Scotty - Had to turn in late and completely miss the racing line as someone had just dumped an engine full of oil on it about 20 mins before and there was no grip. We also cannot turn in too early as we are not allowed to cross the pit out solid white line as TA cars tend to be in and out of the pits during a session. As our cars are lardy with lots of power we tend to apex really late anyway and focus on getting the welly in as soon as poss. You are right about the commitment and using as much kerb on the exit. Paddockhill is probably my favourite corner in the UK. There is so much grip on the compression at the bottom of the hill. My quickest dry lap (not on youtube) i was right over onto the exit kerb. We are very closely watched about having 4 wheels off though, they disallow that lap.
I had already been warned.
4x4
We may have twice the wheels driven but we have over twice the power... and no traction control
Dirkpit - Luckily he puts the fag out when he is filling the car with race fuel.
Andy - I bet that was a rude awakening to motor sport for Claire.
The car was absoutley mental to drive.Amazing fun but so difficult to try and get a clean lap. We had just put on a bigger turbo and it would have been much less of a handfull on the old one. I put in the race fuel for the final as it had been dry 30 mins before, so the car was probably putting out 650Hp. It was the slippiest track i have ever driven with 7 engines going over the weekend and 100 gallons of detergent going down on saturday night. I walked the track on saturday after testing and nearly fell on my arse on the racing line at paddockhill.
Being stuck behind the evo was a nightmare. I edited out one of the laps as i was stuck behind it for 3 laps and it slowed me down considerably. My quickest lap was the one where i let him get away but still caught him and was slowed down. He was on flying laps too, so had no need to pull over for me. That car is a really serious piece of kit and did a 53s round Knockhill. It looked much too stiff for the wet conditions. It is cocking a wheel on the 1st lap. When he did let me by, i was on my quickest lap, 0.4s up on the 1st sector, thats when the new turbo packed in which probably cost me the win. I lost by 0.18s
...were you having over cooling issues...reason on a post card 
spent the first lap willing you past the guy in the white car 
, ..untill i twigged it was wheel spinning in all four wheels 
came over all german there 
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, just hope it didnt break the bank! 
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to see you in the rear view mirror of the exige coming from KH, on TT, in your white lid and 211.....did bring a smile to my face 
