Wow hope the car is ok mate?

Great fun- thanks Paul for organisation and hard work.

Always good to see the familiar faces along with new ones.

I think I was the slowest coop driver so obviously I deserve a prize
I tried my best but I think Porto coloured coops may not be cut out for tracking - either that or I'm a crap driver.

Thanks Shaun(crazy legs), Steve(Proccy)and Sandy Tim for the passenger rides.
Although I asked JBT twice(very nicely) for a ride he refused - because he was fighting for top spot. So JBT, you owe me.

Sean

Yeah, she's fine. Ended up with a couple of scratches and two dents of which one has been repaired by the dent master Begbie

Cracking day!

Good to see you all. Thanks for all my passenger rides, sean_c for the lift & 360 spin, Begbie for the shortcut detour, Senny Dave for the luxo barge drifting and deann for a sterling post crash lap.

Hopefully next year I will have a car worthy of putting a good time

Nobby

Well done p Paul.

A word for Mario - NO!!! Just shave it all off, its going fast now mate

Good to see you and Nismo though

What a great day, thank you for arranging this, and continuing to welcome us ex-Coupe owners.

The weather really added to the event, just a shame that once again it meant that Dave T, Jonny and myself didn't get our Sevens out on track at the same time (wimps ;)).

The competition remained close through the day with the lighter rain periods producing the fastest times. Aside from one ten minute spell after lunch most of the best times were set in the morning. It's amazing that the best times of the day were shared between the most powerful Coupe, a near standard Coupe and a Caterham!

I enjoyed the sideways moments and sharing them with a few passengers. The pleasant surprise was how good the Celica was! Far from being the understeering car I remembered at Combe last year it was remarkably tail happy, to the point that a number of you thought I must have been using the handbrake. A number of times I had to use full opposite lock and plenty of power to catch a big slide, wish I had some film of it now. The Celica was only two seconds slower than the Caterham in these conditions!

I expect we all have thoughts of ...if only.... for me they were wishing I had experimented with wet lines sooner in the day and being braver in the that first corner. Maybe less time spent sideways might have helped too

The standards of driving seemed excellent with various cornering and braking techniques being tried, including the handbrake Begbie?

Couple of videos so far -

Taking JBT out (wish I had the recording of him actually getting in the Caterham) - Here

Last run of the day for me - Here

Bye for now, cheers, Dave

Some photos...

murky, damp, drizzly - yuk!

JBT putting water back into the air

Sandytim negotiating the first corner

SennyDave NOT negotiating the first corner

SeanC on the straight

Dean keeping it on the island

FishyDave driving away into the mist

FishyDave on the straight

PorkyPaul on the straight

SennyDave making his passenger feel seasick

All the above and a few more available in 9Mp images - happy to email them to anyone that wants them

Great day, I was a bit disapionted I couldn't improve on my times much throughout the day.
Thanks to Paul for organising it, and for the timekeepers espicially those who got wet.
Steve

Good photos considering the conditions Nigel.

Thanks Dave - I was under the shelter for all those photos - couldn't be bothered getting wet for any better angles...

I've now recorded all the results. Very interesting to see how tight the times were (excluding the occasional excursion into the scenery... )

Last year, in the dry the times were quite varied (see my post about 2/3 down the page)

However, this year, all drivers were far more consistent, suggesting that the limits were much easier to reach and far harder to exploit

Best (or equal best) times highlighted

My commentary on the day....

Prize for the day (IMHO) must go to Sandytim for the really early 1.15 and then repeating it twice later in the day. Modest power, assisted by brand new tyres and very tight, controlled lines was definitely the way to go. Tim also managed the highest average speed across all of his runs, with 45.47mph

FishyDave somehow managed to coax the rather wayward Caterham round for a pair of 1.15s late in the day. Special prize to Dave for one end of his car travelling further than the other.

Next prize goes to JBT - I simply don't know how he managed to put down all his prodigious power to equal Dave and Tim's 1.15 (TBH, JBT would have probably taken the honours for FTD if we'd been bothering to record to one decimal place - I think one of his 1.15s was actually a 1.14.8

The consistency prize goes to Ecrab with just three seconds difference between his best and worst runs (over 13 runs)

And some useless stats....

Total number of runs = 189
Total mileage covered = 167.2
Total (timed) time on track = 3.82 hours
Average mph = 43.75

Not that it matters to me Nigel, but you've highlighted the wrong time for me as my fastest - which was faster than Crazylegs and the same as FattM who did a gazillion runs

Oops - fixed (you might have to click F5 to refresh)

Bugger - only just got back on the forum, I would have loved another trip to Curbourgh. Seems like you all had fun though.

Right, datalogs have been converted, video has been trimmed down, now just adding the 2 together and should be up on youtube in the next couple of hours

I think you've pressed a wrong button Nigel as all the names are missing now

Dammit - senior moment - fixed now

Are you going to link to it or do we have to guess?

Go easy on Poor FattM as he did have the following issues:-

Bald tyres
Snapped coil spring
oil leak
Misfire
Low compression
Low oil pressure
No fuel
No oil
No boost
Turbo smoke
Only one wheel nut per wheel
No wipers
Electrical fault
Various electrical faults
Coolant leak
Split brake pipe
Radiator spraying coolant on the windscreen
Crankcase compression
Inlet donuts split
Spark plugs missing
Fuel pump weak
O2 sensor error
AFR Fault
5 drums of red diesel in the boot
And finally abnormal amount of heat coming from the cabin.

un-lucky

Patience you fat , It's taking a while to do this on the laptop, but the video is now up and is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VR5LgaGiM

Great vid from the fly-mo.
Good job you went off there and not 6ft to the right or that big hill would be interesting.
Great driving as usual beggers

Charming language there

That's pretty slow for a souped up, stripped out, big bhp, high torque track monster.......should have let someone who can drive have a go

In fairness you handled the excursion into the weeds pretty well, but i'm guessing weed is something you're no stranger to eh beggers?

Hi Suba

The RX would have been a right handfull with all the rain!

For whoever is interested - a little video from me :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1i4-tpxT8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Not much tyre wear though

Tidy lap mate!

It should be tidy, he took 15 minutes

Mind you, at least he made the first corner AND didn't indicate