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RAF Cottesmore Track Day Sat 29th october
locoR1 - 17/9/11 at 07:50 PM

RAF Cottesmore Track Day Saturday 29th October Open Pit Lane on the 3.5 mile circuit

A few of us from WSCC and here are booked in for this already, so thought i would post up on here see if anyone else fancied it? Would be good to get as many sevens as we can.

I did this a few weeks ago in torrential rain and really enjoyed it should be even better in the dry, The track has a good mix of high and low speed corners and a couple of decent straights to cool things down plus loads of run off as you would expect from an airfield circuit.

Run by Javelin trackdays full day open pit lane £119 " LINK "

Cheers Dave.

[Edited on 17/9/11 by locoR1]


Andy D - 18/9/11 at 12:19 PM

Yup, I'm booked into this one. After the last one we did in monsoon conditions was such fun, it can only be better if it's dry.

Come on folks.


Andy D - 21/9/11 at 01:41 PM

Seven se7ens booked on now. Looking good.


locoR1 - 30/9/11 at 06:28 AM

Bump

Eight Sevens booked now and just under a month to go

Lets hope this heat wave stays with us till the end of the month!


Andy D - 3/10/11 at 06:19 PM

Nine sevens now booked on, and an assortment of other stuff.. any more?


Andy D - 13/10/11 at 09:50 AM

Bump! Now thirteen sevens booked on. Looking good!


westy7 - 23/10/11 at 02:49 PM

Did the very wet wscc one , was parked next to Andy, Pete and the boat anchor
Enjoyed your vids as well Dave ,especially when your daughter gets a soaking

went back on sept 29th in the dry and wrecked a set of 888s Great fun

Its a cracking venue Enjoy guys
Rob


Andy D - 24/10/11 at 06:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by westy7
Did the very wet wscc one , was parked next to Andy, Pete and the boat anchor
Enjoyed your vids as well Dave ,especially when your daughter gets a soaking

went back on sept 29th in the dry and wrecked a set of 888s Great fun

Its a cracking venue Enjoy guys
Rob


Yup, that was a wet old day Rob!

Weather forecast is looking OK for the weekend. May get a chance to kill off some anceint slicks!


westy7 - 24/10/11 at 07:23 PM

Look forward to seeing the vids of you teaching jeff c a thing or two on the other side


Andy D - 24/10/11 at 07:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by westy7
Look forward to seeing the vids of you teaching jeff c a thing or two on the other side


Dont think that will happen! will surely be trying though!


locoR1 - 26/10/11 at 01:05 PM

Thanks rob, My daughter enjoyed it even in those conditions....She's coming back for more this time even asked if she could have a go, like that's going to happen

15 Sevens now showing booked on the Javelin site along with a good selection of tintops.

Dave.


INDY BIRD - 26/10/11 at 05:25 PM

Hi I am now booked on for the day,

Will be in the mnr zzr1400 so look to have some fun with you guys,

See you there come and say hi

Sean


Andy D - 28/10/11 at 02:40 PM

Weather's looking OK, may have to wait for early mist to go though.. see ya'll tomorrow.


bigfoot4616 - 28/10/11 at 03:53 PM

have fun andy

i'll be stuck in a cold garage working on the engine change, not got very far yet


Andy D - 30/10/11 at 07:30 AM

Had a very good day yesterday. Other than the oil filter trying to unwind it'self at one point!, the car behaved well.

Some pics from the day:




































INDY BIRD - 30/10/11 at 08:25 AM

Hi Andy

Great day weather held for us,

My brother enjoyed the tussle with you at the end of the day in the green mnr we need those slicks now as you as holding lines better in the corners for sure on slicks,

Hope to see you on track next year. And some great pics there,

Sean

[Edited on 30/10/11 by INDY BIRD]


Andy D - 30/10/11 at 08:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by INDY BIRD
Hi Andy

Great day weather held for us,

My brother enjoyed the tussle with you at the end of the day in the green mnr we need those slicks now as you as holding lines better in the corners for sure on slicks,

Hope to see you on track next year. And some great pics there,

Sean

[Edited on 30/10/11 by INDY BIRD]


That looked like fun from the outside... wasn't me driving, was my lad Pete. To be honest, the slicks we had on were well worn 2 year olds! They aren't actually that much better than good R888s.

Bloody goood day though.


INDY BIRD - 30/10/11 at 11:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Andy D
quote:
Originally posted by INDY BIRD
Hi Andy

Great day weather held for us,

My brother enjoyed the tussle with you at the end of the day in the green mnr we need those slicks now as you as holding lines better in the corners for sure on slicks,

Hope to see you on track next year. And some great pics there,

Sean

[Edited on 30/10/11 by INDY BIRD]


That looked like fun from the outside... wasn't me driving, was my lad Pete. To be honest, the slicks we had on were well worn 2 year olds! They aren't actually that much better than good R888s.

Bloody goood day though.


hi Andy

yep did look fun from the outside, we still need the slicks as our 888 are a bit past it now 7+ track days old so could do with some new ones, I see you also gave that r400 a good run for it's money, also your car did look a lot flayed through the corners than ours, interesting I was thinking of some anti roll bars etc for the car we will see, winter mods will be in the mix now,

Thanks for a good run out,

Sean


PAUL FISHER - 30/10/11 at 11:55 AM

Sounds like you had a good day, get those video's posted up


Proby - 30/10/11 at 12:15 PM

Looked a good day, some cracking photos!


locoR1 - 30/10/11 at 01:36 PM

Some great pictures Andy, Enjoyed the day.....had more than my share of offs though sure Sean will post up his video of me going of at 80-90 mph in a cloud of tyre smoke lol

Finally got to the source of my chronic oversteer at the end of the day, put my road wheels back on and drove like a different car!

Cheers Dave.


Andy D - 30/10/11 at 06:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locoR1
Some great pictures Andy, Enjoyed the day.....had more than my share of offs though sure Sean will post up his video of me going of at 80-90 mph in a cloud of tyre smoke lol

Finally got to the source of my chronic oversteer at the end of the day, put my road wheels back on and drove like a different car!

Cheers Dave.


I saw someone spin at the corner just after the control tower, was that you? ..would be doing some knots there!

Should be some vids up in the next few days, sadly no MNR chase footage, as the camera battery had died earlier in the day.

... Paul F, you need a car sorting for next year! do it!


locoR1 - 30/10/11 at 06:56 PM

Yup that was me! was passing a fairly quick tintop down the straight and went into the fast right far to hot flat spotted the rear tyres down to the canvas good job they were nearly dead anyway.

Had Chaz in the passenger seat was funny seeing him grabbing the rollbar in a panic, like that was going to make any difference


INDY BIRD - 30/10/11 at 07:27 PM

Hi Andy

same no footage of the chase as our memory was full 1 lap in Blxxdy anoying that as would have been good stuff,

still next time, also yep said to paul to get sorted for next year would be good fun,

see you at the next outing i hope poss not in the mnr if sold,

cheers sean

i will have some video of the loco r1 spin up this week,


Andy D - 30/10/11 at 07:31 PM

A vid to be getting on with...

Pal in the red Caterham R400 chasing my son Pete, in my car.

R400 at Cottesmore


Andy D - 30/10/11 at 08:02 PM

And, the view looking back from my car at the R400, same session as above.


Westy, looking back at R400


locoR1 - 30/10/11 at 08:51 PM

Great video's could see Jeff got caught out by that stray cone a couple of times.

Will have a look at mine in the week.


Andy D - 3/11/11 at 10:04 AM

Another vid from me, it's me driving, chasing after mate Jeff's R400.

Westy v R400 take 2


Andy D - 3/11/11 at 10:24 AM

And our last vid from the day, Pete driving, track just about dry.

Cottesmore on board 3