MexiTowers - Knockill Pictures

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:09 pm

Glorious sunshine when I was up for a couple of hours earlier.
Here is a selection of pics. More can be found at http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e196/ ... %20-%20KH/

Enjoy

Stewart

xtreme · Post by **xtreme** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:19 pm

Cracking pics!

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:22 pm

the pictures say it all...new engine needed

jj · Post by jj » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:31 pm

Top snaps there, I must have been in hiding though!

Awesome day, I am a bit burnt though. Good to meet a few more folks, and not without event - Scooby on fire and that Focus RS was in a fair state

xtreme · Post by **xtreme** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:35 pm

Must have left before that happened! What happened to the scooby and the RS?

robin · Post by **robin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:57 pm

It was an awesome day, cracking driving and cracking weather to boot - some excellent pictures there - particularly pleased that you managed to catch the rampant sore on my ugly puss to complete the picture of beauty!

Didn't see it but heard that the Focus RS met the tyres at Duffus. The scooby 'just caught fire'. The focus was pretty well driven too, so quite surprised to see it in the tyres, but I guess it is just a focus, so he was probably a lot closer to the limits than most of us boys pootling around ...

I am always astounded by the differences between Elises - in addition to my I drove Tut's 'Shed', SC's elise and PaulG's 340.

The 340 won hands down, BTW. Would you believe I have never sat in one, less so driven one, and it was a revelation. Awesome car - I think I'll swap the Exige for one of these!

Tut's shed is as you would expect - a handful (today's unique setup included a mixture of 3 MMC and 1 steel disk

, as well as some "special" geo introduced by a variety of worn bits ...) - but still quite fast.

Stephen's car was great, except for the brakes, which never felt right - sure enough two laps later, no brakes - fluid boiled, game over.

I love my shed too - plenty of grip today and easy to control beyond the limit.

Funniest moment was passing a slower car after the chicane - checked mirror - WankR had appeared (presumably he dropped from hyperspace to sub-light) on my tail - forgot I was in 2nd instead of normal 3rd as I had passed the slower car, so kept the boot in, as did he - except I hit a brick wall at about 60 as it hit the rev limiter - pulled off line to let him pass, but for some reason he thought I was trying to take the defensive line into the corner and having lost me in my mirrors took to the undergrowth rather than just taking the apex as normal - or that's what he says

Oh, and I was *definately* faster than ed

Robin

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:26 pm

well, if andy was the first retiree, then i must have been the second

All was going well, really enjoying myself, and was very busy giving pax laps, then my engine cut out. It hadnt felt as quick for the lap or two previously but i put that down to having kenny in the passenger seat

Engine just died halfway between clarks and the hairpin. had to get towed off, and caused a red flag, but thankfully only for about 2 minutes.

Robin, Fergus, Stu and Scotty helped me investigate (i stood and watched) and basically, we (they) think the original lotus fuel pump has seized. we (they) tried loads of things to try and bodge it and get me back on the road for TT2006 but was not to be. Cars now sitting outside my house. going to see if i can use my AA parts and labour warranty to get it fixed by thursday, as i'm due to be on brunty's tracknight to give a girl some pax laps

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:12 pm

Post by **simon** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:18 am

Focus looked a right mess, that pic is after they'd changed the wheels over!
Even worse, it happened with 2 minutes of the session left.

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:47 pm

Great pics!

What happened to your car Andy?

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:35 pm

I think "f**ked" is the phrase!

Its dead

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:16 pm

Robin,
Thanks for the tuition. I was actually feeling much more comfortable on the track just before the brakes gave out.

I got the fluid changed at mu parents and joined the middle of the group on the way to the hotel so apart form a curtailed track sessio the weekend was superb.

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:48 pm

Some crackin pics there and even one of me.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:56 am

I arrived at the scene about 5 seconds after the focus hit the tyres. Looked to me like he'd gone down the hill at duffus, round the left hand bend, and then just carried straight on from the apex into the tyres with a spin on the way, hence drivers side destroyed. Front offside tyre off rim, all offside panels destroyed, drivers window in etc etc. gutted for him. right before the end as well.

Uldis · Post by **Uldis** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:57 pm

And I was about 2 secs behind you.
Couldn't see anything through all the dust that came up, a bit like that Tom Cruise film where he raced Nascar, going bling into the dust cloud.

Slowed down to a crawl thinking some car could come shooting back from the left but no, he was well and truly stuffe in the tyres.

Felt sorry for him