brillomaster Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 Bit late in the year I know, but I never let anything get in the way of my track fixes! Me, Ken, and the Dark Knight are booked in at Oulton Park, Saturday 6th December with Javelin Trackdays. Currently just £119 for the day. If anyone fancies joining us that'd be great, look out for this thing silently gliding round the track! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100673378326844&l=842cd45f71 Quote
brillomaster Posted December 1, 2014 Author Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) whoop whoop one week til trackday! hopefully the weather will be as it was this weekend, but the main thing im praying for is that its dry! Also Dan will like this... current collection of tyres on the beemer is now a Kumho, a Nankang, a Landsail and a Continental... so we'll be really good at putting power down out of right hand corners (which is good as Oulton has a lot of those!), but fairly terrible everywhere else... Edited December 1, 2014 by brillomaster Quote
jjt Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 whoop whoop one week til trackday! hopefully the weather will be as it was this weekend, but the main thing im praying for is that its dry! Also Dan will like this... current collection of tyres on the beemer is now a Kumho, a Nankang, a Landsail and a Continental... so we'll be really good at putting power down out of right hand corners (which is good as Oulton has a lot of those!), but fairly terrible everywhere else... I like your thinking, bespoke tyre set up for each track depending whether its clockwise or vice-versa Quote
brillomaster Posted December 2, 2014 Author Posted December 2, 2014 might not make much difference - at the moment there's a teeny bit of snow forecast for the night before Quote
brillomaster Posted December 6, 2014 Author Posted December 6, 2014 (edited) Well that was an eventful day... started very cold, and very damp... not good for a rear wheel drive BMW. got started about 11am, traction control firmly on, was kicking in on the pit exit and then the light was blinking most of the lap! started to get a little drier around 1pm, made the mistake of deciding to do some laps with TCS all off since it was noticably cutting power. didnt go so well... Skip to 2:35 and 3:15 for the interesting bits... to be honest i dont know what happened, happened so fast i didnt have a chance to catch it. i'll put it down to oil on the track, definitely not the 90% worn landsail tyre on the rear right however a dry line did start to form my mid afternoon, so did get a few decent laps in! will post another video when its uploaded. Edited December 6, 2014 by brillomaster Quote
brillomaster Posted December 7, 2014 Author Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Heres a couple of dry laps behind a Z4... he had more traction out the tighter corners, but we were slightly better on the brakes... you can see him trying hard when he ABS'es and misses the odd apex! but then again i was trying too, had a few dab of oversteer to correct coming out of corners. Best lap was a 2:25... is that good round oulton?!? Edited December 7, 2014 by brillomaster Quote
brillomaster Posted December 7, 2014 Author Posted December 7, 2014 just had a look at the times from the videos... in the wet i was lapping around 2:35 -2:30 range, and then 2:25 in the dry following the Z4... Ken i dont have a full dry lap of yours on video (stopped on both occasions by redflags) but managed to time hairpin apex to hairpin apex and i think it was about a 2:28. Quote
Gudzy Posted December 7, 2014 Posted December 7, 2014 I was at Oulton in November last year. I've just been through and checked a couple of laps of footage, I managed a 2:28 in my old mk1 mx5. My day, although overcast and cold, was dry all day though. Quote
brillomaster Posted December 7, 2014 Author Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) by the end of the day a dry line was starting to emerge, but stray from it and it was damp and greasy. will have to come back on a nice warm dry day, was a really good track and definitely want to do it again. Edited December 7, 2014 by brillomaster Quote
Ken Posted December 7, 2014 Posted December 7, 2014 Good footage Andrew , yes you had to have your wits about you yesterday Quote
TomS Posted December 7, 2014 Posted December 7, 2014 I should be there in Feb and March next year, be good to get a few zeds out too! I think my best time is around 2:05-2:10 in the dry (~630hp GTR). I've seen a few videos of 1:55-1:58s before in various cars. I'm certainly not track experienced so I'm sure a decent driver could get my car round in a lot less! Quote
Will370z Posted December 10, 2014 Posted December 10, 2014 Wow the bmw certainly snapped quickly on that corner. Looks like an entertaining circuit Quote
brillomaster Posted December 10, 2014 Author Posted December 10, 2014 yeah didn't think there was any saving it so just jumped straight on the clutch and the brakes. thankfully it stayed on the tarmac, shudder to think what the car would have looked like if we'd have hit the wet grass. Oulton is a great track, the camera doesn't really show the gradient and elevation change, but reminded me of cadwell park. Quote
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