Knockhill OPL session.

From what I remember burpspeed over on Clio sport used to arrange Renault only days last one I heard about was at llandow (I think, haven't been over on Clio sport in a while now!)

 

From where i am,its around 5 hours. RAC route planer, 275 miles, so 10 hours 550 miles Ive done SPA this year 1200 miles, 4 petrol stops,Oulton end June 550 miles. Oulton/ Anglesea Mid August, so distance not a problem. Just seems too far for 2 hours. Hope the weather stays fine for you all. Stay safe.

 

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Thanks for getting all this sorted Mike! - really looking forward to it

 

Is everyone ready for this

 

If I'm back home in time I'll drop by for a look. I pick my RS up in Cardiff that morning.

I'll be up for the next one to be organised if I'm home from offshore

 

Cheers for organising the night Mike, great group on track.

Cheers to Shocker for all the passenger laps in his 200T EDC on std road tyres, and unbelievably balanced car on the limit - seems incredibly capable on track out of the box to me.......

 

Didn't realise you'd come up without your car Papps. You weren't in the Clio when I decided to take a cone out at Mcintyres were you? Was impressed by that 200T.

Brilliant night. Thanks for organising Mike and thanks for the passenger laps and pads!

 

No I wasn't with him during that incident!, yeah a couple of the guys up there I'd known from the last couple of track nights I had done.

Yeah the clio really surprised me especially through the first 6 corners.

You looked to be going really well on the last stint (that was the only time I saw you on track) - you had pulled away a good chunk from the Clio before you started your cool down lap.

What tyres did you run tonight? any more trackdays booked? - there's a reverse next week 3pm-7pm for £100?

 

I felt a lot more comfortable on my last stint. Still a lot of room for improvement but my confidence is getting there and I'm gradually getting a better feel for the car. I was just running Vredestein Ultrac Vortis tonight.

No other track days planned yet though next week's sound tempting, is that just a Knockhill organised one? A real shame your car didn't make it up tonight.

Who was it that had the R26 tonight?

 

I very much enjoyed the transition from road tyres (Pilot Super Sports) to practically bald R888s, it was the increased feel more than the grip that made the biggest diff through the really stiff sidewalls.

The R26 was ewan81 on this - its running 265bhp atm, he's getting a 250 turbo and other supporting mods done to it soon I believe.

Yeah it was the 1 year anniversary of me collecting the car tonight, guess its fitting that it spent it in the garage....

Its a semi private one - track scotland or something? The change in layout really does means its a completely different track - downhill braking into the hairpin lol .....

 

Also the Mk3 meganes are a thing of beauty when being pounded at the track - both yours and mikes cars really did look the business tonight

 

Anyone got pics from the night?

 

I put a join request for that group a few days back but never got it ok'd...sent another request..

 

This is a direct link to the photographers album on his FB - some great shots, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1063123740372527.1073741981.248878411797068&type=3

 

cheers mate, never thought about checking John's site as i should have known he'd be there :cool:

 

What a great night , thanks to Mike for setting it up
track time went superb but journey on way home didn't I got a major engine failure message along with stop light , spanner light and engine light
turned off and pulled over straight away
called out AA. Who couldn't find no leaks or engine damage
fault code was p2299 accelerator and brake pedal out off sync or something like that
reset code and started engine
all running ok and code or lights never appeared again
my 200 t is a on going mystery with faults every week that come and go

 

I was the black R26 on track, was a great session. Was just getting some better laps in near the end, but my road tyres go off pretty quick.

Was a well organised session, thanks to Mike

 

Thats a nightmare mate, I spoke to someone the other night and was saying your gearbox is totally dry, ie no gearbox oil? these gremlins are crap - especially given how the thing handles.

 

Glad it was only a silly fault and not major engine failure as the message on the dash was displaying
my stomach fell right to my feet when I seen the message ,
my first thought was is Renault going to replace the engine
but it's a bit silly to display major engine failure when it's only a throttle accelerator pedal problem
maybe down to me trying left foot braking
but what a great night

 

was a great night and thanks for sorting it all out
hopefully you will ask me along again as I didn't seem to be the only other hooligan ( lol ) on track
if you manage to get video online let me know as I would like to see where I was going wrong as after tracking a evo for many years I'm just learning the Clio and the lines I was taking weren't the best for front wheel drive and as papps was saying to me that I was taking evo lines instead of front wheel drive lines
Top night and thanks Mike

 

Top night papps thanks for co-driving
yea the gearbox is dry , I believe it's easy changed and is a cartridge you just pullout and replace with another
but don't take my word for it as I was told by a Renault mechanic lol

 

Sorry to hear of your woes with the Clio. It's the first 200T I've seen in the flesh, I wasn't taken by them from what I saw online etc. but it looks stunning in the flesh! Looked great on track too.

 

Haha, thanks. Was good to meet you. Your mk3 looked good on track, would be good to get a passenger lap to see how it compares with the mk2.

 

Cheers
yea 200t nice in the flesh
lots off negative reviews on it but they are probably all true
the build quality and Renault trying to make them appeal to a broad spectrum has not worked
a manual box a set of recaro seats and a set of big brakes
less body roll and a little more negative camber ( if you look at some of my pics you will see front wheels going into lots of positive camber not good on track ) and the 200t even with its 200bhp would be a awesome car
get rid of the r- link and just put in the RS monitor and I think Renault would out sell most other cars
I was telling people about the r-link unit the other day and most don't know that you can play games , Facebook, email and tweet all a waste of time in a hot hatch if you ask me
all you get is lots of electrical problems due to the system never booting up right
take the key out and put it back in resets the car
this is a daily occurrence to get wipers ,lights ,radio, sat Nav to work correctly
a little more developement and they will have a top selling car but not yet

 

Coming from an older RS with the more track focused coilover suspension how soft the clio was and how comfortable is was to me was brilliant. It seemed far more adjustable than the R26 ever was on std suspension on the limit (maybe its shockers great track technique as well of course ) I'm sure a meg would of snapped at the rear much quicker. Seems like a really good car for more discreet B road blasting and also at those kind of speeds the thing would cover ground really really rapidly. Seems like a great car, and easier to keep hold of your licence than the meg, more time on, or near the cars limits.

Would be really good to see what a custom remap would do on these, sure it would help the sound also, my milltek sounded a hell of a lot better after the remap.