I went to Rockingham yesterday with CP and MC and there 1.4 16v Nova on TB's. It's the red one with the old Vauxhall Touring Car red, white and grey chequered graphics on for those of you that might have seen it in the past.
I wasn't racing myself, I just went to lend a hand and take in the day. It was my first time at a track day so I was enjoying the variety of cars that turned up.
It was a long day, but thoroughly enjoyable. The Nova had a couple of teething problems, but once it was running it was flying round the circuit. There must have been about 50 cars and the Nova was up there with the quickest, even managing to keep with the Ferarri 355 challenge car that was in the garage next to us.
The quickest cars were the 'Caterfields' and an Ice Blue S2 Elise that was very quick! There were a couple of GT3 RS' that were pretty quick, but I suppose when you're behind the wheel of a ?60k car you're not going to be pushing it as hard as you could, especially with a concrete wall only inches away from your O/S wing mirror, lol.
Unfortunately the fuel pump gave up in the afternoon so they had to cut the day short. The two guys who own the Nova want to do Rockingham before the year is out and I'm very tempted to join them as the circuit looked suited for the Nova.
I took some pics of the day, but I made a rookie mistake of not checking which setting the camera was on, so the pics have come out really badly :(
If anyone want's to do a trackday I can't rate Rockingham high enough. The organisation, venue and driving attitude of everyone was excellent!
