Cocker

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So for my birthday a few months ago, my Mrs booked me my first track day at Rockingham

Got up at 6am Sunday morning and arrived at Rockingham just after 8. There were lots of cars already there, some on axle stands, some being loaded off trailers, others changing wheels, so i thought i had better prep mine..... coilovers turned to the hardest settings and i was ready lol

After the safety briefing we got told that we would have 3 sighting laps first, and an orderly was was formed in the pit lane

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The first lot went out first, once they had completed a lap, i could see a bloke walking up our line talking to the drivers. he said 2 had already spun so to be careful

So after tour round the track we were ready to go. I was a bit nervous but soon found my stride. A few corners were pretty slippery but managed to cope OK. With each lap i found myself pushing a bit harder and was overtaking more cars than i had expected - perhaps i was getting more traction?

Anyway, after lunch i had a free 20mins with the instructor. He gave me good feedback saying i was taking good lines. He helped me out with a few corners i couldnt get quite right so after this i became more confident.

The fastest bit of the track was the bank approaching the start/finish line. In the morning, i was crossing the line at around 95-100mph. In the afternoon i was topping 110mph. It was quite exciting then stamping on the brakes down to 60 for the approaching chicane!

There were a few other scoobs there

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and a few other nice cars

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http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...9/DSC_0230.jpg (The Mrs favourite car of the day )

I must say my car behaved extremely well. The PF pads and Vredestein tyres were excellent and the coilovers really worked well. Had a little bit of understeer on some corners in the damp but it was all very controlable

A few pics of mine

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Lou braved the cold for 6 hours to take the shots......

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She also took the video camera, but where the spectators were, it was a bit tricky to get some good footage. This was the best one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy60C3c7JTo

So all in all i had a fantastic day. Managed 9mpg on the track - put in £130 of fuel

I found Rockingham to be an excellent track, some easy corners and some more challenging ones. Definatly want to have a go on another track soon!

Thanks for reading!

Dan

simon57

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popped your cherry..

brands in febuary then..

Phil

Oulton on Friday even

Phil

Replace URL with IMG and the posts appear in the thread

Cocker

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when i load them with IMG it always appears as a link. On other forums i'm fine. Would there be something wrong with my settings?

Phil

Copy the right link direct from Photobucket

Cocker

iTrader: (3)

IMG attached but all i can see is the link?

Edit - yay i can see the pics! Just ticked a box in my settings. Damn ive waited 5 years to do that!

Looie

Just noticed you ain't got no front splitter...... gotta be on the Xmas list....

Nice pictures and glad you had such a nice day for it....

Phil

LOL

At least its sorted now

Cocker

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Got another vid of me fraping GT3 and a Caterham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yd_2EyesXE

spally

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good write up there. 1 thing i never got round to doing was a track day in either of my scoobs was a passanger in a few. Oh well best wait until the little one grows a bit older then get another performance car and have a bash then