Ok. I’m back from a track day today at Abingdon MOD Airstrip.
Trev, yup. It’s such good fun the car runs well and it’s somewhere to let it rip. Love it.
In prep, I changed out all coil packs for new Bosch originals the day before as mine ate a couple last time out which cost me time unbolting bits. Oil,hose inspection etc and I was good to go.
The Track was as expected. It’s an airfield after all.
This means cones for corners and chicanes.
Frankly it’s pretty poor in some respects.
Each time they are clipped they become additional obstacles to negotiate. Like coming round a corner to find a bunny in the middle of the road.
Then it’s a red flag. Van goes out or marshals tidy up.
You go back out and the angles have suddenly changed into a chicane or corner. Bringing on the need for a slightly different line and braking point,steering input etc blah blah.
In short it’s hard to be consistent as the track is slightly morphing constantly.
red flags are too common, due to cones being hit.
There’s quite a big bump and change of surface mid corner after a long drag down a strait which does nothing to aid handling and there was lots of debris ( tiny stones )in that section too.
I don’t want to be negative, as I had a fun day.
It’s more a thrash it and get the tyres squealing kind of drive as opposed to accurately looking to clip all apexes and find the perfect line as one would do at a full time track.
There was a good mix of cars from a Cayman GT4 through to a standard mk2 Golf gti.
Caterhams, Renaults, Elises, and a good selection of JDMs
Along with the good and the bad BIM BIMMERS all made a showing.
Had fun and the car ran well until a loud pop and a flame shot out of the
exhaust. (Not mapped in on over run )
Had to be towed off. Sucked.
Finally I’ve been the cause of a red flag!
Panicking slightly that I’d done real damage I found no fault codes on the liquid gauge or EML light on dash.
Turned to social media with a video and was pointed strait to the source of it.
Turned out an inter cooler hose blew off and spat the clamp out somewhere on track.
Bit of graft saw it bush fixed and that was my day done.
I’d say for the money about £120 it’s a good day out.
But it’s no race circuit.
Track is a decent layout (as best they can make it ) but quite short. The surface was quite abrasive and the AD08Rs took a bit of a hammering (but held up well)
Good crowd of people and a decent chuck wagon makes it fun if sunny.
Would I go back? mmm ....??
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