I took Mike from MWM's dad out for a few laps in my clio turbo at Bedford today.
I was just cooling my brakes down to come back in though and happened upon Mike so decided to switch the cameras back on and follow him for a while to get a bit of footage of him in his ITBs and 438 cams clio as he was going quite well, then after I cruised past him on the straight at part throttle (me, he was flat out I think, lol) I spotted a big group of cars up ahead and decided that as my brakes were cooled down nicely now I may as well give his old man one last flying lap before we came back in (had been out for about half an hour straight at this point!) especially as there seemed to be a few cars up ahead which always makes it more fun.
I chased down the group of cars, got past most of them and then set after an M3 and an Escort Cosworth who were both going pretty well.
Then as I was passing the Escort Cosworth on the main straight I couldnt quite get clear of him as although I was quicker at lower speeds (due to power to weight I would imagine) once we were well over a ton, we were really evenly matched and I just couldnt pull away from him.
I didnt want to stamp on the brakes with him right on my bumper so I decided that I would really leave it late to brake for the chicane thinking that I'd then pull away from him as he got on the brakes and I didnt and it would give him some space, however he brakes really late as well so when I did get on the brakes I just didnt get rid of enough speed breaking that late (first time I'd really pushed my car down the straight so was perhaps carrying a bit more speed than I expected, not been doing about a buck and a half in a clio there before, lol) and I ended up getting a MASSIVE sideways slide on as I went through the chicane still well into the 3 figures, and I was pretty lucky to manage to catch it TBH.
The interesting snippets of rearward footage:
Clio 200 overtake
Clio overtake
Clio overtake
Focus RS overtake
M3 overtake
Overtake car that then spins trying to keep up
Overtake escos then sideways