April @ ISTS
Saturday 11th April, we went off to ISTS for the weekend to promote FCS2009, I had no intention of running the car on track as the front wheel bearings arent 100% and the front discs are on their way out and I put 235 Mich pilots on the back that are totally different to what im used too.
quick call to icarus and fred
fred:
i wouldnt go out no, but i know your not even gonna listen to me anyway
Icarus:
errrr should hold up, if your wheel comes off just really yank at the steering wheel as you'll still have one wheel steer remember...
but alas, my silly side got the better of me and I decide to go on track against some serious metal, so tape the front up, up the pressures and out i go, worried the car will fall to pieces or get shown up.....
well, during the first session I passed 6 evos, 2 skylines, an M3, S4 (running 500bhp apparently), typre R, DC5 and numerous track slags.
this isnt me being the
big I am, I was just as shocked as the car seemed to fly past everything in sight. the only thing to pass me was a race prepped ferrari, how i grinned as he made me look like i was standing still.
the car defo turned some heads that day, i came in shaking from what just happened, and didnt stop smiling for a good few hours.
later on in the day i stood on the wall talking to some marshalls, they asked what I was in and one said
'oh that bloody loud one'... long story short they said I could go out on track and basically threw me a helmet...!
out in the session the tyres werent as happy as first but I passed another M3 and two old boys in full race garb in a Fiesta ST, they wouldnt let me past and if im honest were driving dangerously.
I knew a lad in a meg F1 was out as i'd been telling him about the track before hand and after a quick pull into the pits for riad to check on the hosing i went straight back out behind an evo 8 chasing down my pal in the F1.... into the K.curves the evo was really hassling the meg (boot full of ice), the meg pulled over to let the evo past and as the evo past I went past the evo.
andy in the meg said he nearly crashed laughing so much, I gotta admit the feeling was like nothing else, i took an S3 and an AC 3 series and a brilliant little AX before I had next to no fuel left and came in. job done
how we laughed on the way home as all the show cars bombed past us on CC at 58mph
next up coilovers, new parada2's all round and new rear rebuild of boot floor, exhaust and new rear bumper (thank you ring and ride for hitting me)
