Curborough Sprint Track Day
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Curborough Sprint Track Day
I put the Excel through its' paces on Saturday on the Curborough Sprint Track in Satffs. Great fun! Excel did us proud, over 40 laps and never missed a beat...
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Re: Curborough Sprint Track Day
Looks like you were doing it in the reverse direction of what I thought was the normal way around?
When I've done it in the Clan we went start - paddock - woodside -molehill - hairpin -straight.
Looks like you went start - paddock - straight - hairpin - molehill- woodside - paddock.
But then you can chop and change to make it interesting!
I found 'molehill' the most challenging followed by keeping it wide into the hairpin so you carry speed on to the straight!
All good fun and heart-stopping on the limit - like keeping your foot-in on paddock through to woodside - which you have to do in a rear engine car or it'll oversteer and spin.
Excel must have felt awesome on the tight narrow circuit with it's inherently-precise turn-in?
How much was your trackday? - iIt used to be a reasonable £50 for the day for Imp Club meetings.
When I've done it in the Clan we went start - paddock - woodside -molehill - hairpin -straight.
Looks like you went start - paddock - straight - hairpin - molehill- woodside - paddock.
But then you can chop and change to make it interesting!
I found 'molehill' the most challenging followed by keeping it wide into the hairpin so you carry speed on to the straight!
All good fun and heart-stopping on the limit - like keeping your foot-in on paddock through to woodside - which you have to do in a rear engine car or it'll oversteer and spin.
Excel must have felt awesome on the tight narrow circuit with it's inherently-precise turn-in?
How much was your trackday? - iIt used to be a reasonable £50 for the day for Imp Club meetings.
Peter K
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Re: Curborough Sprint Track Day
They mixed things up a bit as the top loop can now be done as a figure of 8.
They have four patterns you can use A, B, C and D
A was basically driving around the outer bit of the track.
B was a figure of 8 where you crossed the track and wound up doing the top loop anti-clockwise
C I didn't do that pattern so I am not sure what it was
D Lap of the outer perimeter, then a figure of 8, then another perimeter lap to finish things off
It was £35 for the day through the Carlton Motor Club
I did 14 three lap sessions or thereabouts
They have four patterns you can use A, B, C and D
A was basically driving around the outer bit of the track.
B was a figure of 8 where you crossed the track and wound up doing the top loop anti-clockwise
C I didn't do that pattern so I am not sure what it was
D Lap of the outer perimeter, then a figure of 8, then another perimeter lap to finish things off
It was £35 for the day through the Carlton Motor Club
I did 14 three lap sessions or thereabouts
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Re: Curborough Sprint Track Day
£35! Fantastic value!
LotusExcel.net should maybe think about a day out there! (but not on a SUNDAY!
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LotusExcel.net should maybe think about a day out there! (but not on a SUNDAY!
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Re: Curborough Sprint Track Day
Lotus-e-Clan wrote:£35! Fantastic value!
LotusExcel.net should maybe think about a day out there! (but not on a SUNDAY!
I have already been invited to 2017 event, they are looking to sell more slots, so people from here could be ideal
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Re: Curborough Sprint Track Day
It wasn't timed, so you can run anything, my friend went around in his V8 auto Stag, did more than ok!richardw wrote:Sounds like fun. Do they have a class for automatics!?