View Full Version : Castle Combe Forge Summer Action day 2011
scott.parker
11-09-11, 01:58 PM
So as the nova's been playing up i decided to take the Astra and go noes with my Camera, hardly ever take pics at events any more, so Ive made up for it..lol
Got there a bit later then i wanted, drove through rain on my way down so thought oh no..
But it got better later in the day after a few showers.
Nice to see an catch up with Dar an Chris, and to see the usual lot again.
I'll upload my pics as i took them in order, and a few vids.
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Chomp chomp..
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TBC
lollollollollollollollollollollollollollollol
please tell me that wasnt the png stand???
Nope - we didn't have a stand.
scott.parker
11-09-11, 02:32 PM
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 02:39 PM
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Nope - we didn't have a stand.
were is all the novas lol
scott.parker
11-09-11, 02:45 PM
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 02:51 PM
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Chips blown gearbox
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For all the Essex lads..
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 02:58 PM
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Granddad Essex on Roids..
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 03:02 PM
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 03:12 PM
Some of the drifters..
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Other ransom stuff.. inc the race2recovery guys
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scott.parker
11-09-11, 03:18 PM
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Some nice pics there Scott
scott.parker
11-09-11, 03:24 PM
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Benji's GSi
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Scott you didn't see me on track for my 3 and a bit laps then?
Shocked at the lack of Nova's there.
Pistol Pete
11-09-11, 03:44 PM
Nice pics Scott.
Some good cars on show.
How come no PNG stand then?
pikey1986
11-09-11, 03:57 PM
probably due to lack of interest/low ticket sales :(
gutted i could'nt make it :(
were is all the novas lol
At home? lol
As said, we've not had a stand at a Combe event for a while due to lack of interest - the booking thread for this one has been up since July. For those few regulars who attend, we normally jump on the stand with Cento Rebels (thanks to Sandy).
scott.parker
11-09-11, 04:24 PM
Scott you didn't see me on track for my 3 and a bit laps then?
Shocked at the lack of Nova's there.
No mate, i saw you when i came in on mig, but when i walked round taking pics 2.30-3.00pm i guessed you had gone, or were you on track then? lol
No PNG stand probably due to the lack of participants etc..
My recovery truck turned up at 2pm to take me home :(
I was out when you saw he queuing up..lol
I saw some dodgy looking bloke in a blue Nova queueing up lol
Had just come back from our little outing. I think Donna & Matt were still watching stuff then so they may have some pics of you on track
scott.parker
11-09-11, 04:35 PM
Video's can be found here, one last one to put on, that one will have the fiesta going off and the BMW getting his black flag for trying to drift...
http://www.youtube.com/user/scotty3080?feature=mhsn
scott.parker
11-09-11, 04:37 PM
My recovery truck turned up at 2pm to take me home :(
I was out when you saw he queuing up..lol
Durrrrrr.. i didn't even twig lol
What broke?
scott.parker
11-09-11, 04:50 PM
Fiesta BMW vid is up now.
Normally go to this but I had to work :( :(
Durrrrrr.. i didn't even twig lol
What broke?
Inner cv, big time.
I was very unimpressed with everything this time around.
The only marshals where in Quarry, non others to be seen.
It was full of c**t doing what they wanted on track, now there are always a few that wanna over take where you arn't ment too. But i was over taken in/get on every corner. So i couldn't get a good line at all.
I was over taken/cut up in both circans (sp?) on all 3 of my laps.
People where out there doing what they wanted. And no one seemed to care at all.
You'll see in my vid some of the driving that was going on... I know i'll get slagged off cause after being cut up my mate sticks his fingers up at one guy.
scott.parker
11-09-11, 07:01 PM
Oh nasty on the CV mate, I'll keep a look on your wip for that, no i agree, on the spring one i got well pissed off with the driving of some out there.
Vids uploading i'll add it here, just watched it again. Gets me annoyed now.
Jack/Lee (are you looking at me?)
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I have the full hooj res copys if you want them..
No Benn, your right, the Marshalling wasn't upto scratch this time and people were overtaking in the corners all the time....Pisses you off no end, but loosing it like I did all those years back is just as bad. People seem to forget that it's not a full on Track day where you can overtake everywhere. It's a 'spirited driving' day where your supposed to have the confidence that when your turning in for a corner you can take the best line and not worry too much about someone jumping you. Those should pay to go on a proper full on trackday.
Very very true Mark, but these people wont do full days. The guy in the blue m3 bmw with white boot and bonnet was a total c**t. Which he seemed very happy about.
It seems if Combe is teamed up with some one it all goes off and its full of dicks out there. (last years ajec racing free for all)
Noticed a lot of overtaking in corners.
The silver BMW estate was hilarious, trying to drift it on each corner and getting black flagged twice lol
Quite glad I didn't take the Nova out, think I'd have shat myself. More so than I did from the passenger seat lol
I got over taken in the bobies (first one) so badly i swerve him.. then again at i came in to towel corner.. Both had no marshals at them...
The silver BMW estate was hilarious, trying to drift it on each corner and getting black flagged twice lol
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The two big action days have got worse for the standard of driving every year. Thats why I was so surprised there was no interest in Total Vauxhall live again this year, as the track time was excellent, there was barely ten cars out at a time!
Very pleased we got to take the V6 round though. it properly surprised me, I mean It wont break any records, far from it, but it handled 200% better than I was expecting. For a start I was expecting loads and loads of understeer, but it held on very well and I even managed to coax a bit of oversteer from it once or twice coming out of the esses and bobbies :)
Brakes got completely cooked though, i took it up to the shop today and they are fubar lol. Need some new pads!
There goes my plans to take those brakes off and use them on the cav then! lol
I have a pic of the Bmw trying to go side ways...
Oh here's my car in vid. Some one will moan over "track etiquette" i bet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJdfV-pAiQ8
scott.parker
12-09-11, 08:40 AM
Well valid to be pissed off mate, that last lot of cunts under passing was well uncalled for, if you were less aware of them there could of been a nasty accident with all yours cars possibly wrote of, and that would of been due to a few idiots who thought they were in a "race"..
It's just like the **** when i went in April in the black nova, i almost got my bumper swiped off twice by him, and he was bully/pushing other cars etc..
To be honest if i had been out on that session and had that happen i think i would of laid a complaint against the drivers, and that the marshaling was utterly crap, why not forward them this video to show them?
Scott
i wrote a letter to them to complain last year about being sold track time for 4.30 and 4.45, and the nob marshall told me to go away as they were running late, he got so irate because we were asking questions with me and six pot nova it almost turned into a riot, when we went back at 4.45 for our late session we were told it had finished and were not allowed on track! never got a reply from them. ****ers
scott.parker
12-09-11, 09:23 AM
What, so because they were running late you both missed track time you had paid for?? Thats ridiculous.
Same place i destroyed a CV a few years back!
What, so because they were running late you both missed track time you had paid for?? Thats ridiculous.
we got our money back after a row, but it was the **** marshall was the problem not letting us out when there was only a handful out in the last few runs when we was queing for an hour! then we got to the front, and said, `sorry , thats the lot today`
scott.parker
12-09-11, 10:32 AM
we got our money back after a row, but it was the **** marshall was the problem not letting us out when there was only a handful out in the last few runs when we was queing for an hour! then we got to the front, and said, `sorry , thats the lot today`
Thats a bloody joke mate, i would of kicked off to! good job they refunded you though.
Well valid to be pissed off mate, that last lot of cunts under passing was well uncalled for, if you were less aware of them there could of been a nasty accident with all yours cars possibly wrote of, and that would of been due to a few idiots who thought they were in a "race"..
It's just like the **** when i went in April in the black nova, i almost got my bumper swiped off twice by him, and he was bully/pushing other cars etc..
To be honest if i had been out on that session and had that happen i think i would of laid a complaint against the drivers, and that the marshaling was utterly crap, why not forward them this video to show them?
Scott
Glad it's not just me that thinks there was alot of bad driving. I'm email Combe with the link to the vid so they can see.. The Bmw and golf i had to swerve out of the way for, or they would of hit me.
Same place i destroyed a CV a few years back!
Yay not just me then..lol
This Scooby driver wasnt very impressed by the white Nova overtaking in Bobbies....but it was the only place they would get by, the no overtaking in corner rule clearly ignored lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQGZEIG50E
lol That's Craig on Mig, I'm shocked at him..
Balls, thats the session before Lee n Me were out; I've been eyeballing Youpoob to see if there's any on-track footage from anyone else on the 10:30 session. Close but no banana lol
Balls, thats the session before Lee n Me were out; I've been eyeballing Youpoob to see if there's any on-track footage from anyone else on the 10:30 session. Close but no banana lol
me too I was on 1215 115 215 but no luck...havd my corder but the battery went flat after waiting half hour for the oil spillage to be cleared...
D7ake, what where you in? I was on the 11:15 session. I have the 30min vid of the car in front thanks to the clean up delay..lol
Jesus christ, i have never seen track driving as bad as that. Ok ive not done Combe in a few year but i cant remember ever seeing 2-3 cars overtaking in the middle of a chicane. If you had been really pushing and not paying 100% attention to your mirrors you could of easily been took out 3-4 times within the few minutes you were on track for! Ridiculous.
It seems action days do these days attract the kind of people that chuck a black bonnet on their car and suddenly think their the Stig.
the kind of people that chuck a black bonnet on their car
:(
lol
Rofl, sorry Jack not aimed at you at any way mate. lol lol
(yours has a purpose)
scott.parker
13-09-11, 10:46 PM
me too I was on 1215 115 215 but no luck...havd my corder but the battery went flat after waiting half hour for the oil spillage to be cleared...
Were you in the sport?
Ive got video forage from off track.
MiniManDan118
14-09-11, 12:12 AM
Here's one of my videos. I think this was the 12.15 session. Only see 1 white Nova right at the start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9WPkizcGI
There's more to come but I've got to cut the ages of sitting around in the pits off the front of them. The sessions I've got are 10.30 12.15 2.15 and 4.30 I think but in the afternoon it was all up the spout so not really sure what time sessions I got out in.
scott.parker
14-09-11, 03:04 PM
Here's one of my videos. I think this was the 12.15 session. Only see 1 white Nova right at the start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9WPkizcGI
There's more to come but I've got to cut the ages of sitting around in the pits off the front of them. The sessions I've got are 10.30 12.15 2.15 and 4.30 I think but in the afternoon it was all up the spout so not really sure what time sessions I got out in.
Saw you out on most of your sessions, you went on on two of the worst in the afternoon, I'm sure you were out when there was a massive delay and you got about 3 laps etc..
MiniManDan118
17-09-11, 12:13 PM
Yeah I was out in that one. We all got a free session at 4.30 because of it!
Here's my 2pmish session:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgV6tllStsE
Dan
Here's one of my videos. I think this was the 12.15 session. Only see 1 white Nova right at the start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9WPkizcGI
There's more to come but I've got to cut the ages of sitting around in the pits off the front of them. The sessions I've got are 10.30 12.15 2.15 and 4.30 I think but in the afternoon it was all up the spout so not really sure what time sessions I got out in.
Yep you went past me at the start, I m in the Nova Sport 1.3...
Were you in the sport?
Ive got video forage from off track.
Yep that would be me...
8valve-craig
17-09-11, 08:06 PM
lol That's Craig on Mig, I'm shocked at him..
Shocked at myself to be honest. Felt well bad for a few days after seeing it back.
Spoke to the driver of the subaru and he's not holding a grudge.
You wanna see the slagging off on youtube i'm getting...
You wanna see the slagging off on youtube i'm getting...
direct me to said abuse, i love youtube slagging offs!!
Nah, they don't like it that my passanger was sticking his fingers up at people for where over taking in the corners...
Nah, they don't like it that my passanger was sticking his fingers up at people for where over taking in the corners...good job i never have a camera in any of my track cars, i swear alot as it is!!
Me too,
Getting slagged off again.. But some one who i cant see from his vids has ever driven on track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJdfV-pAiQ8&feature=email&email=comment_received
I was expecting to see loads of nova's here Is it a silly question to ask why nova's where the least car there
Because they're pretty rare these days lol
[edit] plus its not like PVS or VBOA where people come to show off their cars, and as said at the start of the thread PNG didn't have a stand there.
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