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Brands Hatch Indy - 24Th July - Msv

Started by Captain Vimes , May 28 2014 09:48 PM

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#21 Firthy

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Posted 25 July 2014 - 01:19 PM

 

Was waiting to see if my car would be back from MBR but now its sold out.

You didn't miss much TBH. They had booked way to many people in including loads of corporate race car experience teams. Couldn't get out of the paddock to the pit lane because there were hundreds of cars and lorries in the way, queues in pit lane and very busy on track which was made worse by the newbies in race cars having tuition to take the racing line.... at 10mph. Lots of red flags too. It was a frustrating day to the point that I'm not going to bother with brands indy anymore. They're just getting greedy with number of cars there. Much better at circuits like snetterton, croft, Bedford. P.s. There were over 60 drivers signed on for a 1 mile circuit. At Croft we had 50ish for a 2.1 mile track.

 

 

thumbsdown The last TD at Indy I did was with Book a track and that was very quiet, they do seem to keep the numbers lower with BAT. All pot luck though I think, what a shame!!

 

Nothing more annoying, any vids?

 

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Posted 25 July 2014 - 01:22 PM

Not the first complaint along those lines with MSV @ Brands. :(


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 01:43 PM

 

 

Was waiting to see if my car would be back from MBR but now its sold out.

You didn't miss much TBH. They had booked way to many people in including loads of corporate race car experience teams. Couldn't get out of the paddock to the pit lane because there were hundreds of cars and lorries in the way, queues in pit lane and very busy on track which was made worse by the newbies in race cars having tuition to take the racing line.... at 10mph. Lots of red flags too. It was a frustrating day to the point that I'm not going to bother with brands indy anymore. They're just getting greedy with number of cars there. Much better at circuits like snetterton, croft, Bedford. P.s. There were over 60 drivers signed on for a 1 mile circuit. At Croft we had 50ish for a 2.1 mile track.

 

 

thumbsdown The last TD at Indy I did was with Book a track and that was very quiet, they do seem to keep the numbers lower with BAT. All pot luck though I think, what a shame!!

 

Nothing more annoying, any vids?

 

Firthy

 

 

Lots of video - I fell asleep at 8pm last night as I was so knackered.. Will process some tonight.


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 02:35 PM

Do lotus on track instead never any traffic on their days.


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 06:38 PM

Sounds like I did ok to miss that then. Only just got the VX back from MBR just now anyway.


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 10:01 PM

Sounds like a total disappointment :( Ollie2007 and myself were going to do Brands on the 22nd Aug with MSV, although I thought it was a bit pricey. In view of the above remarks i think I'll give it a miss and do Castle Coombe on the same date. Be interested to see the vids from your day though.

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Posted 25 July 2014 - 11:16 PM

Was good to stretch the legs of the vx after fitting the SC - it's not bad... but you can see how busy it was here. Go to 3.44 to see the paddock/pits..

 


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 11:28 PM

Looked like a full on race day in the paddock and a test day on track given the number of stickered up cars and novice crosses. :rolleyes:


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Posted 25 July 2014 - 11:47 PM

Best to go on a road car only day next time


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Posted 26 July 2014 - 12:09 AM

The race cars weren't the problem - I'm happy to share the track with race teams but most of the race cars were being driven by newbies going slowly having paid for a short drive. 

 

Will be looking at Lotus on track or bookatrack next time - I went for this one as a couple of friends were there in the bookatrack R300 - more vids to follow...


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Posted 26 July 2014 - 09:21 AM

There's another video in my project thread..

 

http://www.vx220.org...13#entry1715042


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Posted 31 July 2014 - 09:48 PM

Video of my car on track taken from a 700bhp skyline - with race suspension. This thing was awesome and was pushing the radicals through the corners!

 


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Posted 31 July 2014 - 10:31 PM

He's not even breaking into a sweat lol. Awesome performance but it's all in the straights.

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Posted 01 August 2014 - 03:19 PM

Cool videos


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Posted 01 August 2014 - 03:44 PM

700bhp, not exactly ripping up the tarmac out of clearways and upto paddock. Just deconstructing the lap and where a VX is quicker I think its midrange grunt is the strength of a VXT

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Posted 01 August 2014 - 04:40 PM

I think you moved over too quickly, he was not gaining on you much at all. If it were not for the traffic It would have taken a while


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Posted 01 August 2014 - 04:45 PM

I think you moved over too quickly, he was not gaining on you much at all. If it were not for the traffic It would have taken a while

Water temp was running high. I pitted to let it cool down.

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Posted 01 August 2014 - 08:51 PM

Same session from the vx.... I know which one looks more involving to drive...

 


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Posted 06 August 2014 - 02:51 PM

What tyres you running Captain?


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Posted 06 August 2014 - 03:23 PM

Federal 595rsr's on Td's but the geo is all over the place and needs sorting out properly to help with oversteer.
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