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Event details are here
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Anyone else fancy going?
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Any help or experiences gratefuly received
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tony2311 wrote:elvington is great fun, not much to hit when you slide off,but its jan so it will be freezing and food its a mobile cater van so no indoor warmth!
not much fun walking the pit lane and see other cars in freezing wet on a sunday afternoon, so i advise to go in march and not before.lots of track days at elvington if you look on uktrackdays.co.uk
michael wrote:I've done a day up at Elvington and had more fun than Donington because I felt a lot safer pushing the car way beyond it's limits, it's a confidence thing I guess, you don't seem to suffer that judging by my passenger ride with you
Certainly lots of fun but the tyre wear puts me off a return visit, had a few scary hight speed sideways moments into the grass and picked up a scuff on the back end after taking out a cone at daft speeds but it was huge fun.
Worked out very expensive for me due to going through a set of tyres, two tanks of fuel, a pair of glasses that I sat on and realising I needed better suspension and engine cooling, if I had the spare cash I'd do it again though.Should be a bit less abrasive if it's as icy and snowy as today, plenty of chance for some huge goonage fun.
Some pics and a small vid from when I was there on the IMOC day.
http://www.megaboost.co.uk/supra/mine/e ... n-trackday
A huge mix of cars there that day, including a Noble- chap had obviously just got it though as I passed him a lot.
jonno wrote:
My main concern about Elvington is tyre wear to be honest- I also want to get another day in before Feb when I have some more mechanical work planned.
jonno wrote:I am considering this event but i have never driven on an airfield day before, anyone been on a trackday on an airfield before?
Event details are here
http://www.bookatrack.co.uk/-pB?541&showphotos
Anyone else fancy going?I quite like the idea of being able to push the car further than i would normally do on track due to the extra runoff
- do they still red flag the circuit when you spin off on an airfield day?
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I also like the idea of seeing how my car compares to the Noble M12, especially after all of the jibes from the Noble Motorsport engineers whilst my engine was being built!,
Any help or experiences gratefuly received
Neil.
jonno wrote:
The supe was looking pretty chuckable in that video!- nice recovery too
I think i will give myself a couple of days to make my mind up though..
.i am really concerned about the tyre wear rate
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jonno wrote:Thanks guys!
Thanks for the offers of free tyres, I have 4 new 215x40x17's in my shed and i cant get any wheels smaller than 17's over my brakes!.![]()
I guess I need to source a cheap set of 17's for airfield days then?
I like my S03's on tarmac tracks but I have always avoided concrete airfields because i was worried about destroying my tyres in one session!.
Ebay here i come..
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JJ wrote:I'll probably leave it till the last 2 days again and decide!
It usually always snows then jonno
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Tyre wear, crikey! the surface at elvington, I recon you can defy physics cornering due to the abrasion on the track.
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Cornering will be fantastic in the dry and the wet
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Even the nankraps stand a fair chance at holding the cars in line
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I'm 90% there as long as the exhaust is sorted out on mine and get to throw my turbocharger at some saxo!!
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I'll provoke gtschris to come again!
michael wrote:I appear to have just purchased a 3rd set of Supra alloys with fairly new cheap and nasty tyres on so hopefully I'll be at this event to destroy them
michael wrote:Andy seems keen
I have a spare room..
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Job done
Chris- how much tread was on those tyres when you got there? That's a lot of scary fabric.
Optimax is easy enough if you know where to go, BP Ultimate is even easier..
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We need a support van with our spare wheels and tyres in.