donington park trackday Options

[mrgt4]

well we went to donington on friday afternoon, blistering sunshine with barely any wind meant i didnt want to run much more than 1 bar boost even with the fmic, i only set it to 1.04max boost, still ran very well with tyres sticking but my brakes as i already knew would suffer(i went with the intention of fitting my new discs and pads after killing the old ones at donington... i succeeeded. :lol: )

we arived there and saw some immense cars had lined up in the garages, carrera 4 turbo, lambo guardo (or howver it spelt) a mental rover SD1 , pug 205 with 206GTi 180 on tb's and all sorts of different motors, you name it and 99% was there!

the day started well, some good laps round and all of our cars were holding out well, the old supra motored round chasing down the 911 carrera 4 s or whatever it is called and no matter what the porshce did, in the end couldnt get away from the old boat!

phil and chris in the gt4 and evo4 hooned around as ever, and i potterd round getting faster with the more laps i did.

with a passenger in steve whos been around the nurburg 4 years running i did 2 very quick laps in which i pulled back on a sierra cossy and chris evo although they were far too far ahead to notice much for the crowds....

at 7.30 the lambo dissapeard of the track after multiple complaints of noise from the marshalls, and after a blistering blast down the pit straight with alex in the supra and me in the gt4 flat on the loud pedals at 120 on the pit straight the next lap whilst in the pit the dreaded marshal came over to complain of the last few laps being well over the 100db mark for alex's old beast, thankfully, the blitz baffle lowered noise enought for the marshalls to be happy, the fun continued all the way to 8:30 in which we were all gutted to leave, once again, donington proving to be a thrilling circuit, my brother 2nd year running turning up in his GTFour WRC to say.... "i wish i was out there"..... and so he would, again, a great night and cracking weather to boot with no hiccups bar phill grass tracking due to a muppet in a cateram nearly hitting him! :twisted:

but a great day! heres some pics, more as they come!

and the garage was open, the cars see the light..


phill coming down the pit straight after chasing down and passing the cayman s


the team in the garage..... yes, my car was close to popping a boost hose off, i expected this might happen so came prepared... some time later and she was back in action..


after 7laps phils car was rather hot... some cool down time required i think!


the teams old supra 2.5TTR special edition beasting down the straight


phil going down to the twisties



chris giving it the beans on the first bend off the pit straight!



me coming in to land after i cooked the brakes on the 4th lap... coming down that dunlop straight at 130 and having brake fade.... ver scary! lol


on one of my fast laps, i thoroughly enjoyed this .....


chris and phil, just how it should be.. the GT4 showing the evo the right way around the track..


the big old boat getting ready to roll out onto the track


phill gunning down the straight with a rather small airplaned flying right over!



some randon ones of cars on the day too






plenty more to come with video footage too!!!

[jjbenzo]

Cool pics!

[zero07]

I like!

Cant wait to see the videos!

[mrgt4]

gordon realising how ford cant make engines... therefore cosworth had to do it..... lol , but then the driver of this sierra cossie was a bit of a muppet and caused at least one red flag... therefore closure of the track till his car came off the gravel... moron


i hate to admit it... i dont know what the hell was going on here, probably saying how good phill was at driving! my god was he ever, safe and fast.


the team inthe garage having a chat about events going on on track and cars performance..... or the lack of it from my brakes!, however the record temp was 359.8 degrees celcius and that was chris' evos discs... that is rather warm! lol


totally random one of me for some reason!


phill on the trip there


alex behind on trip there


alex belting down the pit straight


me onthe straight


chris


god i love my fmic!


phils motor... ncie and shiny

[Celicav]

Thank you for sharing! I'm very jealous. I love these pics of people taking their cars on the track, esp. those in Europe. My Dad was in the military, so I have been to some of the big "Rings" in Germany including Hockenheim (many times) and Nurnburg. Those were some of the best times in my young childhood, back in the 80s.

[mrgt4]

no probs dude! i will make sure taht i get or try and get plenty of photos in july when we go tot he nurburgring!

as for these i have more photos and videos when the guys and girls upload or give me a copy of the buggers!!! stillw waiting on the videos.