Bruntingthorpe On Your Marks 2014

Bloody good show all!
Newton, 160 is awesome will try and remember 4th for next year. MAF I was at 9mpg last year if memory serves, but I don't try hard enough

Will move heaven and earth next time!

C

Morning all.

What a blinding day - thank you. Great to meet friends old and new. I have a huge pile of video to sift through but the quality looks pretty good so far. Massively impressed with the GoPro, even if all it records is wind noise above about 50. Even Adrian blasting past at 160 on the back straight didn't register!

I'm always amazed at well well these cars can handle when you push them, and alarmed at how reluctant they can be to stop. Improved brakes would be a joy. I was amused at the molten rubber on my tyres but wish someone had taken a photo of the smoke billowing from Drew's brakes!

Videos to follow but in the meantime here's a tyre - not quite up to Adrian's standards of abuse, I'm afraid!

Cracking day Andy - many many thanks for organising once again.

Top thanks to Lisa and Susie who spent the ENTIRE day running the desk; neither of them left the gate all day, and didn't see anything else at the event, nor did they even get a single ride. Can't thank them enough!

Fully agree we need to put more cars through the gate. We have some ideas on how to achieve that, which I'll discuss with you Andy...

As for lending you my car mate - no worries. Did you realise that the cameras also have audio, and recorded your every word? Very touching comments from you, very tidy handling (much better than the Tiv which spun infront of you and nicely captured on camera - big clouds of tyre smoke!), and I appreciate the care you took yet still using the performance. Any time my friend, any time... Sorry if the 8 laps have cost you £25k

Very pleased with my car; as you say it handles incredibly well for a luxo-barge weighing as much as a small planet, and tricked out with all the toys. Everyone commented on how cool the car was inside (I was still running the a/c as I don't like sweating like pig) compared to the heat in all the other cars they tried.

Update on the remap - it feels much quicker low down (85mph by the first corner), but I have to say it also appeared to have lost a spot of top end (above 130). That said, Bruntingthorpe back straight is immensely wide, which changes the perception of speed dramatically. When I followed MAF round a lap, I stayed with him entirely through to the chicane, and lost only a few yards on the straight, so perhaps it's fast enough? I had two big passengers in at the time... In any event, I'm happy with that result

As ever, the brakes are the limiting factor on the track, but I'm amazed to see that the lighter cars were suffering much more than my QP. It should by rights be the other way round, surely?

The tiny shower made the track slightly slippery in places for a few minutes, but nothing more. At no point did I run out of talent, which was satisfying. Very pleased that the weather forecast was absolutely spot on though, and that we weren't running on Friday or today!

Figures for the day were 101 miles on track, and 8.1 mpg. Tyre wear on the semi-slicks was negligible - they were so hot and sticky, I believe I've actually collected your cast off rubber, thereby making it a wear-neutral day

As ever, great day out, fab to see the old and new faces, and hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as me

Look forward to seeing everyone there next year!

AdamN said:

I'm always amazed at well well these cars can handle when you push them, and alarmed at how reluctant they can be to stop. Improved brakes would be a joy. I was amused at the molten rubber on my tyres but wish someone had taken a photo of the smoke billowing from Drew's brakes!

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What smoke????

drewf said:

What smoke????

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Gah! From MILES' brakes. Sorry for any alarm

And breathe.....

Didn't even know there was a camera in there Drew......Would have kept quiet if I had known that ....... trying to think about what I said now.... All good I hope....

Just one stat...... Between the cars we did 420 laps on the day...but that doesn't include any extra that you may have done for your family and the wishes gate.

What's the length of each lap?

6.5km .......

Andyk said:

Didn't even know there was a camera in there Drew......Would have kept quiet if I had known that ....... trying to think about what I said now.... All good I hope....

Just one stat...... Between the cars we did 420 laps on the day...but that doesn't include any extra that you may have done for your family and the wishes gate.

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All good

Mostly about what a nice chap I was for handing over the keys, and considerably more waxing lyrical about how much you liked the car

Played with new (to me) lines later in the day, going much deeper into many of the corners, much faster rolling starts were fantastic this year (that needs to be communicated to The organisers) meant often taking turn 1 on song in 4th!!!! Late on the brakes and drifting into 2, avoiding the resident pheasants! I found going deeper int 3 set you up much better int the chicanes, taking less of the left kerb, after my 'off' in the morning exiting the chicanes I was reminded by others in the gate of Grinzzzz advise last year of driving out using torque not power so adapted this to taking an early 4th after the bumps and drifting wide onto the straight on full throttle... Resulting in a much better top speed on the straight with not much getting past! End of the straight was marked with two sets of brake boards but to be honest you were only really interested in the last one on the left! The right hand of the turn in really needs a very differently coloured king cone to distinguish it from the wall of Adam cones on the left!!! This year the wind down corners were much more just that and often stacked with cars. One particular hot lap immediately after the wishes rides it was stacked back to the end of the straight which meant double braking in the same distance!!!!!! I was not alone on here in finding that one a bit squeaky!!!

Fab day...

Good...had me worried for a minute there........People couldn't believe how well the car handles and also how much you could buy them for know.......The QP for me is all the car you could want...SO smooth and comfortable yet it can get on track and excite as well.....Def a car with two sides to it and both good.

Andyk said:

6.5km .......

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Although that's what it says on their website but not sure if that includes the 2nd track as well............

It must do - the circuit we were using is nowhere near that long.

Only managed one video and no photos this year; it is of Mark launching at the start with wheel spin for sure... I can't see the images at the moment on YouTube but I hope that is just local to me!

[video=youtube;rjl1-s2rKhM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjl1-s2rKhM&feature=youtu.be[/video]

If you can't see it, Mark is the secone car to take off and you hear the revs fluctuating in 1st as the tyres are slipping...

The few photos I managed to grab on the day...

drewf said:

It must do - the circuit we were using is nowhere near that long.

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Agree, probably half that......They say the back straight is 3km but I notice they have another track on the web site that looks like it could be added to the one we were on.

Drew, don't forget when you get the children's caps I'll have two of you for mine.....Just let me know how much and i'll transfer the money. Thanks.

That's the Indy circuit Andy, the trucks, trikes and tractors go off around much of that on their runs...

Getting into 4th before that final shimmery bump after the chicane and before the straight made a big difference, Newton, you were absolutely right. I only had a few laps where I could try it, and I was pretty wary about my grumbling brakes by then, but could still make an easy 145 on the back straight with having to wring every last drop of ability from the stoppers. Had I applied that approach earlier in the day I reckon I could have added an another 10moh quite easily to my back straight top speed.