Track day / birthday PIC HEA?VY 56K NO NO NO
ok well as it was my birthday today i treated myself a while ago and booked a trackday at oulton park, with my uncle as it was his 60th at the start of march, so had an ace day and took loads of bits with me but still had some technical issues, but im happy i got them here and not when i had travelled to the other side of the country to go on track as oulton is only about 50mins from me
ok so set out about 10ish this morning got about 10 miles from work and blew a boost hose off but the car still drives fine like this but with a lot less power all the tools were in the van which my dad was in so drove the rest of the way with this off and fixed it when i got there, had my briefing and did my sighting lap and then headed back out to make sure everything was fine did about 3 laps and then spun it big style stayed on track the whole time did at least a 360 and then carried on pulled into the pits and checked everything all good just a little scare
so back out on track a few more slower laps learning the courners and overtaking a few things but was fairly busy and a few race cars there such as radicals porsche cup cars and some ferrari scuderios bloody go past like you are standing still so about 8 more laps then blew another boost hose , none in nearly a year and 2 different ones in 1 day, so slow lap back tot he pits and reconnect and tighten and then chilled for a while as track was closed as they recovered someone
ok so back out with my cousin in car scared him quite a bit and was now a bit quieter on track so did about 5-6 laps at a good speed getting the hang off the track now, but brakes were starting to fade so slow lap back in to pits parked up and all 4 discs are steaming like mad like smoke you could see think it was the hammerite getting burnt off, sat about 2 mins no engine on then next minute water start ****ing out the top of the rad and next minute boom and no top hose on my rad, so that was the end of my trackday
im happy with how many laps i had done and to be honest this was a test to see where the car needed improvment so dot 5 fluid going in tommorow and a brand new rad back on the road tommorow night, and maybe some better pads for next time now just need to find another one that was as cheap as today
first pics of me and my car
ok well as it was my birthday today i treated myself a while ago and booked a trackday at oulton park, with my uncle as it was his 60th at the start of march, so had an ace day and took loads of bits with me but still had some technical issues, but im happy i got them here and not when i had travelled to the other side of the country to go on track as oulton is only about 50mins from me
ok so set out about 10ish this morning got about 10 miles from work and blew a boost hose off but the car still drives fine like this but with a lot less power all the tools were in the van which my dad was in so drove the rest of the way with this off and fixed it when i got there, had my briefing and did my sighting lap and then headed back out to make sure everything was fine did about 3 laps and then spun it big style stayed on track the whole time did at least a 360 and then carried on pulled into the pits and checked everything all good just a little scare
so back out on track a few more slower laps learning the courners and overtaking a few things but was fairly busy and a few race cars there such as radicals porsche cup cars and some ferrari scuderios bloody go past like you are standing still so about 8 more laps then blew another boost hose , none in nearly a year and 2 different ones in 1 day, so slow lap back tot he pits and reconnect and tighten and then chilled for a while as track was closed as they recovered someone
ok so back out with my cousin in car scared him quite a bit and was now a bit quieter on track so did about 5-6 laps at a good speed getting the hang off the track now, but brakes were starting to fade so slow lap back in to pits parked up and all 4 discs are steaming like mad like smoke you could see think it was the hammerite getting burnt off, sat about 2 mins no engine on then next minute water start ****ing out the top of the rad and next minute boom and no top hose on my rad, so that was the end of my trackday
im happy with how many laps i had done and to be honest this was a test to see where the car needed improvment so dot 5 fluid going in tommorow and a brand new rad back on the road tommorow night, and maybe some better pads for next time now just need to find another one that was as cheap as today
first pics of me and my car
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ive been sat looking for another track session for myself all day. If mine was fixed id of been on track aswell 
