whitestu
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 12:37 PM |
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Some North Weald Locost Day Videos
Here you go!
Youtube
Stu
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nitram38
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 01:08 PM |
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Bit of a bad habit.......driving with one hand! 
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scudderfish
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 01:15 PM |
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And you never lost it. Booorrrrinnnggg 
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gingerprince
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 01:45 PM |
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Aaah "the corner". When I did an Andy Walsh day a couple of years ago in my Indy, it was soaking wet. I couldn't get traction on
the straight never mind the corner :O
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whitestu
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 04:23 PM |
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quote:
Bit of a bad habit.......driving with one hand!
Nitram 38 seems to have mistaken himself for my wife!
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MakeEverything
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 05:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by whitestu
quote:
Bit of a bad habit.......driving with one hand!
Nitram 38 seems to have mistaken himself for my wife!
Oh theres soooo many jokes there.....
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
...You can make it foolProof, but youll never make it Idiot Proof!...
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hicost
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 08:09 PM |
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North Weald
Good vids Stu.
Time for a bit of honesty.
The organisation was great and it was good to meet everyone.
But.............
I hated it, not just a little bit, every bit. I even had a phone call over lunch and my chips got cold.
I have done over 100,000 miles in my car all around the UK and Europe and being told to see how fast you can go around a corner continually for a
morning took the biscuit.
The said corner was unmarked and we had to miss an imaginary wall once around it. It took about 40 seconds to do then you queued up for ages till the
other 20 cars went through. Car got hotter and hotter intercooler temps went through the roof.
I would not mind but the corner was not even smooth, the last time I used the car was a 6 Hour endurance race at Mallory so it was setup to stick to
tarmac and I knew the point of let go was going to be very violent when it happened and that was not what I was there for.
In the afternoon, two circuits. One you could follow the other I turned up to I might as well of blind folded myself. I took a nice young lady out who
showed me the circuit and then proceeded to tell me how I could improve.
I said thank you and put my car on the trailer and went to a meeting up the road. It wasn’t the fact that she treated me like a school boy, you are
never too old to learn, it was the fact the circuit was unmarked and when the groups had been split and I had no learning time. Also the queues where
longer than the other track.
I don’t want people to think I was being a primadonna, I have driven my car on pot holed WRC stages in Corsica and gravel roads in North Africa, it
was the lack of circuit layout and waiting time involved.
[Edited on 17/7/10 by hicost]
"I cant do that without accidentally grabbing hold of the work of the divine potter"
 
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whitestu
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| posted on 17/7/10 at 09:00 PM |
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I can see where you are coming from James. I thought the fast corner was a bit dull, and the waiting was a pain. I enjoyed the circuits though.
I think the event was fine if you don't have much track / motorsport experience like me, but for people who have much more experience it was
probably a bit unexciting.
For the cost and how close it was for me made it worthwhile.
The fact that I got home without getting wet was a bonus as well!
Stu
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