Donnington Tuesday 17th October

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http://videos.streetfire.net/search/kno ... 6c3234.htm

is the reason why you should pay more to go on a professionally run trackday. I took my one month old s2000 to Bedford with Bookatrack and never once was concerned about other cars on the track. Conversely, a big thunder day (ie cheap) at Bruntingthorpe in my last s2000 was quite worrying. If i'd been on the day at knockhill shown in the link, i'd have asked for my money back and left without turning a wheel on the track.

Lauren, are you working on the 11th November at Donington? i'm there with the s2000 club.

Hi Rich,

I will be there driving by the looks of things! So will look forward to seeing you there.

Cool, what car will you be in?

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Quite. The video says it all. Cheap trackdays usually include a number of people in cheap cars that really don't care if they hit anyone. I'm not refering to people who might be driving older cars or stripped out specials, but the sort of people that turn up in an old cavalier or a volvo with the expectation that they will wreck or blow it up during the trackday. You might get these people at any sort of trackday, but its up to the organisers to instill the discipline that prevents car to car contact.

http://videos.streetfire.net/search/kno ... 6c3234.htm

is the reason why you should pay more to go on a professionally run trackday. I took my one month old s2000 to Bedford with Bookatrack and never once was concerned about other cars on the track. Conversely, a big thunder day (ie cheap) at Bruntingthorpe in my last s2000 was quite worrying. If i'd been on the day at knockhill shown in the link, i'd have asked for my money back and left without turning a wheel on the track.

Lauren, are you working on the 11th November at Donington? i'm there with the s2000 club.

I cannot believe my eyes! are you saw that was a track day?! Looks like a load of joy riders broke onto the track!

Reinforces what I said above about cheap track days and boy racers...

[Speedy]

http://videos.streetfire.net/search/kno ... 6c3234.htm

is the reason why you should pay more to go on a professionally run trackday. I took my one month old s2000 to Bedford with Bookatrack and never once was concerned about other cars on the track. Conversely, a big thunder day (ie cheap) at Bruntingthorpe in my last s2000 was quite worrying. If i'd been on the day at knockhill shown in the link, i'd have asked for my money back and left without turning a wheel on the track.

Lauren, are you working on the 11th November at Donington? i'm there with the s2000 club.

I cannot believe my eyes! are you sure that was a track day?! Looks like a load of joy riders broke onto the track!

Reinforces what I said above about cheap track days and boy racers...

Total tools, should be banned from all trackdays.

[Icsunonove]

http://videos.streetfire.net/search/kno ... 6c3234.htm

If i'd been on the day at knockhill shown in the link, i'd have asked for my money back and left without turning a wheel on the track.

OMG! I have never ever seen anything like that before. Absolutely atrocious!

I see that a load of people have posted a few choice comments though

I hope the ATDO have been informed of these muppets

[Speedy]

http://videos.streetfire.net/search/kno ... 6c3234.htm

If i'd been on the day at knockhill shown in the link, i'd have asked for my money back and left without turning a wheel on the track.

OMG! I have never ever seen anything like that before. Absolutely atrocious!

I see that a load of people have posted a few choice comments though

I hope the ATDO have been informed of these muppets

I think we're going a bit OT here, and perhaps somebody should split this

Worst bit is that they are far from the worst there though, there is a Pug who hits them into the hairpin(!) and a nova who jams infront of them before they run into the cones.

Nice display of overcorrection for the first spin

[Lauren]

Cool, what car will you be in?

If all goes to plan, Toni's toyota MKII drift car.

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I see you are now signed up Lauren.

[Lauren]

I see you are now signed up Lauren.

So i am!

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i'll pop over and say hello. It'll be easier for me to spot you that you to spot me as i'll be one of about 20 S2k's

[Lauren]

i'll pop over and say hello. It'll be easier for me to spot you that you to spot me as i'll be one of about 20 S2k's

Okay cool, see you there.

[Caribbean_Blue]

Hi,

I would love to have a go next year at the track but have never done it. Am I am to get someone who knows what they are doing to come out with me round the track.

I think I would end up sticking my car in a bush!

Is there someone from here I can take out that can teach me braking points, where/when to turn in etc etc etc.

Or would I need to higher someone from the track?

Cheers
Reece.

[jonb-]

I'm sure any of the trackday regulars, myself included would be happy to show you around a track.

Remember trackdays aren't races so you can go at a pace your comfortable with to avoid sticking it in a bush.

[skinthespin]

Remember trackdays aren't races so you can go at a pace your comfortable with to avoid sticking it in a bush

I couldve sworn this was you in the gravel too...........

(had to get it in somewhere!)

[jonb-]

But previous to that i was winning.

Oh wait. Erm.

[skinthespin]

How many laps were you 'winning' for again before you got beached?

Hang on, doesn't 'winning' imply we were racing, which of course we weren't, it was a trackday, and we would never time laps either, that would be against the rules, and we (mostly I admittedly) would never drive 'assertively' to get slower stuff (everything) out of the way--lol

What a day!

[thepasty]

Two things to mention about yesterday...

Donnington + MR2 = Awesome!

and

Dunlop Formula R tyres rock my world!

[jonb-]

Two things to mention about yesterday...

Donnington + MR2 = Awesome!

and

Dunlop Formula R tyres rock my world!

Sounds like a nice setup. Did you get any laptimes? Edit: Of course you didn't, it was a BAT day.

Nothing quite like balancing the mr2 down crainers. Wonderful.

[thepasty]

Nah no lap times

For an old girl she did really well, later in the day with my old man at the wheel there wasnt a lot that went past her.

We had quite a few chaps come up asking what we'd done to get her going so well, their faces were a picture when we told them its not far off standard apart from cranked up boost and TEIN suspension, I think they expected us to say we'd we fitted nitros or something... Oh and one chap even spluttered when we told him how little it all cost.

A well specced, well driven MR2 is a true giant slayer...

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i'll pop over and say hello. It'll be easier for me to spot you that you to spot me as i'll be one of about 20 S2k's

Okay cool, see you there.

Didn't actually see you there lauren! i spotted a little mk1 being swallowed up by all the big fish a few times, but no mr2 turbo. Were you there?

[Lauren]

Didn't actually see you there lauren! i spotted a little mk1 being swallowed up by all the big fish a few times, but no mr2 turbo. Were you there?

Rich, i was most certainly there but i was driving Toni's drift car, a toyota MKII... basically that big black four door thing with white wheels.

I noticed there were loads of S2000s there, some newbies amongst them by the look of it. I was chatting to Peter (L1RRK) as i know him quite well as he's done a lot of BaT days.

This is the car i was driving:




Had a really good day, i was driving as part of a charity auction basically doing hot laps all day. Was a lot of fun and ended up with a minor slapped wrist from the marshals (they let me off) for drifting round Redgate.

Eventually the car broke... which was due to a cracked damper which was squirting oil out everywhere. It may have been like that all day, but it took us till 3pm to find the fluid leak!

Which S2K were you driving?