Trying not to be negative so I will say it was a cracking day out.
First and foremost have to bigup Trevor on the MLR stand for sorting out me and my friend Si with tracktime. Thanks for your help mate, I owe you a pint.
Secondly to everyone who was on the same session as me, for the good track manners and lack of ar$eholes diving up the inside/binning it/cutting us up. I get a bit possesive about my 3-door and I dont like it when people take liberties with its safety. Thankfully everyone played nice and I enjoyed it 10 times better than last year.
Also, to the owner of the silver Impreza, for getting a 3.93 0-60 while I was watching. Impressive. and thats an understatement.
Finally a few observations which made in impression,
On track: The amount of Sunny GTI-Rs that were spinning
The 5 second flame on overrun from the 500bhp RS500 which overtook me
The bravest man in the venue for taking a hearing aid beige Metro out on the circuit! he got a huge cheer each time he went round
day out.
astraboy.
I'll do shouts later. Am a bit busy atm! shouts to everyone I saw and met though.

 

astraboy

Nice one mate Did Chris not go?

Paul

 

After looking at the same old stands of parts etc last year said i would give it a miss . But glad i had a change of heart more on offer this year Abbey , Power etc and some very nice motors and max power laydees i for one enjoyed and my daughter too

 

good day out apart from overboosting which was very disheartening!!!

but i'll be back.

not as crowded as last year but generally an enjoyable day with the yellow gang from london!

 

track highlights for me....

the red makinen flying round....top driving!
the pink/purple golf....what a lunatic!
the purple tvr chimaera....****** gorgeous car!
watching the cossies go round. black 3 door was sweeeeeet

disappointments?
the skylines just didnt do it for me: the r32(gts?)) going sideways was good entertainment, but the r33's looked nothing special....strange!

the yank tanks....what was the point? boring!

the lack of a mass of scoobys going round. it was one of the best(and noisiest) highlights of last year.

but definately the best 'entertainment' was the golf...absolute nutter

 

whos was the silver impreza, any ideas of spec... as thats quick!

dAVID

 

I second Spudgun the guy in the pink golf was a LUNATIC :-o

 

The silver impreza which did a 0-60 of 3.9 secs was a totally custom built engine. 2.2, lightened and balanced, water cooled intercooler. 9k spent on the engine. wow.

 

They guy in the pink golf is a ****. No track manners at all. He nearly binned me and himself last year. I was going to have words this year if he was on my session but luckily I didnt have to.
Bellend.
astraboy.
P.S. No mate, Chris didnt attend, he was otherwise engaged.

 

Absolute magic day

The sessions looked safer as

1) cars lead out in two groups
2) sessions used the whole GP track
3) longer track time

IMHO

down side
1) Lack of scoobs on track(including myself)

2) The odd HiFi system with the volume turned up couldn't hear a thing

3) The poor Doctor who had to remove some Dolly birds hot pants that sunk in too far LOL

Tony

 

was it a national wasp meet aswell? dont see any all year, then at trax couldnt move for the nasty *******!

 

Spot on Spud, where the f**k did they all come from?! Your interior looks spot on mate, certainly got me thinking about a re-trim! How much did it cost you roughly if you don't mind me asking and where did you get it done? You can PM me on the MLR if you like.

Top performers for me were the R5 GTT, with 2 engines, putting in a 3.10 Sec 0-60, and the Sapphire Cossie, that didn't look anything special at all when it pulled up to the line...before banging in a 3.16 Sec...

 

I thought the black saff did 3.08 pretty bloody quick in either case.

 

The black Sapphire Cosworth, who posts as Rapid1 on the RS bbs, did two runs - a 3.16 secs 0-60 and a ****2.93**** !!!!

Fastest on the day! From what i have read, he hasn't spend megabucks on it and it's reliable. Big WOW!!

 

I saw it do 3.16. May have done another run that I didn't see. You're right though, bl00dy quick whatever!

 

2.93? Jeez, missed it...bugger! That is awesome.

 

Mu favourite was the Escort Cosworth which looked standard but lit up all four on its 0-60 run. Was so impressed with that that I've forgotten the time! Doh!
astraboy.

 

Some nice cars there and some total crap, did anyone see the light blue Cavalier with about 20 spoilers? Most funny. Track action was good , 0-60 was fun(shame you could see the times unless you were standing right near the start)
But the bloody stereos pumping out fecking UK garage music all bloody day was slightly annoying. Yes you have a loud stereo, so?
The PA systems near the pits were even worse! I'm sure that not everybody who goes to these events wants to be deafened by banging music.
Some of the driving around the infield and car parks was a bit stupid as well. Loads of people around and people gunning their cars through the middle of them. Can't believe no one was run over.
Still saw some great cars (not sure about Blowdogs bonnet though, are you going to get it sprayed? )but don't know if I'll go next year.

Mark


[Edited by Mark Champion - 9/9/2002 2:52:01 PM]

 

Did anyone have track time whist James Goulds 106 gti was on there? Apparently people in the stand where laughing at the fact that a 106 had gone out with scoobys and evos on the track yet was able to keep up quite well Anyone see it??

 

Seriously, don't ever count out those 106 GTIs - I had one myself before my Subaru and have to say that 'out of the box' they handle better than Scoobies round the curvy bits!

 

Second that, and with 170bhp and then 150BHP NO2 jets you have mad fun

They were in my younger days of course.

 

agree with 106 comments they are awesome little things on a circuit

 

Longun, did you see that rarther nice ladies oil flick 106?

That was class.

This one?





[Edited by cryptwalk - 9/9/2002 4:31:32 PM]

 

Did anyone get any pics or video footage of my red Makinen EVO on the track with the FTO's? (reg. plate looks like "TOMMI").

 

SwinYE5

it was done by jamie shaw at carisma in colchester (he was the one who did the cerbera at max power) and i think he was showing his renault 5 yesterday at trax.
the only thing thats untouched(for now ) on the interior is the carpet.
even the backs of the seats have leather, sun visors, abc pillars, the lot!
with all the custom badges on the exterior, the whole thing cost 2.5k and took 2 weeks. took longer coz we had to wait for the embroidery for the logos on the seats.

IMHO, probably the best thing ive ever done on a car.looks and feels like how its meant to be. i think they put additional foam in the seats too, they feel fantasticly comfortable yet grippy
i put a spec sheet and graphs in the front of the car coz ive done all this in just under 6 months and couldnt remember everything


still aint finished yet

 

Cheers Spud. I'm sure when you was looking at getting an Evo VI that you said you weren't going to go down the costly modding road on this one...

By the way I came close myself to buying your VI from Rich just before I got my V about 6 months ago.

 

Horgaxx-I watched you and it was wicked.You were getting bigger and bigger slides each lap for the grandstand.Everyone was cheering and clapped you when you came back in.
I just missed the purple golf and when I asked why he was being cheered when he came back in I was told it was because he was driving like a complete ****.
On the 200plus session Stu's Skyline sounded amazing until a diff let go.Andy Nicholl's Maestro was flying,hitting 140mph down the straight despite overheating and him backing off.Club owner Chris Mann made a good show of himself too keeping up with the Skylines in a Rover Turbo Coupe!
Saw the white WRX run 60 in 3.9 and 4.5.On his 3.9 run he got an excellent launch and just flew.Saw a RWD Saphire run low 4secs despite fishtailing off the line then when he changed to 2nd he was nearly sideways.

 

you wouldnt have been dissapointed with it if you had every tuner thats been in it says its good 'un...thank fukk!

i was gonna keep it fairly standard....but s0d it, i fancy 2.2 stroker and 25g nowi want to feel the blood drain from my legs, i want 400lbs/ft
and i intend to get it!
cant help myself

 

Thanks Skiddus. I had hoped for rain really The only corner I had difficulty was the one directly in front of the BRDC stand, just couldn't get it to kick at all

 

I thought it was a great day and good seeing your 3dr astraboy...its a pearl. I agree with your comments about the knobber in the pink golf as he just wasnt playing ball and had too much track spirit. I'm surprised nobody clumped him.

Bruces black 3dr was on a mission and so was his mates black S2 (which almost had pink side mouldings )

A great display of Scoobys of all different guises...

Who's the candidate that spun this then...any one?



Nath