anybody conquered oulton park

[SMD]

I think you are best to give thorney or simpsons a call about the paddle shifts as i think they would be able to do somthing for you over BMW!

[shane@mbtech]

I think you are best to give thorney or simpsons a call about the paddle shifts as i think they would be able to do somthing for you over BMW!

thanks will give them a buzz,

[shimmy]

I gave up chasing times. There's this dodgy line where it turns from 'fun trackday' to 'too risky' in my view. It dawned on me that if the BTCC boys are taking Druids at ~100mph, with full slicks and more importantly - full safety - do I really want to be going faster than 90mph in my road car?
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you lost the edge maverick!

[SpineOnABap]

I gave up chasing times. There's this dodgy line where it turns from 'fun trackday' to 'too risky' in my view. It dawned on me that if the BTCC boys are taking Druids at ~100mph, with full slicks and more importantly - full safety - do I really want to be going faster than 90mph in my road car?
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you lost the edge maverick!

:hahaha: Sure did, Ice

[windy]

Just grabbed a video off my camera of my first ever track day at a lovely wet Oulton Park in my SMG M3.

Did it in 2m28s :whistle:

Was my second ever lap, complete with girly use of the throttle (yup, that's me backing off at the top end), early braking, etc, etc. More a case of trying to learn [ie, remember] the track and pick up the lines. Unfortunately I saw a mint E30 M3 spin into the armco a few laps after this one at Druids so I tend to bottle it through there still.

Link

[neil]

love the track, favourite moments have been hounding a 360 and it spun right in front of me in the dry :-D and chasing an evo 7 round and round for 5 laps right up his arse with my lights on full, when he wouldnt move over I drove round him on the outside of old hall corner on the grass :notworthy:

[Curly]

when i had the csl i got down to a 1.55.2 with a set of part worn slicks on with a new set of cups on did 1.55.9 the big problem with oulton is getting a clear lap. in the M3 rustbucket on toyo's 888 did a 1.58 two up which is a little heavier than the csl and has a little less power
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[neil]

http://www.virtualcup.fr/FR/circuit_oulton_park.html

:thumbs:

[shimmy]

you should see and hear him when he goes fishing! :whistle:

So lets pretend :-D it was 1m 55 with slicks and intrax i reckon that means ddb would maybe get 1m 58 on cups and OEM suspension!!?!?!?

[Curly]

i don't kiss and tell shim :hahaha:

[SMD]

when i had the csl i got down to a 1.55.2 with a set of part worn slicks on with a new set of cups on did 1.55.9 the big problem with oulton is getting a clear lap. in the M3 rustbucket on toyo's 888 did a 1.58 two up which is a little heavier than the csl and has a little less power
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Some good times there!
Would be good to have a CSL on slicks! :smokin:

[shimmy]

its very tempting to put the slicks on the CSL to try to get up to speed with those GT3 and RS but you have to remember that you have to cope with much higher corner G so when it does let go chances are it will be much harder to stop it hitting the armco!

it makes sense to do slicks but i think only with cage for me! :119:

[SpineOnABap]

So lets pretend :-D it was 1m 55 with slicks and intrax i reckon that means ddb would maybe get 1m 58 on cups and OEM suspension!!?!?!?

1m58s is what I was doing on Cups and OEM susp (see earlier posts)

[Curly]

its very tempting to put the slicks on the CSL to try to get up to speed with those GT3 and RS but you have to remember that you have to cope with much higher corner G so when it does let go chances are it will be much harder to stop it hitting the armco!

it makes sense to do slicks but i think only with cage for me! :119:

Shimm I'll try and correct some of your miss conceptions on slicks and Intrax
The slicks i used were 235 all round great for the front but greatly undersized for the rear and had quite a few heat cycles through them which means they are not at optimum grip levels. The main advantage over a set of cup's is Brakes slightly later and have practically no understeer, the narrower rear slick hasnt quite the grip of the 265 cup but what it does is it gives the car a nice neutral balance and you go through corners practically the same speed not massively quicker and when the rear does break away it seems a little more aggressive than the cup's. When I used them at Oulton I was about 1/2 - 3/4 second quciker with the slicksand about 1/2 seconds at Donny, the thing is part warm slicks are £120 a set and get 2 track days out of them. A set of Cup's is a grand and 3 track days max out of them, its all about saving a bit of dosh.

At Oulton the Intrax is not a big gain over standard suspension I would estimate 1/2 - 1 second, with a standard suspension you can take a lot more curb and save a bit of time in the slower corners.
A CSL with just a few mods like AP front brakes, uprated RTB's and some camber plates and a fresh set of cups and you are 99% there

[cslgirl]

A good site for some lap times

http://www.fastestlaps.com/car4585753fa2d14.html

http://www.fastestlaps.com/index.php?page_id=raceways&sort=name

Doesn't say who actually drove the csl round Brands for the lap record of 54.75.