OULTON PARK TRIP

greyrigg · Post by **greyrigg** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:41 pm

I had a great day on Friday.

In particular the half hour before lunch was great in the Exige. Just slippy enough to make it fun but not so slippy as to make it a struggle.............you know what I mean.....................

My highlight of the day was driving the shed. It was fantastic fun, handled so nice, was extremely chuckable and quick enough in a straight line, great

In fact I liked it so much Ross had to pretend to need a pee to get me off the track

Going back to the Exige after that was a bit dull to be quite honest, it just goes to show that all that time and money spent by Lotus and some of us has been a complete waste of time.....sheds are the future!

Malcolm

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:40 pm

Malcolm

Does mine count as a shed, even though it has the Mugen?

tut

ps ok, already anticipating the "no, it counts more as a skip" replies.

Fluoxetine · Post by **Fluoxetine** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:03 pm

greyrigg wrote:In fact I liked it so much Ross had to pretend to need a pee to get me off the track

Honestly, I did enjoy the pax laps in my own car, and picked up a fair bit from them...

...I did actually need the loo, but I admit I was suffering from slight paranoia over the health of the front pads, and figured they'd need changed pretty soon...

Fantastic fun the whole trip - I've really missed the SE social side, and the craic is easily as much fun as the actual driving...(Even if Malcolm and I propped the hotel bar up until 03:30am the evening before...

)

When's the next one???

Ross.

H8OAG · Post by **H8OAG** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:59 pm

The SE boys take their Oulton trianing seriously by checking body fluid levels every five minutes.

Blackbird Jim looks on in awe as tales of nurburgring,spa,zandvoort and the relative merits of their barmaids were swapped shamelessly

In a feat of utter selflessness , Kelvin pawns his watch to pay for the last round

Ali savours what possibly could be his last frothy lager before leaving these shores to work in the tee-total land that is Nigeria

Robin decides that Paul's 340R would benefit from further weight reduction and proceeds to remove surplus pulleys and belts

Token Oulton Pitlane scene to demonstrate that we really were there...and not holed up in some pub south of Penicuik!!

Proper trackday shots to follow once Paul empties his Nikon <BG>

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:02 pm

some pretty unflattering pictars there, lovin' it

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:13 pm

Mmm. I'm not ageing well am I!

God knows what I'll look like when I'm the same age as you Iain.

H8OAG · Post by **H8OAG** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:20 pm

You are only as old as the woman you feel........

That makes me 36...........and you must be about 22!!!

minkypotglory · Post by **minkypotglory** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:53 pm

Looks like you all had a good time on and off track

.Great pics

Mags

greyrigg · Post by **greyrigg** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:50 pm

Does mine count as a shed, even though it has the Mugen?

tut

Yours is the sheddest shed in sheddom out there Tut

Even if it is a rice boiler

Malcolm

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:36 pm

She's 24 actually...

IAINBOAG wrote:You are only as old as the woman you feel........

That makes me 36...........and you must be about 22!!!

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:59 am

He wasn't referring to IQ Kelv...............

<BG>

tut

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:40 am

How are you, you old duffer? I was just saying to the SE posse that I ought to give you a call...still on the same number or have you scammed another dodgy phone deal?

Kelv.

tut wrote:He wasn't referring to IQ Kelv...............

tut

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:34 am

Still the same Kelv, 01771 622971 and 07960 940577.

Miserable buggers will not give me free telephone calls, even though I am assessed as 70% deaf<BG>

tut

mac · Post by **mac** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:44 pm

Does anyone else think Kelvin looked like Billy Bob Thornton in "love actually"?

Mac

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:16 am

or even Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie...........

tut