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santa pod coupe day?
#273654
11/01/2007 09:17
11/01/2007 09:17
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would people be interested enough in something like this to merit hiring out the track for the day between everyone?
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273655
11/01/2007 15:36
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depends how much, but yes
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273656
11/01/2007 16:41
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Why dont you guys just wait until the AUTO ITALIA day i am 99% sure the will do it there again this year as last year was great ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) And it only cost £15 (i think) to run alllllllllllllllllll day long ![](/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif) It was near enough a coupe day anyways lol ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273657
11/01/2007 18:19
11/01/2007 18:19
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I'll second that ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273658
11/01/2007 19:04
11/01/2007 19:04
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hiring for the day is something like £5000 (or was a couple of years ago)
Your car is Usain Bolt with wellies
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273661
11/01/2007 23:32
11/01/2007 23:32
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I agree with John, I will never take another car there. I will, however be one of those annoying 2 wheeled twats that hogs all the tracktime by going on the bike ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) . I could either spend many thousands of pounds tuning a coupe to get into the 11's, or just spend £3k on an 02 reg yamaha r6! ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273662
11/01/2007 23:42
11/01/2007 23:42
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273663
12/01/2007 01:13
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As the folks further up say, it's very expensive to hire the place exclusively. The Auto Italia day was pretty good since there weren't that many cars there. The RWYB tend to be very busy a bit later in the year, get to some of the earlier ones and although there's a gamble with the weather you generally don't have to queue for as long.
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273665
12/01/2007 02:47
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Im in if the price is right ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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12/01/2007 03:08
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forza italia was good but the turnout wasn't great. they probably didn't make enough cash!
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273669
12/01/2007 03:22
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was it not in august last year???
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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12/01/2007 05:03
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Maybe we find a private road and do a sort of fast and furious thing. And yes I want to see bitchs........ :-)
Ps car must have 3 or more neon lights.
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273672
12/01/2007 05:26
12/01/2007 05:26
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Maybe we find a private road and do a sort of fast and furious thing. And yes I want to see bitchs........ :-)
Ps car must have 3 or more neon lights.
you want to see bitchs come to mid wales , there are very cheap and high quality.. Trying to get a few clubs together would be good like the 200sx boys and the fto forum , but I dont think any body would be willing to stump up £5K incase not many people turn up
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273673
12/01/2007 16:02
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God i hope AUTO ITALIA do do another day there! For those of you that didnt come/make it last year you could literally do a run then drive around and sometimes go straight away at the worst case senario i think i was waiting for about 5/10 mins then when i went to one of the RWYB days after that i couldnt believe the queue SOD THAT! ![](/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif) By the time you get to the start your cars either overheating or yours arms are aching from pushing it! ![](/forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) BRING ON THE AUTO ITALIA DAY! Might have to look into that further to double check they are not doing another day
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273674
12/01/2007 16:57
12/01/2007 16:57
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Yes just chesked the Auto Italia website they dont have many dates up there for shows/meets in 2007 yet ![](/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif) Altho if you look at the gallery and the pictures from the santa pod day in 2006 you can see Angelica's bottom ![](/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) lol
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
#273675
12/01/2007 17:18
12/01/2007 17:18
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I don't reckon they're going to do it again then as last time it was on the Santa Pod listing well in advance and there isn't much space left
Shame.
Anyway the test&tune days although expensive do give you the same sort of tracktime. There's one on Sat 31st March...
Former low boost hero - 616BHP@1.5 bar. 2.4 20VT RIP
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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15/01/2007 16:55
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£50 last time i went to a test and tune day
Think specators would still have to pay the £10 entry fee
Your car is Usain Bolt with wellies
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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17/01/2007 17:22
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I might go on 31st March, but if I do I won't be attempting any fast times, just setting up.
Former low boost hero - 616BHP@1.5 bar. 2.4 20VT RIP
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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19/01/2007 12:59
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Test and Tune at £50 for "unlimited runs" is always the best option. I think these days are limited to 100 vehicles, hence you can usually get upto a dozen runs which is more than enough for most people. To book a "private day" you have to put £5000 up front to Santa Pod and then you need to ensure that you get at least 100 takers at £50 a piece. Austec Racing did this for the TVR Community last year and we had just over 90 cars turn up, it ended up being a great day out with even the strip virgins thoroughly enjoying their time on the strip.
Always makes me laugh to hear the "big boys" brushing aside Santa Pod as a disappointing or should I say frustrating day out, yes the RWYB days are just pot luck and 9 times out of 10 you queue for ages and may be lucky to get as many as 5 runs, but thereafter just stick to test and tune days.
Final point is that there is no point in having big power if you can't use it, e.g Off the line, through the twisties and accelerating once rolling are the three categories that most judge their cars by, take my old Cerb, it wasn't the best through the twisties (not by high powered Scooby or Evo standards), but it made up for that by being awesome from a standing start and brutal once rolling. Most of the high powered Coupes are useless from a standing start (JohnS and Flea are testiment to this, although Mavric can launch), average at best in the twisties (although Nigel did well in FWD class at TOTB but was well behind the 4WD mob), but are superb once rolling.
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
[Re: Cyclone]
#279120
21/01/2007 16:17
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so 5000 for the day, 50 each for 100 cars thats not a lot to muster really and 100 isnt a lot, everyone would get plenty of runs
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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24/01/2007 19:13
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Most of the high powered Coupes are useless from a standing start (JohnS and Flea are testiment to this, although Mavric can launch), average at best in the twisties (although Nigel did well in FWD class at TOTB but was well behind the 4WD mob), but are superb once rolling. Don't be so cheeky! ![laugh \:D](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) I choose not to launch my car. If you had a gearbox that doesn't readily go into 5th or 6th and a single plate clutch you wouldn't try to launch it with 500BHP. I did do a 2.0s 60ft at York when I was testing/setting up at 0.8 bar boost.
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Re: santa pod coupe day?
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24/01/2007 20:06
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Every time I dumped the clutch on my car at TOTB, I was ready for the expensive noises that threaten to call a premature halt to the day and turn the normal two-hour trip home into a five hour marathon, sat alongside a sweaty recovery driver in a noisy, greasy pick up truck.
I'm pretty sure the last time I did a standing start where I was trying to pull away as fast as I could was at TOTB. I can't recall doing one since. The next one will probably be at Santa Pod in order to qualify for TOTB V1 and the next one after that will be at TOTB V1 itself (assuming the Santa Pod one goes OK!)
We've said it before, but the TOTB handling circuit is not FWD friendly (in fact the FWD class didn't even make it onto the poxy TOTB DVD last year - shows how the organisers see us as second-class runners to make up the numbers). Too many slow corners followed by fast straights. The course shouldn't be a test of traction, it should test handling, which as far as I'm concerned, my Coupe is pretty hot at. If the circuit length was trebled, the corners would go from tight twisties to big open sweepers - a true test of handling and nerve, especially on bumpy concrete.
Also, you have to remember that at last year's TOTB, I was running on standard Toyo road tyres. Everyone above me (and many below me) were on proper trackday tyres. I was only third by 0.02 seconds (although I was a long way from 1st place)
Maybe this year....
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