A few off us planned a short Nurburgring trip over a long weekend . Set off on Sunday morning at 4.30 am and arrived around 2pm local time not a bad journey .
Got a sneaky lap in that evening ready for my tuition the following day .
Had the tuition got my laps down to 9minutes and was really please .
Rick ring was on and a local bank holiday so the place was on fire and cars everywhere all main roads in and out was a no go , so we parked across the road dumped cars and went for a walk done some shopping got some food and did some car spotting and met boosted borris over at Apex (check him out on YouTube )
We was discussing our laps and I was telling the boys my brakes felt off on the end off my last lap , got back to the cars traffic had died down now so drove off to brunchen ( YouTube corner sorry for spelling )
On the way the
problem became aparebt my pads where shot , when we liked in to YouTube corner they went metal to metal and they where new when we left and the ring isn't exactly brake heavy in my eyes
So it's 3pm , bank holiday Monday , nowhere was open apart from a place called special brakes , we call him and he had what I needed , we arrive get the pads to find there €179 ! I knew ring parts where stupid but this was almost bad enough to make me sit down , anyways I wasn't prepared to have an accident or hurt an innocent party on my way home so I laid up and left with my EBC RED STUFF
,
this was his cheapest option to get me home .
We get back to the euro tunnel and my tyre goes down AGAIN! Been battling with this tyre for ages , new tyre but it goes down , no puncture just goes down once after a month offf it being on, had it re sealed twice now , think I've got a bad valve , pumped up held air and never went down again since ,
Other than that car did 2000 miles , used no oil or water and still feels fresh so big up to the torpedo for looking after me once again, we even made it on YouTube thanks to the back end getting slightly out off shape mid corner !