GVK
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Last Edit: Mar 2, 2005 7:00:13 GMT by GVK
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GavinJ
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Donington track day vidsGavinJ
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Excellent stuff ;D
How much did the track day cost and who did you book it through?
I want to do a track soon-ish in the mg at donnington as its closest track to me, but noticed there is loads of different places you can book trackdays through....
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ill give them a look tomoro mr vk, as I'm on 56k atm, and college is a good deal faster!
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GVK
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GavinJ - Donington themselves organise the track days £95 the day +£20 for extra drivers or a passenger. Price goes up in March to £125 for the day. www.donington-park.co.uk/trakzone/Bank on using a weeks worth of fuel in a day and ruining tyour tyres unless you use some dedicated track rubber. Here's a tiny url for the broken link in the original post. tinyurl.com/6e7vp |
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Kris
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Great videos  I loved the way the face of the tyre is pulled away, I bet you didn`t tho'!! Did it flat-spot them badly? |
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GVK
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Yeh, fronts have wires and carcass exposed and the two rears are flat spotted  Luckily they were only old used testing Michelin slicks from the Clio cup (£60-70 a set) That flailing rubber made a racket.  |
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GavinJ
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Donington track day vidsGavinJ
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Cheers GVK, one other quick question can you hire helmets?
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GVK
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I don't think you can at Donington, most people just buy a £50 motor cycle helmet or whatever. I got a nice AGV demon lid for £100 in a local bike shop sale ;D
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BigWig
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GVK, I've already checked out your website, top stuff!
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MWF
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Kris
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WTF happened there then? |
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Last Edit: Mar 2, 2005 10:26:09 GMT by Kris
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GVK
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That's how you spin off on the first corner after leaving the pit lane ;D
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SidewaysGTM
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one to loose the back end through the cranner curves, my mates got it on video from his mini I'm there one minute then i go out of shot due to my other mate subeam is between me and teh mini and i reapear and disapear in a huge cloud of tire smoke....lol luckily didnt flat spot the tires.
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Live life sideways, Honda Powered GTM Coupe, you better belive it GTM Coupe VTEC Constant progression and acceleration 67' Triumph Vitesse 2ltr [finally decided what to do with it, at the planning stage] 92' Mini nearly std [SOLD and Missed] GTM ownersclub forum |
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MWF
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That's how you spin off on the first corner after leaving the pit lane ;D I can imagine Tubthumped was amused by that. Reason for it has been concluded to be "Driver error" LOL |
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Reason for it has been concluded to be "Driver error" LOL Olly didn't have that wider track set up on the back end for this did he? IIRC I said that it would work just fine. Maybe not! |
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MWF
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Olly didn't have that wider track set up on the back end for this did he? IIRC I said that it would work just fine. Maybe not! No but he had got an extra ARB on the on the back which was 'oversteer-tastic' apparently. |
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Luckily they were only old used testing Michelin slicks from the Clio cup (£60-70 a set)
