Glacier White 200 Cup

[burrellbloke]

.... Pulls up a chair......

Gavin, Gavin, Gavin... we've talked before about hand positioning on the steering wheel to allow instinctive, fast and direct steering inputs. Dafuq is that?!

That is a screenshot of when the car had come to a stop pointing in the wrong direction. I had frantically attempted to save the spin so my hands were all over the place by then.

 

[EthanMenace]

.... Pulls up a chair......

Gavin, Gavin, Gavin... we've talked before about hand positioning on the steering wheel to allow instinctive, fast and direct steering inputs. Dafuq is that?!

I do have to constantly remind him to stop shuffling

 

[burrellbloke]

Video time. Here are our hot laps from Donington on 16th March 2026.

Ethan's 1m 25s lap.

My 1m 30s lap.

 

[burrellbloke]

The shark fin aerial has been removed from the Clio. As we have no radio there was no point having a fancy aerial on top of the car.



We have taken inspiration from @R20BTG and installed a tap washer blank in the hole left on the roof.



It looks okay from a few metres away but the area of the roof that the rubber part of the shark fin aerial sat on has discoloured very slightly and is a more yellow shade of Glacier white than the rest of the roof.



Hopefully a good polish with a polisher will return the plaint to it's former glory.

 

[burrellbloke]

@EthanMenace sorted out two issues with the Clio today.

The first was the rear AeroCatch brackets. We bought the brackets for the boot lid years ago when we had electrical problems that stopped the rear boot lock from working. We did not bother to paint the brackets when they were installed and over the years they oxidised a bit, but nothing that really required us to do anything about it.

The AeroCatch brackets have now been cleaned up, primed, sprayed and lacquered.



They look a lot better now.



Nice and shiny.



The other issue was the alternator regulator. On the last track day at Donington Park the alternator had been throwing up errors on the dash board such as low battery and check ESP. Ethan removed the original Bosch voltage regulator and replaced it with a brand new regulator today.



When you compare the old regulator and the new regulator it looks like the bushes have simply worn down.



Hopefully this will now stop the dashboard error messages.