I'll add some commebts from th eother days later - lets skip to the best bit!
Today was a buzz. I did 12 laps of The Ring - no rain - dry all day, even with a few sunny bits.
I did actually go aff the track once- just into the grass for a second. There was a crash and I was slowed right down - and was looking out for trucks and peopel and things and just didn't take the corner. I do have video of it but that is not the video I am going to share
I did manage to set up my little Flip attached to the rear vision mirror and will upload it to Facebook. It is about 9 mins and 45 seconds long so feel free to fast forward through the boring bits - although trust me there really were no boring its from the seat I was in.
There were actually quite a few crashes today - and mostly race setup cars.
There are also some real idiots out there who should know better - like passing on the right when the line has already been established - I had a Porsche come screaming down my right hand side with a Ferrari glued to his rear - came from no where and the Porsche literally had to to go off into the dirt to avoid getting side swiped.
It is not a place for the faint hearted.
There is every possible car out there - and bike. There was a family in there B-class Merc. Mum, Dad and the kid in the car seat. A guy was going around on a scooter. Porsches are definitely the majority though.
One of the most amazing things I found with this track is the constant loading and unloading of the suspension - it takes a couple of laps to get into the rythm. You really need to be concious of braking when you need to accelerating at the right times and being smooth so the suspension isn't loading and unloading - which equals instability. After my 1st lap I was thinking - jeez did I buy a Buick!!!
Had a few good runs with some E46 M3's - they couldn't get away - I used them to show me the track. A trick I picked up pretty qquick was use the other cars to show you where to stop and where to go - when running on your own it takes nerves of steel or just plain stupidity to barrell over these hills and not want to brake because you think there is a nice fast sweeper on the other side - but you just aren't sure....
Another thing I did was use the nav system on about 400 ft I think to remind me what is coming up - that really only helps with the tight ones - the others are still a bit deceiving.
Well, it's all over bar the shouting - packing up to head off tomorrow. I am dropping the car at Harms in the morning then off to the airport from there.
Next time I see the car will be at for pickup at the PDC when I am also going to do a 2 day M-School!
(will add the video link after it has uploaded)
