The Mary Celeste

[Jon8710]

Sorry mike I was only winding you up mate im sure you are more than handy behind the wheel,

lets let it warm up a bit and get a few of us on track together soon

cheers

I was being deliberately aggressive to provoke the car (you have to be like that to get the Cups to break traction, as they are SOOOOOO grippy) :blalalala:. That was a lap to show a mate how easy it is to control the car when it does slide - I don't normally drive like that (it can get you black flagged at track days if you take the piss to much :whistle: ).

This is a normal lap :gayfight: :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6qpP-r6AU&t=10s

[Yanto]

Jon.....get a TD thread going mate.

MSV seem to have a good few Sat / Sun available.:smokin:

[Mike R]

blimey mike

after seeing that track driving maybe you should stick to the road,

Is your throttle pedal an on off switch?

I was being deliberately aggressive to provoke the car (you have to be like that to get the Cups to break traction, as they are SOOOOOO grippy) :blalalala:. That was a lap to show a mate how easy it is to control the car when it does slide - I don't normally drive like that (it can get you black flagged at track days if you take the piss to much :whistle: ).

This is a normal lap :gayfight: :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6qpP-r6AU&t=10s

[Gazza]

other thing is this a csl register forum or a track day forum,

You forgot M2

[Chad]

Ok i'll bite. If I bin it i'll just buy another one. No point in having the car and pootling around. Each to their own tho!

hi Knoxville, nice if you can bin and just buy another, possibly may do a track day in the at some point , But to date never really fancied doing one, spent years racing bikes myself then with the lad all over Uk, had all the adrenaline rushes, personally don’t do pootling about , if I won’t a real adrenaline rush would pull hayabusa out, better still get back on the horse, even done a dressage. Point being owning a csl isn’t all about track days, but yes csl probably at its best on track, ps maxxed csl and hayabusa.... other thing is this a csl register forum or a track day forum,

[knoxville]

CSL is a very easy car to drive and on the limit the balance is sublime.

Very little inputs required.

This is a different car I used to drive...

[Jon8710]

blimey mike

after seeing that track driving maybe you should stick to the road,

Is your throttle pedal an on off switch?

[Mike R]

I'm unsure about track days, I've done one in my M Roadster at Brands Hatch with instruction and to be honest it didn't float my boat.

I consider myself a capable driver but does that mean I'm a 'track day driver' or would I just be going faster and hanging on for dear life ?

Just a note, the guy I bought my CSL from is an extremely capable driver and he said that the capabilities of the CSL exceeded his capabilities

I often wonder if the driver that does a few track days a year isn't just another nutter that thinks he knows it all behind the wheel (#runs for cover)

Driving the car on the limit and occasionally a smidge over (in the safe environment of a track), allows you to learn better car control and also learn how the car reacts at / or approaching the limit. In my opinion, this makes you a SAFER driver on the road, as you become more experienced in learning how the car is going to react if you ever get into a "loss of control" situation, and gives you more scope / experience to deal with that eventuality as well is gives you more warning, as the car gives you signs of impending doom that you will recognise (and hopefully not ignore) and therefore salvage the situation, where someone else might not have the skill-set to know what to do or recognise the signals that the car was about to spit them off road (as they'd never pushed their car to it's limits).

The E46 chassis is a big pussy-cat and is so predictable on the limit (especially the CSL), so I can't recommend track days enough .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0I38-fxyQ

[Gazza]

I'm unsure about track days, I've done one in my M Roadster at Brands Hatch with instruction and to be honest it didn't float my boat.

I consider myself a capable driver but does that mean I'm a 'track day driver' or would I just be going faster and hanging on for dear life ?

Just a note, the guy I bought my CSL from is an extremely capable driver and he said that the capabilities of the CSL exceeded his capabilities

I often wonder if the driver that does a few track days a year isn't just another nutter that thinks he knows it all behind the wheel (#runs for cover)

[knoxville]

Do we all have to be a track day heroes,to be a csl owner ?? If you “”really “”use csl to its full potential, chances are you will eventually bin it , I’m guessing most are playing track day heroes, 80 percent of it’s potential only. Total bollocks what they were made for. :whistle:

Ok i'll bite. If I bin it i'll just buy another one. No point in having the car and pootling around. Each to their own tho!

[Gazza]

Mines been in the garage since September.

[Jon8710]

Let me know mate I’m going to get a load in this year as the pearl might be going the end of this year.

Was looking at 2018 TDs earlier.

Want to do a couple in CSL an a couple in M2 this year.

Unfortunately I'm pretty limited to weekends or Fri / Mon.

We HAVE to do a June / July get together somewhere central (Silly ??).

[Yanto]

Was looking at 2018 TDs earlier.

Want to do a couple in CSL an a couple in M2 this year.

Unfortunately I'm pretty limited to weekends or Fri / Mon.

We HAVE to do a June / July get together somewhere central (Silly ??).

[AlexGTT]

Been a very low mileage year for me I'm sorry to say. Had a little blast over Christmas on a nice sunny day. Will try harder this year.

[ZKMI]

I try to use it every weekend to keep the battery fresh and justify the bloody warranty:smokin: