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re: poor distances on the sportstracker, you'll notice that it doesnt follow the track exactly due to poor signal on the phone's GPS (would have been better with my bluetooth GPS but couldnt be arsed to set it up) hence why it reads the wrong distances. time is accurate on that one as it was manually pressed start/lap some of them aint accurate as they were set to auto-lap on the gantry, and with poor signal it didn't always do it exactly
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Post 291 on page 8 went missing for ages as can be seen from post 294
It was a genuine thanks post so I reposted it with the small edit as some southern gansta made a balls up
LIGAF now, who reads page 8 anyway
Rich your comment still stands
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just thought i would post up that sib and sketch seem to have made it back over here after our " gentle " convoy back, was a good weekend,,,,,, shame about neils gt2,,,,,,, oh and poor JC's hand checking to see if its getting a spark pmsl
shame about the issues out there but then again it happens, reference to the oil was that i check mine after and discovered i was low on oil, big thanks to JC's lot for showing me round the track,,,,,,, and for ripping the piss out of me all night for spinning the car with there songs pmsl
was good to meet bryan too, cheers for the lift to the pub and back,,,,,, told you there a bit wild,,,,,, even though 2 of em dont drink !!!
next time ill choose the right tyres as using understeer to slow the car dont work on all the bends ive discovered
nikki enjoyed her lap in JC's car and cant wait for the next one pmsl, sketch cheers for the lap,,,,, mate you can DEFFO pedal a car !!!
shame about the issues out there but then again it happens, reference to the oil was that i check mine after and discovered i was low on oil, big thanks to JC's lot for showing me round the track,,,,,,, and for ripping the piss out of me all night for spinning the car with there songs pmsl
was good to meet bryan too, cheers for the lift to the pub and back,,,,,, told you there a bit wild,,,,,, even though 2 of em dont drink !!!
next time ill choose the right tyres as using understeer to slow the car dont work on all the bends ive discovered
nikki enjoyed her lap in JC's car and cant wait for the next one pmsl, sketch cheers for the lap,,,,, mate you can DEFFO pedal a car !!!
jc is off his head though,don't seem to give a hoot about anything,piss funny,especially your pink shirt and dyed hair
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Post 291 on page 8 went missing for ages as can be seen from post 294
It was a genuine thanks post so I reposted it with the small edit as some southern gansta made a balls up
LIGAF now, who reads page 8 anyway
Rich your comment still stands
Post 291 on page 8 went missing for ages as can be seen from post 294
It was a genuine thanks post so I reposted it with the small edit as some southern gansta made a balls up
LIGAF now, who reads page 8 anyway
Rich your comment still stands
the black bags are ready fuck face
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re: poor distances on the sportstracker, you'll notice that it doesnt follow the track exactly due to poor signal on the phone's GPS (would have been better with my bluetooth GPS but couldnt be arsed to set it up) hence why it reads the wrong distances. time is accurate on that one as it was manually pressed start/lap some of them aint accurate as they were set to auto-lap on the gantry, and with poor signal it didn't always do it exactly
look at mine from a bike trackday at snetterton, it's rubbish (but then it was in the inside pocket of my leathers). would be much better with an external bluetooth gps
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/w...x.do?id=179943
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agreed. you can see it's not very accurate from the altitude trace - the nordschleife has a difference of about 300m from highest to lowest point but only shows as about 100m on your data. but the time will be near enough even if the speed isn't, so that is a very quick time that you should rightly be proud of
look at mine from a bike trackday at snetterton, it's rubbish (but then it was in the inside pocket of my leathers). would be much better with an external bluetooth gps
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/w...x.do?id=179943
look at mine from a bike trackday at snetterton, it's rubbish (but then it was in the inside pocket of my leathers). would be much better with an external bluetooth gps
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/w...x.do?id=179943
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just thought i would post up that sib and sketch seem to have made it back over here after our " gentle " convoy back, was a good weekend,,,,,,
nikki enjoyed her lap in JC's car and cant wait for the next one pmsl, sketch cheers for the lap,,,,, mate you can DEFFO pedal a car !!!
nikki enjoyed her lap in JC's car and cant wait for the next one pmsl, sketch cheers for the lap,,,,, mate you can DEFFO pedal a car !!!
The 'gentle' convoy back got us all back in the UK 2 hours early, so was worth it Also made the journey far more interesting i thought
Glad you enjoyed the lap of the Ring, we were defintely going some at that point! Next time will be better for sure though Hope you enjoyed the off-roading too, that was some of the best fun i've had for ages!
Also glad you and your better half got back home ok!
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ah yes FUEl, forgot about that, we used 3 full tanks in one day
unfortunately just before the engine let go, i filled her up again maybe ity was shonky fuel and i can sue the petrol station?
oh, and the ADAC guy wrote on the damage report "minor enging fault" recon when it comes back and it has a MAJOR engine fault i can pretend it wasnt like that when they picked it up? cry:
unfortunately just before the engine let go, i filled her up again maybe ity was shonky fuel and i can sue the petrol station?
oh, and the ADAC guy wrote on the damage report "minor enging fault" recon when it comes back and it has a MAJOR engine fault i can pretend it wasnt like that when they picked it up? cry:
What a lap fair play Jim, you done many miles round there, or did you pedal your car as quick as you dare/ragged? That tracker is a top bit of kit, easily available to the masses too?
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yeah off roading was MINT, i thought i was a good co driver,,, " yeah mate its not that steep", " we will make that no problems ! "
think its time to change the sig of yours though for another car,,,,,,,, maybe finish the escort before your too old to drive it too pmsl
ps: cheers for offering the pizza,,,,,, there we was driving on the motorway and i look over and your munching on a slice of pizza pmsl
what time you get back ? and what time as the train, SiB looked PROPER tired when he was on the ferry the poor sod
oh and cheers for not telling everyone your missus went round the ring quicker than me as that would be embarresing if people heard that pmsl
think its time to change the sig of yours though for another car,,,,,,,, maybe finish the escort before your too old to drive it too pmsl
ps: cheers for offering the pizza,,,,,, there we was driving on the motorway and i look over and your munching on a slice of pizza pmsl
what time you get back ? and what time as the train, SiB looked PROPER tired when he was on the ferry the poor sod
oh and cheers for not telling everyone your missus went round the ring quicker than me as that would be embarresing if people heard that pmsl
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A few pics here!!!
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingMonday
And a few from off roading
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingPicsMay08
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingMonday
And a few from off roading
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingPicsMay08
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was all knowledge, and having a good car, its not hard to drive fast if you know where youre going and youve got a car that goes and stops well. was passing all sorts of sorted porsches, just down to the fact i knew i could hold it flat out round the blind corners
was all knowledge, and having a good car, its not hard to drive fast if you know where youre going and youve got a car that goes and stops well. was passing all sorts of sorted porsches, just down to the fact i knew i could hold it flat out round the blind corners
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Jim thats why it blew so quick 400bhp out of a NA 3.0 is probably a good reason...but for me larropping round a race track flat out with no dry sump or big winged sump or not having a full sump of oil with an amatuer driver/owner would be more probable!...Maybe BSW has a Voodoo doll of you ROFL
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Jim thats why it blew so quick 400bhp out of a NA 3.0 is probably a good reason...but for me larropping round a race track flat out with no dry sump or big winged sump or not having a full sump of oil with an amatuer driver/owner would be more probable!...Maybe BSW has a Voodoo doll of you ROFL
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rich to be fair its easy to go round and round and not check the oil when the car dont use any
i checked mine after i heard about jims even though i checked it the day before i left, in the services and the morning i was due to go on the ring,,,,, never used a drop so never bothered to check till i heard about jim,,, mine was on the min by then and after another 5 laps the oil was down again,,, yet the drive home i aint used any oil and we was going at a fair rate,,,,, infact me and sib carried on doing the same rate on the A2 and ive used no oil so seems its just on track it used it ( how strange is that )
so i can see where hes comming from tbh
i checked mine after i heard about jims even though i checked it the day before i left, in the services and the morning i was due to go on the ring,,,,, never used a drop so never bothered to check till i heard about jim,,, mine was on the min by then and after another 5 laps the oil was down again,,, yet the drive home i aint used any oil and we was going at a fair rate,,,,, infact me and sib carried on doing the same rate on the A2 and ive used no oil so seems its just on track it used it ( how strange is that )
so i can see where hes comming from tbh
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A few pics here!!!
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingMonday
And a few from off roading
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingPicsMay08
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingMonday
And a few from off roading
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/AlexF2003/RingPicsMay08
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Alex some great pictures!
And just for you guys who are gettin back and havent read the entire thread.... just a bit of video from the trip.... click on 'watch in high quality' and it comes out much better!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=anHX138zAvw
And just for you guys who are gettin back and havent read the entire thread.... just a bit of video from the trip.... click on 'watch in high quality' and it comes out much better!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=anHX138zAvw
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Its either paranoia or it just gives you (or the service crew) something to do in service half the time.
Fluid levels and tyre pressures follow the same routine too
Competition / track driving is nothing like road or even "fast road" driving so you can never predict whats going to happen.
Unfortunatly its too late for you to learn now Jim which im gutted about, but lets hope others learn from it.
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7minutes? yeah right, RW doesn't even go that fast i do think i could go faster with some proper driver training tho, i know that i'm not the best driver, and some proper instruction would go a massive long way. Diva, fancy giving me some pointers next time round matey? you get lots of free laps
about 1k miles before this happened, the car did have a big oil leak, and was driven flat out at high RPM with next to no oil in (obviously i didn't notice), this probably didn't help, and i'm confident has contributed in some way. i'm pretty sure if it had not been allowed to run low on oil (both when it had this leak, and on the ring when it let go) that it would happily have run round to 200 thousand miles
anyway, like you said, lesson learnt, and luckily it wont be too expensive to put right, imagine if i did that to an M3 CSL or something?
oh shit thats just reminded me of one of my last laps where i had a "moment" i was going round with Diva in the passenger seat, and we were going at a fair old pace. around about adenau we came up on a 911 turbo who i managed to pass easily on the long flat out sections (could tell the guy didnt kow the track). but in the sections between the karosell (sp?) and bruchen(sp?)/showboat his far more powerful car allowed him to catch back up and he was itching to get back past me. i very kindly allowed him to pass, even tho i know i'd have to pass him again shortly (aren't i kind) anyway, as we went through Pflanzgarten (long flat out/blind section at the end just after the small steep dip) i was riding his rear bumper, pedal to the metal, with my left indicator on to show that i wanted to pass, nout wrong with that, expected him to pull over as we were now on a straight where you can clearly see where the track goes. (we're doing about 100-110 here)
no, he piles on the anchors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think i small amount of poo came out...
with ABS going MENTAL i just about managed to swerve to his right and avoid hitting him at high speed (his brakes were so much better than mine i ended up level with his drivers window!) and if it wasnt for ABS i may have even spun the car here
such a lucky escape, just goes to show you have to be really careful for other people doing STUPID things even when you're driving is fine
anyway diva, did you get his plate, might get his address and send him a poo in a bag
about 1k miles before this happened, the car did have a big oil leak, and was driven flat out at high RPM with next to no oil in (obviously i didn't notice), this probably didn't help, and i'm confident has contributed in some way. i'm pretty sure if it had not been allowed to run low on oil (both when it had this leak, and on the ring when it let go) that it would happily have run round to 200 thousand miles
anyway, like you said, lesson learnt, and luckily it wont be too expensive to put right, imagine if i did that to an M3 CSL or something?
oh shit thats just reminded me of one of my last laps where i had a "moment" i was going round with Diva in the passenger seat, and we were going at a fair old pace. around about adenau we came up on a 911 turbo who i managed to pass easily on the long flat out sections (could tell the guy didnt kow the track). but in the sections between the karosell (sp?) and bruchen(sp?)/showboat his far more powerful car allowed him to catch back up and he was itching to get back past me. i very kindly allowed him to pass, even tho i know i'd have to pass him again shortly (aren't i kind) anyway, as we went through Pflanzgarten (long flat out/blind section at the end just after the small steep dip) i was riding his rear bumper, pedal to the metal, with my left indicator on to show that i wanted to pass, nout wrong with that, expected him to pull over as we were now on a straight where you can clearly see where the track goes. (we're doing about 100-110 here)
no, he piles on the anchors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think i small amount of poo came out...
with ABS going MENTAL i just about managed to swerve to his right and avoid hitting him at high speed (his brakes were so much better than mine i ended up level with his drivers window!) and if it wasnt for ABS i may have even spun the car here
such a lucky escape, just goes to show you have to be really careful for other people doing STUPID things even when you're driving is fine
anyway diva, did you get his plate, might get his address and send him a poo in a bag
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Jim, nice one, never been but have a rough idea of what a good lap time is there
Er, weren't you being a little stupid riding his back bumper at 100-110 considering you weren't racing him Presumably not wearing helmets, roll cage, etc... This sort of stuff is fine in touring car racing, but, on the ring with unknown people around you
Er, weren't you being a little stupid riding his back bumper at 100-110 considering you weren't racing him Presumably not wearing helmets, roll cage, etc... This sort of stuff is fine in touring car racing, but, on the ring with unknown people around you