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Paul_J
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17th Jan 05 at 11:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just reading this thread on PGAC:

http://www.peugeot-gti.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97305

Made me think it'd be pretty cool to get a load of the corsa's down to a track action day, there's a lot of people now with 2.0's, and other things and it'd be interesting to see how they compare to other cars round the track?

Anyone ever been to one of these track action days? what sort of cars go round?
bradfincham
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everything from corsa's to ferraris, ive done 4 now, none in my car but dads kit cars!
brillaint fun just have to understand your limits and go no where near them! Also watch for slow cars, fast cars!

For example i nearly went into the back of a 205 gti 1.6 at donnington as he braked super early for a corner, but then you have near enough race cars hammering past at 160mph on straights.

Had a good race with a r34 skyline at hethel last year, that was good fun as i would be much faster in twisties then he would pull away in straights we spnt 20 laps chasing each other
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ive been once in my mates rover 220gsi turbo... was proper good fun, plenty of cars overtaking us and we were overtaking plenty of cars ourselves, i loved it. Im going in my car somtime in june/july

[Edited on 17-01-2005 by Uber_Derv]
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on castle combe track days are you allowed to overtake through corners? otherwise it's a bit ghey as something like a 106 gti will be shit for top end down the straights.
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your not supposed to over take in corners no, but if your fast you can overtake just before a corner, supposed to be straights only
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17th Jan 05 at 12:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
so would braking later than someone (up the inside) be accepted?
NeilsC
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there was alot of people from www.pumapeople.com went on this track day, there was 50+ racing's going around at one point, i will dig some pics out if you want them
Nismo
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Coombe action days rock,

i go to most throughout the year, check out there site for list of all track days,

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im sure you can get away with out braking someone... but as long as your not side by side in a corner then its ok.
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no paul, you will probably get a warning, slower cars are supposed to stick to the right of the track and let faster ones past on the straights and before corners etc!
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I see so you'd have to late brake around the outside then try to hold the car on the track as you take a shit line lol
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nah, slow cars pull to the right out of corners so fast cars past,
youre supposed to do the overtaking before you enter the braking zone and corner.
If you hit them through locking up etc they wont be happy, not everyone has track insurance.

An incident at donnington i spun going into a corner as the rear stepped out and an mr2 was too close he also skidded and thankfully i managed to correct the spin otherwise he would have just gone right into the side of me at 70+ mph, not nice inwhen u have a few bits of box section to protect you in a kit car!
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17th Jan 05 at 12:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Its not a race, its a driving experience, there are no timed laps etc
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at castle coombe you have to overtake on the right... so dont pull out to the right if your in a slow car!!!
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well ist the left or right at different circuits, depend which side the racing line is majority of the time
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ah - that makes more sense cheers uber derv... castle combe is basically all right turns
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combe is a fast track and you must pass on the right, you will never hit anything if you come off the right hand side as its a field in the middle,
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yeah CC is all right turns except for the two little chicanes.

lol but if you go off on the left there are some nice walls! (as one scooby owner found out!)

[Edited on 17-01-2005 by Uber_Derv]
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quote:
Originally posted by Uber_Derv
yeah CC is all right turns except for the two little chicanes.

lol but if you go off on the left there are some nice walls! (as one scooby owner found out!)

[Edited on 17-01-2005 by Uber_Derv]


I remember that vid

I've been to castle combe on the mini shows - never driven round it though
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yeah the poor guy was gutted... we got there just after it happened and his car was next to us lot on the back of a flatbed
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few shots of the track that i have









dont hit the tyre wall as this skyline owner found out



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vid of castle combe

http://www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk/videopoll.cgi?http://www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk/videos/films/20010609_combe_graeme_muppet_laps.mpg
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a few vids i have

http://www.roverturbo.com/neill/vids/neill.mpg

Andy R and Neil F metro after their first session:

http://www.roverturbo.com/neill/vids/Metro%20train.mpg

Jonny in his newly turbo'd:

http://www.roverturbo.com/neill/vids/Jonny%20turbo.mpg

Steve B in his:

http://www.roverturbo.com/neill/vids/Steve%20B.mpg

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cool cheers for the vids!

in that one I posted that guy is obviously breaking the rules - overtaking on corners lol
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17th Jan 05 at 13:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
good videos, large sizes though!

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