Today Azrael won a competition in TrackDay in Slomczyn RallyX Track...He drove...EvoVIII MR - I hope, you will forgive him that :-P












Cheers!

 

WOW now thats my kind of trackday with tarmac and gravel surfaces!!!!!!!!

 

thanks Owsik :-D


Was great day. Great car too. Driver was OK, could be better.



Oh and one more thing..... GOD HOW I HATE FOOKIN ABS....

 

 

Smart!

 

 

Nice one Jakub

 

Some more

 

This one is so cool!! - it's much bigger actually

 

Excellent result mate, well done

 

Nice pics there mate! Pleased for you!

Did the bird like it in the end?

 

What do expect, its an EVO

 

She did. I think...

 

There were other Evos and got handed their asses (is it correct expression?)

 

 

or maybe I should say - I hope.

 

Class pic's well driven

What did you think of the car?

Were you applying the handbrake to initiate the slides?

 

Thanks a lot

It was surprisingly fast. Didn't feel that but when checked against stop-clock it shows to be really fast. Feels a bit heavy but does everything what I like it to do. It's very reassuring. I never made more then 20 miles in it altogether so it's quite easy tolearn as you can see. A bit to nervous in tarmac mode in this conditions was very controlable in gravel mode. Small and quick opposite lock input counters rear end steping out in corner exit with ease. Corner entry understeer is even smaller then I expected in those conditions, absolutely none detected on dry tarmac road later that day. ABS brakes are absolute rubbish in this conditions and from what I know impossible to disconnect - shame, but pretty typical on newer cars. I really hate ABS, what is it for on sports-cars? Reacts nicely to left foot braking even with ABS though. Great car, although I don't know if it's good for learning - it handles far too easy and gives a lot of confidence to begginer, can be lethal with big mistake though. The owner nearly crashed it when he lifted off and gave it a bit too much opposite lock at the same time.
I tried it later on road (just small bit) and it has verynice ride, although I would say this MR Bilstin equipped verion is a bit too soft at very high speeds on tarmac, read end especially seams a bit unstable at 200+kph, in rallycross track conditions suspention is just perfect.

Oh by the way - this was non - AYC car, only equipped with ACD and plated rear diff instead of AYC. (US-spec car)


Handbrake? Absolutely no, what for? The Evo has a lot oversteer, just a small bit to much in slippery conditions like this - too much for speed I mean. Not something that I would fight in road car though, just perfect, in raly-car this would have to go.

By the way - handbrake is rubbish, at elast on this one - used it once to save situation after overspeeding into corner and there was hardly any effect. I must have my mate who owns the car check if it function correctly or maybe needs adjustment.

 

cool mate

 

Andy_R was it your steering-rack that fallen apart at the Ring? What was the end of the story?


sidewayz thanks mate, I think I kind of fit your nick on those photos

 

The rack was a little noisy after the ring, but was replaced under warranty on returning home.

The car did have issues due to having the incorrect wheel nuts for the Compomotives and a stud shearing, was an easy fix though.

 

Good reply aswell cheers

 

Incorrect nuts - hehe my nightmare from last week. I spent whole two days looking for correct nuts for those comps I used at the track, not easy to borrow those. Was easier to get wheels of competition car then nuts

 

I hope my impressions give accurate describtion of the character of the car. I hope I can compare IX and STI MY'06 sometime soon - this might be close, altough they feel completly different.


I'll try to bring that VIII MR owner to the Ring next time I bet Evo would like it there, even though I wouldn't be as quick probably

 

Andy_R

Azrael's always yanking it on mate ... every bend
Wears out h/brake cables quicker than I can do a set of Bridgestones.
(I have had the privilege of being "chauffeured" about by him in his Escos in Crakow)

Great stuff ... sorry about the car tho Az

 

Al you fookin'....... How many times did I use the nadbrake? Like TWO??? In many hundred kilometers!

Why are you sorry for the Evo?

 

well done

 

 

Thx mates I'm just doing my best.


I think I'll have this sentence I found recently on rear bumper next time "God has given me talent, but forgot about the budget"

 

Video from this event:
http://video.google.pl/videoplay?doc...17445625&hl=pl

 

Only about 2 seconds of me though :-(