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@MajorRage Sounds fantastic mate. Getting instruction for the track is a must, though it seems you've been given a fair bit more insight than I've previously received. Smile was probably the same though.
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@Catogrande said in Home Mechanics / Kit Car:
@MajorRage Sounds fantastic mate. Getting instruction for the track is a must, though it seems you've been given a fair bit more insight than I've previously received. Smile was probably the same though.
Yeah, especially where I was at Brands Hatch. The racetrack is basically build around a gully (small valley) so the camber on the corners is all over the show. Ironically, the one corner I'd say I 100% read it correctly was the one I spun it at!
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@MajorRage I used to live in the village adjacent to Brands and as kids we used to hop over the wire all the time. Back then you could wander free around the place and on race day (not GP!) you could just saunter into the paddock and watch the guys working on the cars and bikes. Did you get to use the whole circuit or the smaller one?
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@Catogrande smaller (Indy) circuit.
You need racing licenses to use the GP track.
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@MajorRage said in Home Mechanics / Kit Car:
Confidence. Gone.
It comes back all too soon.
"your slowest on track, your confidence is down, but you far and away have the biggest smile here ... every single one of us was you once".
Yep.
I took out a pinetree in a rally years ago. Felt terrible about it, took mates and me weeks to fix the car. Was slow as fck on about 2 stages of the next rally, before I was outdriving my talent again and frightening the shit out my co driver.My smile would have been the same as yours though. Loved it and did get slightly better but was never going to win anything - you might though and if your grinning you are winning anyway. It's not always the other way around.
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Watch a Porsche 911 GT3 RS Roast Its Clutch Trying to Drag Race a Shelby Cobra
If you're gonna poke the bear, you better come prepared.
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@MajorRage said in Home Mechanics / Kit Car:
Just signed up for a track day at cadwell park .... this cater ham has much more power than mine, but check it out. Track looks amazing.
You are going to love that. Very consistent times, so driver must know the track, which indeed, looks amazing. Agree with @Crucial that downhill left hander is pucker up or shit yourself time.
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One for you to ponder...
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@catogrande She's going on Wednesday to pastures new unfortunately ...
Great experience, great fun, thoroughly recommend to everybody. But it is time for me to move on.
