Oulton Park Photos! Today (19th Jan 2008) (oh dear...)
worX - 19/1/08 at 08:27 PM
Hi all,
Took my camera to oulton today to try and catch a few snaps in the dreary cheshire countryside, I'm not the best cameraman, but a couple
aren't too shaky!
All the best,
Steve
ps - The last three are posted at the "Driver's" request 
My mate and his brother in their Disiesel Company Cars!
Dave Dean Disiesels
Tidy BM and that standing water is INSIDE the pit garages!
BM
A Quick Scooby (sorry for photo!)
oulton scooby
Don't see many R5 GTT's anymore
oulton R5
Classic XR2!
xr2
Elise on the move...
elise
Caterhams - got faster as it got drier
caterham
caterham
caterham
A very nice and very quick CSL
mcsl
This Ginetta could of been on an ice rink!!!
ginetta
This M Coupe was not only a great car but was really quite nippy too! The driver's name is John and he is a spot on guy - he is a friend of
Derek's (Jubal) and only learnt he was coming here this week after Derek was unable to attend with his car and had no luck in finding a buyer for
his place, so gave John his taste of a full trackday!
He was there with another mate, but wasn't shy in offering pax rides and I got a few laps out myself aswell as Derek, so we were all quite
chuffed!
m coupe
m coupe
O m coupe
And these last few photees are of our very own Gezza! Yep, not only did his mate spin the car on the sighting lap at no mph, Gerry went on to try and
Re-Shape the armco at Druid's corner, but for some reason the Busa Indy came off worse!
gezza
gezza
gezza
Cheers,
Steve 
Jubal - 19/1/08 at 09:03 PM
It's the angle of the headlight that cracks me up more than anything! Glad no-one was hurt.
TimC - 19/1/08 at 09:05 PM
Okay - so it sucks, but the good news is its almost certainly cheaper to repair than if you'd crashed virtually any other car on the day!
Good pics mate, bad luck Jezza!
jos - 19/1/08 at 09:07 PM
it was good to catch up again steve
really good to meet up with some fellow lcb'ers and ver kind of john to take me out. thank you very much john
fingers crossed for jubals trackday next friday. hope the cars ready
mackei23b - 19/1/08 at 09:13 PM
The headlight looked away as the armco came along!
quote:
Originally posted by Jubal
It's the angle of the headlight that cracks me up more than anything! Glad no-one was hurt.
roadrunner - 19/1/08 at 09:28 PM
quote:
The headlight looked away as the armco came along!
Gezza - 19/1/08 at 10:05 PM
Well, after all it was a test day, but i would have liked more thean three laps
Good to meet steve and his friend , thanks for the help loading.
by the way good pics steve, think i wil get a r1 next???
gezza
Gezza - 19/1/08 at 10:12 PM
or maybe a cec
Gezza - 19/1/08 at 10:15 PM
OK sorry for swearing, i will get it set up and take driving lessons...
Andy D - 19/1/08 at 10:18 PM
So, what happened?
welderman - 20/1/08 at 12:15 AM
good pictures Steve, why was Derek's car not ready ?.
gingerprince - 20/1/08 at 08:24 AM
I've heard of dialling-in toe out but that's ridiculous
Sorry to see though - Cadwell does seem to take a lot of people with it Wet and light cars isn't a good combination!
snapper - 20/1/08 at 09:37 AM
Photograph was pretty good, what camera and lenses were you using.
Looked like you had a longish lens on for the track stuff.
Gezza - 20/1/08 at 09:56 AM
Hi all, the incident happened because it was first time out in car, wet track, suspension not set up, missfire on the engine which decided to clear
coming out of druids and around it went at about 80mph, into barrier, nothing i could do to correct it so i became the passenger
gutted.
so now back to the workshop for repair tomorow morning as i have the sva retest soon.
gerry
MikeLR - 20/1/08 at 01:50 PM
Called in on my way home from Manchester Airport about 10.30 ish. Three red flags in much less than half an hour ! was it like that all day?
Mike
worX - 20/1/08 at 01:53 PM
YES!
Snapper - I have a Nikon D50 and used a 70 - 300 Lens. I know it's not the best camera but it is nice to use, I just wish I had the time
to learn all the functions to get the best from it. I usually take a monopod to Oulton with me, and change it to sports mode etc, but yesterday, was
me just getting a quick few shots! Derek was bored later so the last one of the M Coupe is by him with me in it, exiting Lodge.
Cheers,
Steve
quote:
Originally posted by MikeLR
Called in on my way home from Manchester Airport about 10.30 ish. Three red flags in much less than half an hour ! was it like that all day?
Mike
snapper - 20/1/08 at 03:04 PM
Check your camera data in file info and compare the settings to the photographs, you will soon see what combination of shutter speed and aperture
works best.
i am assuming your 70 to 300 is about f4.5 to 5.6 and your shutter speed on the day was around 1/80th.
A trick i use is to set the aperture to as wide as possible in aperture priority mode and up the ISO to increase shutter speed for the static shots
and lower the ISO for the panning shots.
Jubal - 20/1/08 at 03:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by welderman
good pictures Steve, why was Derek's car not ready ?.
Well Joe, it's a tale of delayed propshafts and handbrake mechanisms in the wrong places. The knock on effect is the handbrake and fuel lines
need to be moved to make the prop fit. I guess it's one of those situations you will always come across with ready-built cars so lesson learnt.
Chris has the new drop dead target of this coming Thursday firmly in his sights as I have another trackday booked the next day, Friday 25th.
It'll then go back for some cosmetic stuff (manifold, boot panel) he hasn't had time to do yet.
Jubal - 20/1/08 at 03:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by gingerprince
I've heard of dialling-in toe out but that's ridiculous
Sorry to see though - Cadwell does seem to take a lot of people with it Wet and light cars isn't a good combination!
It was Oulton. However, the same is true. I have never been to a trackday there without seeing incidents. Mainly at Druids but Cascades also catches
some out and in the wet a powerful RWD car can lose it coming onto the start/finish as it goes light over a hump. Once saw an Atom crash there.
Yesterday, to my knowledge, there was the Indy, a scoob, a 3 series, a mk2 Escort and a Citroen Xara that each bought it in some way. 10% of the
turnout. How's them odds?!
[Edited on 20/1/08 by Jubal]
