Rogue
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Thought I'd upload a few photos from the ring trip we did last week.
Good all round few days out there, weather was a bit hit and miss at times but generally OK.
Absolutely LOVED going round in my car and I was extremely surprised and happy at how capable she was. Being the first time I'd been on a track anywhere, the Ring was obviously throwing myself in at the deep end and to be honest, before my first lap I was absolutely cacking myself. But I went round in what I thought was a pretty decent time (10m17s), and came off with such a buzz.
Over the next couple of days, i got all 9 laps in and managed to get my time down to a 9m47s which I was completely chuffed with. Was hard as it rained at times and others you get held up. I did get a whole lap where I only met 1 car on the lap though, but it was slippery. Still got sub 10 minutes.
Got 2 more laps on the final day and had a push. Gam and I went out together and we proper pushed each other round the track. Jack came in at 9m37s and I had an unoffical time of around 9m30s which blew me away. I absolutely threw it round that track. I didn't better that time.
Plenty of other clios out there, all the locals know the track really well so it was hard to compete with them. Lots of stripped out cars running R888's or 595's as well...
I was happy with my brake set up and my tyres, they held together nicely.
Only had 2 hairy moments. The first I overtook an RS4 and bombed it round the carasel a bit too fast and came out sidways - But managed to hold onto it. And the other was me racing a very fast 182...it took a long hairpin slightly too fast and had major understeer. I gripped round the inside line, but he slid across the track, hit the verge then darted back across again and almost spanked me but I managed to get it up on the grass to avoid. Didn't go out after that again lol
Came across the 200T which was being reviewed. Spoke to the guy who was driving it and he seems to think it was a nice car, but the suspension is just way too soft! He said compared too the 200 you just cant throw it about as much, but the torque is brilliant. So my advise to any traders reading this...be the first to stock up on springs/coilovers for the 200T when it comes out
I still don't really like it though.
So happy I went and really gagging to get round a track again!
Anyway, some pics that I took of some random cars and some of me on the track.
Thought I'd upload a few photos from the ring trip we did last week.
Good all round few days out there, weather was a bit hit and miss at times but generally OK.
Absolutely LOVED going round in my car and I was extremely surprised and happy at how capable she was. Being the first time I'd been on a track anywhere, the Ring was obviously throwing myself in at the deep end and to be honest, before my first lap I was absolutely cacking myself. But I went round in what I thought was a pretty decent time (10m17s), and came off with such a buzz.
Over the next couple of days, i got all 9 laps in and managed to get my time down to a 9m47s which I was completely chuffed with. Was hard as it rained at times and others you get held up. I did get a whole lap where I only met 1 car on the lap though, but it was slippery. Still got sub 10 minutes.
Got 2 more laps on the final day and had a push. Gam and I went out together and we proper pushed each other round the track. Jack came in at 9m37s and I had an unoffical time of around 9m30s which blew me away. I absolutely threw it round that track. I didn't better that time.
Plenty of other clios out there, all the locals know the track really well so it was hard to compete with them. Lots of stripped out cars running R888's or 595's as well...
I was happy with my brake set up and my tyres, they held together nicely.
Only had 2 hairy moments. The first I overtook an RS4 and bombed it round the carasel a bit too fast and came out sidways - But managed to hold onto it. And the other was me racing a very fast 182...it took a long hairpin slightly too fast and had major understeer. I gripped round the inside line, but he slid across the track, hit the verge then darted back across again and almost spanked me but I managed to get it up on the grass to avoid. Didn't go out after that again lol
Came across the 200T which was being reviewed. Spoke to the guy who was driving it and he seems to think it was a nice car, but the suspension is just way too soft! He said compared too the 200 you just cant throw it about as much, but the torque is brilliant. So my advise to any traders reading this...be the first to stock up on springs/coilovers for the 200T when it comes out
I still don't really like it though.
So happy I went and really gagging to get round a track again!
Anyway, some pics that I took of some random cars and some of me on the track.
