Albi Blue 200 >> BMW E46 Track Car

[tombate911]

What a great picture!
Maybe good on a canvas of some sort.
Let me no next time you all go up. Maybe not to put my Clio around just yet but I'd like to watch.

I was thinking this earlier! It would look awesome blown up from the original photo file and mounted on a wall somewhere in the house. Will do.

 

[tombate911]

Edited together a little video of some of the Highlights of the day.
Started off with rain in the morning and slowly dried out through the day with an amazing last session as the sun was going down.

Clio was running really well in these conditions with the new set ups and the exhaust was sounding much better. Looking forward to getting it mapped eventually.

 

[Big Ben]

Great little video bud. Exhaust note very nice.
That white Clio was hard to get by!

Where do you fix your camera to if you don't mind me asking?

 

[RSPez]

Great little video bud. Exhaust note very nice.
That white Clio was hard to get by!

Where do you fix your camera to if you don't mind me asking?

That white Clio was definatly hard to get by.
Any idea what it's running?
Great video.

 

[Pav]

great selection of the day Tom..the car sounds brill..thumbs up

 

[Pav]

That white Clio was definatly hard to get by.
Any idea what it's running?
Great video.

it's Tom's mate Chris..standard as far as im aware..apart from top mounts..

 

[tombate911]

Great little video bud. Exhaust note very nice.
That white Clio was hard to get by!

Where do you fix your camera to if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers mate. The White Clio is actually one of my mates who's running exactly the same set up as me. We often drive like that on track where I follow him to be the letter and he does the same with me driving quite close, makes it a little more fun. That's why I it looks like he never moves out the way for me. Both cars and driver are very well matched ability wise.

Camera is mounted in the windscreen. Go pro with wide angle.

 

[tombate911]

Result - I have received the images which were taken by a friend at Oulton on Saturday, amazing day. I'll let the images to the talking and hopefully inspire some of you to meet up with us for some more track days in 2017!

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Love the next two photos. Was a great day having so many friends around in the pits. Great atmosphere!



Clearing skies in the evening on track was fantastic!

 

[Pav]

keep them coming Tom

 

[Jimmy]

Awesome photos! I love that one with the orange sky!

 

[tombate911]

Awesome photos! I love that one with the orange sky!

Here's on of my car in the same shot.

 

[tombate911]

After the last track day I have set up a group buy for the Compbrake Caster/Camber adjustable top mounts I've been running with Chris on the track cars.

http://www.clio197.net/threads/compbrake-caster-camber-adjustable-top-mounts-197-200.54439/

 

[tombate911]

All loaded up and ready to go again. Track car loaded with track wheels and fuel and the car perched happily on the new trailer ready to go down to Snetterton. Would have taken some photographs but it was dark when I started and pitch black when I finished.

 

[Pav]

have a great time Tom..Are you going with Chris??
if so say hi to him from me and have a cracking time..

 

[tombate911]

Little update from the weekend.
First time at Snetterton for me. 220 mile drive for me so I went down on the Friday night and put the van to good use and trailered the car to the track. Slept over in the Paddock outside of our garage so no moving in the morning.



Real good mixture of cars with our group. Two Clios. BMW E35. Honda DC2 and DC5.








Amazing day on track. Didn't take any photos throughout the day though. Car was running exceptionally well with some of the latest changes and new RSR Dry tyres. I did have a big moment though and did a little bit of damage to the car. However ill take just a cracked wing considering the location of the spin and the speed! I'll post the video later for all to see.



Spent today giving the car a good clean, swapped the wheels back onto wet tyres and washed both sets.






Also as some of you know i've been playing around with the geometry a little bit. Getting it something closer to where it should be for my current set up. Nice to finally get some decent flat tyre wear on the Dry Track tyres with the top mounts fitted. Little bit more Camber on the front and then to set the rear camber to the cup specs.

 

[Big Ben]

Great save Tom..! Could've been a bad one
I struggled with that braking zone the week before. Found it strange to be hard on the brakes whilst turning. Got the car very unsettled

 

[tombate911]

Great save Tom..! Could've been a bad one
I struggled with that braking zone the week before. Found it strange to be hard on the brakes whilst turning. Got the car very unsettled

Yeah I know what you mean. I was flying through that section in the afternoon sessions, found turning in a little earlier, trail braking through the corner keeping the car settled was working well, but I carried a little too much speed through this time, tried to correct it, as you can imagine I'm made up I managed to keep it out of the barrier at least!

 

[Chris]

That could have ended up a lot worse, well saved! Serious brown trouser moment that..

 

[Jimmy]

Scary stuff good work on keeping it out of the barrier!

 

[Pav]

well handled Tom..experience i believe