Abingdon 10 th November 2017 Trackday

Fascinating, I had assumed they had all gone and it seems I don't in fact have to work all week. Unbelievably busy recently. I will ask if I can get Friday out and if so will attempt to book on tomorrow evening.

 

That would be great, we can then have a play, hopefully a longer time on track in my temporary replacement weapon of choice, well the wife has lent me her car

 

Enjoy. If I wasn't on a niteshift on the Thursday I'd have done this instead of Rockingham on the Sat.
Ian don't break your wife's motor!

 

I am under strict instructions not to break it going to give it a good clear out though

 

Unfortunately can't get out of work, have an important bid that has just come in to support so likely a long day on Friday. Have a good one guys.

 

Okay, i will be leaving in about 30 minutes, see you tomorrow

 

For some maybe

 

Yes including me again, a couple of nice RAC men taking me home , so i am now in the dog house, my wife is now going to use my Merc SL55 to commute to work till i fix her seized engine, was a really good day till that point, it was quite quick for a standard diesel, might even get it mapped when it's up and running again, so i think my engine rebuild is still going to happen, but fitting it back into the car have to take a back seat until she is back in her car.

 

Unbelievable. Have you heard that blues song mate 'born under a bad sign'? The bad luck you have been having with engines is properly incredible.

 

I cant work it out, i don't drive that hard

 

Ian sorry to hear about this but also I should advise you I will never ever let you drive my car. Just can't take the risk lol

 

Ahh thanks for the support
Well she is almost okay with it now, when i said it could of happened when she was driving it it seems okay now, she just wants it back ASAP

 

No problem

 

Out of curiousity do you guys do UK trackdays over winter i.e. Dec/Jan/Feb?
And if so do you just use road tyres?

 

Have done in the past, if it's wet Rainsport 3's or if it's damp or dry Federal 595rs-r, but i don't think i will be doing any this winter as i have 2 engines to rebuild

Working to get mine sorted for February as i am hoping that Silverstone comes up again

 

And what if it's wet? I can't take 2 sets so would something like rain sports as Ian suggest get me through winter?

 

Beat me to it. :-)

 

As above, if its dry and the tyres have been scrubbed in before when the weather was warm then its amazing how much grip can be generated even on freezing cold days, once you get some heat into the tyres. Just don't make the mistake of trying to scrub in new track tyres when it is really cold, I have done that before, it was like a bad joke spent half the day sliding about like I was driving on ice and just couldn't get any scrub onto the tyres and thus heat into them. I have AD08R tyres on our R26 all the time currently, the mrs has been driving the thing and seems perfectly happy with the car.

 

My mistake was running ns2r on a cold wet track and it was like being on ice. When it dried after lunch they were as great as usual.
My mate swears by AD08s but they're not the cheapest.

 

Where should I be looking? I tried and couldn't get close anywhere.

 

Is Ben Patey on here?