Video from Bedford Trackday 16/02/2012 plenty of clios!

[Shedspeed]

Video taken from my Fiesta with the camera mounted in the grille, was out for a fair amount of time, so a good few clios feature in the vid.
bit of an embarrassing moment when I locked up and span braking too hard for the corner before the main straight!

[video=youtube_share;F_COg32A6Ek]http://youtu.be/F_COg32A6Ek[/video]

 

[Shedspeed]

Re: Video from Bedford Trackday 16/02/2013 plenty of clios!

Clios pop up at:

3:30
9:45
15:10

Spin is at 14:20

 

[Martin.]

Long old session you had there mate! Car looks very capable!

 

[daveski]

Which fiesta was yours?

 

[Dan@SJM]

The one with primer all over it

 

[Chip-mk1]

Which fiesta was yours?

The one that looks like scrap with one primer wing.

Goes well for such a modest power output, some good driving there Charles mate

 

[daveski]

Ah ok. Puma engine iirc? Yours and the blue one gave me an idea how I would get on in mine.

Think I want another 1*2 though.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Yeah 1.7 puma lump.

 

[Martin.]

What power output?

 

[Chip-mk1]

What power output?

130 ish IIRC

 

[Sir_Dave]

Ha, mines the red Trophy. You undertook me by the pits, then span in front of me lol.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Ha, mines the red Trophy. You undertook me by the pits, then span in front of me lol.

FLOL

Bit too much commitment there then.

 

[Shedspeed]

Cheers guys, yeah its the shitty maroon and grey primer one! its about 130bhp 1.7 puma engine.
Definately needs more power!

the blue one is owned by Mike Woodford's brother and has an uprated viscous LSD in it. if it didn't have an interior, it'd eat mine for breakfast as its capable of much better cornering speeds. He let me have a go in it at the end of the day as i had used up the brake pads on mine. The thing just drives out of any corner at full throttle with no fuss at all, and it even works the other way around, i was throwing it into some of the corners at silly speeds and taking my foot completely off the throttle trying to promote a bit of lift-off and the diff would not have it! Christ knows how he managed to spin it twice!

 

[Shedspeed]

Here's the rest of my videos if anyone's interested, including a rearward facing one of me driving Mike's ITB'd clio (only 5 mins as the memory card filled up)

[video=youtube_share;JsfjQPfd8Z0]http://youtu.be/JsfjQPfd8Z0[/video]
[video=youtube_share;pZBlikcvRVM]http://youtu.be/pZBlikcvRVM[/video]
[video=youtube_share;-5wZ1F6EdYY]http://youtu.be/-5wZ1F6EdYY[/video]
[video=youtube_share;VYmsggc5rto]http://youtu.be/VYmsggc5rto[/video]
[video=youtube_share;61eyuO5n3yA]http://youtu.be/61eyuO5n3yA[/video]

[video=youtube_share;fwApmCuLxXw]http://youtu.be/fwApmCuLxXw[/video]

 

[Martin.]

Some smooth driving there.

Is it sad that I just literally watched all of them!!!

 

[Chip-mk1]

Its a good way to learn the track TBH watching vids

 

[Shedspeed]

And when you only have 130bhp, you really have to work the lines to get the best carrying / corner exit speed, so I think most of my lines are fairly on the money (most of the time! If you don't spin, you're not trying hard enough!!)

 

[Chip-mk1]

Agreed, you learn a track far better in a less powerful car IMHO.

In my turbo I normally apex a little late and a little slow, then I can get on the power nice and early, makes for rapid progress with very little risk of getting it wrong really (other than that chicane I didnt do that in, lol)

 

[kristianbowler]

Did I just see a ford ka?

 

[Dan@SJM]

Yes. Was mentally fast too. Those 1.3 engines can really shift.

 

[Shedspeed]

It was yb cosworth powered and rear wheel drive, looked to be something of a handful!

 

[Chip-mk1]

Richie's Ka is epic, but he was having some silly niggles with it, leaky coolant hoses etc.

It was only a shakedown day for him anyway though so nothing to worry about, its only by getting on track and using a car you can really find these issues.