Cadwell Track Evening Video

[480bhp.com]

A video from last nights track evening at Cadwell park, quite an eventful night, kicked off 6pm only for the 1st car out (1 series Bmw) ploughing in to the old hairpin and destroying the tyre wall and armco, leaving the marshalls a lengthy job of securing the armco so the evening could continue, By 6:40pm the trackday started again, and by 7pm my front nearside tyre had a chunck missing from it, not only that the Strut bolts (all 4) had loosened enough for me to be running variable camber
so 10 laps was the total for the night, so i never got chance to get in to the groove and push the car and myself harder

Still i'm back on the 6th and this time the bolts will be tight and the crap tyres will be on some farmers hay stack

Anyway here's the video, there'll also be another short one uploaded later of the rest of my one and only session.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsDA4_HFSo

 

[CMR]

Watching now, good so far!
What vid camera do you use out of interest?

 

[Whiteley]

Shame about the off holding things up. Had you been to Cadwell before? Shall see you there on the 6th.

Oh, your mic needs some work, hard on the ears that was!

 

[Barron]

what gear were you using for Coppice?

ta
carl

 

[Tony Hunter]

Not bad,your not having much luck this year are you.Cadwell always looks so very narrow to me,must be hard to get a decent lap in.

 

[480bhp.com]

Carl, Both Coppice and then charlies were both taken in 4th, i was speaking to Paul (Fishcake) who i do most of the trackdays with and i'm sure with a bit more time with the car at cadwell and a brave pill coppice could be take flat in 5th, now for some reason my jc5-130 box seems to run out of revs before Pauls does, on every track we've done so far i'm either struggling with 2/3rd or going for 5th when Paul can hold on to 4th, and it's not a case of me being faster than him, on the some tracks there's little in it, but over all Pauls the faster driver.

Whiteley, my fault with the sound, the rear facing camera was the cause of the bad sound, while editing i forgot too mute the rear video sound track
I have done cadwell before, an evening and full day but both were in rwd cars and quite a few years ago. See you a week on Monday.

Cmr, I'm using a 550/580 line bullet cam (£50 from the states, ebay) and an old faulty sony camcorder, but luckily the av in part of the camcorder works ok. It doesn't seem to produce too bad results.

Chris

 

[480bhp.com]

Not bad,your not having much luck this year are you.Cadwell always looks so very narrow to me,must be hard to get a decent lap in.

Teething Problems Tony

After the winter strip down and rebuild i'm hoping to iron out all the creases and get the reliabilty i'm looking for

Your right about Cadwell's width, if the car infront doesn't want too play ball, they can squeeze you all the way, and it's not uncommon too have a wheel on the grass (only in the dry though )

Chris

 

[480bhp.com]

Here's the 2nd part of that session, somewhere amongst these laps is a 1:50 lap, without the variable adjusting front Camber and the knackered tyres, i'm sure they'll be a mid to high 1:40's in there next time.

Roll on the 6th of July

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYBeYgW2blk

 

[Barron]

Variable camber at Cadwell....sounds all too familiar

and with coppice aye we were taking it in 4th too near enough flat depending on condition/traffic. Its bloody scary when you first do it so i did tap the brake before when i first started lol!

 

[Tom@JMS]

did you get to the bottom of what was causing yours Barron?