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Was at a trackday yesterday at knockhill and what a day it was!!! even though it had rained and the track was damp still a great day.
some pretty serious cars there too rangeing from lotus elise's to 2 400+bhp cossies!!!!
had to stop off at jim at star performance in the way there for some racing brake fluid and he had in a couple of rather tasty evo 8's
so up to knockhill an luckily it had stopped raining but no sign of the track drying out but when i got there a couple of the guys were nice enough to show me round one of the garages which had 2 SR3's,a 355,focus rally car and a F3 2 seater (i think)
now to the track
fair amount of cars there,handful of lotus elises,an exige,couple of VX220's,an evo7,a serria RS500 cossie, an escort cossie and a GT3 prosche and the leon
first car i went out in was the leon to see how the new track is and have to say the new surface is impress,the car was able to carry the same amount of speed from the corners that it did in the dry last summer also the ickle elises werent pulling away at all on the straights and coming up to the hairpin we were overtaking by the escort cosworth,he managed to pull away out of the hairpin but up the straight he wasnt pulling away once we were up to speed.went to talk to the driver once we got back in the pit lane and asked him how much power he was running and he said 400bhp at the wheels!!!!! (thats around 480 at the crank) i then asked him if he was running it at full boost cause we kept up with him in a 215bhp leon and he just gave me this look ,then went over and had a chat with the owner over the evo7 and he was saying his wife said he had to get a sensible family car.....so he got that and got it chipped and a full exhaust and was now had 380bhp and so had to ask for a passenger ride,and he didnt half go for it
started chasing the exige and the escort for a few laps and coming up to the hairpin the exige ran wide on to the gravel in then quickly moved over to the left of the track where we were so he floored it and overtook him on the right which you arent allowed to do but had to and ended up getting blackflagged
then went to have a chat again with the escort driver as he promised me a passenger run in it so off out i went in that and OH MY GOD!!! that thing was something else, all that was inside was 2 seats,full rollcage and a dashboard,ive never experienced anything like that kind of power before,and the the traction and grip out of the hairpin and clarks was unbelieveable,i was too scared to say anything had a look at the speedo going just under the bridge and it was reading just over 110mph(most cars including the evo are touching around 100) before he started braking which was still a good 25m from the 100m board,got back to the pits and people were saying it was shooting out 4ft long flames from the exhaust,just after we got back into the pits the session was redflagged cause someone had went off(turned out to be the evo)so again got chatting with the serria guys and asked for a passenger ride in that and they said yes the driver said it had something like 450bhp and had on semi slick tyres which should be intresting in the damp......and it lasted just under a lap, first hot lap braked late going into duffers and the car got sideways,it then seemed to hold sideways like it was about to straighten up but nop back end then just went all the way round and i looked out the passenger window and seen a tyre wall coming towards me rather quickly!!!
so shut my eyes and held onto something waiting for a rather hard impact but luckily it went into the slip road bit but damage was done, front splitter had been damaged and was dragging alone the ground and a punture,but what a day, best track day so far and cant wait for the april one
couple of videos
EVO 7
serria cosworth
some pretty serious cars there too rangeing from lotus elise's to 2 400+bhp cossies!!!!
had to stop off at jim at star performance in the way there for some racing brake fluid and he had in a couple of rather tasty evo 8's
so up to knockhill an luckily it had stopped raining but no sign of the track drying out but when i got there a couple of the guys were nice enough to show me round one of the garages which had 2 SR3's,a 355,focus rally car and a F3 2 seater (i think)
now to the track
fair amount of cars there,handful of lotus elises,an exige,couple of VX220's,an evo7,a serria RS500 cossie, an escort cossie and a GT3 prosche and the leon
first car i went out in was the leon to see how the new track is and have to say the new surface is impress,the car was able to carry the same amount of speed from the corners that it did in the dry last summer also the ickle elises werent pulling away at all on the straights and coming up to the hairpin we were overtaking by the escort cosworth,he managed to pull away out of the hairpin but up the straight he wasnt pulling away once we were up to speed.went to talk to the driver once we got back in the pit lane and asked him how much power he was running and he said 400bhp at the wheels!!!!! (thats around 480 at the crank) i then asked him if he was running it at full boost cause we kept up with him in a 215bhp leon and he just gave me this look ,then went over and had a chat with the owner over the evo7 and he was saying his wife said he had to get a sensible family car.....so he got that and got it chipped and a full exhaust and was now had 380bhp and so had to ask for a passenger ride,and he didnt half go for it
started chasing the exige and the escort for a few laps and coming up to the hairpin the exige ran wide on to the gravel in then quickly moved over to the left of the track where we were so he floored it and overtook him on the right which you arent allowed to do but had to and ended up getting blackflagged then went to have a chat again with the escort driver as he promised me a passenger run in it so off out i went in that and OH MY GOD!!! that thing was something else, all that was inside was 2 seats,full rollcage and a dashboard,ive never experienced anything like that kind of power before,and the the traction and grip out of the hairpin and clarks was unbelieveable,i was too scared to say anything had a look at the speedo going just under the bridge and it was reading just over 110mph(most cars including the evo are touching around 100) before he started braking which was still a good 25m from the 100m board,got back to the pits and people were saying it was shooting out 4ft long flames from the exhaust,just after we got back into the pits the session was redflagged cause someone had went off(turned out to be the evo)so again got chatting with the serria guys and asked for a passenger ride in that and they said yes the driver said it had something like 450bhp and had on semi slick tyres which should be intresting in the damp......and it lasted just under a lap, first hot lap braked late going into duffers and the car got sideways,it then seemed to hold sideways like it was about to straighten up but nop back end then just went all the way round and i looked out the passenger window and seen a tyre wall coming towards me rather quickly!!!
so shut my eyes and held onto something waiting for a rather hard impact but luckily it went into the slip road bit but damage was done, front splitter had been damaged and was dragging alone the ground and a punture,but what a day, best track day so far and cant wait for the april one couple of videos
EVO 7
serria cosworth