My Donington Trackday (with pics)

[trackdaynova]

well, it was the first outing in the newly built nova, it performed well - with no major incidents... well i drove home so that was a bonus.

went out in the intermediate group as i had hadn't been on track for a couple of months

first session - literally turned up and went on track as i'd drove it there, suspension set to 14 clicks out of 28 allround. fastest lap was 1m 49s

found far too much bodyroll, and was very rear end happy.

having bought some -80mm springs from jonboy the night before, we decided to fit these for the next session, soften up the front a little, and stiffen the back, alot better - but now was producing way too much understeer despite having diff, fastest lap 1m 30.4s (fastest ever, in any car i've driven in)

third session, developed alot of stuttering coming out of corners, thought it maybe fuel pump on its way out - so fitted new one i bought from someone on here, to find it didn't work - doh! fitted first one again, just topped it up with fuel - sorted the problem

3 sessions in, killed a set of pads and disks, stopped for lunch, went to find local halfords - luckily had 2 disks left, and 1 set of ferrodo "race" pads - bought them, rushed back at 14:10, was on track by my session at 14:20 thanks to loads of help from OllyTB and Paul! cheers lads.

got lots of video footage - just getting it from camcorder now, here are some pics...

shopping list before next trackday, fuel swirl pot, decent brake disks & pads, new fuel pumps, proper tyres, higher poundage front springs!














Biggest thanks go to:
- Tom Reid - for coming down, giving advice, helping do bits and bobs
- My bro in law Bob, for the awesome pics above - cheers bud
- OllyTB, sound advice, loads of help - stripped the brakes for me for when we got back from halfords!
- Paul - again, loads of help
- everyone else that was there

[Lee]

Yehaa, TVR killing. Thats what we like to see. Sounds like some top pit crewing too chap. Excellent work!

[carls nova sri]

looks great in pics

[trackdaynova]

Lee - pit crew were amazing... as soon as I came in from a session, I'd get out - and that was it, car was up, wheels were off, checking everything

Tweaked a few bits - never got around to putting rear ARB on, which I wanted to do... speedo cable snapped on the way there too, which I need to get around to replacing.

Next up... Cadwell Park... or Croft...

[Nick J]

looking good fella! The cerbera you passed lives just up the road from me!

[nova ian]

Looking good mate, If I wasn't away I would have popped up and had a nosey as Tom said he was going and Donningtons only about 20 mins up the road from me.

Car looks well, top work fella

Ian

[Ste L]

car's look's mint fella

i await the vid's :D

[Philsutton]

No ever tells me when people are going down, I can hear the cars racnig round when im at home

[scott.parker]

Hey Oli, looks like you had a top day mate.

Glad it all went quite well.

love the made up plate.

Scott

[trackdaynova]

cheers ste', scott

phil - i lost your number aggggggges ago (in your nova days) and not had it again since! i remember racing you at pod when you welded 2x steelies to get to get 10J wide slicks to fit ::