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Bedford TD 17th of Feb

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#78 ·
godzilla said:
git-r2 said:
Also wanted to mention the racechipped PWG m135 is as quick in a straight line as M140 and 370 bhp focus RS :)
Complety agreee, a fantastic day and great to have such a good turnout.

Lol, I'm not sure about quicker round the corners, maybe more intent on killing tyres :bigsmile:

I also found the stock pads fine, only upgraded to the M4 stuff because they're the same money but they do offer better performance.

Christian :lol2: .. what he lacks in talent he makes up for in understeer! - he's racing his R32 GTR this year in CSCC. I'm going to reuctantly suggest that it will definitely be worth watching him. He has absolutely no mechanical sympathy whatsoever. And his old Nissan will be doing 40 min races :lol2:

You know the answer to the tuning question already, I'm surprised it's taken you this long ;)

What do you want me to do with your footage? I could just upload it to my channel? Not sure if I can email it as it's a big file.
 
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git-r2 said:
godzilla said:
git-r2 said:
Also wanted to mention the racechipped PWG m135 is as quick in a straight line as M140 and 370 bhp focus RS :)
Complety agreee, a fantastic day and great to have such a good turnout.

Lol, I'm not sure about quicker round the corners, maybe more intent on killing tyres :bigsmile:

I also found the stock pads fine, only upgraded to the M4 stuff because they're the same money but they do offer better performance.

Christian :lol2: .. what he lacks in talent he makes up for in understeer! - he's racing his R32 GTR this year in CSCC. I'm going to reuctantly suggest that it will definitely be worth watching him. He has absolutely no mechanical sympathy whatsoever. And his old Nissan will be doing 40 min races :lol2:

You know the answer to the tuning question already, I'm surprised it's taken you this long ;)

What do you want me to do with your footage? I could just upload it to my channel? Not sure if I can email it as it's a big file.
Yep, Christian drives like a true racer, i.e. he doesn't give a sh1t about his car! :lol2:
Will PM re my onboard footage.

BTW, where do we see the photos? I couldn't see anything obvious on the Javelin site.
 
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deanw said:
git-r2 said:
I'll be a whore and make a separate thread for vids, hopefully this will encourage more folk to come to our next BabyBmw World Series :) :) :)
The World Series needs to broaden its horizons and come up north! :)
Agreed!

I'm looking to book maybe 3 track says in the north around the first week of June if you could join?
 
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godzilla said:
git-r2 said:
Complety agreee, a fantastic day and great to have such a good turnout.

Lol, I'm not sure about quicker round the corners, maybe more intent on killing tyres :bigsmile:

I also found the stock pads fine, only upgraded to the M4 stuff because they're the same money but they do offer better performance.

Christian :lol2: .. what he lacks in talent he makes up for in understeer! - he's racing his R32 GTR this year in CSCC. I'm going to reuctantly suggest that it will definitely be worth watching him. He has absolutely no mechanical sympathy whatsoever. And his old Nissan will be doing 40 min races :lol2:

You know the answer to the tuning question already, I'm surprised it's taken you this long ;)

What do you want me to do with your footage? I could just upload it to my channel? Not sure if I can email it as it's a big file.
Yep, Christian drives like a true racer, i.e. he doesn't give a sh1t about his car! :lol2:
Will PM re my onboard footage.

BTW, where do we see the photos? I couldn't see anything obvious on the Javelin site.
Lol!

Sprite photography .co.uk for the pics :)
 
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Tight left turn that seemed to catch a lot of people out (including myself once - see the vid below) can skip to 3:20 to see me run out of road and talent.

That was early on (my second time out on track) and was my only mistake the whole day. Apart from Mark catching my back end wiggle -
Good job I checked my mirrors on that left turn I over shot earlier and saw this guy coming in way to quick otherwise he'd of taken me out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he made the same mistake I did and ran out of talent.


For my first ever track day it was a lot of fun and was as good as I was expecting. I learnt loads about my car and what it can (and can't do).

The car has far more talent than the driver that's for sure lol

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"Good job I checked my mirrors on that left turn I over shot earlier and saw this guy coming in way to quick otherwise he'd of taken me out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he made the same mistake I did and ran out of talent. "

There's a thread on the FB forum track time of that yellow Megan'e doing the exact same thing to another car on the chicane on the back straight. Last Knute five up the inside like a raver. So it's not run out of talent, he's simply a ****.

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git-r2 said:
Finally finished my vids:

Highlights of the day -
David (Godzilla's) M140 -
I'll be a whore and make a separate thread for vids, hopefully this will encourage more folk to come to our next BabyBmw World Series :) :) :)
Great videos. By god you turn in early to so some of the tighter corners which seems to correlate with how much tail wagging you get at the exit. Makes for great watching [emoji106]
 
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Graearea said:
Tripod!


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Looks like an old MK2 escort lifting the front like that! remind me what suspension and ARB are you using ? oh and how were the brakes ?
 
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Can't match John's tripod action tho
Birds suspension is a bit to soft for that.

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THETYRANT said:
Graearea said:
Tripod!


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Looks like an old MK2 escort lifting the front like that! remind me what suspension and ARB are you using ? oh and how were the brakes ?
M3 front arb, YOUR old rear so it's all your fault! Ha ha. Bc shocks. Not sure which or shat springs. Brakes were really good. No fade all day and a little more power than I was comfortable using. Especially once the tyres were warm as they started overheating the tyres :)

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Twenny said:
Tight left turn that seemed to catch a lot of people out (including myself once - see the vid below) can skip to 3:20 to see me run out of road and talent.

That was early on (my second time out on track) and was my only mistake the whole day. Apart from Mark catching my back end wiggle -
Good job I checked my mirrors on that left turn I over shot earlier and saw this guy coming in way to quick otherwise he'd of taken me out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he made the same mistake I did and ran out of talent.


For my first ever track day it was a lot of fun and was as good as I was expecting. I learnt loads about my car and what it can (and can't do).

The car has far more talent than the driver that's for sure lol

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Mind if I link to that video on track time?

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