Paul_J
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Bugger, should have said Hi. I almost stood up to ask you if you were alright, I was sitting below you wearing these ridiculous glasses:
Combe is always full of banter, the CS banter continues IRL.
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by SteveoBC
Just got home, had a brilliant day, had completely different brakes coilovers and road legal semi slicks since last time and my god what a difference, car felt awesome and nearly out braked and out cornered everyone
Got first session on my iPhone will put up tomorrow
Second session my dad decided to call me 30secs in and it cancelled the recording  gutted aswell as I had a great battle with a track prepped fiesta, was all over him in the corners and braking but just couldn't out drag him on the straights (both gave each other a thumbs up at the end) great fun!
Want to say thanks to Ian and Will and all the staff for putting on a great stand as usual and keeping me fed and was good to see everyone and have the usual banter as I was too hungover to talk much last week at trax lol
Kinda sad that's the last show for the year but hope to see everyone again before the end of the year
And thank to stu for the free oil, cheers matey!
Ps vids up tomorrow
saw that battle from the last corner were both going well. yours looked like it had the edge handling wise
cracking day and thanks to all the usual people. First fully dry one in a while too :-):-)
Steve did the people in the ford shirts catch up with you? Wanted to know about your windows and splitters while you were in your briefing.
I got my pics of a cd too after i haggled them down. not paying £22 thats for sure :-P
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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Chris F
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Organiser: East Anglia
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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quote:
Originally posted by Jules S
quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
I remember someone turning up looking confused. Were you with another guy, either you or him wearing Orange?
Yep,
My mate had the orange on.
Not confused as such, I was trying to explain to said mate how it was a CS thing and I'd been here since god knows when but I'd never actually chatted face to face with anybody.
Oh and Ian being a fucking Unit in real life was a bit of a shock  
His put on weight now his a internet warrior full time 
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
Location: Oxford, UK Drives: Jap wagon
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Great day out chaps, worth the £8 entry by all means. Shame I ran out of time to get on track with Mike because of the chaos with the sessions, but it was enjoyable anyway. Must have taken loads of photos, will get them onto the pc tomorrow 
The main surprise was how Ollie was as you'd expect from his posts but Steve made me sound the mad one when I asked if he was an adder
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Chris F
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In crowd
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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quote:
Originally posted by gavin18787
quote:
Originally posted by SteveoBC
Just got home, had a brilliant day, had completely different brakes coilovers and road legal semi slicks since last time and my god what a difference, car felt awesome and nearly out braked and out cornered everyone
Got first session on my iPhone will put up tomorrow
Second session my dad decided to call me 30secs in and it cancelled the recording gutted aswell as I had a great battle with a track prepped fiesta, was all over him in the corners and braking but just couldn't out drag him on the straights (both gave each other a thumbs up at the end) great fun!
Want to say thanks to Ian and Will and all the staff for putting on a great stand as usual and keeping me fed and was good to see everyone and have the usual banter as I was too hungover to talk much last week at trax lol
Kinda sad that's the last show for the year but hope to see everyone again before the end of the year
And thank to stu for the free oil, cheers matey!
Ps vids up tomorrow
saw that battle from the last corner were both going well. yours looked like it had the edge handling wise
cracking day and thanks to all the usual people. First fully dry one in a while too :-):-)
Steve did the people in the ford shirts catch up with you? Wanted to know about your windows and splitters while you were in your briefing.
I got my pics of a cd too after i haggled them down. not paying £22 thats for sure :-P
hi, no didn't speak to the ford shirts, where were they from
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
The main surprise was how Ollie was as you'd expect from his posts but Steve made me sound the mad one when I asked if he was an adder
Both were the tamest / most grown up I've ever witnessed them. Today they both seemed like nice chaps... I miss the days where they'd be walking around talking and doing nonsense.
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Chris F
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talking about steve and walking
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chris_uk
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whats a good time round combe?
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Just got back in, what a weekend.
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Originally posted by Steve
i was only left with my lap times on my phone, 1.22.89 was my best
That's very good, fastest I've ever been round is 1.26 and today I didn't get under 1.27, tyres are now fit for the bin.
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Sarah A
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Registered: 3rd Jan 11
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you sure u were doing 1.22?
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Sarah A
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Coupe Turbo crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFuHMQjxxc
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
Location: South Wales drives: Vxr
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That was the worse crash there for a while.
Looks like he had no breaks or something?
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Novaneil
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Registered: 26th Oct 06
Location: Leamington Spa
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1:22 is very good going indeed. Especially with the lack of power. My best last year was 1:23 (270bhp Astra Coupe) haven't checked the on board vid of this year yet. But I'm hoping we went a little bit quicker as we now have 300bhp and additional handling mods/better tyres. We came past you pretty fast on the main straight as well, so your corner speed must be immense!
Car certainly looked good Job Steve! It looked brand new. Very smart
[Edited on 09-09-2012 by Novaneil]
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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Cheers blud, yeah I think it was my 2nd or 3rd lap was my fastest for some reason after they got slower, I think it was because I was getting mixed up with that 306 and other cars so was finding it harder to carry speed through the corners, would certainly love the power you have your car looked well on track
[Edited on 09-09-2012 by Steve]
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corsadonk
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Registered: 4th Jul 09
Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire
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1.22 Quarry to Camp.
Top day out, thanks gents.
That Fiat crash looked pretty heavy. 
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Steve
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Vid of that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFuHMQjxxc
Looked like something failed
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SportBoy
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Jesus .. Do some people have no perception of speed?
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
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I'm guessing he had a failure of some sort.
Brakes I'm guessing
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Mike
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Either lost his brakes or forgot to brake judging by that vid. Brake lights came on as he was turning. Got lucky with the landing, it didn't have a cage so could've been a lot worse, driver and passenger both walked away.
As for the day, loved it, great banter, 2 great track sessions, the Corsa once again shrugged off my abuse (bar ripping the exhaust off whilst reloading it on to the trailer  ), it was a shame that the sessions ended up in such a mess but that was only due to drivers and cars, 5 engine failures that I'm aware of plus crashes (in our 10:10 briefing they said Quarry had already claimed 4 victims iirc). It's a risk at any track day, I've been to a 4 hour trackday where the track was closed for over an hour due to someone splilling oil over half the track, it's just one of the unfortunate downsides.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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looks like he stood on the brakes to me after carrying too much speed into the corner. brake lights come on.
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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveskater
The main surprise was how Ollie was as you'd expect from his posts but Steve made me sound the mad one when I asked if he was an adder
wtf dave internet.
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
hi, no didn't speak to the ford shirts, where were they from
think they were ford shirts. were just all in matching blue ones and were very interested in pumas sorry dont know where they were from. Told them to come back in half hour.....
As you dont see the brake lights on the coupe until late i would assume driver error. lucky lucky people
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Aleex
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Registered: 21st Jul 09
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I had my first ever go on track yesterday in my Ek9 (9:45 session) this was my second lap, still get very used to track was great fun. think i may have got the bug
have emailed ian about my weekend-racer account but no reply yet   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtx6MR1tTWU&feature=player_embedded
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SteveoBC
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Registered: 22nd Feb 07
Location: Bucks
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quote:
Originally posted by Aleex
I had my first ever go on track yesterday in my Ek9 (9:45 session) this was my second lap, still get very used to track was great fun. think i may have got the bug
have emailed ian about my weekend-racer account but no reply yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtx6MR1tTWU&feature=player_embedded
looking good in the vid, wish I had one of mine like that, looks like a replay vid from gran turismo
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