Candy White Golf GTI Ed. 30 - 8th track day at Estoril

Shoduchi · February 11, 2016, 05:12:32 PM

RBS · February 12, 2016, 05:53:48 PM

Nice driving & shots of you!

Mitch H · February 12, 2016, 10:07:13 PM

Quote from: Shoduchi on February 11, 2016, 05:12:32 PM

Love the first pic in this post!

shoaybmakda · February 12, 2016, 10:11:48 PM

agree - first shot looks awesome..like something out of gran turismo on the playstation bit in real life!

Shoduchi · February 13, 2016, 12:22:16 AM

Thanks mates. That's my favorite picture too.

rdfcpete · February 13, 2016, 12:59:05 PM

Some lovely track snaps, looks superb on track. CW 3door with Xenons is my soft spot

Dump these in the track photo thread @Shoduchi

That's a thread I want to keep running for sure, one of my faves on the forum. Try and keep it topped up where I can...

Shoduchi · February 14, 2016, 07:20:27 PM

Quote from: rdfcpete on February 13, 2016, 12:59:05 PM
Some lovely track snaps, looks superb on track. CW 3door with Xenons is my soft spot

Dump these in the track photo thread @Shoduchi That's a thread I want to keep running for sure, one of my faves on the forum. Try and keep it topped up where I can...

Thanks @rdfcpete!

I'm going to post them there now.

Shoduchi · February 14, 2016, 11:39:38 PM

Short clips from a dash cam from a diesel Ibiza better track prepared than mine, at least it had much better tyres.

The 1st video happened after the lunch break, in the 3rd round, so we all started slowly to warm up the engines, tyres and brakes. At some point I saw that I had another car near mine so I accelerated to move away from him. After a yellow flag he was too near so I let him go, as I always did when I saw someone too close to me.

The 2nd video I'm not sure when it was, most likely during the 2nd round. You can see a white dot in the start of the corner in the beginning, then they catch up when I was at the slowest corner of the circuit. The GTR only caught up almost at the end of the straight of the start line. I had a blue flag so I braked pretty soon to let him do the corner without any trouble. The Ibiza took the chance to pass as well.

Shoduchi · February 20, 2016, 03:15:14 PM

Inboard video from the last session of the day:

Still needed to practice more. Not really pushing the tyres at the maximum, they were showing some not nice wear marks...

Shoduchi · February 23, 2016, 04:39:05 PM

Today I had the chance to set my rear sway bar to the stiffer position and took a couple of pictures of my tyres.

Both my rears look like this:

They weren't that bad before the last session...

The front left isn't that bad but has some good wear marks and lack of some bits too.

xjay1337 · February 23, 2016, 04:43:10 PM

Nice to see it getting some abuse. looked great fun!

Shoduchi · February 23, 2016, 04:49:56 PM

Quote from: xjay1337 on February 23, 2016, 04:43:10 PM
Nice to see it getting some abuse. looked great fun!

It was awesome to be able to drive it so freely and as the car is capable of.

Thanks bud!

gtavalanche · February 23, 2016, 08:34:49 PM

looks like great fun!

RBS · February 24, 2016, 09:27:16 PM

Yes same as a bove!
Greeeaaaat fun!!

I've got a minor time now!

Dislocated my shoulder!

Can't do anything at the moment for the next 6 weeks!

Shoduchi · February 24, 2016, 09:37:15 PM

Yeah, everyone who likes to drive should have a go at a trackday.

@RBS Sorry to know that. Get well fast! But take your time to recover fully.