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No doubt there's more skill than the simplistic view of it I gave, but it's still about as basic a version of motorsport as you can get. I reckon once you get onto the silly power things of 800bhp and up then it probably does get quite interesting from a driving perspective, but I just can't see the thrill of doing it in a normal car. Hell, even when I did Vmax in the 911 the fun was from seeing how big your balls were by getting the highest top speed before braking, and not from the actual driving bit. Granted, that was auto over manual, but I just don't think that straight line stuff is for me in normal cars. Soz.

Nah, you'd be fine with anything this side of sandpaper really.

Worst part of that pic is that I know exactly where that shop is, I've been to the mall there a good few times

TYRES FFS

A good cutting compound should do it, if doing it by hand then you can be a little more agressive too. Try some Megs Ultimate Compound and see where that gets you, if a good ol' fashioned claying doesn't shift it.

I'd have said more terrible twos at times!

Any reason we're not looking at a 320d estate?

I had my first sports car at 23, MR2 mk3. I never wanted to take it to a drag strip, sorry. Each to their own, I just prefer something that takes a little more skill to master than just launching. I didn't mean taking it seriously by stripping the car, I meant take it seriously as a frame of reference for a real-world 0-60 time for a HR car, which was the point of your original post, was it not? Look, I'm sure you'll have a super time living your life a quarter mile at a time, my point was more to treat it as a fun day out rather than a technical exercise. I have no idea how old you are, but out of curiosity how old do you think I actually am?!

If you really want to test your performance you need to do a Vmax day, but they're not the easiest of things in the world to get on if you don't have something vaguely interesting. I'd love to see some of the big power guys on here go up against some of the more exotic things, that would be great to watch

Then what's the point? The way I see it, you have two options: 1. Go for fun, have a laugh, don't worry about competition or comparison 2. Take it seriously, give it the best you possibly can and sod mechanical sympathy, come away with some decent results I suspect you may be disappointed. Come across something like a Focus RS and you'll likely lose quite badly, but I know which I'd rather be driving down the twisty lanes. Neil has it spot-on here, IMHO.

I recognise that bit!

If you can prove me wrong you'd be doing a massive service to the community as a whole, and for once I would actually enjoy being wrong. Go on then, who do you use that covers the above?

Very odd, perhaps it was because they didn't trust the PH lot then? Maybe assuming because they're all coming for free that they'd all be a bunch of filthy chavs? Bizarre. I might even email them and ask them.

I've Adblocked it for now, hopefully it won't effect other YT vids as well though.

I suppose if you consider how sometimes families go there, i guess it's wise to keep kids out Porsche don't care at PEC Silverstone and neither did Ferrari either at the Racing Day though, kids loved climbing in and sitting in the cars. Hook 'em while they're young, get the brand loyalty early

I meant the cars were locked, not the levels themselves Just seems daft, awful way to sell a product.

Just got back from the PHSS at Mercedes Benz World, good day out. As usual a good few people had already left by the time we got there, but managed to get a pax ride in the SLS (better noise inside than out, I can see why people moan about the gearbox, and sadly it didn't feel that quick) and even luckier managed to get picked out of the hat for the PH drift challenge. Low friction surface, CLS AMG, 2 mins to hold a drift for as long as possible. As you can imagine most people were terrible, but one guy got a frankly astonishing 57 secs so I knew I had no chance since I've never done proper drifting. I spun it on my very first attempt, miles too much gas and I looked a gimp Then somehow everything came together like a scene from a film and I became a drifting god, my final time was 54 secs and I ran out of time else I'd easy have beaten the other guy! Still, I reckon that officially makes me the 2nd best drifter on all of PH MBW is shite though, staff are rude and badly organised, three levels of cars and all were locked (great way to sell cars!), crappy little shop unless you like £5 golf putters, just not a patch on Porsche at Silverstone really. Weather was perfect though, couldn't ask for better really. Saw a silver coupe and a black ragtop there though, anyone from here?

With good reason, you still need to be a little careful of private roads as some of them are still classed as public areas. I'm thinking all those private roads that have a ton of houses up them that anyone can drive up, and things like supermarket car parks. Basically anywhere the public have very easy access to can be counted, so while your description is probably fine I'd still want to be 100% sure before committing.

Doesn't do it on iOS devices, it's only on proper computers for some reason. Making it play on mute is a good idea.

I reckon I'm nearer than some of those on AT

Don't do 0-60 as there's too much variation, do in gear times from 20mph onwards. Easier on the drivetrain and easier to replicate too.

You know I'm right though...

Any way of stopping the video playing every time the homepage comes up? It really is quite irritating, especially as the 'mark forums read' link takes you back there automatically rather than straight to the forum list like every single other forum in the history of the world. Yes, it's another minor whinge in the grand scheme of things, but it's a valid point I think. Same reason that people hate websites that auto play background music or instructional videos the second the page loads up.

I refuse to watch that on the basis that the person recording it is a f*cking retard for holding their camera round the wrong way. All these people that film like that on their phones, I want to go round to their houses and turn their TV on the side. See if they can see why filming like that is such a monumentally stupid idea. /pet hate

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