27th Feb 2009 Abingdon MSE

[steve b]

Doing this trackday, be great to see some two's there, although likely i'll be in my 5.

Steve B

[Tomiam]

Seeing as Im not doing the TSS now, this sounds like a plan to me
I shall see if I can get some interest from my usual track day group.

[mr2mk1chick]

Its a friday?

can't play on a workday

[petesonfire]

is there a link for it might be able to go

[steve b]

http://www.motorsport-events.co.uk/

[steve b]

Anyone else playing tomorrow?

[jaymdee]

Hope you had a good day Steve. I'm off to Rockingham with Book A track on Sunday

[steve b]

Hope you had a good day Steve. I'm off to Rockingham with Book A track on Sunday

Was fun, they totally changed the track though, more suitable for big power, high geared stuff though. Main straight I was hitting the rev limiter in 5th about 3 seconds before the 1st brake board, (I could maintain the same speed ~ 140mph untill the 2nd brake board before standing on the brakes).

Good day on the whole, took a Monaro 5.7 HSV owner out and I think he was impressed and a Honda Type R engined Elise owner, he was impressed with the turbo 5 (contemplating trading down to one) but I was far more impressed with the honda Elise, its my new "want" car. It went as well as the Fireblade 99.9% carbon westfield that was my previous "want" car but had a body and windows and roof. Amazing!


Amazing! Had to say it again, makes every other car i've ever been on track in thats had a "body" look xxxx.

Stock Elise = bit dull, slower than my mx5, Honda Type R Elise = best performance track car there is i've experienced so far.

I did some xxxx driving at the beginning though, took my passenger to tell me how i was getting the lines so wrong, span twice with him in the car (both spins of the day ) Made me realise how you forget what your told sometimes, 5 years since my last lesson but I've always driven familar tracks, this one being new,.. dreadful. Passenger was an experienced driver and acted like an instructor,.. embarrasing,, but made me take stock.

[jaymdee]

Always worth having someone else in the car to point out what you're doing wrong. Did they remove the chicane on the main straight? When I did Abingdon I was seeing 120 tops before some seriously hard braking, although I expect your turbo 5 has more pace than my (reasonably stock) turbo 2

Hopefully book one up we can both get to

[steve b]

Totally different track, didn't resemble the old track at all.

See :-

bit boring but you get the idea

http://www.steve-bowen.com/Eunos/Abingdon270209.wmv

Steve