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[Sidnancy]

He deserves a medal for driving it for any length of time without AC

Sidenote, really great to chat with you yesterday. Good to see you again

Thank you sir.

The ambient temp sensor seems to be inside the car, for some reason - presumably done for sadistic reasons.

"Christ I'm hot, I wonder how hot it is in here"





Oh.

 

[GiT]

I’ll stop hijacking this thread now as it’s not fair to ruin it with my drama, but thought you might been keen to say hello to Sideshow Bob

Pretty sure it’ll be in a worse state when it arrives at the garage than when it left…

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That's AI, surely? Please tell me it's AI, or that you have a tracker in your car!?

Look at the f**king shadow lmao

 

[NorthloopCup]

Thank you sir.

The ambient temp sensor seems to be inside the car, for some reason - presumably done for sadistic reasons.

"Christ I'm hot, I wonder how hot it is in here"



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Oh.

I think the most important question that needs to be answered at this point are, did @Touring_Rob get it running? Or someone else?

 

[Sidnancy]

I think the most important question that needs to be answered at this point are, did @Touring_Rob get it running? Or someone else?

Genuinely, it was a combined effort. I did absolutely f**k all except sit there, look worried and drink @Cub. 's beer

 

[NorthloopCup]

Genuinely, it was a combined effort. I did absolutely f**k all except sit there, look worried and drink @Cub. 's beer

@Touring_Rob you're s**t mate

 

[Touring_Rob]

It was a genuine team effort and the eventual 'fix' was bodgy as f**k.

 

[NorthloopCup]

It was a genuine team effort and the eventual 'fix' was bodgy as f**k.

So what you’re essentially saying is @Scrooge and his brother fixed it?

 

[JamesBryan]

There must have been 40 people looking at it trying to fix it

 

[Ph1 Tom]

I’ll stop hijacking this thread now as it’s not fair to ruin it with my drama, but thought you might been keen to say hello to Sideshow Bob

Pretty sure it’ll be in a worse state when it arrives at the garage than when it left…

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What an interesting fellow!

 

[J-J]

Genuinely, it was a combined effort. I did absolutely f**k all except sit there, look worried and drink @Cub. 's beer

Ahem, cub's 'cold' beer don't you mean?

 

[Nickw88]

That's AI, surely? Please tell me it's AI, or that you have a tracker in your car!?

Look at the f**king shadow lmao

Honestly, I wish it was. All the biker boys had a good laugh watching him strutting around

 

[NorthloopCup]

Honestly, I wish it was. All the biker boys had a good laugh watching him strutting around

You know what, I’m pretty sure we’ve had ‘that’ in at work before dropping a car off!

 

[f0xy]

Great weekend - not had a Clio for 15 years but always good to catch up with some (really) old faces and new! Missed plenty of people but there is never enough time.

Session format was well ran, any stoppages were cleared quickly... Still covered the same amount of miles as an average open pitlane day (135+)



Thanks to all involved with the planning and running of the day itself

 

[Cub.]

He deserves a medal for driving it for any length of time without AC

Sidenote, really great to chat with you yesterday. Good to see you again

You too bud, sorry I couldn’t stay long.

Had to drive to Nottingham to pick up new clocks for that S3

 

[Ricardos]

You too bud, sorry I couldn’t stay long.

Had to drive to Nottingham to pick up new clocks for that S3

The gift that keeps on giving

No probs just glad to manage a quick chat

 

[Cub.]

Ahem, cub's 'cold' beer don't you mean?

I have to say, that Coolbox was unbelievably……















s**t.


(I lie, it was incredible just like you).

 

[Clart]

Great weekend - not had a Clio for 15 years but always good to catch up with some (really) old faces and new! Missed plenty of people but there is never enough time.

Session format was well ran, any stoppages were cleared quickly... Still covered the same amount of miles as an average open pitlane day (135+)

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Thanks to all involved with the planning and running of the day itself

One of the cars of the day. You and that black bmw were f**king flying

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

I have to say, that Coolbox was unbelievably……















s**t.


(I lie, it was incredible just like you).

Thanks for the feedback re the sessions. It’s very interesting that you clocked about the same time on track as you would on an open pit session. We were talking about that very stat this morning and had wondered if there would be a massive difference between group and open pit track time.

Glad you enjoyed the day

 

[Cads]

Great weekend - not had a Clio for 15 years but always good to catch up with some (really) old faces and new! Missed plenty of people but there is never enough time.

Session format was well ran, any stoppages were cleared quickly... Still covered the same amount of miles as an average open pitlane day (135+)

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Thanks to all involved with the planning and running of the day itself

Watching you and the BM going at it was great to watch all day! Or until the BM broke. Hope it’s an easy fix for him.

 

[Cub.]

Thanks for the feedback re the sessions. It’s very interesting that you clocked about the same time on track as you would on an open pit essession. We were talking about that very stat this morning and had wondered if there would be a massive difference between group and open pit track time.

Glad you enjoyed the day

Unsure if this is an elaborate “your seat didn’t arrive and you got no track time fatboy” joke…..

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

Unsure if this is an elaborate “your seat didn’t arrive and you got no track time fatboy” joke…..

I quoted the wrong fkn post. Shame, such a shame…

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

Great weekend - not had a Clio for 15 years but always good to catch up with some (really) old faces and new! Missed plenty of people but there is never enough time.

Session format was well ran, any stoppages were cleared quickly... Still covered the same amount of miles as an average open pitlane day (135+)

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Thanks to all involved with the planning and running of the day itself

Thanks for the feedback re the sessions. It’s very interesting that you clocked about the same time on track as you would on an open pit session. We were talking about that very stat this morning and had wondered if there would be a massive difference between group and open pit track time.

Glad you enjoyed the day

 

[Clart]

That guy calling the sessions made me laugh . Genuinely sounded like he was enjoying every announcement

 

[f0xy]

One of the cars of the day. You and that black bmw were f**king flying

It's always a good match between them when I stick to low boost, the session format helped too as we could easily get out at the same time

Watching you and the BM going at it was great to watch all day! Or until the BM broke. Hope it’s an easy fix for him.

Unfortulately catastrophic internal damage, it dropped an inlet valve mid afternoon. It will be back...

 

[Touring_Rob]

So what you’re essentially saying is @Scrooge and his brother fixed it?

Scrooges bro couldn't even fix his phone charger, Scrooge however was part of the core team.

 

[Touring_Rob]

@J-J aka, cooler box nonce donating a coolbox was exceptional.

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

@J-J aka, cooler box nonce donating a coolbox was exceptional.

I was going to mention his former forum name when the cooler came up in the raffle. But I thought it may cause some tension

 

[Filters]

Scrooges bro couldn't even fix his phone charger, Scrooge however was part of the core team.

What a legend though

I was going to mention his former forum name when the cooler came up in the raffle. But I thought it may cause some tension

Anyone else just get Brosport flash backs?

 

[J-J]

@J-J aka, cooler box nonce donating a coolbox was exceptional.

How could I not given the username and my salesmanship of cool boxes in general

I was going to mention his former forum name when the cooler came up in the raffle. But I thought it may cause some tension

You absolutely should of done! I nearly called you out on it during the draw but then thought there were too many kids about to go throwing the nonce word around

 

[helpimonfire]

What car were you in mate?

Black 197 with the yellow cage. Spent all day beating the s**t out of it and when I wasn't I popped down to see the progress on the S3, then got chatting to a few passers-by who were interested in the car.

To add to the distance covered on track, I'd say I was close to an open pit day, my only real gripe with sessioned days is I like to do 30-40 minute stints, however Cadwell is an oddity because it's the only track that makes me feel motion sick

 

[Danith]

Only stayed for the afternoon on sat. Good to see so many clio RS still going. Some proper smart mk3 on the show and shine.
Favourite track car was that 308 gti, who's is that? Looked quick and super clean

 

[YorkshireKyle]

I was going to mention his former forum name when the cooler came up in the raffle. But I thought it may cause some tension

"Thanks to JJ for donating a cooler box. Watch your kids because he may nonce them with it"

 

[JamesBryan]

Only stayed for the afternoon on sat. Good to see so many clio RS still going. Some proper smart mk3 on the show and shine.
Favourite track car was that 308 gti, who's is that? Looked quick and super clean

@Xiolage

 

[photo_ed]

Just to add in my thoughts on the session format of the day. I thought this worked really well from my point of view. It gave a good window of time to let the car have a break ( important for me on normal road tyres and standard pads.. ) and cool down. But I found it great for the social side of things too, catching up with folk between sessions, or chatting to fellow group runners just seemed to work really well in my opinion.

 

[Touring_Rob]

I like both formats and tbh would just do whatever the track normally does. Seems that sessions is what Cadwell normally likes and it makes a lot of sense with the track entry. They split us up well.

Pro's and cons to each.

Cons of sessions
1) I smoked 10x more cigarettes
2) My tyres cooled off way too much
3) Less opportunity to go out with people you want

Pros
1) Gave me time to check the car over properly
2) get fuel
3) smoke loads of fags
4) talk smack
5) you always enter an empty track so don't have to watch for someone doing 300mph

 

[Touring_Rob]

Black 197 with the yellow cage. Spent all day beating the s**t out of it and when I wasn't I popped down to see the progress on the S3, then got chatting to a few passers-by who were interested in the car.

To add to the distance covered on track, I'd say I was close to an open pit day, my only real gripe with sessioned days is I like to do 30-40 minute stints, however Cadwell is an oddity because it's the only track that makes me feel motion sick

I think I was in your way for some of it

30-40min sessions is a bit much isn't it!? My car doesn't burn any oil normally but on track when it gets hot it starts to use oil, I reckon it would start to consume itself after 30mins.

 

[helpimonfire]

I think I was in your way for some of it

30-40min sessions is a bit much isn't it!? My car doesn't burn any oil normally but on track when it gets hot it starts to use oil, I reckon it would start to consume itself after 30mins.

There were quite a few laps where you let me past. I was surprised how much corner speed you could carry in that and how much quicker you got throughout the day, I assume the first few sessions were working out if everything was holding together still

I like longer sessions in all honesty, it normally takes me 10 minutes or so to get into a groove, although this weekend was fine for 20 minutes at a time because it was about 800 degrees in the cabin, I forgot to block off some firewall holes and the heat off the manifold was coming in and I genuinely felt faint at one point going into Hall Bends

 

[Touring_Rob]

There were quite a few laps where you let me past. I was surprised how much corner speed you could carry in that and how much quicker you got throughout the day, I assume the first few sessions were working out if everything was holding together still

I like longer sessions in all honesty, it normally takes me 10 minutes or so to get into a groove, although this weekend was fine for 20 minutes at a time because it was about 800 degrees in the cabin, I forgot to block off some firewall holes and the heat off the manifold was coming in and I genuinely felt faint at one point going into Hall Bends

Noooo, I was just super slow in the morning. I've never been to Cadwell and I was honestly feeling really overwhelmed with how technical it was. I had picked up some pace by the afternoon but was getting really annoyed with myself going up Coppice(?), the fast uphill left after the track entry.

@YorkshireKyle was leaving me standing there.

By the end of the day though I absolutely loved Cadwell, maybe my favourite track now!

You were going well all day sir.

 

[MAXRUNDOWN]

Thinking back, my only gripe would be the sighting lap. I was towards the back of the third row of cars waiting to go out, so by the time I was actually on track the lead car was nowhere to be seen so I spent the sighting lap chasing the pack ahead of us trying to catch up, making the sighting lap absolutely pointless for being shown the racing line, braking points etc.

Last time I was on track (Bedford) it was actually done properly. Obviously this is down to the track and absolutely nothing to do with the CSF organisers so not a moan at them.

 

[loggyboy]

Who had the Grey Megane - RG at the end of the reg??? Was utterly motoring!!!

Oh, and hats off to the 2 Mk1 Clios (Red and White), both shifting too!

DG?