So, it's been a busy couple of months with the VX.
I did my second track evening, this time at Donington. Took me a while to get used to the elevation change (the only track I had driven previously was Snetterton), but after a time felt happy pushing on a bit. Once again, the tyres and brakes showed themselves to be the limiting factor.
The brakes would start off great, gradually lose their bite after four or five laps, then the pedal would start to get long and soft. Unfortunately, after the track evening I only had one day before I was due to drive to Spa where I was working on my company's GT4 race team, so no time to remedy any of the faults. From Spa I had a week holiday planned starting in Berlin. This was about six weeks ago when the temperature in Europe got up to 36°+. I did Norwich to Spa, Spa to Kerlberg, then Kelberg to Berlin where I collected my Girlfriend. On the unlimited sections of the Autobahn towards Berlin I got the car up to 136.4 mph on the GPS with the roof down. Not bad for a car with 144 bhp!
Then, after five days in Berlin we drove to Stuttgart via the Nurburgring!
I'd definitely recommend giving the 'Green Hell' a go. The elevation change is ridiculous; I thought I knew the track from playing it on the Xbox but it's a different beast in person. I did it relatively slowly, treating it as a fast B road. Fortunately we were there at 7:00 pm on a Friday so the track was almost empty. Only cars we saw were track missile BMWs that flew past me like I was in reverse.
On the way home the VX really struggled with the heat. Whenever we got stuck in traffic I had to shut it off. Got most of the way through the Dartford tunnel with the engine off. I presume either the fans don't work or the thermostat has a fault.
All in all we covered around 1500 miles in a week, apart from overheating, the car performed perfectly. I just wish it had aircon!
Edited by Nelpo, 01 September 2019 - 08:44 AM.