A video i've just nabbed off PH. It appears that the corner is quite greasy.

If you want to skip all the boring spins, skip to 3:30 and watch that golf...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoxsmP5kXY

 

Jesus how unlucky was that gold owner

 

minimal speed and they still spin

 

Indeed he was. But still, he spent far too much time pissing about. He should of booted it and got out of there pronto!

 

ouch just watched the smash nasty shunt. shame about the xr2

 

Always the solution!

 

and that is why i love castle coombe soooooo much ..
that corner is fun in the dry ..

 

Cant say i've ever been there. Im surprised at how many people seemed to spin in what seemed like a relatively easy thing to save considering how slow they were going, but ofcourse, its hard to judge if your not driving.

A big shame about the XR2 though.

 

I thought EVO's were suposed to handle, i see a couple of Cossies get round there ok shame about the XR2 thou.

 

Nah you thought wrong. Evo's don't handle




Typical Quarry corner action at a wet Castle Combe, so much fun as long as you don't bin it. I've watched many spins, crashes and sweet power slides round the same spot.

Only spun there once myself, and I luckily landed up infield rather than out (where the barrier is )

There's a couple other good vids on You Tube of the same corner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0-zkEyHIE

That one is a favourite ^^^^

 

PMSL at 1:28 when the 3door goes round fine then some rice'd up evo spins out about 1sec later!

 

Its funny how the vid got to over 2 mins before the first EVO applied a bit of opposite lock to stop thier spin.

 

Holy fuck, just seen the gold and xr2 going off, bet that hurt the golf driver?? Looked really bad.

 

thats the track day i did

the evo's had no chance against my pug

see my vids for proof

 

pmsl at the speed i corner at and then a evo comes right behind and spins..lol

at 3:10

 

Whats causing that then? its it people trailing the brakes into the corner?

 

some of them drivers couldn't drive a slippery stick up a dogs arse there that bad.
first sight of a spin they don't get any lock on and just brake in a blind panic!
find even more amusing that as soon as they set off they boot it to the limiters to show the car is quick in a straight line,
power is nothing without control!

 

it was a wet greasy track, and people not taking that into consideration

 

If you don't have the talent don't risk your pride and joy. I certainly don't so I don't take the risk.

 

2:33!! Holy frickin crap!

 

aint that a BITCH! not only did he crash, he ran over his own bumper aswell! RIP XR2!

 

they should play that video in the safety brief!!

 

Had a giggle at that myself.

Guess the fella in the 3 door was just a far better judge of condition than the bloke in the evo who was probably wondering why the computer didnt sort it out for him

 

Must be gutting when your in your car and your slowly flying towards the barrier and there is nothing you can do about it

 

Surely if a lot of them had their stability control on they would have been prevented? I know people 'Claim' it slows you down, but it's got to be better than facing the wrong way, which slows you down anyway.

Regardless of where I am in my car and what I am doing, I never turn mine off and I certaintly wouldn't on a greasy track. All these fantastic features and no-one seems to use them.

Benni.

 

see i was thinking the same thing? most of them didn't even use opposite lock or even some throttle to controll the slide.

im not the best driver but i do a little drifting and some of those attempts or no attempts to controll the drifts were pathetic. watch the evo at 3.09secs, gets a perfect slide going but no throttle to keep it facing forwards, he could have deffo controlled that powered out and ended up facing the right way too.... cant understand?

 

the 3door and me were both on proper wets

 

just poor driving. it really shows who can handle a car and who cant! if some of them drivers went into Stock hatch racing they would get trampled all over.

 

Spiky - was that our "wet" day at combe? (cant access youtube at work)

Any of the primera on there?

 

yes it was matt

sadly no footage on that clip of yours, though the guy has LOTS of footage, but he made this up , basically making the evo's look shite, but i think was just showing the"moments" of the day

 

If you go into a corner with more momentum than you have the mechanical grip to rid yourself of, you are coming off the track.

 

If it was mainly evo's there, then its going to be mainly evo's spinning I guess!

 

WRONG, these are EVO's the BEST handling car's EVER.. PERIOD









and yeah there were 40-45 evo's out of the 80 cars of the day

 

Spot on Chip. In all honesty, i had a drive of my mates Evo5 that day as well (my first drive of an EVO in fairness) and i was surprised at how, almost unpredictable it "felt", despite all the electronic gubbins, there seemed little direct involvement in the whole cornering process. No natural balance of any sort, i'd even go so far as to say my shitbox of a nissan was much more predictable and trusting on turn in. True, they put the power down well once straight, but the finesse of cornering eluded me somewhat...

Not sure if it was a case of too many driver aids masking the feeling of what the chassis was trying to do?

 

and only about 15 to 20 car's left the end of the day,and none of them was evo's

 

I think the prang frightened a few of them off. At one point im sure there was only 4 of us on track later on!

 

yeah, they didnt like the prang,

i was happy, passing all the cars was great fun..lol

i had a moment, but only beccuase i wanted to see how much grip i had, soon found the limit..lol

 

Didnt i see you "nipping" accross the grass at the first esses at some point in the afternoon as well Steve???

 

yeah that was me stamping on the brakes after about 2-3 laps of the wets, test them

all caught on session 5 video

i was laughing afterwards

 

I can understand that but stabilty control would have saved a few of them. The moment the back end stepped out of line on a few of those, it would have been saved before it got out of hand.

I've played with mine on ice and it's kept me in check, so I'm sure it would have saved a good few of those.


Benni.