Pictures from the Performance Driving day at North Weald Airdrome. Thanks to JohnS for organising the SIDC rates and to Andrew Walsh for his outstanding driving and teaching. Highly recommended
and very good value.

Sal wondering whether we should trade in the MX-5...


Our car


John's (Sal's Dad) car


Andrew and Chris' Elises


Chris giving his Elise a bit of stick


John can't wait to get on track...


Sal demonstrating her recently learnt fixed input steering technique


Sal on track



Just to prove Sal was really trying...


John on track


Andrew showing us how it should be done....



Sal proving that an Elise with the hood up is not the easiest car to get into


...or out of


Note for Chris - drop me a line (Email in profile) and I'll mail you the pictures I have of your Elise.

Cheers
Chris

 

Awesome day

Glad you enjoyed yours

Phil

 

Loved it Phil - going to do it again I reckon

Chris

 

Oh yes indeedy

 

I'd be up for another day!

Phil

 

So who was the winner of the sideways challenge then?

Matt

 

Well John managed to spin his Impreza But I think the award goes to Chris and his Elise - can't beat RWD for getting the back out.

Chris

 

Chris/Sal - great pictures guys, look better now than they did on the camera yesterday ... I'll definitely be joining you guys the next time, so keep me informed!

>> Chris - where's the photos of you pootling around the course, or did you leave the fast driving to the likes of Sal and John???!

Phil

 

Phil

He did! On the first time round the circuit I was quicker than both him and Dad I was so chuffed

Sal

 

Bless him - probably why Chris is so up for doing the day again!!

Phil

 

Actually I was supposed to be taking pics of Chris driving round but I kept missing him (he was soooo quick ), here is an example of one of my pics...



....and that's one of the better ones

Sal

 

Chris,Doesn't count then You've gotta get it back for it to count... Nothing wrong with a Scoob for hanging it out, Chris must try harder next time

Matt

 

Fair play to Chris ... he'll have to be a little less brutal with that right boot!!

Sal, I'm sure it had nothing to do with your prowess as a photographer

Phil

 

Matt did have a great time sideways but that was with a drop of rain to make it more interesting

I was ok'ish but managed to spin twice. But did manage a couple of power slides in the dry. (cost me 2 new fronts).

Ian

 

I'm really growing to love Black MY01s. That one looks great. If I decided to buy one, I think that would be my colour.

 

Thank you DazV - fiver's in the post

Phil - what can I say? Moved so quick, camera couldn't focus

Strangely, Andy kept praying for rain, but despite the weather you see in Sal's pics we only got a few spots of rain, so we didn't really have a chance to slide the car around much.

It also confirmed my worst fears about the Pzeros - not much cop really. They had a tendency to understeer badly - more so than the Toyo's on John's car. Sal did her best to destroy them though

It was nice to get some feedback on the setup of the car on the Eibach springs - Andy was impressed. He took the right angled corner at 90 and reckoned that there was still more to come (I'll be leaving that to the professionals.....)

If I could get the heal/toe thing worked out as well, I reckoned we could go faster next time (but they all say that )

Cheers
Chris

 

It would be a start if you learnt to spell heel correctly first Chris

 

That's fighting talk matey, sort your missus out ....

Cheers
Phil

 

Looks like you all had a great day,well done.

JIM

 

Phil - don't worry - we've had words

Chris

 

Nice one Guy's, Did you do this on a weekday? I would have popped along

Rob

 

Rob it was a Wednesday, I've sent you a mail

Sal