After years of saying I really want to do a trackday I finally got round to booking myself a day at Bedford Autodrome. It was to be a final hurrah of 2013 before winter sets in and the SC goes in to have various body and mechanical parts sorted.
Servicing was all up to date, the brakes and tyres were fresh, Id bought extra oil, coolant etc just in case and spend ages in front of YouTube videos attempting to learn the 3.8 mile GT circuit. Id even bought a helmet!
And then the clutch went
Yes, yesterday evening while going for a final lets check it all still works run I noticed the clutch starting to slip. I thought (in vain) maybe it was because its cold, so went for a longer run still slipping, worse now.
bu88er.
So what do you do when youre less than 12 hours from a trackday youve paid for, and your planned car becomes a particularly wedgey paperweight in the space of minutes? Take your daily? Even if its a massive diesel BMW with comedy suspension and snow tyres?
Sure, why not
And I had an absolute blast. I was nervous from the outset that everyone would rip it out of my ill-chosen steed, but everyone was very accepting. In truth it only managed a total of four laps during the day mostly because the brakes on a 525D SE simply arent up to any form of hammering! One lap was enough to cook them
Massive thanks must go to Pete Mason for willing letting me thrash his fantastic little mk1 round the track for lap after lap it was epic fun and really whetted my appetite to sort out the bloody Supercharger (which is in the dog house at the moment!) and get it on track ASAP.
If anyone would like to watch a rather boring video of the Beemer doing its thang (ahem), have a look:
http://youtu.be/QaJYa800z7Y
This was more to prove it happened than anything. I was more worried about not cooking the brakes than about thinking about lines, as youll see! My driving in the MR2 was much better (Id like to think!) by the end of the day
And a pic of the two warriors together:
My First Trackday
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My First Trackday
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It was awesome
Good to see the mr on track in vid
Cracking little cameras aren't they
My vids uploading at the mo
Next one soon as poss
Good to see the mr on track in vid
Cracking little cameras aren't they
My vids uploading at the mo
Next one soon as poss
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vid 1 is up
takin it easy this one due to bens brakes.. but good for a laugh forrowing bens 525..
this is the camera in the mr2 from the vid above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN720rsm9mU
takin it easy this one due to bens brakes.. but good for a laugh forrowing bens 525..
this is the camera in the mr2 from the vid above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN720rsm9mU
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Ben's last run of the day in the mk1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu1r31Ds9Fk
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Much more interesting video, that! What a brilliant little car
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Love the commentary "Hehe, Oh he's in trouble!"
Re: My First Trackday
Donato wrote:
Love the commentary "Hehe, Oh he's in trouble!"
Oh yeah, we were really sympathetic
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