Thanks mate, the rainsports are amazing in the wet wet but in the damp the 888's wont be any good and a decent inter is something i've been looking for for a while!!
#hijackedelf'sthread!!!
Thanks mate, the rainsports are amazing in the wet wet but in the damp the 888's wont be any good and a decent inter is something i've been looking for for a while!!
#hijackedelf'sthread!!!
Popped to Donington Park today as House and Iain were doing their thing.
They seemed to be enjoying the man loving with each other so I left them to it.
Can't believe you managed a day without breaking it!! That's gotta be a record, 2 track days, 0 failures!!!
I heard you were going down through Craner at 110?!? Not sure where I heard it from though?!?
Thanks for the pics Harvey. It was a good outing for Team Shonky Vauxhall yesterday!
Donington, 21st November. Booked when lovely and mild, and first snow the night before. Oh well what can you do.
It's a local circuit so I took plenty of spares, CVs for House, and three sets of wheels. The day started wet, so I did a few warm up laps on my new Rainsport 3s. Very impressed with them.
It started to dry up so I first tried slicks on the front and Toyo R1Rs (my road tyres) on the back. It was oversteering all over the place and the R1Rs started to peel badly so I knew it was getting enough heat in, so I swapped to slicks all round by late morning.
Got some more good laps in, with Josh as a passenger. Took House's friend out for a session and proceeded to come as close as I've never come to writing the beasty off. Whoops. Good job it didn't roll, that's all I'll say.
Here's a video of the carnage of car control:
And the result:
And scooping out gravel out of every nook and cranny after
It survived with some minor bumper damage, some paint loss in the arches and skirts and a driver with a battered ego so not too bad.
Later in the day I refitted the front ARB that I had removed at Snetterton a few weeks ago in the wet...
..,and my God the car felt so much more stable. Here's a few laps on a clear track with the ARB fitted and I gained a bit of confidence back.
WOW!!!
Mike said it was a good one!!!! That was close!!!
Lol, I did exactly the same thing in exactly the same place :D. That gravel gets everywhere doesn't it!
All the cool kids fall off there.
Very fortunate not to roll there; that side ways rocking can make it dig in.
Nice vids and good driving, are you using a quaife rack or corsa rack iain?
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