Chill dude, I've had more than my share of engine removals last year, it's not very nice at all. You need to take a look at those breathers though!

 

Squizz, i was sat behind you on the Parade lap.

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What fecking day, starting at 5:40 by Emma waking up and shouting "we have slept in".....

Managed to get to track at 8:10 and signed in just in time. Not enough time to try and adjust the suspension which would not give any decent negative camber.

**NOTE - From what follows, is my report of my very FIRST track day, ever**

1st session, very damp/wet, very scary, with 30 cars on track at once. Got braver as each lap passed, but couldnt get traction and then by lap 3 i had a clear road in front, gave it a shoe full coming out of Maggots/Becketts and misfire similar to fuel cut, look at tank, and its quarter full, wait till straight, try again, same again. Repeated till lap 6 where i spun after passing Neil, who was having problems. Called it at that, and went back to pits. 3rd in Class at this point, with 1 minute 20.


2nd Session, its dried up more, still not had chance to do the camber, but now have 25 litres extra fuel in, so just above 1/2. Confidence building, but same cut problem reappeared after 3rd lap on exiting corners, so after engaging brain and leaving it until straight till full throttle, i gave it more. Car still not hitting boost till late, 1500 rpm too late as we havent found the fault yet. Then, lap 5, **** pants moment going into Maggots, NO FECKING BRAKES, pump pedal fast, then it locked up.... OH ****. Managed to reduce speed enough to take the corner, but confidence was hit. Did one more lap, still had cut issue and car and me didnt feel right and no decent brakes! So back to pits, brakes smoking. 1 Minute 11 Seconds.

3rd Session, which i didnt realise, until 20 minutes before hand, was a one shot opportunity. Warm up lap, hot lap, cold lap. Off i trundle, with a now full tank of fuel, on me own, and at maggots the brake pedal is as soft as ****, so used gears to brake more, coming out of Maggots i gave full beans in 3rd and 4th, no missfire, lift early to test brakes for priory, good job, then half way through priory i thought, f11ck it, go for it, you have no brakes, no boost low down, what can go wrong! "snick" it from 3rd to 2nd before luffield, and nail it coming out of there, OMG, its stepped sideways. 3rd, f11ck were off, 4th oh ****, grass is coming, keep it down, late rpms of 4th lift and press non existent brake for copse, into 3rd, foot down on apex of copse, woah!, into 4th, then repeat for maggots, but then down into second, past apex, hard on power, drifting out wide, up through 3rd and to the top of 4th, lift and brake, into 3rd, into 2nd for priory, its feeling quicker, power out of luffield, into 3rd, into 4th through woodcote, felt close to grass, through line and lift off, ahhhh no brakes, pump pump pump, lock up!! See Video above. 1 minute 7 seconds.

Hell of a day, well happy with my first ever track day, and humongous thanks to Mark for letting me use his car as mine is still in bits.

Thanks to all who helped out, and who took part, made a great day. The Pro guys, are in another league!

Steven

 

Squizz,

Glad you enjoyed it.

I didnt have the heart to tell your better half (whilst queuing for the timed run) after a small conversation that I was running 1:13's in Round 2..... especially when she said you were gunning for me (after I recorded a very embarressing -for my car I mean- 1:19 in practice session 2 today).

Ho hum!

Regards,
Shaun.

 

Steven,

That is still a very respectable time, well done.

Regards,
Shaun.

 

Respectable enough to win the club class wasn't it.


Andy

 

Fuzz,

What drugs are you on? Whatever it is.... double the dose!

Regards,
Shaun.

 

Cheers Shaun.

Brakes are that bad, they wouldnt hold the car on the trailer when i was putting it back on.

 

My brakes were fine...... probably because they never got any use today, through such low track speeds!

Regards,
Shaun.

 

For Subarus, yes, 10th out of 33 in the finals of the club class, with the likes of Duncan Cowper, Jason Hulbert, Jeoff Stokes, etc. Curious as to how/why some had 3 or 4 laps in the final.

 

Oh. lol.....

I remember now.. Fastest Subaru not fastest in class..

Doh !!

I blame the lack of fecking food ALL DAY, screwing with my brain.

 

Ya big sand-bagging-no-sleep-4WD-Big-Brakes-Twin-scrolled-Webmaster, you...

PS - Thanks for letting me in the bloomin' queue!

 

Actually, I blame Fuzz/Andy for my abysmal times!

He set up the geometry at Powerstation...

 

Dont make me feel any worse.




Andy

 

Very well done to all that competed today regardless of the level. It is very easy to criticise from the pits or grandstand, but unitil you put your car and safety on the line, it's all just pub talk!

My experiences of Silverstone TA were very similar to Kev's in Mikee's car. Very little running full stop, just a few laps in the damp and then only 2 laps in the dry before coming in with a terminal misfire. New plugs for the hot lap, and I didn't know if it would misfire, spit the coolant out or both.

Much happier with the car than at knockhill, just beginning to find my way round the car more than the track, and the various changes have certainly had a positive effect on my car's handling and in paticular it's stability. Just a shame I've had only a few laps to really explore it, and I can feel there is much more to come.

Hot lap was good in as much as the outlap showed no misfire on the new plugs (old ones gunked up with leaded fuel deposits, again!) and it didn't push any coolant out the tank. My first opportunity to really drive the car was enjoyable to say the least. The ****** oversteer on corner entry that I had experienced at knockhill was totally gone, the car pulled up in a straight line on the brakes, and corrections were very positive and didn't send the car fishtailing.

From the warmup lap, a blat up the straight before braking too early for too long and going pretty slow into the first corner (copse), down the next straight with tenative braking (again much too early) and round the tightish hairpin (maggots?), up through the gears and on the brakes too early again, let off, coast, back on and into the luffield complex. Slight understeer while trying to balance car round luffield but managed to give it more throttle and pull the car in to get a good run round woodcote. Such a good run as it happens that the car started to dift out, still not lifting, car drifting out still, corner lightens a little, still not lifting, car drifts some more, 2 wheels on the grass, inside rear wheel rapidly trying to become the outside front wheel, very much lifting. In fairness to the car, it snapped back into line very well, so quickly that I was back in a straight line before I had had time to think over the possible variations of hitting the wall on the inside or the armco on the outside. Anyway, bring it off the grass whilst steadily going to full throttle and finish the timed lap, car still in one piece!

I would love to see a video or some stills of the "moment", I'm sure something will surface!

Looking forward to getting back out on track, somewhere, anywhere, as the car is just asking to be driven, and I'm actually beginning to like the drives rather than feeling like a passenger on a vomet comet!

Well, most of them! I'll hopefully narrow the gap soon though.

 

Paul - I have just the thing you'r looking for - will host soon - watch this space

In fact I've got most of you on film blatting down the start/ finish staight on your timed runs

Mind you Paul - the black lhd EVO wins the award for nearest miss...

 

Well done everyone especially Steven in his first outing Paul’s cool slide on the start finish straight was only bettered by the Greek Evo that made us jump off the pit wall!

Not our best day but that’s motorsport I guess Still there’s now just 2 points separating the top 3 going into the last round It’s going to be interesting
Cheer up Andy the pace is there we just need to sort out those breathers, de-brief in under 10hours lol

On the plus side our demo Type-25 went superbly, took 5 of us there and back with a few laps in between It felt amazing all day especially in the wet in the morning Got the bug now. Will run the Dunlops next round if it’s dry.

Iain

 

A few pics from today :

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a50..._wrx/D1GPR406/



Neil.

 

woohoo thats mine right there, abismal in the wet, with my 'ditch finder' tyres on, 1min33sec (Ahem), was sideways alot round corners, under/over/all over the place.com and 4 secs behind neilo (to be expected), went out wen it was drying with different tyres, what a laugh.

Still never got hang ov pit bend or copse and finished practice with 1.14

Then flying lap managed a 1.12 not bad for standard power train STi (i think )

Just need to learn how to drive, left foot brake, heel and toe (kept crunchin into 4th from 5th cos revs were too high ) etc

a good day out, and them eibachs i've had put on, need to be replaced with something that will actually lower the car

 

Enjoy my 1st selection of video clips - more tomorrow night


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I like this one



Fantastic photos Neil! Can I please use that one on our website?

Nice to meet ya Dill_typeR. Yeah, that ride height doesn't seem right. I've got some eibach's on my MY99 and it's much lower than that??

 

I had a fantastic day yesterday

Here are couple of choice pics

Will post a main thread in the WYIOC section with some of the 186 pics took

Good to see you down there shaun

 

It has to be said..... I'm pretty pee'd off today with what happened yesterday.

Many thanks to Phil Keen for passenger riding me for the second practice session. Showing the line to take and even simple things on how to hold the steering wheel properly (I kid you not) all helps....... it's just a same it was wasted on me.

Mick,
Nice pics mate...... at least the blurr on the background looks like I was going 200mph!



Regards,
Shaun.

 

Good pics, and vids, dunno how the zen car managed to hold on, thought it was a gonna

 

Really enjoyed yesterday, just a shame 1st session was equivalent to skid pan training

Brilliant clip of the brown trouser moment from the evo, although we had a good viwe from the pit wall

Shame about T25 race car but i'm sure all concerned will bottom it and will soon be back to winning ways

regards

stewart

 

A prime example of a "50 pence 5 pence moment" unless there are bigger coins out there

 

You´ve been watching me to often LOL

Nice one squizz

Tony

 

How cool was the day yesterday.
Fantastic support from Subaru owners, and it was great being able to drive 3 parade laps round the Silverstone track with 85 other Subarus.
Hope everyone that went enjoyed themselves

 

You'd have been proud, Master...

Next year, Tony, I wanna watch you giving it stick in the Time Attack.

Just to remind everyone that I do have an MY99 Impreza Turbo, and loved seeing all the different variants and hearing them going so well during the day. I missed the club parade though, as was getting ready for the Time Attack.

 

Anbody got the pic or video of the buggy doing Shaun under braking coming into Maggots

 

Hey ********!!!

You aint all that.......

Considering you only beat my best time (1:13.7s) from Round 2 by just over 2secs.... by a total numpty (me) behind the wheel who can't drive for dog poo. I thought you could REALLY drive.



And......

All the competitors were given free oil. Now P1Stew said to me "I wouldnt put that in my lawnmower". I thought "Well I think it's good oil, so as well as mine I will have his as he thinks it crap". When I come to pack up, this P1Stew toerag had not only kept his oil, but he had nicked mine as well. What a tramp!!!!!

Regards,
Shaun.