I was mistaken on a point Dan. I thought most of the firms in the city handed out some form of social event subsidies, I must be fortunate we still get them in the credit crunch.
The guy who took them is a friend of ours and did our group a favour with respect to the shots. He loves cars and cameras so this was a nice day out for him.
My friend was saying you had a big washout at Quorum in a big plume of dust, what happened there?
I had one where the Red ST3 (One of our group) was on my left just before the bridge. To prevent a collison situation I braked later and turned left a little too hard which meant I was not able to steer right again and washed out the RH turn onto the short straight. Only real run out of talent situation all day.
well it wasnt a wash out me and Travis the guy in the red Toyota supra were coming round the last bend pretty hard and that Ferrari had spun and was trying to turn round in our line, if i had let off i would have over steered into him and i was going to fast to turn in any more so i had to use the grass the supra done exactly the same, abit scary really but better that than t-boning the Ferrari lol,
That Lotus was nuts, absolutely loved the speed of that thing down the straight. The porsche, I assume you are talking about the black one? He was with us.was happy with the day my mate lotus with the type r engine is a monster and that porche was very fast too but there wasn't anything i couldn't stay with in the bends
Interestingly, he has a quaife installed on it and even I was able to keep up with him during the bends. He made no progress in it. However he did say he was only able to run 1 bar since the duratec lump "apparently" has heatsoak issues when the ambients are high. I think the ESP cut the power due to the wheel rotation deviating above a certain proportion in relation to each wheel, but I guess only Ford technical could answer that one.that ST focus tried staying with me 3 times in the bends and each time he just under steered of the track it was getting to be abit funny
I was the Indian guy in the yellow one, not sure what you mean by loose on the back a few timesi was surprised at how loose the cupras were on the back a couple of times following the white one (you?)
Again, not sure what you mean.i thought it was going round in circles but didnt,
The thing is they were both in stock form. I was expecting to have to move over for the blue subaru, supras, teg, even the orange clio. I was very impressed it was able to keep up The only thing I wished was that I was able to outpace the M3 when it was on cam, however I can live with the fact it was not an immense gap at the end of the straights when we were neck and neck. I would have thought the fact I had the aircon during every run would have meant I was significantly down on power and lost a straight line level pegging / advantage to at least one.power wise i dont think there was anything in it down the straights against the cupras,
[/QUOTE]the limited slip diff on the dc5's is awesome it will pull out of the most extreme bends with next to no torque steer you can really get the power on early,
The info was given to me by a pitlane spectator so not sure what actually happened. Heard the 328 spun but again, unless you speak to people there, you have no idea what happened unless you are right there.
That Lotus was nuts, absolutely loved the speed of that thing down the straight. The porsche, I assume you are talking about the black one? He was with us.
The cars in our group were..
White K1
Yellow Cupra
Red ST3
Red Clio 2ltr
Blue Lotus
Black Lotus (toepin failure early on)
Audi A2
Porsche 964
Porsche 997
Black Scooby Wagon
The Lotus's, porsches and A2 have been on a track before, however the rest were all novices so we were all obeying the rules in the interests of being able to drive the cars home in one piece. The ST3 ran out of pads since he had AP discs and mintex 1144 pads, so they were eaten away by the end of the day
Interestingly, he has a quaife installed on it and even I was able to keep up with him during the bends. He made no progress in it. However he did say he was only able to run 1 bar since the duratec lump "apparently" has heatsoak issues when the ambients are high. I think the ESP cut the power due to the wheel rotation deviating above a certain proportion in relation to each wheel, but I guess only Ford technical could answer that one.
I was the Indian guy in the yellow one, not sure what you mean by loose on the back a few times
Again, not sure what you mean.
The thing is they were both in stock form. I was expecting to have to move over for the blue subaru, supras, teg, even the orange clio. I was very impressed it was able to keep up The only thing I wished was that I was able to outpace the M3 when it was on cam, however I can live with the fact it was not an immense gap at the end of the straights when we were neck and neck. I would have thought the fact I had the aircon during every run would have meant I was significantly down on power and lost a straight line level pegging / advantage to at least one.
I started to think about the diff when you mentioned it and if the ESP on our cars can actually benefit from them round a track. Given that the ESP works on rotational movement sensors and wheel rotation ABS sensors, would it actually give me any benefit if the ESP would cut it out? I assume the DC5 comes with a diff as std so it is already coded into any ESP systems it runs?
I do not recall seeing you in my vicinity at all, did I just keep pace whilst we were on the opposite sides of the track?
All in all, it was a fun day, and I am definately hooked. It has calmed me down on the road now and the usual traffic light GP's or speed camera rolling starts no longer interest me anymore, can only be a good thing I suppose
Please do so. We would be very interested in the footage, and also how the mount held up for future referencehi, i was in the pink, the only dc5 there! you dont look in your mirrors much lol i was behind you for bout 3 laps i think, i will get them uploaded soon,
ohh the white one? what bhp ? and i think u got past me eventually , only because my clutch pedal stuck to the ground and i lost drive goin round the last bend hehehi, i was in the pink, the only dc5 there! you dont look in your mirrors much lol i was behind you for bout 3 laps i think, i will get them uploaded soon,
ohh the white one? what bhp ? and i think u got past me eventually , only because my clutch pedal stuck to the ground and i lost drive goin round the last bend hehe
i know this....... £500 big ones... hmmmmmmmm do u have select plus?Ahh i see! You should get it mapped and that will be even more fun