wheezy
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:42 PM |
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Castle Coombe Crashes
Here are a few clips of cars going off at Quarry corner Link
Some pretty big collisions with the tyre wall. Fortunatley the driver was out of the lotus 11 when it got hit.
You apparently have a 1 in 100 chance of a crash at a track day. The chance reduces to 1 in 30 for quarry corner. I have a track day there next week
so hopefully I wont be one of the 30 
Dave
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JoelP
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:50 PM |
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i bet he was well pished off, someone crashing into him when there must've been yellow flags out?!
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Deckman001
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:53 PM |
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Regarding the lotus, asuming it was a right off, would the Bmw driver be liable? or is it just tough sh1t
Jason
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 07:55 PM |
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ouch, gutted for the man
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wheezy
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 08:03 PM |
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I think there is no liabilty at a track day and you drive at your own risk. He may have had track day insurance but most dont bother.
Not the way you want your pride and joy to end up.
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vinny1275
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 08:23 PM |
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That's where I dinked swmbo's dad's old cossie. when I say dinked, I mean all the panels down the near side..... oops.
Had the first day in his GT-R last week. Thanks to Malc (yorkshire-engines), who put us straight on the clutch requirements for using the blackbird
engine in a car. After some of the clutch / gearbox escaped out of th side of the engine casing
Good luck at Combe, and take it easy around Quarry!
Cheers
Vince
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TimC
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 09:36 PM |
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Wheezy - are you there Monday? If so I'll come and say hello (again - we met at Llandow last year.)
I'm helping-out two Bitsilly with his MNR.
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wheezy
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 09:52 PM |
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Fraid not mate. I will be up there on Thursday with the Porche 928 owners club. They needed a few extra cars and asked me if I would take my car
along. Should be a good day, there should be about 50 cars.
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seadog
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| posted on 11/7/07 at 10:10 PM |
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Jeeeeeesus!! Remind me to give Castle Combe a miss
Good Luck on yer track day Wheezy and dont go spoiling that lovely paintwork, she looked handsome when you were at Stoneleigh!! 
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spaximus
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 06:11 AM |
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I have driven Coombe several times and Quarry isn't the worst corner but it is the easiest to cock up. When you come down from the Fast corner
called Camp. it is a down hill to Avon rise where you can be up to 135mph easily in my Westfield if you have had a clear run. As you crest Avon rise
the car goes light at just the spot where you need to brake, this is why many of those incidents have started way before Quarry when they have locked
up and lost steering control, or they have simply carried too much speed and understeered off.
I won a trackday at Coombe years ago with Totalkitcar and took advantage of instruction, I thought I was fast until someone who knew the track showed
me just how timid I was in certain areas.
Best advice is take instruction and always enter Quarry as far from other cars as possible so if anything happens they don't collect you.
Have a great time.
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wheezy
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 06:56 AM |
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Cheers for that guys.
The porche lads have aranged for an instructor for the day so I may take advantage of his knowledge.
I will post up some video when I get back.
Dave
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