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
