Originally Posted by Porkie

to race around a track? do you want to come near the back in this race or something?

I'll have the best Radical £50k gets me and I will give you a wave every time I lap you

Unless it doesn't have to be a road car... then I would just get an old Single seater or maybe a nutcase race Kart.

Originally Posted by twoblacklines

Looked quick enough in that vid, though i know hes set it up for drags now, would be quite simple to change over to twins suitable for circuit racing i would have thought!?

Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird

It's obvious from your post that you have NEVER done a track day, as having the fast / quickest car on track is more boring than watching paint dry .

I recently did a track day at Snetterton, and in the morning, my car was the quickest thing there bar a Radical*. It made the morning THE most boring time I have spent on a track day that I have EVER been on . It was only made exciting in the afternoon when Gary turned up in his Evo VII, sporting 580bhp, shorter gearing, similar weight, identical tyres but inferior brakes. We then spent a few laps dicing with each other, which was great fun (cut short by my car's intermittant cutting out problem, which has since been traced to a fuel pump relay not man enough for the job ).

My most memorable track day ever, was at ND a few years ago, when I spent several laps chasing Dave in his Escort, and we were completely evenly matched. My car is obviously better specced (according to him ), but the playing field was levelled with him running slicks, whilst I was on full treaded road tyres (albeit VERY good ones ). I drove the absolute tits off the car to stay with him, and it was only towards the end of the session, when my tyres started to go off and we got seperated by traffic, that he managed to pull a few car lengths away. This was all supposed to be captured by Justin in his red Escort on video, as we nominated him to be camera car, due to the fact that he had 60bhp more than Dave and I, an R&D 1:1 direct drive top gear and Dunlop DZ02G track day tyres, so we thought that he would have no problem keeping up. However, we got so wrapped up in a little "duel", that he only managed to stay with us for a couple of laps, and then we slowly, but surely pulled a big lead on him . Obviously it was so good, because I was able to trust Dave's driving and know that we could drive so hard and closely without any problems. However, if one of us had had a monster engine, slicks, dogbox etc and had pissed off into the distance never to be seen again, it would have been rubbish and would not have stuck in my mind (in the same way as overtaking an RS Turbo whilst on track is insignificant and totally forgettable ). If I went to a track day in a Radical SR8 or the like, and monstered everything, I would come away from the track bored out of my skull.

Sorry for the ramble, but my favourite track day would be for everyone in equally powered cars .

*Where if I was in front and discourteous, he would NOT have been able to overtake, as I was CONSIDERABLY faster down the straights - however, as I know from my last engine how frustrating it is to be quicker through the corners but slower on the straights, once he was close enough, I indicated, came off the throttle and let him past down the back straight, as I knew the next sequence of corners after that, he would pull a significant enough of a lead for me to not be held up down the main straight.

Originally Posted by Benni

Thankyou for your long but interesting read, I have learnt alot from it. However, I never mentioned a trackday. I was thinking more along the lines of a race. And if you all had the same ammount of money to spend then surely you wouldn't be 'Wasting' anyone?

Benni.

Originally Posted by Porkie

I'll paraphrase.

Learn to read Rainbowcunt. and bore off.