on board video footage from donington track day on monday is available at

 

John ....

Brilliant vid footage ...... the 911 was a good bit " oh look a 911 " looks like you were having a whale of a time .... the heavy breaking looked a bit of a scary moment though, but I noticed you kept it in a straight line

only took about 8 seconds to download here at work well worth it ....

Kev

 

8 seconds, bloody hell. It took me an hour at home last night

 

About a 1.28 then...

Thank goodness my Internet link is faster than your car...

 

John

I am on a fast link here in the office ... just no way of getting things home when I download them ! So it's a view 'n' dump !

but a crakin vid all the same, shame it was'nt forward mounted ... unless the speed blew it around

Kev

 

He just wanted to see their faces when he overtook them.

 

Was the safety car out in front of you or something???

Top footage John

 

I am still in shock

What a car! at 140 in Johns car felt like I was really having a nosebleed, no joke!

 

Hi All,

One lap was a 1.23 on the day. And the Lister Storms were doing 1.10 - 1.15.

I'm in the process of doing a few more videos for the 'net but will probably be in ASF format as MPEG is too huge.

And yes there is also forward facing stuff too. The "Exhaust-cam" however failed as the camera shut down after 2 minutes due to "Code C31:00 = Excessive Shock / Or Over heating"

Much of the footage is very shaky even using a very solid clamp. I guess camcorders are just not designed to sit in 140 mph wind flow I'm currently looking into a solid state camera system that uses very high res. "pinhole" cameras (x4) and a capture board/laptop combination. But as you would expect, not cheap

Cheers

Ian

 

John,

I'm getting enquiries from Flymo for a promotional video!

 

yep, my quickest lap was 1min 23 secs when i plucked up enough courage to take craner flat and got coppice right.

I recon on slicks i would be sub 1min 20's which is pretty bloody quick for a road legal car.

I was checking the lap times from the esprit last time at donno and that was lapping in 1min 16 secs on F3000 slicks and F1 aerodynamics with a 420BHP 5 litre V8, so my 1min 23secs looks pretty respectable.

It was actually quicker than a full race 4.2Litre SEiGHT on slicks in the esprits race.

Cant wait for silverstone now, gonna be on slicks for that i think.

 

Kev....

the brake lockup was cool...I was the passenger in the car at the time (correct me If I'm wrong john).

Those willwood brakes are top bananna...you have to be thinking quite quick as a passenger...it was quite hairy when we passed my expected braking point and we still hadn't hit the anchors...what I laugh...and I have complete faith in Mr. Felstead.

Ian
(Now resuming normal sleeping paterns after nearly 48 hours without sleep)

 

Ian,

Was it a case of finding out adrenalin's brown !! Does look a great controled braking manourvre

just wished I was in it at the time .....
K

 

John,

Excellent footage, are you sure you didn't speed up the film :-)

I've read loads of posts about you're car
before, here and on the RS site. I don't suppose you've got some technical specs / piccies etc available on the web ?

The reason I ask is, I'm having a friend round this weekend who is thinking about selling his MY99 to buy a shed (road car) and
a racing Caterham. Can't help thinking he's making a mistake buying a (1.6 Classic) Caterham when he could buy a Westie which he could later upgrade to a real engine (V8 / or Maybe a Cossie as per your's)

Cheers

Ps any more vid's available ? I think I may be able to sway him.

 

John,
Looks like someone speeded up the video and slowed down the other cars...
LOL
Mike

 

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<B>Does look a great controled braking manourvre [/quote]

Looked more like sorting out a cockup to me Kev LOL

Ian, i am curious. Why do you have to think quick as a passenger, i thought the idea was to not think at all

 

Ive just realised watching that footage! That was my car with the camera strapped to it mustn't grumble

 

John,

I had to think quick because I was half asleep...I didn't want to fill my pants with the nasty brown stuff by not anticipating an 'event'....it certainly woke me up

It was a complete giggle...

Ian

 

Bloody hell!

I wish all co-drivers were as alert as you!

Regards

Simon (jealous of all that power )

 

I've got some video from my MGF days here:

 

Has your site gone down? I keep getting redirected to some boring netcom page.

 

i have mailed ian watty to have a look at it. Hopefully all will be OK soon.

 

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