THE GOLF IS DEAD!!!!!!!

Cheers buddy. I was the only one in the car luckily.

Just dropped a wheel off the kerb and the grass took me away, nothing I could do.

Was being so careful too, don`t feel too bad about it, I'm just glad I'm wasn`t injured.

BAD curse word!

Oooh thats bad,.. glad your all in one piece,...

oh dear, track day didnt go as planned then?

My thoughts exactly.

We left Oxord at 6am and got there at 8. Drivers briefing was 8.30 and we did a follow round lap to get familiar with the circuit.

My first session was about 9.15 and went out again before lunch

It was going so well all day, there were some great cars there, 3 D-types, a supercharged Aerial Atom, 1380 Mini, TR5, Series 2 Lotus Sunbeam, Mk1 Escort Zetec, GTD40, my mates Audi Coupe, 4x4 Sierra and an Elva Courrier.

We had to put new pads in the Sierra as there was nothing left of them after 3 laps!

It was my 4th time out on the track so I knew it fairly well when I went off. Came down Lavant Straight at about 100mph, touched the brakes and dropped it into 3rd coming upto Woodcote, turned in at the turn-in cone, apexed and exited. I didn`t conciously go wide but I must have done, ran over the kerb and just dropped the LH front wheel onto the grass and it just pulled me onto it.

I turned full RH lock and cadence braked but it didn`t help. I reckon I hit the barrier at a 30 degree angle and ended up facing the circuit. Went round as a passenger in the Audi a bit later, wearing the Golfs wheels, as he had worn the tyres throught to the steel casing, and looked at the marks. 50m of straight lines the marks up the plastic sheeting, that were in front of the tyres, that were 4ft high!

The LH wing, bonnet, windscreen (cracked anyway), front valance grille, wheel arch spat and headlight were all damaged. The inner wing was slightly creased but noting that couldn`t be repaired. But the roof had kinked just to the left of the sunroof and the passenger door wouldn`t open as the windscreen pillar had shifted.

We have left it there, there was an old guy there who said he would deliver it for £1 per mile (£200) erm, no!

Gonna pick it up on the 1st and bring it back. I'll start looking for a Scirocco with a duff engine and swap them over as the one in the Golf is a sweet as, or a complete running Scirocco, whichever turns up.

Am aching a little today, escepially my neck, I held my head down to my chest just before but it still hurts.

Throughly reccomend doing a trackday, just keep off the slippery kerbs.

Can`t wait to do my next one.

Still at least you were alright and the mechanical bits can all be transferred into something else.

I know what you mean about feeling it though, I've been a passenger in a couple of accidents on the road in my life (one involving a skid on ice, crashing through a large window and ending up with a Volvo beached in a florist's shop, but that's another story) and you really feel it in your joints for days afterwards don't you?

ouch , sorry to here that mate, just think tho now you get to build yourself something even sweeter ;D ;D