Just back from Mallory Park, not a bad day, but not the best either
I thought last year at Mallory was wet but this year it was much worse. It rained consistently all day and the track pretty much had 3 m wide streams of water midway around Gerrards, in the braking zones at the end of the Stebbe straight & shaws hairpin and another pool of water exiting the devils elbow where the track goes off camber
LOADS of red flags from cars, (one in particular, who repeatedly tried over taking everyone on the outside of Gerrards
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I had a few brown pants moments with the standing water but considering i was on worn federal 595RSR semi slicks i was mighty impressed with the car, it was able to put the power down nicely and could still be thrown about almost as much as in the dry. I had a pair of alloys with new federals on to put on the rear if it got to tail happy in the rain, but never needed them in the end.
I started the day on the 98 ron (250hp) map but found it to aggressive low down for the conditions, so i swapped to the 95 ron (240Hp) map which was much easier to get traction with. Performance wise i was just about able to hang on to a Focus RS Mountune for a few laps which I was pretty happy with especially considering he was on summer tyres and I was on semi slicks and that was on the 95 ron map
Sacked it early though after only about 70 laps. Bad guts and a massive headache all day, so after people started going off more frequently, and with loads of mud from the "offs" on the track i just packed up and went home.
Plus with about 70 laps combined with the 30 mile return trip up the motorway returned a nice 22mpg
And im banning my brother from driving my car on track again. He got overtaken by a Citreon C2 VTR
Dont think ill bother with Mallory Park again though, its to short and starts to become boring after a while. Never had that feeling on other tracks before.
Oh and Mintex M1144 pads are crap
