corradoboy

It's that time again guys The last one was a major success attracting a full turnout and, I'm sure we all remember, NATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE...




...and such shenanigins as this...



The event will be on Saturday the 8th April 2006

To give you an idea what to expect....
Video of DRY LAP
Video of DAMP (scary) LAP
Video of Dazza's overexhuberance
Video of Sticky's overexhuberance
Many pics also HERE

The Venue

Rallydrive is 10 miles south of Scnuthorpe just outside the village of Blyton, and is sited on a disused WWII airfield in the middle of a cornfield. As it is not a pure racing track in the mould of Donnington or Oulton, the surface is a little rough and there are some potholes (imagine TopGears track). The circuit itself has been set up to challenge the balance and handling of the professional racing and rally teams whom use it as a test facility, and so provides plenty of fun on its 1 1/4 mile lap.

Schedule

The venue will be ours for the whole day from our arrival at (hopefully ) 8.30am to sometime around 4.30pm, allowing plenty of track time for everybody. We will continue with our successful 4-5 token system with 4-5 cars on track at a time. Previous experience shows that most people do 3-6 laps (5-10 minutes) and then come off for a breather so everyone should get as much time as they want.

Facilities

Facilities are somewhat spartan so it's recommended that you bring your own refreshments, picnic chairs & tables and prepare for any bad weather we may have (let's hope for some rain ). I'm sure the WYIOC gayzebo will be making an appearance, along with one (or more) BBQ's

Don't forget your sausages, burgers and rolls for the BBQ

Costs

As before, this is a non-profit event organised purely for the fun and enjoyment of Scooby and other performance car owners, and the costs are to be shared equally and hence the price cannot be finalised until the day when we know exactly how many are there. As an example, if we have...
20 cars it will be £40,
25 cars is £35,
30 cars £30.

As last time, may I respectfully request that a deposit of £20 be paid to secure places. This can be handed to me anytime upto Friday 31st March,

You can also PayPal your deposit to my account at davidwatsonok@yahoo.com, but please send £21 to cover fees (3.4%+0.20p).

Your place will not be confirmed until a deposit has been received, and should there be more than 30 cars you may not get on track on the day should you not confirm by deposit.

Additional drivers to each car shall be £10 each, pay on day.
Spectators shall be charged at £5 each (under 16's free), pay on day.

Maximum 35 cars for the track

Tuition

Tuition will be available hopefully from the venue owner Howard Patterson, who has been an international rally driver competing succesfully for over 30 years. Many of the guys have had tuition from him or his staff in the past and will confirm its merits to anyone interested. The cost is £150, shared equally between those involved.

Getting there

We will meet up at 7.30am at Ferrybridge Services on the M62 to group up for a convoy to the venue.

And on to Blyton...
The route takes us along the M62 east to J35, M18 south to J5, M180 east to J3 then right onto the A18, right onto the A159 and down to the Optimax station. Then straight down to Blyton and left onto the B1205.

Green route (not pink)


SAFETY

Last but foremost in everybodies minds must be safety. On track we run 4-5 cars at a time with NO OVERTAKING. Any measurement of abilitiy will be done with a stopwatch. Off track everyone MUST observe a strict 5 mph limit. There will be people, and possibly children walking around the paddock area. Anyone thought to be endangering safety shall have a single warning, then be asked to leave the premises with no refund. Thankfully it has never come close to this, and I doubt it ever will.

Helmets must be worn by anyone in a vehicle on track, driver or passenger, so if you have your own it is advised you bring it, otherwise Rallydrive have a selection of sweaty used ones to lend us for the day.

CLICKY to show you what went on last time, and the time before CLICKY. Many of the pics have been cleared out, so maybe we could sort out a WYIOC Photobucket account with the password made known to members for anyone to drop suitable shots into for use by anyone in the club

Legal Bit

Your payments will be made directly to Rallydrive, and you will be asked to sign a disclaimer fully accepting that you understand the dangers of driving in an unrestricted area and that you accept full liability for your own actions and any consequencies resulting. Your contract of sale shall be with Rallydrive. By accepting to attend this event you also accept these terms and conditions.

As a final note, it is highly likely that I won't have a Scooby by the time of this event and so I shall be calling on all the kind offers of drives in cars made by friends over the last few months. I seem to recall Al, Barry and Phil in particular. And not forgetting Dazza's deal regarding the Atom

Sign up, pay up, turn up, have fun

corradoboy

Confirmed attendees (CARS)
1. Corradoboy
2. Celox Performance
3. StickyStuff
4. Scooby Drew
5. MickWRX
6. Jon C (special guest )
7. Zac
8. KevTurbo
9. Redman
10. PaulCrafts
11. scg
12. bgood
13. chrisgreenall
14. spufus
15. Dave Carter
16. Ritch96
17. C8 DHC 04WRX
18. JAKbauuer24
19. donaldmac
20. TonyClio182
21. Trickle
22. whoosh LANCEREVONET
23. dral LANCEREVONET
24. alric LANCEREVONET
25. SM (Monkey200) SXOC

Additional Drivers
1. JAKbauuer24's mate
2. Ritch96's mate
3.

Spectators
1. chrisgreenall +2
2. killa
3. kittens (LancerEvo)
4. The Grift +4
5. Tom Dick (MLR)
6. Alan C
7. ScottK's mate
8. Simon & Sarah
9. Daz-WRSport (as he hasn't got his Scoob now )


Non-confirmed/Non WYIOC regulars (CARS) You get moved here if the list fills and you don't pay the deposit

1. Stuart148
2. Dave Carter's Evo mate
3. Adam Striker
4. Carl * SXOC ???
5. Kes (323GTR) * SXOC ???
6. DJ MOD WRX *
7. DazzasAtom300 * ??? No Atom makes this a little tricky



Tuition Whole day at £250 split equally

1. JAKbauuer24
2. ScottK
3. spufus
4. scg
5. C8 DHC 04WRX
6. donaldmac
7. Ritch96

bgood

iTrader: (2)

Edited to remove my list too

Roll on April

MickWrx

Edited to remove list as Dave has imported the one from earlier

sure I was number 3, not that thats important

Talk about eager mate my sixth sense drew me to this thread even before it was finished

nice one David.

corradoboy

Too quick guys, I hadn't finished my list before you posted

scg

2 more to add to the list:

Confirmed attendees (CARS)
1. Corradoboy
2. Alan C *
3. StickyStuff *
4. DazzasAtom300 *
5. MickWRX *
6. Jon C (special guest ) *
7. DJ MOD WRX *
8. KevTurbo *
9. Redman *
10. Daz-WRSport
11. scg *
12. bgood *
13. Danny (Classic)
14. Ben (picks up WRX bug-eyed beauty tomorrow!)

Will get deposits off them Saturday Dave and then forward money along with mine. No doubt Mrs will be a spectator.

corradoboy

Simon, I've added them to the unconfirmed list. Existing WYIOC members go straight on the confirmed list, but with a "*" to denote they haven't paid the deposit yet.

Monkey200

I'll know mid-feb, thanks for the reserved places for SXOC

killa

iTrader: (7)

killa, watching and taking free rides and don't forget the coming late, not sure about running the car on, might bring a banger to see if we can kill it on the track

corradoboy

No probs mate Will be popping over to your forum to open up a thread soon

*AB*

Corradoboy,

I have PM'd an invite for the SXOC places to 5 of the members that turned up in October as I'd rather they be people I can vouch for rather than any old non-member that we get occasionally. I can post a thread in the members sction if you want but for now i invited :

Kes (323GTR)
SM (Monkey200)
Bren (erm ... Bren - the Apex S13)
SteA (burgandy S14 in the top right of the scanned pic from banzai)
Dr Bob (Hes a Doctor! - Green S14a)

Hope this is ok with you. I would feel responsible if we got **** turning up.

corradoboy

Superb I'll trust your judgement

white scooby

I may be in for this , just need to find a decent car for the day!

corradoboy

Maybe you and me both Simon

white scooby

Sold it already? Smart car is doing my head in but least its cheap to run hopefully lining up something nice for the trackday tho

Kev_turbo

Taking offers on a certain track proven, magazine feature BEAST

corradoboy

Just awaiting the offer and deposit to confirm, but the guy says he definately wants it. A little dependant on some personal issues that he's well on with sorting, so I may know tomorrow. I wish I wasn't selling though Awesome to drive now

scg

Dave sorry to p!ss you about. April 8th is double booked with Sheff Utd vs Hull City (how did I forget ), I'm more than happy to give it a miss and actually enjoy myself on this day at the track, but the other 2 won't now be coming. I'll paypal you my deposit later tonight. Apologies.

corradoboy

No worries Funny these Hull people

scg

Sheffield, Dave, Sheffield.

Simon WhiteScooby- Now Danny's not coming maybe he can lend you his Scoob

white scooby

scg - doubt it, he'll be afraid I'll drive it properly!

corradoboy

But people from Hull are funny

corradoboy

Not a good phrase considering the events last time

white scooby

Just phoned Danny. There's no way he's is lending me the scoob, he reckons it'll need an engine re-build and tyres by the time I've finished with it

scg

Who is this April? How much is it to "Roll On"? Is the price cheaper if we get more of us?

All I know is I'm NOT going last

chrisgreenall

So, what do people do for tyres then? Do you run track day tyres or do you just run on your road tyres???

corradoboy

Some have trackday spare wheels (usually available cheap from scrappers or places like Scoobyparts/Scoobybits etc) and others use their road wheels but inflate to 40+psi to minimise damage. The surface at Blyton is very abrasive though, so either invest in some spare wheel/tyres or accept that you may wear them quite heavily. It's the outer edge of the N/S front that takes the biggest battering through the hairpin (the video of Sticky up there ^^^ will explain adequately ).

chrisgreenall

Silly question this, but are classic and new age wheels interchangable???

corradoboy

I believe up to '04, yes. There are quite a lot of classics with WRX 17's on, but you may struggle with the STi 17's as I think they're 17x8 whereas WRX's are 17x7. 05 on have a larger PCD (5x114.5 IIRC) to accomodate larger hubs.

stuart148

iTrader: (12)

was looking forward to my second track day ,,,,but iv now sold my wrx,,,,now driving a X reg fiesta 1.6 zetec s (but not for long),,,,,fiesta+2k for my wrx not a bad price,,,,,,,,