Donnington Park Trackday December 2008
well it was a very early start for me about 5am i wen tot the petrol station to fill up check levels etc
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then just checked pressure in tyres
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well we arrived late (yes theres always 1! well 2 in this case lol) we went in to sign on! we were told to choose a group fast or slow as we we were all going to go intermidiate i figured ah they will all be in the slow group should of checked first :cry: FAIL all the novas were in the fast group aka gold group
but wasnt all bad was just there were absolute beginners in mine and wills group and was a bit of a pain sometimes! but it meant i could watch the novas in the other group coming doen the pit straight, first things first massive respect for the balls out maxcimum attack ollys gives his car was awesome to watch it skating round the pit straight scrabbling for grip,
skidmarks nova was impressive as was oli d's, olly's and nathans the tigra jonlems and gav's beast made me laugh as soon as i saw it when we were unloading wills car opf thr tailer it rolled past with a MASSIVE WOOLWORTHS sticker on it fell about pmsl :D lol
first session was ok was very wet and slippery redgate wass interesting the first time i went into it expecting there to be more grip craners was the best part for me 'old heirpin' was very slippery all day just meant side ways action my the car alweasy pulled its self straight, first sesion did a 3-5 laps and then came in checked car over gear change did feel a bit funny nothing obvious so i thought 'itll be rite' 3 laps in to the second secont my cav internal shifter snapped :cry: so got towed in and i was ready to call it a day!
olly h came over and said well find a welder ididnt fancy my chances of inding a welder on a track day after we asked a few people we spotted an arc weled in the corner of one garage olly ran over and asked the guys if we could use it and the next ting i was running up to the garage with a welder will f's face and my brothers face were both a pciture
where the fcuk did you find a welder? lol
10 mins later linakge is welding up and refitted and i magend to catch the last 3 laps of my session :thumb:
nova pushed in to garage whilst olly and myself run round trying to find a welder
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Quick Donny writeup (Full vids pg5)
Was an awesome day out, cant wait for the next :D
Arrived about half 7, and met up with Nath, Skidmarkz etc.
Got a pit garage, said hello to a few familiar faces, and then went to sign on and for the briefing.
Got signed on into the Gold "fast" group, and then went to sort the car.
The day was split into 30min sessions, which is quite long tbh.
As always i had no car trouble in any of the sessions :cool:, the first 3/4 sessions were slippy as fook, understeering like fook. So much so that i actually kept up with Oli's light weight beast for a few laps as he struggled for grip :D
It seems the driver of a MR2 got slightly annoyed getting overtaken by Clio's and 1600 nova/corsas too,Lmao.
Quite amusing sitting behind Jonlem and Gavs tigra for a few corners too and watching it dance,Lol
Also managed to stay pretty much side by side with Nath's Xe right down the Dunlop straight at about 110mph, which suprised me....
The last two sessions were awesome, nice dry line on the track, and loads more grip, no understeering at all, car went awesomely :cool:
Apart from at the bottom of Craner curves when i carried a bit too much speed in for the amount of grip i had, which stepped the back end out, managed to get it back straight but was already sliding across the grass straight into the gravel trap :roll:
Sat on the tyrewall through the rest of that session waiting for recovery, and then got towed out the gravel. Mud and gravel everywhere, and a few battle scares, but no damage worth bothering about. I thought id won the award for muddiest car of the day, but the tigra then out did me in the final session! lol
Cleared most of the gravel out in the pits, and then went out for the final session with Jonlems mate as passenger, which was a cracker and definently my quickest of the day.
And that was that, filled up with petrol and went home :)
Few pics and vids in a while when i decide how go about uploading a 30min vid.....
All in all,top day out! Used about 30£ of fuel, and i now need 4 new tyres, but thats all part of the fun :)