Donington Park track day Sunday 26th February

[shimmy]

See everyone in morning )

Steve

Which one were you :bigcry:

[O'Neill]

Great day :thumbs:

Craners is difficult

Drinking and talking sense is difficult (for me)

Gareth glad you enjoyed it:thumbs:

Terry cheers for the pax:thumbs:

Curly thanks for the pointers :smt055

[Mark CSL]

Pictures would be nice :whistle:

[Yanto_csl]

Great day :thumbs:

Craners is difficult

Drinking and talking sense is difficult (for me)

Gareth glad you enjoyed it:thumbs:

Terry cheers for the pax:thumbs:

Curly thanks for the pointers :smt055

+1 on all of these for me as well and cheers to Shane for the pax in the bullet and Shimmy Shumacher for sorting the digs out.

Good to see everyone - role on Silly :thumbs:

[s.mac]

Craners is difficult

yep

[shane@mbtech]

+1 on all of these for me as well and cheers to Shane for the pax in the bullet and Shimmy Shumacher for sorting the digs out.

Good to see everyone - role on Silly :thumbs:

Your welcome Ian. :beer:

Even though our day was cut short, I had a great day.

Good to see everyone again.

[rs4steve]

Steve

Which one were you :bigcry:

Black M3 garage 10,

Had good day finding limits of 888's 1st time in car on that set up (big thanks to Julian at Simpsons for set up)

Everyone looked like they enjoyed themselves )

[shimmy]

Black M3 garage 10,

Had good day finding limits of 888's 1st time in car on that set up (big thanks to Julian at Simpsons for set up)

Everyone looked like they enjoyed themselves )

With the f.o. Big rear wing?

[rs4steve]

With the f.o. Big rear wing?

Yep that's the one!!!

[shimmy]

Yep that's the one!!!

Does it work?

[Yanto_csl]

Pictures would be nice :whistle:

Didnt take many mate ...here is a couple.

[Curly]

Does it work?

Oh no Shim you are going to look a right james blunt with one of them
yeah it was a good day at Donny yesterday sorry to hear about Lawsy getting turfed off, I was hoping for a passenger lap late on in the afternoon you were flying mate the cars a beast:thumbs: good to see the rest of the guys and CSL's were flying and I've got to say the big fella Shimmy was peaking :smokin:

Barry and Yanto did fantastic considering it was their first visit to Donny and the old warhorse wheels was flying the last hour, the shopper struggled a bit in the dry and the scalp bag was pretty light

[conleth m3]

had a great day. nice to see/meet everyone.

no pics but took a couple of videos, will have a look later and post them if any good

looking forward to the next one, unfortunately cant make silverstone but will try and get to the next on :thumbs:

cheers

conleth

[shimmy]

What a glorious day.....not a cloud, cool but sunny. Perfect.

So we had a night out on the Saturday in Melbourn. Beers and Curry with TerryB, Curly, Yanto, oNeill and his poor lady:bigcry:

ONeill drunk 2 beers which was one too many and didn't stop talking until 12 midnight, non stop. But luckily he only mentioned S2000s twice. Things are looking up.

Curly kept to his side of the bedroom which was unexpected but a relief, and luckily unlike NorthernJim he wears something in bed so no need for me to hide under the covers.

Sunday morning was cloudless and stayed so all day. Superb and made me ver y happy. There must have been 30 cars and 40 people there from CSLREGISTER, PureGT and OPL. About 8 CSLs, 5 m3, two RaceM3, 6 ShimmyRacing mx5, 964, Clio, mr2, GT3, GTR, Fiesta, EvoVIii, 6RS, Skoda Shopper etc etc. Great Turn out.

My day however didn't go to plan totally. Vibration on the way to Donny turned out to be a dodgy wishbone ball joint, heavy vibration under braking and knocking when turning. I decided to scale back the laps for the day but by 3pm id forgotten that rule and was putting in the miles.

Oneill was certainly quick on the pace. Managed to have a couple of sessions on track nose to tail with which was good fun. I think I only did 6 sessions on track. All 6 I had passengers however for the last one I dropped them off and went out for 5 laps 'empty' which was fun.

Giraffe and Tom turned up about 9am which was excellent. I told them to bully their way into any car they could and Giraffe managed to share with Ken in a 964 (not his car) which was duly stuck in the gravel and damaged by the recovery truck.

As for my laps, I have to say that pretty quickly the lap times were down to my best ever which was good. Then in the afternoon a few 1m20s came into view which was my target for the day. I never really had a perfect lap but was pleased its the day. I played with the Nitrons a little and NorthnJim and me had an episode on CRANERS where the back stepped out which we had to decipher. Popped into the pits adjusted the rear shocks and back out and all ok. (see Nitron thread for update).

I think overall I have improved on Old Hairpin to Coppice and maybe Redgate but was slower on Hollywood and CRANERS and maybe not as fast as I could be on Goddards.

So car survived, well didn't fall off, Nitrons learnt a bit more, lap times improved, Skodas and Mx5s spanked. Need to get two new wishbones and bushes me thinks.


Well done everybody, great day and role on Silverstone GP on Easter Monday 9th April (see members section for discount).

[conleth m3]

Does it work?

looked to be going pretty well when it came past me :whistle: