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Here's another...impressive for an allegedly standard engine...

Aye, it's a PITA.

I had a great day there back in August, weather was fantastic all day long. Had a few good tussles in the ST, lots of lightweight, blown, and grippy cars, huge fun. This is the first of a few that will follow

Ah, got it. I've often wondered if there was a way of doing it without buying additional hardware!

You have two GoPros mounted on the B. Hague headrest strut mount? How have you done that?

Swapped my tyres around today. They were fitted one week before Goodwood and have covered 1,200 miles so far. Tread depths were FL 5.5mm - 6.5mm FR RL 7.0mm - 7.0mm RR Ouch. Goodwood took 2.5mm off my front left. I've edited a couple of short videos...fastest lap of the day and an unfair...

Very loud! I managed to borrow an industrial spec very accurate decibel meter and recorded the levels at full chat at high speed on a dual carriage way. I can't remember the exact reading (there's a thread I posted from around 2010 with it in somewhere on here) but in my stripped and decatted...

I find it mesmorising. There's more to come, I have a load of data to overlay, loads of numbers and charts and s**t.

My average mpg has been running far to high so thought I'd better do this...

It's not normal but it happens. Some also have very thin or even patchy paint in the large gaps/holes as you look down on the rear spoiler. They should whip that off and sort it for you.

I've only ever passengered in a 200T and that was with a racing driver around Goodwood...it felt just like/as good as it did being a passenger in all the other RS Clios I've ridden in. I don't doubt it's a good car, definitely more comfortable than mine is on the road, more practical from the...

Actually caught fire for real? Or because CS folklore? Did it shut the track for the whole afternoon?

Track closed? What happened?

Pics? Track videos? I was going to stop by, see how all were getting on, but domesticity got in the way. Grrrr.

Good question. On the odd occasion you go around corners is it a dab of oppo all the way?!

You'll see 30k at that rate!

Why is that a problem? You're only ever going to own one aren't you? Just buy one that works well.

I've absolutely no idea. I'm certainly no techie when it comes to mobiles and I'm not a super heavy user, I just know that Android works as well for me as iOS does for my wife. Comparing the two side by side I see little to differentiate them...other than the primary cost of the devices themselves.

I get a pop up message preview which I can either expand to read a little more, click to open the app fully, or swipe away leaving just the notification you speak of. This is on my Nexus 5 running whatever the latest version of Android is. Were you using an original Galaxy S with a prehistoric...

20k is the best I've had from my second set...and I had 19k from the first.

As someone who asked myself this exact same question I went ahead and took it back to bare metal inside, removed both airbags, anything at all that wasn't functional in me getting around a track was removed. Yes it made it faster by quite some margin but it was certainly no more fun and it made...

Are you trying to set lap records on track? If not, don't bother. I took 117 kgs out of my 172 Cup and it ended up 100% totally ruined. Became a real chore to drive...I so wish I'd never bothered and just left it exactly as it was. Stripping weight out will gain you nothing, ease a little...

This post takes on such an air of seriousness, importance, and hilariousness when read in the voice of Gareth Keenan. Brilliant.

You have a great memory! I'd jacked up the front on the passenger side and swapped the wheel for one with track rubber on, then, before the driver's side was lifted to do the same I went around to crack the wheel bolts off so my electric torque wrench could cope with them. I then completely...

Long empty motorway exits are good for practicing this too. I was lucky enough to be 'gifted' a rattly old 2.5 V6 auto Vauxhall Omega which I ran for a year before selling it on. From day one I swore to myself that my right foot would never touch the brake pedal. It was hard work, in the...

Plus it's fun, it get's the car moving about, helps you learn more about how it behaves and how you can influence it.

That looks like a lot of fun. Amazing roads.

It's actually of no use at all unless you're shifting very very slowly. The natural rev decay on my ST is ultra slow (either because of mapping or the very low friction engine I guess?) so if you are in any way trying to make progress, you'll be re-engaging the clutch in the next gear way...

Amen. Not a lot wrong with them as far as I can tell apart from mid to high road noise levels. Progressive, enough sidewall movement but not too much, 20k per set including two trackdays, £85 per corner fitted. So long as they keep making them I'll keep fitting them to my ST.

You're doing say 4k rpm in 3rd, you change to 4th. The revs drop down to 2k ready for 4th but stay there for a second or two before decaying down to tickover. So all it does it hold the revs at the right level for the next gear on an upshift.