Silverstone GP Tues 30th March

[drakart]

I know "Ferb" is going, so who else is??? I will be in a white integra and possibly a bright orange r300. The integra is still in the garage having its engine rebuilt, so hoping it will be ready and slightly run in. The caterham will be the insurance policy!

[Ferb]

Just bought my fuel, cheaper here plus I need loads
I'm doing Thunder road on Sunday as well (1 mile drag race)
If anybody is renting a garage could I share some space please? I booked too late so missed out. Not for my car just the crap I'm bringing, thanks Ferb

Edited by Ferb on Thursday 25th March 18:18

[tertius]

Me - yellow Elise S2

[drakart]

tertius said:

Me - yellow Elise S2

i was on a day with you in my integra at bedford when my engine let go, so lets hope it doesnt do it again!!

[tertius]

drakart said:

tertius said:

Me - yellow Elise S2

i was on a day with you in my integra at bedford when my engine let go, so lets hope it doesnt do it again!!

Really? I haven't been to Bedford in the Elise, only in my old 993 and that would have been at least two years ago.

[drakart]

tertius said:

drakart said:

tertius said:

Me - yellow Elise S2

i was on a day with you in my integra at bedford when my engine let go, so lets hope it doesnt do it again!!

Really? I haven't been to Bedford in the Elise, only in my old 993 and that would have been at least two years ago.

Sorry, i have gotten myself confused! oh well, luck forward to meeting you all.

AB

[shim]

a bunch of us there from Openpitlane.co.uk close to garage 2. Should be 3 CSLs, S/C E46 M3, E30 M3, Caterham, Golf, Atom

come say hi

[Wh00sher]

I`ll be there.

Pale blue, MK2 Golf 16V. Says `Nige` in the side windows. pop over and say Hi

[E36GUY]

I'll be there with friends in this:

[XTR2Turbo]

I'm there in my Westfield and my neighbour will be there in his Corvette. If it's as wet as the forecast suggests the Westy will be staying on the trailer and I'll be wafting my £1500 Lexus tow barge around until the brakes give in.

We have a garage and you are welcome to leave things there.

David

Ferb said:

Just bought my fuel, cheaper here plus I need loads
I'm doing Thunder road on Sunday as well (1 mile drag race)
If anybody is renting a garage could I share some space please? I booked too late so missed out. Not for my car just the crap I'm bringing, thanks Ferb

Edited by Ferb on Thursday 25th March 18:18[/footnote]

[footnote]Edited by XTR2Turbo on Sunday 28th March 21:57

[Ferb]

XTR2Turbo said:

I'm there in my Westfield and my neighbour will be there in his Corvette. If it's as wet as the forecast suggests the Westy will be staying on the trailer and I'll be wafting my £1500 Lexus tow barge around until the brakes give in.

We have a garage and you are welcome to leave things there.


David

Ferb said:

Just bought my fuel, cheaper here plus I need loads
I'm doing Thunder road on Sunday as well (1 mile drag race)
If anybody is renting a garage could I share some space please? I booked too late so missed out. Not for my car just the crap I'm bringing, thanks Ferb

Edited by Ferb on Thursday 25th March 18:18[/footnote]

[footnote]Edited by XTR2Turbo on Sunday 28th March 21:57

Thanks Do know what garage your in??

Edited by Ferb on Monday 29th March 18:13

[XTR2Turbo]

Not yet - I guess they are allocated as you arrive..

We should be easy to find. A black corvette pace car and a red Westfield.

David

[Ferb]

XTR2Turbo said:

Not yet - I guess they are allocated as you arrive..

We should be easy to find. A black corvette pace car and a red Westfield.

David

:Cool:
You shouldn't miss me either

[shim]

im in 3A in a CSL so come and say hi

[drakart]

More red flags than a chinese communist march, but a good slippery day.

Sad to see the Corvette hit the wall, but looked purely cosmetic thankfully.

I was still running my engine in, so was fairly cautious, but it didnt blow up (for a change).

Ive got some poor pics, but let me know which you were and send me a pm.

AB

[E36GUY]

Brilliant day. A first properly wet track day for me so a great education and the car was faultless all day. Damn shame about all the red flags in the latter hours though. Very frustrating and we all missed out on an extra go each as a result but hey ho. Some people just have to push to hard don't they. Ferrari 328 had a huge code brown 10 mins from the end, two spins in front of our car and sideways into the gravel trap, lucky not to go over our driver said!

Irritants, little black Ginetta thingy, Red VX220, one of the orange Clios. Use your mirrors!

[Brummmie]

Nickccc said:

Passed by to have a look, cars where going well, though conditions were not too clever.
Brummie, I was in GPR picking up some bits, looked out of the window, saw your car
drive up yo the roundabout, doughnut round it and head back the way you came.
Guess you were lost, trying to get out, made me laugh.

No, was demonstrating to the RAC man that my prop bearings were shot!!

[shim]

very wet, very slippy

[y2blade]

I'm doing a Trackday there on Monday I was a big fan of the previous GP layout and have done 10+ Trackdays on it, so very keen to try the new/bigger version

what did you think of the new layout?

[tertius]

It wasn't really the new layout - we were using the old GP layout, now called "Bridge GP" I think. The only real layout change was at Club, which has been ruined in my opinion, you now need to treat it as (almost) two corners. In addition lots of kerbs have changed, now low profile type, and quite a lot of new tarmac.

I didn't really enjoy it very much: it was ridiculously slippery in places, especially Copse for some reason, the Bridge to Woodcote complex was like ice, and the tight left hander before Luffield (Hollywood is it?) was pooling water on exactly the line, I do wonder if the resurfacing there is not quite right somehow.

Being on R888s in an Elise obviously didn't help, but I was sliding everywhere and had a couple of spins.