Chaps, I have booked my 1st trackday at Snetterton which happens to be this sunday. Weather prediction is rain or snow.( I was talked into going with
a few guys i know who have tin tops )
I am a 2 hour drive away which means i need to leave at 5.30am ish. So dark with a temperature of -1.
I have an MK indy with ZX9R lump.
So should I be attempting this??
Further question, I was thinking of drilling a hole in each floorpan for water disposal. Is that ok to do? Will put grommets in.
Cheers!!
you will be Very cold, and wont be able to give the car rock all, as you will be slipping, and sliding all over the place :-(
The worst i have been is my hands froze up, and i struggled to change gear with the paddle shift! :-o
Will your engine get properly up to temp with how cold it's been?
Take your tintop?
Hire a corsa from Avis and spank the t1ts off it?
Take a hire car
Met Office shows max of 2 degrees for Snetterton, with sleet/rain and a 18mph e/se wind.
Thats going to be one hell of a cold drive. Personally, I wouldn't go......
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Originally posted by gingerprince
Hire a corsa from Avis and spank the t1ts off it?
At best it will probably be a very miserable, very long, wet and cold day at worst you will have some sort of disaster. In a tin top it would be fine but in an MK indy I would rather cancel and book a day at the dentist to have all my teeth out.
A wet trackday in a BEC is an absolute blast and great fun. Cold trackdays are also great fun but cold AND wet will be horrible. I wouldn't do
it......
Phil
I really would consider giving it a miss or failing that tintop. You may be lucky and it's cancelled due to the weather.
I only have a van and a Volvo 240 estate so I won't taking them!
Do you think they would Let me carry the money over to another trackday if I call them and cancel tomorrow? I suppose not...
I had booked 2 sessions with an instructor as well :-(
My fault, don't know what I was thinking of!! Must of booked it on a rare sunny dry day..
Thanks for all your comments guys.
hire car. get your self to enterprise.
get any good petrol.
have a fun day :O)
£60 will get you a vectra style car for sat till Monday....
Ask what petrol cars they have stating that work have given you a petrol only fuel card...
[Edited on 8/2/13 by jossey]
As said - go and hire a decent petrol hire car - go and have yourself some fun!
You lot are a bunch of pussies!!!
Buy some decent gloves and a cheap helmet, wear a decent jacket and two pairs of socks, you'll be fine lad!!
Use the Volvo!!
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Being serious for a moment (and I'm certain you know this), but don't be tempted to actually use a hire car - unless you hire it for that
explicit purpose and it's insured as such. Losing a few quid on a missed trackday is one thing, paying out for an uninsured bent hire car is a
different matter.
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Decent gloves and you'll be fine.
When you get going you won't even feel the cold.
Recently done a day at Brands Hatch in the cold and rain.
While everyone sat in the pits chatting I had the track almost to myself.
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Originally posted by pekwah1
You lot are a bunch of pussies!!!
Buy some decent gloves and a cheap helmet, wear a decent jacket and two pairs of socks, you'll be fine lad!!
Now i'm really confused!!! :-) Shall I, shan't I.....
As to using the Volvo, that would be very funny.. All those Subaru's trying to negotiate the Swedish brick round the circuit. Sod it, ill take
the Volvo!!
I think I will at least try to get to the circuit unless it is absolutely chucking it down or really icy and see what happens.
I'm assuming if the track is covered in snow or ice or really wet then they will have to cancel?
As Phil says, cold is fine and wet is fine but together? I drove 80 or so miles to Lyddon in -1 but the day was dry and sunny later. I was bloody cold
when I got there. You would need some serious clothing and somewhere to warm up between sessions.
Stu
Wet weather trackdays are much more fun than dry anyway... and if its your first spirited trackday, you'll soon learn how to handle the car
The problem is not about getting wet or cold thats easily managed with decent biking gear and a bit of determination and wet track days can be great fun but the drive there (5.00am start?) and back in a bike engined seven in potentially freezing sleet or snow would be a nightmare. Have you driven the indy in snow? I really hope you get better weather than forecast, if not try to pick a nice soft ditch to be pulled out of.
Rent or borrow a trailer, take you time getting there and back, doesn't matter if you turn up late. Biggest mistake at any track day is trying to squeeze every second out of it doing that "last go" when you ate too tiered/cold, that's when things go wrong.
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Originally posted by pekwah1
You lot are a bunch of pussies!!!
Buy some decent gloves and a cheap helmet, wear a decent jacket and two pairs of socks, you'll be fine lad!!
Yeh take the Volvo. Quality cars them 240 series mind you I never pushed my estate one hard in the wet, it could be fun. And the fuel consumption
couldn't be any worse on a track day than it is around town. In the event of slight over exuberance they've also got great bumpersD.
I'm with those above who say MTFU.Don the right clothes and get out there.
[Edited on 9/2/13 by coyoteboy]
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Originally posted by rcampbell50.
I'm assuming if the track is covered in snow or ice or really wet then they will have to cancel?
quote:use the Volvo, rwd
Originally posted by theduck
Use the Volvo!!
If it were me, I would only trailer it there. Imagine gettin wet through and freezing then having to face a 2hr slog home. Not fun especially if it's snowing.
did you risk it in the end? weather no where near as bad as they said it could be.
we need to know.............. or are you still defrosting ?
I bet he took the volvo
That particular car was driven by a very well known driver, he retires this year many will be relieved.
Either,
He heroically lost all his fingers to frost-bite on the way home and can't type any more...
or
He bottled it and stayed in bed and can't face the shame of telling us...
The weather wasn't actually that bad in the end on Sunday although it was very cold up this way.