Trout at Ten of the Best
 

Went along to the practice day today for some sprint experience. The top car today gets a free entry for tomorrow as an invited car. Running standard road geometry, Pilot Sport Cup tyres for the first time (Geez they are scarily free of grip when they are cold!).

Nice and clean ready to go

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Stickered up and ready to run.

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Results at the end of the day.

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Beaten by one car - a pro-tuner stripped out special Evo with over 700bhp. The car that was third (over 500bhp) did nearly catch me at the very end of the day with 41.74s. Absolute top day out and great experience wet and dry. Excellent value for £40.

The next sprint days are August 22nd and September 12th.

Back again tomorrow as I qualified as an invite car! :D

Good time.

Good going :D also nice to see John Felstead up there again ;)

Tony:D

Well done fella :) even beat John Felstead who is a driving god :notworthy

TX.

Looking forward to running against Zippo at one of the sprint days! Should be fun ;) :D

What power is your car running trout?

Totally standard GT3 with road geometry. As standard these run 381bhp and 284 lb ft.

Never had mine dynoed although these numbers seem reasonable.

very good results then mate well done,must be the driver;)

The car has a very good chassis ;)

can't argue with that trout,but dont be shy to admit mate you must know how to handle a car well done:thumb:

:D

Not bad for an old mans car ;)

Driven by an old man as well :p

Picture of the pedal car on track

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Very nicely done!!

LOL at the Honda CRX time though....!

I think he might have spun off and not returned!

Car did well yesteday considering the competition :)

Banny

sweet ride n standard 2. wicked time compared 2 the other cars running mad horses.

I wonder what the cost involved in getting an EVO or scoob to do thaose times compares to a cost of buying a second hand GT3 with some sticky tyres? Bearing mind the running costs of the GT3 might be cheaper (less likely to blow up or or munch its gearbox :D ).

That Talbot Sunbeam posted an impressive time :D

On Sunday I made a mistake of doing all my runs first thing as in previous years the queues for handling were horrendous after lunch.

The track was 1-2s faster in the afternoon as the dust had been cleared off and there was a nice layer of rubber that had been left by the Evos and Jonny Milner in his Celica. Also the corners tend to get 'smoothed' off as cones are knocked out and not quite returned! I might have even broken into the 39s.

Ah well - lesson learned. Back next year :D

The Talbot Sunbeam was awesome.

On Sunday I was interviewed by the 'telly' and they asked me why I would bring such an expensive car to TOTB!! I was thinking that cars like the Banana have probably had more spent on the engine and box alone compared to a relatively 'old' 911.

wat tyres were you on b4 n did the cups make big diff? is there a list of times from yesterday?

It ain't standard though. Says you have a 3.8l engine in it?

It was a typo. You know fine well the car is standard. :rolleyes:

Cups were very good when they were warm. Pilot Sports probably better cold.

Once the Cups were hot the grip was fabulous, easier to hold in a slight drift without the backend getting lairy.

As it was hard to get the tyres hot on the Sunday it would have been good to have even softer tyres. When Andy Forrest changed tyres to super softs for the afternoon he was immediately 2 secs faster. At least half of this was tyres.

The Evos run very soft tyres.

Ive got some superb pics on the day, one with your car driving on the handling with the military plane in the background.

Would make a nice screen saver.

I'll get them uploaded soon.

Rob

Trout - Is your 911 ghey paddle shift or manual?

Good God man!! It is a GT3.

The only electronic aids it has are air con and the radio.

Six speed manual box, no electronic aids, no traction control, pure RWD bliss! :D

Sounds fab Rob! If you have a high quality one you could send me that would be great!

Well done Trouty me old mucka! :thumb:
Showed those Japs a thing or two :cool:

Shame I forgot all about it....

Anyway, you'd be way faster than me in mine - even with a near 100 bhp deficit.
The turbo's just aren't made for the track what with the weighty 4wd (and the driving non-God that pilots mine ;) )... and the crappy Pirellis I've just had fitted.

I'd race that CRX...

But that's about it... ;-)