Brands Hatch - Mon 10th March

[911p]

Will anyone be along to this?

[git-r]

I wish I was Ben but sadly can't make it

A friend of mine will be there in a Red r32 GTR so please say hello to him from me - his names Richard

Very special car, imported a few months ago and has just thorough rebuild and so many nice bits.. The owner sold his r35 and bought the 32.. Good lad
- he's since bought another 35 too lol!

Have fun and be sure to get some video

Cheers,
Sam

[CitigoGTR]

git-r said:

A friend of mine will be there in a Red r32 GTR so please say hello to him from me - his names Richard

I'm in garage 8 according to the list that was sent out.

I'm driving this:



But as it's the first time I've ever had the R32 on track (and the engine was built a few weeks back...) I won't be going bananas.

[911p]

That's a shame Sam, although I'm sure we'll see you again at Brands later this year!

Looks great Richard. Speaking of bananas, we'll be driving one (yellow 911) , but won't be going hell for leather either! Not sure what garage we'll be in, we haven't reserved one but will turn up early and try and nab one.

[git-r]

You sure will Ben
Have fun tomorrow chaps, keeping fingers crossed the weather stays as it is..
Look forward to the vids!

[langdale]

I'm in white exige S obviously the roof will be off

[911p]

Cool, see you both there tomorrow

[spyderman8]

CitigoGTR said:

I'm driving this:

That looks absolutely superb. Is the red really as deep as that?

[Stuart70]

spyderman8 said:

That looks absolutely superb. Is the red really as deep as that?

It is, lovely.

[Stuart70]

My first track day in the orange r300 Caterham, previously I did a couple in an mx5.

I took it pretty easy together the hang of it all.

The weather this morning was stunning, a brilliant day.

Edited by Stuart70 on Tuesday 11th March 00:32

[langdale]

Agreed was a great day. The skyline was awesome. At one stage it backfired right infront of me and I ate the fumes of whatever fuel additive it was running then when it locked up I ate some tyre smoke too! The joys of an exige with the roof off.
Also great to meet ben and paul in the yellow gt3 and tks in advance for the footage ben is going to upload at some stage. Paul caught a huge tank slapper at paddock so look out for that footage.
Cheers all

[911p]

Absolutely awesome track day

Annoyingly, all of the in-car footage has come out ridiculously over exposed - the camera has never done this before so no idea what caused this!

Here's the tank slapper anyway, shame you can't really see out of the windscreen! Preceding this clip we'd been behind this Subaru for many laps who literally refused to let anybody pass. Frustratingly, the GT3 was only a little bit quicker on the straights which wasn't enough to get past him each time.

http://youtu.be/6eCIMo-GHLY

[langdale]

911p said:

Absolutely awesome track day

Annoyingly, all of the in-car footage has come out ridiculously over exposed - the camera has never done this before so no idea what caused this!

Here's the tank slapper anyway, shame you can't really see out of the windscreen! Preceding this clip we'd been behind this Subaru for many laps who literally refused to let anybody pass. Frustratingly, the GT3 was only a little bit quicker on the straights which wasn't enough to get past him each time.

http://youtu.be/6eCIMo-GHLY

AH shame ben im gutted the tank slapper looked awesome though nice clip

[911p]

I'll still try and get the footage of yours up though! But as you can see it's not very clear

[911p]

Still not sure what was wrong with the car, going to get it booked in for a checkover. We noticed as we were packing up that the ride height of the front left corner was much lower than the others - might be a collapsed spring/damper or something, contributing to the floaty and unstable feeling the car was giving us throughout the day.

[CitigoGTR]

langdale said:

Agreed was a great day. The skyline was awesome. At one stage it backfired right infront of me and I ate the fumes of whatever fuel additive it was running then when it locked up I ate some tyre smoke too! The joys of an exige with the roof off.

Sorry about that, I'm still getting used to it and that was one of only three times during the day I bumped into the rev limiter. Which seems to make it puff.
It's just running on V power.
Worked on my braking so less tyre smoke later on too...
Doesn't half shift though.

It was a great day.
Fantastic weather and a nice mix of cars.
I've already booked in for the 7th April.

[langdale]

911p said:

I'll still try and get the footage of yours up though! But as you can see it's not very clear

Ok ben great tks tfor that be interesting to see what I can make of it.

Maybe get a local outfit to check geo over again just to be on the safe side

[langdale]

CitigoGTR said:

Sorry about that, I'm still getting used to it and that was one of only three times during the day I bumped into the rev limiter. Which seems to make it puff.
It's just running on V power.
Worked on my braking so less tyre smoke later on too...
Doesn't half shift though.

It was a great day.
Fantastic weather and a nice mix of cars.
I've already booked in for the 7th April.

It certainly was rapid. The pull out the corners left my lotus for dust. Great looking car too

[mdk1]

Sounds like a fun day, glad the GTR went ok Richard.

[git-r]

Like the vid Ben - it did look a bit floaty... Might be fun leaving it like that lol!

Great to hear the GTR went well

Keep us posted for the next one