Survived Mallory Park
ReMan - 6/9/09 at 07:42 PM
Thouroughly enjoyed yesterdays trackday at Mallory.
Considering I live within 5 miles of it and have been and watched lots and even ran round it i'd never driven it!
So with the sump baffel fitted to the Fireblade motor with hours to spare and a big bright oil light in my line of vision and a high pressure low
pressure switch fitted off I went.
So after gingerly building up speed and confidence around Gerrards without a flicker, I figured it must be working so went on to thrash it for the
rest of the day both 1 and two up, and with so few there the track time was unlimited, no queuing at all, just straight on and off as you like 
There was only 1 other allcomer 7alike there ( local guy who had recently bought the Pinto engined MK in the second picture, was this previously
someone here's?) the other 2 were the trackday experience cars. The rest were a good mix of escorts, corsa's BMW's, Golf's
Scoobys, and some nice big money cars too (GT3, 350ZX, a pukka racing Clio etc).
Anyway a great day and topped off with a very complimentary critique of my driving by the instructor too!
The car never missed a beat again, so looking forward to squeeezing one more in before the end of the year. Mind you I burnt £60 of fuel on the track,
so need to start saving now!
Cheers
Yellow Honda shoot out!
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ReMan - 6/9/09 at 07:42 PM
3X7
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ReMan - 6/9/09 at 07:44 PM
Turning into Gerrards,
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gingerprince - 7/9/09 at 07:56 AM
How did you get on with noise testers in the blade - it's 101dB there isn't it?
Wife's cousins live near Sapcote so it seems like a good idea to combine a visit with a thrash 
smart51 - 7/9/09 at 08:08 AM
I love Mallory Park, it is my favourite little circuit. I've been every September for the last 3 years but this year they weren't offering
half days. The full day price was a bit much so I'm off to Abingdon in a couple of weeks instead.
How fast did you dare go round Gerrards? I'm told that locost racers turn in at 100 and keep their foot down. I was on the edge of bottling it
turning in at 90. Exit speeds over 100 were exciting enough for me.
ReMan - 7/9/09 at 11:51 AM
quote:
Originally posted by gingerprince
How did you get on with noise testers in the blade - it's 101dB there isn't it?
Wife's cousins live near Sapcote so it seems like a good idea to combine a visit with a thrash
No noise testing was done. 95 db may have been mentioned during the briefing, but not a meter in sight!
I started with my very quiet can 85-90 at a guess, but it was strangling it, so then swapped to my R1 ~98 dB can , runs 95% power did'nt see that
my road (very loud) pipe was necessary no point in upsetting anyone
ReMan - 7/9/09 at 11:57 AM
quote:
Originally posted by smart51
I love Mallory Park, it is my favourite little circuit. I've been every September for the last 3 years but this year they weren't offering
half days. The full day price was a bit much so I'm off to Abingdon in a couple of weeks instead.
How fast did you dare go round Gerrards? I'm told that locost racers turn in at 100 and keep their foot down. I was on the edge of bottling it
turning in at 90. Exit speeds over 100 were exciting enough for me.
They were doing half days but only at the last minute I think.
I'm way off your pace!! 75 was enough for me, on Toyo Poxies, just hitting 100 down the straight before braking into Gerrards down to 80 on the
turn in then 75 round and then 85 on the exit ish.
The tyres afer the gravel on Gerrards look so far away when your watching, but very close from the track
And theres not a lot of run off when your
exiting either!
I'd like another go with sticky tyres, as the Trackonline Westfield could drive round the outside of me fairly easily, but I was happy with my
pace compared to the rest of the attendees
[Edited on 7/9/09 by ReMan]
smart51 - 7/9/09 at 12:07 PM
quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
75 was enough for me, on Toyo Poxies, just hitting 100 down the straight before braking into Gerrards down to 80 on the turn in then 75 round and then
85 on the exit ish.
I hit 120 once on the start / finish straight, which was the red line in top. I was comfortable doing 80 round gerrards when a BMW estate passed me
quite quickly on the outside on the marbles. I'm not sure if it was the same BMW who later in the day had a very close look at the armco
Avoneer - 13/9/09 at 10:29 PM
100 in a 12.5psi Turbo MX5 round Gerards is bound to end in tears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e8HF5fnFE
Pat ;-(
