Took the golf cart to Mallory Park today with the Javelin TD event.
Awesome turnout and variety of cars on hand from Porsche 911 turbos, lotus's, Clio RS race cars and fully stripped out/caged track cars, kit cars, TVRs, a ridiculously fast ford RS van, to my little Fabia.
Weather was horrendous. Really cold and raiing all day, track was soaked, causing loads of guys to have 'moments' all over the track.
Somehow though, despite my worries of my rear tyres being worse for wear and potentially causing a lot of oversteer, the fabia was perfect all day, and really performed well through the bends and the straights. Everyone else seemed to be fighting their cars (wasnt a good day to have RWD), yet mine just felt fine with no real traction issues (apart from exiting the hairpin in 2nd).
The only issues I had were a spot of oversteer exiting Gerards when it was raining because the DSG kept over riding the manual and changing to 4th gear when i wanted to hang on to 3rd
, but when a drier line appeared, it was better as i was in 4th much earlier, also suffered understeer at the cooper Esses, but even then, it wasn't bad, and if anything lined me up for the corner exit with no issues.
Really really surprised at the levels of grip considering the weather, i was expecting it to be like an ice rink. I somehow managed to get into a tripod at one of the corners
Mostly i'm surprised that a set of Conti sport contact 2 tyres with tread just above the wear markers performed the way they did. They were horrendous at Rockingham both times, yet here, they were fantastic.
Some pictures
And if anyone isnt sure what TFSI_Mike looks like well imagine this head on a 4ft high body
That TVR was immense. Me and Mike got a passenger ride in that. He wasnt even taking at past 5k, but was still flying around, and not shy of going sideways either. BUT, im only 5'9" and i had my head at about 45degrees to fit in the car!! small price to pay for the noise though.
As usual though, the kit car drivers were the problem for the whole day refusing to move over for faster cars all day long. With some of them not even having brake lights or anything, which is mega dodgy in the wet, with spray when they arent going that fast
Oh and people dont like moving over for skoda's
