How stupid I have been.....996tt loeb

[Nobbles]

As the car has epic performance I have always assumed continental blasting, autoroutes and fast A roads. How wrong was I? Last week I was late for a party, the party was up in the hills similar to the lake district, with the particularly winding single track Sebastien Loeb roads with a little single track bridge after almost every corner. So the start of the ascent I tagged onto some locals who were joining the corners together etc, but they were far too slow, they even pulled over to let me pass. There was certain bends that I did enter at serious speeds and then realised that not only the corner was long but also that it tightened, I kept my foot in and my bum clenched and it gripped as tight as my bum cheeks - after this learning curve I think Sebastien would have had a challenge..... It is an Impreza in disguise, the breadths of its abilities amaze me....

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Nobbles said:

As the car has epic performance I have always assumed continental blasting, autoroutes and fast A roads. How wrong was I? Last week I was late for a party, the party was up in the hills similar to the lake district, with the particularly winding single track Sebastien Loeb roads with a little single track bridge after almost every corner. So the start of the ascent I tagged onto some locals who were joining the corners together etc, but they were far too slow, they even pulled over to let me pass. There was certain bends that I did enter at serious speeds and then realised that not only the corner was long but also that it tightened, I kept my foot in and my bum clenched and it gripped as tight as my bum cheeks - after this learning curve I think Sebastien would have had a challenge..... It is an Impreza in disguise, the breadths of its abilities amaze me....

When you push your car and yourself and you get to that point where the car is reacting positively to your every input, Its a great feeling isn't it?

Earlier this year I took my GT3 out into Europe and there was a section at the bottom of a gorge in France that was long and open with a thin top layer of gravel. The camber followed the corners of the road, the sun was burning bright and the roads were sticky and hot. As we upped the pace, the car felt like it was just sitting on top of the gravel and the tyres were only digging into the tarmac below when I accelerated and then the weight and traction advantage would come into play and catapult the car out of the corner and down the next straight!

It was like ice skating.

Amazing cars