Spa revisited...........booked....

[shimmy]

This is following 30mm Sunday night!


Mon 4 Oct

Morning14 °c12 °c998 mb 14.59 mm 100 %9 mph
Afternoon13 °c13 °c1001 mb 13.49 mm 100 %5 mph
Evening13 °c13 °c1001 mb 11.4 mm 100 %7 mph

Tue 5 Oct

Morning14 °c12 °c1004 mb 9 mm 100 %8 mph
Afternoon15 °c14 °c1007 mb 3 mm 97 %5 mph
Evening14 °c13 °c1008 mb 0.1 mm 86 %7 mph

[terryb]

It's very different on MyWeather2... :beer:

[shimmy]

now forecasting 200mm of rain in 36 hours from Sunday pm:bigcry:but Terrys says dry as a bone!

[terryb]

now forecasting 200mm of rain in 36 hours from Sunday pm:bigcry:but Terrys says dry as a bone!

You'll be fine mate - what time are you getting the ferry/ chunnel? I'm out at 0720...

[shimmy]

You'll be fine mate - what time are you getting the ferry/ chunnel? I'm out at 0720...

12.20 then straight to Spa

[Craig]

Weather forecast was right as always... :hahaha:

[shimmy]

Thanks to all

Weather forecast was right as always... :hahaha:

Craig -did i meet you at the sign on area? Im sure i remember it, kept on seeing your car all day on track, it look fabulous, well prepared!

So here are the highlights!

1. Superb weather Sunday - tuesday (well unbtil we hit Dover on the way home and the heavens opened!

2. Great Company - alexgtt and kev, duncanR, nathan, silverbullet, tankslapper (and their crew), my old man!, dave (puregt)dontdobends, azrael and mark, terryb, edinburghCSL and maybe some more i have temporarily forgotten!

3. superb trackday, no queues at ALL, no booking in queue and no noise test queue, no pit lane queue:supz:

4. Live recovery and i think not ONE red flag all day (big up to Spa-Francorchamps)

Thanks to terryb for giving me a lovely passenger ride in his GT3, and big up to TerryB, DuncanR and my brother for allowing me to rag their cars around the track making it a bit special as i was a passenger this weekend.

I have a voucher for Spa with CD next year so bring on April 2011:beer:

[Curly]

Tuesday was good as well apart from a couple of red flags,only got wet when we rolled off the love boat at hull

[AlexGTT]

Was a great couple of days. Had my bro-in-law along with me. His first CSL and Spa experience! Very strange having someone else driving my car.

Good to see the crew again, Shim, Shim's Dad (sorry, Bro ), john, azrael and Mark, Terryb, Duncan and son, and everyone else (I've missed). Weather, company, banter, food and drink was brill.:thumbs::beer:
All back in one piece. Just one hell of a cleaning job now! Never seen the CSL so dirty.:smokin:

[Craig]

Hi Shim, yes you did I was the one giving Darren abuse about his hat!!

Believe it or not, the red e36 328i was just running standard Falken 452 road tyres (I expected it to be wet!!!) and the suspension was a bit on the tired side. I believe you spend some time spectating how did it look out on track?

Race Chrono reports several lap times between 3:13 and 3:17, but it was my first time at Spa and I have no idea if thats good or not??

[shimmy]

Race Chrono reports several lap times between 3:13 and 3:17, but it was my first time at Spa and I have no idea if thats good or not??

not great :smokin: as i did 3m 18 in my brothers Caterham academy car and he did 3m 13

Spa really does warrant an instructor as a few of the corners are ballsy

And then when you realise the speed you can take thru them (ER, B2, Pouhon) then your laptimes will tumble. Id guess a 328 would be doing well if hitting 3.05-10

[Craig]

1:18!?!?!

I'll have to see if there's any other 328's that have been out there and to look at their times as on those tyres I don't think I could beat 3:13. The 197bhp of the 2.8 seemed so gutless on parts of the track too... CSL I think i'd have had the time down by a hell of a lot.

[shimmy]

1:18!?!?!

I'll have to see if there's any other 328's that have been out there and to look at their times as on those tyres I don't think I could beat 3:13. The 197bhp of the 2.8 seemed so gutless on parts of the track too... CSL I think i'd have had the time down by a hell of a lot.

my best is 2m 54

going by Tommy at Donny who used to know out 1m 28 against CSL at about 1m 22 id say at Spa decent CSL time of 2m 57 against 328 time of 3m 10 max

Its GOTTA be faster than my bruvs 1.6 Caterham Academy car, its running road rubber that lasts a whole years racing!

[Craig]

Yeh, will have to do a Spa-revisited and see how it goes from there, mind you I did only time 9 laps out of 50 odd. What engines do the academy cars run, I always though they were 2.0 poke never knew they were 1.6's!

[shimmy]

Yeh, will have to do a Spa-revisited and see how it goes from there, mind you I did only time 9 laps out of 50 odd. What engines do the academy cars run, I always though they were 2.0 poke never knew they were 1.6's!

think its 1.6 zetec with realy basic set ups and rubbish tyres

9 laps is not many to time. best thing craig is to get soemone to sit in with you to check the lines and give you some confidence and then sit in with someone else

i might be wrong and 3m 18 is a record!