SIDC @ KH, Saturday 28th July 9 - 12

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:16 pm

Great day, car only played up a bit but was ok after the first quick run.

Had a good number of runs. Loads of pax's out with me, i think I only had one run on my own. Great fun taking people out and scaring them witless.

Managed a better line into Duffus. Able to have the foot down hard all the way down to the brake zone without lifting. Never managed that before Walshy showed me how to steer properly.

The hairpin was better as well, I was putting too much lock on before, not natural to wind lock off and still expect to get round the corner.. quicker though.

I think the mix in cars and abilities worked fine. The quick cars were not a problem, they were very quick in a straight line but not much quicker if at all through the twisties. If anything, because they were so quick in a straight line, we didnt have to lift at all to let them past, just move off line a bit.

Great day, great to meet everyone again and a few new faces. Wont remember everyones name, never do.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:57 pm

John was it Sanjoy's camera kit you had strapped to your car? If so, Sanj, lookin forward to the footage

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:25 pm

kenny wrote:John was it Sanjoy's camera kit you had strapped to your car? If so, Sanj, lookin forward to the footage

Yes, he said we got some good fotage. He also said it was a pain to get it ripped from disk to the web so it might be a while before he gets it done.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:27 pm

another good day and Se turn out

Once my gear selection issue was sorted things went far better.

N3 tut managed another full track morning too

Had Tom as my pax for a concerted 30+ minutes of thrashing making up for lost time - thought I'd show him how to avoid parking on the hairpin and red flagging the session

(just teasing Thomas!)

G's 7 was flying up the straights - would have liked to have been chasing it just one up

Just back from Dundee with some the chaps. Good fun as usual, and hope you boys end the night in style and without any STD's

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:28 pm

Just to let you know, I am really impatient and demand footage asap

Looking forward to it, hope it looks good on film.

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:38 pm

kenny wrote:Just to let you know, I am really impatient and demand footage asap

No worries on timescale just looking forward to it, hope it looks good on film.

I've got some footage of you Kenny. You may not like it though.

Excellent day had a couple of close laps with AndyG and Tut to name but 2. Tut you seemed to be struggling with the back end a tad which was a shame.

Jamie (Digital), my car isn't a really big power car.

A measly 389bhp with a massive 1410kg's with back seats and spare wheel in.

Gareth, your 7 was pulling away on the straights.

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:55 pm

Post away Donaldo, your taxi is quick, I doubt I will dislike any footage of me on track

Will have to get myself a bullet cam to capture your slowness in the twisties....

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:48 am

A brilliant morning at Knockhill. Very special thanks to Mac (when I finally managed to get myself in the harness - sorry Mac

), Tut, John x2 and Andy for some trully amazing pax laps. All very fast with lots of action thrown in.

Great to meet everyone else old and new.

VXJON · Post by **VXJON** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:43 am

Picture of the Day

tut · Post by **tut** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:22 am

Donald

I had soft AO48R's on the front, but 6 year old very hard, used Bridgestone SO2's on the rear. Tried to get some decent tyres from Ronnie, but he had no 16" ones.

Hence not a lot of grip at the rear end, and lots of correction.

tut

deano15482 · Post by **deano15482** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:35 am

had a great day.
big thanks to ken for letting me cadge a lift

thanks to tut for the pax....played my own wee game in the car...trying to judge how close you were to the cones at each corner

great fun

nice to meet you....john reid,craigieb,ajt,ali,campbell and jeanette plus seeing some people i met before

good to see some s1 exiges in the car park though sadly not on track

lookijng forward to the next one

Dean

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:41 am

tut wrote:Donald

I had soft AO48R's on the front, but 6 year old very hard, used Bridgestone SO2's on the rear. Tried to get some decent tyres from Ronnie, but he had no 16" ones.

Hence not a lot of grip at the rear end, and lots of correction.

tut

Yeh, you could see it very unsettled under acceleration but also under braking too.

Footage now up here http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... php?t=9266

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:33 am

VXJON wrote:Picture of the Day

Just as well I was getting new tyres.

Jinty · Post by **Jinty** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:36 am

Well it was my first track day and I really enjoyed myself!

I'd like to say thanks for the pax rides from Tut and Kenny.
Good to you all and put faces to names.

Looking forward to the next track day.

Thanks again

Jinty

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:01 pm

Converting to divx now then will upload.