pit wall that "hardly ever gets hit" but, errrr, is notorious for people spinning out of Goddards and hitting it.

[gtir]

I think you mean the paddock wall, no its not.

Carry on round after the paddocks, right,keep right again down a incline, slight left than a sharp right. Just their, before the bridge on the right hand side.

You will see two round tyre marks on the wall!

The circuit guy said he coulnt work out how he did it, so it must be unusual. Unless you know better of course.