TVR Car Club Cadwell Trackday 24th May
Discussion
I don't want to jinx it so I'm going to say this quietly but the weather looks almost perfect for Friday. This will be my third attempt to get to grips with Cadwell. I have found it it a very difficult track to master ( master is probably not the word but you know what I mean) useally you can get to grips with a new track by the afternoon sessions but not Cadwell. Hopefully third time lucky.
trev4 said:
I don't want to jinx it so I'm going to say this quietly but the weather looks almost perfect for Friday. This will be my third attempt to get to grips with Cadwell. I have found it it a very difficult track to master ( master is probably not the word but you know what I mean) useally you can get to grips with a new track by the afternoon sessions but not Cadwell. Hopefully third time lucky.
That's just what a novice wants to read! 
TR4man said:
trev4 said:
I don't want to jinx it so I'm going to say this quietly but the weather looks almost perfect for Friday. This will be my third attempt to get to grips with Cadwell. I have found it it a very difficult track to master ( master is probably not the word but you know what I mean) useally you can get to grips with a new track by the afternoon sessions but not Cadwell. Hopefully third time lucky.
That's just what a novice wants to read! 
trev4 said:
mk1fan said:
Don't worry. A few years back they doubled the run off after the essess. 
It's the straight at the top of the course with the slight dip that I couldn't get right I always braked far to early. Still better than braking far to late. 2. It gets easier Trev.....the track actually flows really well. On my first visit, two yoofs in a Fiesta and I got chatting, after they overtook me. I asked them about the bend at the end of the bottom straight (Coppice) . They said just keep your foot in. I had been taking it at about 75-80. By the end of the session I was taking it at over 100. A rare occasion when one learns something from the cap backwards brigade.
What you really need to do is walk the track which unless you get there very early is rather unlikely but that’s how you get to know a track, it’s a bit easier to memorise at 3mph.
If every great racer of his day did it everytime they visit a track even after years of racing, there must be traction in it.
I’ve spent 20 mins looking at one corner with a mate, he’s not much cop though
Head down and looking at the track is one thing, having an in depth understanding of everything around you requires peripheral vision that logs trees, colours, walls, bits of tarmac changes, bumps, where a run off ends, and the obvious one which is marker boards etc etc. It’s very difficult to log any of that if your already upto speed.
Sighting laps are the only chance you have,,, that’s why it’s called a sighting lap. Slow as possible, look up and take everything in and process it into memory, you’ll feel much more at home from the moment you go out there as learning the track lines comes once your upto speed, It’s the peripheral your trying to memorise which is more important than most other details as at speed that stuff is a blur. It’s all about your internal compass.
I’ve walked tracks with drivers and instructors who regularly take 10 mins at every corner just looking through it, discussing deeper in or early in or whatever, one guy stands just where you’d turn in the other guy walking the line clipping the apex then walking to the exit, track days often have small cones placed at these 3 points, use those cones as you don't have the luxury of this time walking the track and they are great at helping you place the car.
Great fun all of it which is the main thing.
Enjoy boys.
This thread will become useless without pics
If every great racer of his day did it everytime they visit a track even after years of racing, there must be traction in it.
I’ve spent 20 mins looking at one corner with a mate, he’s not much cop though
Head down and looking at the track is one thing, having an in depth understanding of everything around you requires peripheral vision that logs trees, colours, walls, bits of tarmac changes, bumps, where a run off ends, and the obvious one which is marker boards etc etc. It’s very difficult to log any of that if your already upto speed.
Sighting laps are the only chance you have,,, that’s why it’s called a sighting lap. Slow as possible, look up and take everything in and process it into memory, you’ll feel much more at home from the moment you go out there as learning the track lines comes once your upto speed, It’s the peripheral your trying to memorise which is more important than most other details as at speed that stuff is a blur. It’s all about your internal compass.
I’ve walked tracks with drivers and instructors who regularly take 10 mins at every corner just looking through it, discussing deeper in or early in or whatever, one guy stands just where you’d turn in the other guy walking the line clipping the apex then walking to the exit, track days often have small cones placed at these 3 points, use those cones as you don't have the luxury of this time walking the track and they are great at helping you place the car.
Great fun all of it which is the main thing.
Enjoy boys.
This thread will become useless without pics
Edited by Classic Chim on Thursday 23 May 09:06
Edited by Classic Chim on Thursday 23 May 09:24
So if you are in Louth tonight, a few TVR drivers are meeting up at the Wheatsheaf pub opposite St James church at about 1900hrs; and then going for an italian at Via Italia about 2015hrs. TVR Owners/trackdayers are welcome to join us.
When you get to the track, go to the Scrutineering bay and get your car noise tested, then park in the pits and come into the café to Sign On.
Drivers briefing will start at 0830hrs tomorrow, not 0840hrs as stated in the joining instructions. (But there will be a later briefing for late arrivals.)
When you get to the track, go to the Scrutineering bay and get your car noise tested, then park in the pits and come into the café to Sign On.
Drivers briefing will start at 0830hrs tomorrow, not 0840hrs as stated in the joining instructions. (But there will be a later briefing for late arrivals.)
TVRMs said:
James who will I need to find as a late arrived ??
Go to the cafe, next to the track.If nobody official there, go outside again and look down to the collecting area.
There is an office there on the left - you will always find someone there who will know.
See you tomorrow - I'm in the odd coloured Chimaera.
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