jag_h

Tony dont worry mate, i'll run this day with whatever numbers we get now, just about mangeing to cover costs with a bit of extra haggling

jag_h

Car Hire (Subaru Impreza STi 8 with PPP pack, or Mazda RX8) is available at £700 for the day to cover all wear and tear as well as fuel costs.

Only 3 cars available (2* Impreza and 1*RX8)

jag_h

Teaser of whats available Courtesy of Brian at scoobycity.co.uk

jag_h

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Tim-H

I`m not being greedy, The Mrs is coming in an EVO, Come on Boy`s you can`t let a Girl in an EVO Learn all this AT Prodrive and not be scared of finding Her on a wet roundabout :-)
Sign up It`s worth 20 bhp in the pub (and probably 40 on a slippy road) just to say you have been,,,,,
Have a good one
Tim

jag_h

lol @ 20bhp in pub...

T5NYW

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Damm,
I was always going to be last and now also behind a Lady LOL

Let me know if you want to convoy down 01432 353894

Tony

Tim-H

[QUOTE=T5NYW]Damm,
I was always going to be last and now also behind a Lady LOL

Tim-H<<<< put`s fireproof overalls on,,,,,

That`s no lady !!!! That`s my wife,,
Don`t worry about Her Tony, She`s a woman, She just thinks She Knows what she`s doing...... :-)

Ahem,,,, She has just reminded me which one of us "tapped" the tyres @ bruntingthorpe, and which one did a slight bit more in the tree`s oop`s
Have a good one
Tim
ps I will give you a ring,

jag_h

any more for any more, last call for trackday interest!

T5NYW

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Tim I've seen your Video on the net but I suspect you've seen mine from Japfest2004 when I hit the tyre Wall at Camp

Tony

jag_h

hope you boys have good brakes for a time trial

sammyh

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The brakes are fine its the driver that has issues

Tim-H

[QUOTE=T5NYW]
Tim I've seen your Video on the net but I suspect you've seen mine from Japfest2004 when I hit the tyre Wall at Camp

Haven`t seen your`s, but living in the country, I don`t get broadband till the end of the month , so I try to stay away from any vid other than the "myvideotalk thing" that I use,
I will re-post mine in the next few day`s with the audio, It add`s a little atmosphere to it :-)

Have a good one
Tim

Tim-H

Is that like an autotest ?? If so winner buy`s the round ??
Have a good one
Tim

jag_h

you guys will have to wait and see whats in store for you
lets just say there a chance for you guys to reach close to vmax during the trial

T5NYW

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There is a very long runway They tested my Old STi02PPP there Hope we don't have to do "Lift off oversteer" at Vmax I found it a bit scary things happen far to quickly for my Old Brain LOL

Tony

jag_h

*keeps quiet to not ruin surprise* :P

T5NYW

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be there or be Square

Tony

jag_h

top day today! great bunch of lads and lasses we had. hopefully breaking the noise limits with a few cars wont upset future dates to be had!!

i hope we managed to sort out the problems to your satisfactory guys?!

T5NYW

iTrader: (4)

Subaru's and Noise problems very uncommon that LOL

I had a really good Day my instructor said I was "A Nutter" didn't think he knew me that well Creamed 1 brand new tyre and other 3 pretty worn.

really enjoyed the skidpan, adverse handling and tower track was real fun

Regards

Tony

ps Big thanks to all the Instructors and yourself for your time and Paitence

jag_h

no worries matey. as metioned, hopefully we can arrange some more stuff here, and we shall always try to accomodate you guys one way or another

p.s. you got home quick!

Tim-H

Superb Day, Excellent instructor Simon between my Mrs and Myself all Day, My car was a bit noisy , (115db oops) so they provided a 3000 mile MX8 to play in (free) Can`t fault it, will be back (with a quiet exhaust) for the next one towards the end of the year,
Cheers Jag
Have a good one
Tim
ps My Mrs say`s she even learnt something !!!!! that`s coming from a woman !!! must have been good :-)

jag_h

glad you all enjoyed it! liked Tia's comments on feedback form, if you dont mind, i'll quote her on some of that!

as for RX8, it was technically free, but i did have to fork out for it... oh well, just a couple of more nights to be spend in as supposed to on the tiles! lol.

Tim-H

[QUOTE=jag_h]glad you all enjoyed it! liked Tia's comments on feedback form, if you dont mind, i'll quote her on some of that!

No problem ,

[QUOTE=jag_h] as for RX8, it was technically free, but i did have to fork out for it... oh well, just a couple of more nights to be spend in as supposed to on the tiles! lol.

Ahhh you know all this drinking is bad for you anyway, Just think,,,, You may become all respectable, buy a nice house in the country , just like some nice lady we had the good fortune to be to close to yesterday,,,,,,,,,,,,, On second thoughts I`ll stick you a large cheque in the post as long as you promise to spend it on Stella

Have a good one
Tim

jag_h

just a small taster of what went on. we took over 200 pictures so as you can appreciate, it may take a little while to sort them all out

T5NYW

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Tim,

I see Tia's enjoying herself

Jag not one of my old banger!!

Tony

jag_h

sorry mate, its what fleggy sent me. i'll get some more sent over asap

Tim-H

My Mrs , Myself and our 12 yr old daughter did Jag`s first one of these on Tuesday 19th July, Thought you may like some comment’s .

Car’s, Tina, experienced fast road driver, wants to learn how far an Evo will go :-) Mitsi Evo as above, totally standard apart from wheels,( and she claim’s she kept the above top slide going and got it out straight hmmm ?) Me, done a bit of road rally, auto test etc 20 yrs ago wants to play with scoob in a reasonably safe environment and possibly learn something , slightly moded scoob, with very loud exhaust (115 db @ 2m @ 6000rpm) Tia, an unhealthy like for sitting in the back of car’s driven quickly, Simon , Instructor, Nice bloke, very patient, very good instructor, Couldn’t have spent the day with a better instructor, (but everybody said that about theirs )
Getting there , easy to find not far off M42/M40, Arrive for 8.45, escorted to control tower area, into briefing room (more like good quality hospitality suite, tea, coffee , biscuits, plasma with top gear on, table cloths, even Prodrive sweet’s ) meet everyone small chat about what we are doing for the day and health and safety "rule’s", As you NEVER drive without an instructor in the car, all this is really is that they reserve the right to send you home if you behave like a total idiot, Having the instructor with you all the time, you may think " I won’t be able to push it as hard as I’d like, I can assure you this is not the case, He was shouting "keep it in" long after I’d decided to brake :-) This got less and less through the day as I got quicker / more confident in what I / the car could really do,
This was our first exercise, The tower circuit, made up of lot’s of different surfaces from rough to very smooth, lot’s of tight corners, white line chicane down one straight, very good for learning your turn in speeds as if you miss the apex , it’s only white lines, but it is a good challenge to get it right, learn lot’s on braking/turn in point’s around rest of circuit, down the back straight about 130 ish head straight for the middle of the prodrive sign, don’t brake till you get to the cone, the cone starts the day IN THE SIGN !! ( well it looks like it :-) but by the end of the day you watch the cone go by roll a ciggy, have a sip of your coke , then think about braking, lol well maybe not :-)
this was done in my car then Tina’s, about 10 - 15 min`s each, I think we both decided when we / the car’s had had enough, Tina couldn’t believe the sweat she got on during driving ,
swap car’s , we used one then the other to let brake’s etc cool down, very sympathetic to the car’s, all day,
onto the skidpan, Two different surfaces , 1 as slippy as ice , the other not quite as bad, looked a bit like pebble- dash , (no frame on car) about 100-150 m long stripes, The aim was to go in straight, slide the car and get out the other end straight, ideally as fast as you can in one continues slide, not as easy as it sounds, it is as slippy as ice, took a fair few attempts, Tina had never done this sort of thing before, but by the end of the day was coming in "flat in 3rd" and getting it out ( top Evo photo) we also so did J turns, donuts, handbrakes, and try anything we wanted, I try`d , in forward’s > handbrake >backwards > J turn > out forwards, Only got it once, bloody reverse gate on gearbox :-)
A lot of fun and we both learnt a lot about car control,
Adverse handling course : not that much bigger than a cart track , designed to be as horrible to a car and driver as poss., wrong cambers , from grippy tarmac to shiny concrete , very tight hairpins, jump, also used to set up WRC cars / Prodrive PPP packs and many more, can only be described as “intense” 10 laps and you are sweating you bit’s off, Instructor shouting the corners and braking point’s, (and a lot of “keep it in , it will go round”) This was both of our favourites, ( all were very good But THIS ONE !!!!)
Then back to control for wee and a Tea, then do the 3 over again, surprising how much better you are on the second outing,
Then off for lunch, via the shell station, pub lunch , good choice of about 20-30 items including 16 oz steak and the usual beefeater/ Bernie/ bank’s type pub, food with a drink included in day’s price,
Unfortunately , They had a few complaints about the noise from a couple of car’s from their friendly lady NIMBY, fair enough my car comes in at 115db and explodes out of the exhaust every gearshift, and the other one beat my score on the db meter, they discuss it with us / the track manager and say we can use our cars “ a little bit” as long as we try to hold it down but instead we can use their cars !!! An (afair) 04 scoob and a 05 Mazda mx8 with 3000 miles on it, I got the Mazda a rwd :-)
We then had the choice of which exercises we wanted to play on , me and the mrs swapping from car to car, I think I did every exercise in all three car’s and the wife in both the Mazda and hers, (she don’t like the scoob, but after this she took it out last night and said it wasn’t as bad as she thought, )
We spent most of the afternoon on the adverse and skid, ending with a quick 10 laps in the scoob on the adverse till the phone rang, then up to tower circuit in the Mazda until the tower called us in at about 4.45,
All in all , a superb day , very well organised, looks a little on the expensive side compared to some track days, but this is not a track day, it is a driver training day, we did not stop all day ( you can anytime if you want but we are just greedy :-) you are instructed to a very high standard for as much as you want to do, and pushed, well more encouraged to see what you and your car can do, It is something towards a corporate day out, good hospitality , the best toilets I have ever seen on an airfield, more like the toilet in an high quality mobile home, cleaned by a top hotel, ( you can tell a lot by the toilets lol :-) ) they cater for all abilities and car’s and I would say we both learnt an awful lot,
Highlights of the day,
Tina catching a far more powerful car on the adverse handling in the evo , then doing it again in the Mazda later, (she’d never driven a rwd before) the slide in the picture on the skidpan where the instructor didn’t think she would get back and did, and the best donut I have ever seen / been in, (about 15 ish on the exact same spot, had to stop due to disorientation lol )
Me, The adverse handling course, getting round the little section in the woods in 3rd (only once, last run of the day, you had to be there :-) , Finding Mr Ap is even better at designing brakes than I thought and Mr Subaru is quite capable of transporting a family of four in reasonable comfort around a small tarmac50 yrd straight > 90 right > shiny concrete immediate 90 L > 15 yrd 90 L > Rough tarmac > 90 R lift a wheel over the hole, touch the bushes on the N/S shave the cone on the inside hook 4th and try to stay off the rough tarmac on the outside and away from the Armco, as I said you had to be there :-)
Tia, The dounut in Tina’s , the final lap in mine, The skidpan in general in all of them, the adverse in mine ( she is strapped in, with a padded roll cage to hang on to and did learn not to hit her head over the jump lol :-)) she says she will do her own review but don’t hold you breath J
Hope this has been useful (cause it’s taken me long enough to type with two fingers, any spelling / grammar mistakes please feel free to not bother telling me about )
We will be going again in the near future, probably later in the year to try to get a cold wet day, just in time to perfect our sideways driving for winter .
Have a good one all
Tim, Tina, Tia,
ps you also get vid`s / pic`s and a free prodrive pen and keyring !!!

jag_h

thanks very much for the comments matey!

jag_h

anyone want to come along on 8th Aug?