Likewise. Some people really need to be shown!
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306 vs 'Ringtaxi
- Thread starter Mr Burns
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Likewise. Some people really need to be shown!
The 306 relying on superior braking and cornering levels to all the other cars in this video, that's how with standard power he was keeping up with the Ring Taxi. I was driving the black M Coupe that comes past behind the white 996 (he gets past the Taxi first and dissappears but I catch him back up towards the end of the lap).
Ford Bantam 1.6
listen to my ballast haha,great driving though he certainly does have big balls lol
I've just been made aware of this thread by C_W.
Thanks for all the comments. It was an awesome lap and I feel dead privileged to have found myself in the situation that allowed me to film which was about my 50th lap, I wasn't waiting for the taxi it all just happened like that.
In my opinion a better lap to watch is one I filmed with C_W, this is best watched with the volume well up so you can here my missus spouting a load of rubbish
http://www.youtube.com/user/bridgecrafteng?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/a/u/1/c82cEjJk4Ao
This is the motor as it was in the vid
You might be interested to here the car in the video is being re-built at the moment and next time its at the Ring it will be wide bodied with a transverse 400bhp 13b Mazda rotary engine in the front.
Thanks again, Martin.
Thanks for all the comments. It was an awesome lap and I feel dead privileged to have found myself in the situation that allowed me to film which was about my 50th lap, I wasn't waiting for the taxi it all just happened like that.
In my opinion a better lap to watch is one I filmed with C_W, this is best watched with the volume well up so you can here my missus spouting a load of rubbish
http://www.youtube.com/user/bridgecrafteng?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/a/u/1/c82cEjJk4AoThis is the motor as it was in the vid
You might be interested to here the car in the video is being re-built at the moment and next time its at the Ring it will be wide bodied with a transverse 400bhp 13b Mazda rotary engine in the front.
Thanks again, Martin.
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R26
Sounds very interesting. Good luck with it
I thought it wasn't all about big power and expensive engine mod though?
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I thought it wasn't all about big power and expensive engine mod though?
It's not. Note that I was actually wishing him good luck with the work as it's nice to see something different. Something different, not paying someone 4k to bolt on 2k's worth of bits.
I decided to re-build it because I'm gonna race it in the LMA Eurosaloon car championship which two of my mate are front runners in and the only way I'll stand a chance of running with them with there 600bhp Scooby's/Evo's is have a similar power to weight ratio.
I must admit I really liked mixing it at track days and the Ring with faster cars but I'd had enough of working hard on the brakes and corners only to be passed on the straights.
I'm in the fortunate position to be able to make most of my own parts so the build should come in at under 10k when most of the cars I'll be running with will have cost in excess on 50k and I have never seen a front wheel drive rotary car which for me is a good enough reason to build it.
Cheers Martin
I must admit I really liked mixing it at track days and the Ring with faster cars but I'd had enough of working hard on the brakes and corners only to be passed on the straights.
I'm in the fortunate position to be able to make most of my own parts so the build should come in at under 10k when most of the cars I'll be running with will have cost in excess on 50k and I have never seen a front wheel drive rotary car which for me is a good enough reason to build it.
Cheers Martin
It's not. Note that I was actually wishing him good luck with the work as it's nice to see something different. Something different, not paying someone 4k to bolt on 2k's worth of bits.
:lolup::lolup: OWNED !!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Brilliant driving and a really entertaining video! I wanted you to do another lap!
With a practically race-spec chassic and around 400bhp it should be untouchable by most things at trackdays and especially at the Ring where contrary to popular belief it's actually not that often you see a really quick car being driven really quick on TF days (lapping around 8mins BTG you don't find many cars quicker on TF weekends). But with 400bhp it'll break in to 7mins really easily and without putting too much pressure on crf450 hehe it should be good for 7m30 or less but it'd need to be a closed trackday to get a clear run.
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
Impressive :approve:
Mk1 Clio F4R'd
+1
Think it was a swift that, if i was driving, would have stopped because it looked like he was going to cut you up. Maybe its true that the locals are actually really good drivers.
Very good driving mate, massive grin on my face from watching it
Loved the Z3 McoupeThose two videos are really empty laps compared to the traffic you find on most TF days. You only need to go as close as you like (but remember it's actually a "toll road" rather than a trackday), or keep to the right if you are slower than other cars. I've done loads of trackdays with crf450 so it didn't bother me that I couldn't see his front grill sometimes he was that close behind and we headed it out with the intention of filming a lap together.
I've found "traffic" at the ring to be really well behaved, german, english or otherwise. The bikes are perhaps the most worrying as some are brutally quick (rare) but most are dawdling mobile chicanes with no rearward visiblity so demand a lot of care to get past incase they haven't seen you and decide to cut across infront of you.
I've found "traffic" at the ring to be really well behaved, german, english or otherwise. The bikes are perhaps the most worrying as some are brutally quick (rare) but most are dawdling mobile chicanes with no rearward visiblity so demand a lot of care to get past incase they haven't seen you and decide to cut across infront of you.
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Looks great, too!
As long as you plan your times right (early morning first thing and last hour or so) then you get it pretty empty from the time I went last summer. Always managed to pretty much have my section of track to myself for 90% of the time then kept my eyes on the mirrors and just pulled to the right and let people past if they came up behind me. Its not a daunting as you'd think once you've dipped you're toe in the water to speak.
Fletcher
ClioSport Club Member
Great looking interior that
Williams, Focus RS
Nice! she can shift!
