Went to Llandow this afternoon to see what it was like (as some people in work are interested, so I had to do to honourable thing and try it out first)

I went on the 850 circuit. Am I right in assuming that the only difference between the 500 and 850 tracks is that on the 850 track the hairpin bend half way round the circuit is a bit further down. If so the this didn't look like a difference of 300m to me.

Also I was lucky in that a few others were there on their own karts (1 was the onwer/managers kart I think) and as they were using the 850m track he let me do 17 laps of the 850m circuit for £12.

The kart I went in was a 160cc kart. When I asked about a endurance event he said that for £35 per head we could have teams(2 per team I assume) racing for 1 1/4 hours and that we would be using the bigger engined karts (250cc I think he said). Are these a lot faster(or just a bit), as I noticed that the twin engined karts absolutely flew past me when I was going around and they seemed to handle a lot better too.

One thing I did notice was that the karts understeered much more than the karts you get on indoor tracks (it seemed that you had to drive them like F1 cars whereas on indoor circuits you seem to drive more like a WRC car).

Any comments on Llandow welcome

from
Paul G

 

should have added that I had a great time although I did fel a bit lonely being the only 1 there without my own kart (and the others had twin engined karts too which made it worse as I had no chance of keeping up with them).

 

hel as you go down from the pits in a straight line is the smaller track if you go around to the left at the bottom that is the bigger track,,

the karts are the same as the indoor ones <eng etc> the twin eng ones do about 70mph and are much moor fun to drive i raced twin eng karts <with the boss at llandow> at raf st, athens and if you go again you MUST go on thease lol

 

I asked about the twin engine karts and basically they won't let us use them for arrive & drive or endurance/grand prix etc. He said that they were trying to sell their existing engines and put twin engines on the karts(as the karts are designed so that they can have twin engines etc), but thats for the future

I looked on the web and theres a great looking kart place in Dorset called Clay Pigeon (strange name I know). They do twin engines and a 1 hour arrive & drive = £45, 20 minutes = £18 etc. This seemed like a good deal to me.

Anyone been there?

 

I did a 1 hour arrive and drive at Clay last year while down there on holiday. It is a lovely track, I really enjoyed it. Lost a wheel and ended up in the sand but at least it stopped me before I hit the wall. I thought it was a nice , fast track.

Cheers

Tracey

 

clay is were they do pro, racing im sure if we were to book an endurace at llandow i could agange to use the twin eng, karts.

ken makes all the karts himself so the limits are endless,,,,

 

If anyone does organise karting at Llandow they can definately put my name down (whether its weekend or evening - the joys of having flexitime) - especially if its the twin engines karts

Just out of interest does anyone know which are the fastest - twin engines karts or 2 stroke karts(as used on www.100club.co.uk)

Paul G

 

2strokes are faster <if running right lol>

but not by much 5-10 mph ish??

 

So are we organising a day out then??
Never driven a twin so I am interested!!
Besides, i have some revenge to get from the last one in Newport!!

 

lol i could arange it but would have go get a date off people and would need at least 16 people who are willing to spend £35ish

or we could do the paint-ball at cowbridge will cost about the same but last all day??????????????????????

 

Paintball will not be £35!!! May cost that originally, but once you finish buying extra paint etc. it is more like £100!!

 

only if you shoot like a nutter mathew lol

the 1st time i went i spent £90 on extra paint but the second time i went i didnt use all the 400 ***** your given...

you just got to be careful when shooting your load,,,,,,,,,,

<newport_w_scooby>...

 

I seem to shoot rather a lot though mate,
And it always ends up all over some poor sod!! Last time I eve hit the marshall from 10 feet away......



Of course I didn't use much paint!!!
Never could resist a cheap shot!!

 

so does that mean you,d be up for paintballing????

 

I'd be up for the karting (assuming its the twin engine karts). Saturdays or Sundays (or even weekday nights) should be OK for me.

Paul G

 

no probs hel i will put a new post up soon and see what the magority want to do <we done karting not long ago so people may wanna do something diff,>

anyway what car you got????

 

dont fancy paint balling
i am to old for rolling around in the mud
unless it is with a young (ish) blonde with
big **** and long legs
andy

 

Mozza!! You better get running mate, looks like Andy has his sights set!!! lol

 

LMFAO at Twigster!!!

 

yeah but andy said young <ish> lol lol lol

 

Just sold my car last week. It was an MY98 reddish blue, Full scoobysport exhaust, 17" OZ Super T Evos, Prodrive WR Spoiler.

I put the car in the auotrader but sold it to someone local before it even got in the autotrader/top marques - typical, and now I keep getting call about the car.

Had the car over 4 1/2 years(ie from new) and I will miss it - especially the sound of the full decatted exhaust

Getting a STI8 PPP(hopefully in the next month or so if it ever arrives)

Paul G

 

I've had the STI8 for 2 weeks now. Had the PPP fitted this Wednesday but I've still only done 650 miles so still taking it easy until I have the 1000 mile service done.

I was hoping that the PPP exhaust would be a bit louder. Does anyone else find it a bit quiet.

On the karting front, I rang Llandow today to ask about karting (the people in work want to try it there), but they still say that its just the 250cc single engine karts. If we are going to have any chance of getting twin engine karts it looks like it will have to be arranged through NWS (I assume that NWS knows the owner so has a bit of pull)

Can't wait till next Wednesday (1000 mile service)

Paul

 

Still interested in going, esp. after seeing them at Llandow today, very impressive!!

 

any news on the karting front?

Paul