Least appropriate track day vehicle?
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So, having seen the fine machinery that everyone tracks in the previous thread I was wondering what the least appropriate vehicle you've seen being actively track'd is? There must be instances of people taking to the track in their tow car after an issue with the track slag, surely? There's got to be someone here who tracks an Austin Princess or something too. A small prize to the winner.
A few years back I took my Austin 1300 auto to a trackday at Bruntingthorpe.
Obviously not a quick car with 58bhp, but it actually handles remarkably well and remains neutral until quite high cornering speeds are achieved (given the 155/12"s).
Like many FWDs with slow-ish breakaway, if you're brave you can set the car up to oversteer at turn-in and then balance on the throttle very gracefully. The fact that it's an auto means that left-foot braking is an easy way to set it off on its oversteering way.
I probably wouldn't have attempted this on a circuit day - it's an airfield day type of thing as it looks a bit dramatic from the outside!
No photos on the track I'm afraid, but this is me in the paddock:
Obviously not a quick car with 58bhp, but it actually handles remarkably well and remains neutral until quite high cornering speeds are achieved (given the 155/12"s).
Like many FWDs with slow-ish breakaway, if you're brave you can set the car up to oversteer at turn-in and then balance on the throttle very gracefully. The fact that it's an auto means that left-foot braking is an easy way to set it off on its oversteering way.
I probably wouldn't have attempted this on a circuit day - it's an airfield day type of thing as it looks a bit dramatic from the outside!
No photos on the track I'm afraid, but this is me in the paddock:
robg2 said:
A few years back I took my Austin 1300 auto to a trackday at Bruntingthorpe.
Obviously not a quick car with 58bhp, but it actually handles remarkably well and remains neutral until quite high cornering speeds are achieved (given the 155/12"s).
Like many FWDs with slow-ish breakaway, if you're brave you can set the car up to oversteer at turn-in and then balance on the throttle very gracefully. The fact that it's an auto means that left-foot braking is an easy way to set it off on its oversteering way.
I probably wouldn't have attempted this on a circuit day - it's an airfield day type of thing as it looks a bit dramatic from the outside!
No photos on the track I'm afraid, but this is me in the paddock:
That is brilliant!!! I bet the mirrors got a lot of use on that day.Obviously not a quick car with 58bhp, but it actually handles remarkably well and remains neutral until quite high cornering speeds are achieved (given the 155/12"s).
Like many FWDs with slow-ish breakaway, if you're brave you can set the car up to oversteer at turn-in and then balance on the throttle very gracefully. The fact that it's an auto means that left-foot braking is an easy way to set it off on its oversteering way.
I probably wouldn't have attempted this on a circuit day - it's an airfield day type of thing as it looks a bit dramatic from the outside!
No photos on the track I'm afraid, but this is me in the paddock:
dougc said:
Col666's picture on the Extreme Cornering thread cracks me up...
That is a superb shot! I know some of those turbocharged Volvos have various tweaks though, maybe it's not entirely standard?Can't add much myself, but it does bring a story to mind. A friend of my boss was racing at a Bentley Drivers Club meet a while back and got black flagged for dropping fluid. He was furious when he found out the reason - it was the condensate from the air conditioning on his Turbo R. I have just love the image of this 2.5 ton behemoth not only lapping Silvertone, but doing so with the air conditioning on and Radio 4 blasting out.
My son last year at Collerne airfield in his 1995 1.0 pug 106, completely standard!
I don't know how the car survived the day.
It spent most of the time on 3 wheels and he even passed a few people.
The funniest was the fact that it rolled so much, (not literally), his passenger felt quite ill
HCM.
I don't know how the car survived the day.
It spent most of the time on 3 wheels and he even passed a few people.
The funniest was the fact that it rolled so much, (not literally), his passenger felt quite ill
HCM.
haircutmike said:
My son last year at Collerne airfield in his 1995 1.0 pug 106, completely standard!
Nah, a 106 would be great fun! More lift off oversteer than they'd ever allow in a base spec supermini these days - learning to drive in a (mecahnically identical) Saxo is probably why I find most average FWD cars so bloody inert these days!
Chris71 said:
Can't add much myself, but it does bring a story to mind. A friend of my boss was racing at a Bentley Drivers Club meet a while back and got black flagged for dropping fluid. He was furious when he found out the reason - it was the condensate from the air conditioning on his Turbo R. I have just love the image of this 2.5 ton behemoth not only lapping Silvertone, but doing so with the air conditioning on and Radio 4 blasting out.
When I did the Driver's Training Day at Prescott someone turned up in a Turbo R - huge clouds of tyre smoke at every bend - I believe they don't have an LSD. There are also some excellent vehicles turn up at the BDC Sprint at MIRA - sadly not open to the public because of the venue - not often you get to see a World Land Speed Record holder still in competition! And to answer the original question, someone at the Goldtrack day at Silverstone a couple of weeks ago was going round in some kind of Japanese mini people carrier. And quite quickly, too.
Edited by Zumbruk on Thursday 11th March 17:10
I chuckled when I saw one of the last model Rover 45s - diesel, totally bog standard - at a Goodwood track day I went to last year. I'm sure the driver still had plenty of fun, good on him.
At another track day at Goodwood, Lord March popped in with a mate in his RR Phantom, and after a look around the pits he then took the Roller for a lap (in the middle of a session). It was comedy to see the Roller cruising around Woodcote corner with a line of classic Alfas all sitting politely behind.
At another track day at Goodwood, Lord March popped in with a mate in his RR Phantom, and after a look around the pits he then took the Roller for a lap (in the middle of a session). It was comedy to see the Roller cruising around Woodcote corner with a line of classic Alfas all sitting politely behind.
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