nathan.
27-03-05, 12:47 PM
well, me and my mate had a trackday yesterday at donington. what a great day with myself gaining experiance with driving in different conditions.
i recently bought some coilovers, so a great chance to try them out and have a play.
well we started in the morning and the weather was great, the track warm and dry. brilliant conditions for a track day. there was a bit of banter between me and my mate as who would be quickest round donington. he has a 20xe corsa and me with the nova 1.6 t40. we were first out on track and he was pushing me round so i had to let him past, he was just to quick leaving me behind. anyway had some good races with bmw's, caterham's, mini coopers etc. so all was good.
At roughly 12pm the weather turned for the worst, it pissed it down with rain. Not good! resulting 1 session being cancelled cos the rain was just too heavy. anyway. back on the very wet track at 1pm with the rain still coming down. took it steady for the first few laps to get the feel of the car and track. it was very slippery. as the day went on the rain kept coming. but i felt i was getting better and better not being overtaken once so i just kept pushing harder. eventually catching up with the 20xe corsa and pissing all over it :D
it was brilliant, i was overtaking everthing, porshes, subarus, more caterhams, m3's. I was pushing abit too hard at times feeling the car get very twitchy and once spinning it on redgate facing the opposite way with cars coming towards me in the wet. managed to get back on track safely though.
So yesterday i feel i gained alot of experiance of driving in different conditions. just goes to show that nova's are fun what ever the conditions and in my opinion an awesome track car.
:lol:
i recently bought some coilovers, so a great chance to try them out and have a play.
well we started in the morning and the weather was great, the track warm and dry. brilliant conditions for a track day. there was a bit of banter between me and my mate as who would be quickest round donington. he has a 20xe corsa and me with the nova 1.6 t40. we were first out on track and he was pushing me round so i had to let him past, he was just to quick leaving me behind. anyway had some good races with bmw's, caterham's, mini coopers etc. so all was good.
At roughly 12pm the weather turned for the worst, it pissed it down with rain. Not good! resulting 1 session being cancelled cos the rain was just too heavy. anyway. back on the very wet track at 1pm with the rain still coming down. took it steady for the first few laps to get the feel of the car and track. it was very slippery. as the day went on the rain kept coming. but i felt i was getting better and better not being overtaken once so i just kept pushing harder. eventually catching up with the 20xe corsa and pissing all over it :D
it was brilliant, i was overtaking everthing, porshes, subarus, more caterhams, m3's. I was pushing abit too hard at times feeling the car get very twitchy and once spinning it on redgate facing the opposite way with cars coming towards me in the wet. managed to get back on track safely though.
So yesterday i feel i gained alot of experiance of driving in different conditions. just goes to show that nova's are fun what ever the conditions and in my opinion an awesome track car.
:lol: