Llandow 23/02/2011 - Follow up thread (pics and chat).

gutted to hear a few cars suffered failures


Thats some serious body roll on Sam's Clio!

Sorry Jez...

Awesome day, tarred a bit by a few breakdowns, near misses and Jez's bump but good none the less.

Learnt a fair bit about the 5 today, main thing being that full throttle + rain + corner = stuck in mud or nearly in a tyre wall! Enjoyed it though, and if anyone has some sideway pics I'll be eternally greatful!

Good to get chatting properly to a few more members on here and meet a couple more

MOTHER fudging EPIC DAY!!! LOVED EVERY MINUTE!!

Fallen in love with my shitbox, It was just sooooooo fun...

I love the photos

What a great day. Didnt enjoy the 5.15am start but was good to be back on track again.

Was an interesting convoy down that got separated and broken but we all made it, just in the disco's case.

Was really good to meet some new members for the first time. Some of you, for first timers on track were really flying by the end of the day. Specifically Cuj in the teg!

Had an awesome time on track, mr2 didnt break. I did run out of talent at one point. Sorry Jay.....I'll try and avoid spining at the bus stop next time.

Shame the weather wasnt better but still had a great time.

Soooooo when's the next track day....*goes off to check bank balance and track day calenders*

First video done, this was Jez's session in the Rallye. My session vid is a bit longer so going to leave it upload overnight! There's a good bit of rolly Clio in this one



PS. Go to Youtube and watch in 720p for best quality

Steph that pic of sams car is fudging great lol!

A good day as always but the weather was an arse. Wet track was still able to eat my proxies (road tyres) so couldnt continue to drive how l wanted. Couldnt really enjoy the day until l could just about get away with using my cheapo track tyres. Sod all grip in the wet/damp so it was a bit dodgy but makes it easy to do this lol.



Was having good fun doing that until they showed me the "no drifting" board


Jezzer hope you get your car sorted mate sad to see that happen. Jamesy sorry you didnt get a chance to drive the mr2, would have being ok if it didnt start raining again but those tyres are dangerous in the wet. Stu, im guessing we'll be doing something with the mr2 over the weekend so another weekend of who knows what coming up lol

Second vid, my session in the dry afternoon period. More Clio lolz inside

4:55 - "Is he trying to roll it" LMAO!!

Nice vid james.

Thank you for organising this guys, we had a FAB day even if the weather conditions at points were the worst ive seen or driven in!

our clios made it through the day without too much bother apart from my alternator wire, which trying to repair in the wind and rain whilst having to remove half the front end was not good times. MASSIVE thank you to the person that happened to have a crimping set, i couldnt have got back out there without you, you sir are a legend!

theres a few vids floating about onboard the blue MK1. il get him to post them up.

and Sam... you actually made my day, huge respect to you for being out there giving it a go even if a little scary to watch LOL

haha, sorry If I got in anyones way... which I would have done

anyway... Tires!







That poor front left tire

Ohh and what happens when you drag your spare wheel cage around llandow It sounded a lot worse than it actually was, I thought I lost the exhaust

Whoo im a legend. Was my crimping set clio girl. Glad to of helped you out. Even if you did pass me on track as a result.

I really want to be out driving on track again instead of work!

Reechard wrote:

I really want to be out driving on track again instead of work!

Me to, only 23 days till my next track day, not that im on countdown or anything

Mark, I didn't make it due to work. Could really do with being able to thrash the car. Would help with my stress!

Looked a good day, albeit wet to start with. Wet days aren't all that bad though. I enjoy Combe more in the wet. Sorry to see a car in the tyre wall. Hope it doesn't take too much to fix or reshell.

clio-girl, my car has only ever had any breakage at Llandow and it was my alternator too. Luckily it was only the charging sensor circuit that fell apart due to the heat from the manifold and not the charging circuit itself. I bought some heat reflective tape after that and covered all the wires which so far has worked a treat. Where's your next day? I'll guess at Bedford but only because I saw one of the videos from another Clio that was at Llandow on YouTube last night that mentioned it in the description.

Sam's passion wagon looks ridiculous in those videos! Good effort though (as in good effort not rolling it!). Made me laugh when I watched them last night

Hopefully those of you that had never been out on track before enjoyed it and we'll see you again

P.s. No one has mentioned cake. Was it crap?

Just thought i would say, thanks for organising the day! Even with the weather, it was a really good day. The Rallye did my proud, especially for my first trackday!
It also gave me a chance to see how much of a difference Toyo R888s make around the track! Its given me a little shopping list to help make my car a track beast
Thanks again guys!

Dave-R wrote:

clio-girl, my car has only ever had any breakage at Llandow and it was my alternator too. Luckily it was only the charging sensor circuit that fell apart due to the heat from the manifold and not the charging circuit itself. I bought some heat reflective tape after that and covered all the wires which so far has worked a treat. Where's your next day? I'll guess at Bedford but only because I saw one of the videos from another Clio that was at Llandow on YouTube last night that mentioned it in the description.

at least i managed to drive home from Landow this time, my last outing consisted of a melted throttle cable on my standard daily valver. yes it was my own stupidity, my ITB car had destroyed her clutch so didnt want to waste the tracktime, took the daily which hasnt got an exhaust heatshield and it never crossed my mind to fit one at the time

my other half was in the other Clio, he had my camera the bugger, but yes were booked up for Bedford on the 19th March, still more room if any of you guys can make it? hoping to do Brands or Anglesey after that

clio-girl wrote:

my other half was in the other Clio, he had my camera the bugger, but yes were booked up for Bedford on the 19th March, still more room if any of you guys can make it? hoping to do Brands or Anglesey after that

I did Bedford a few weeks ago (thread here). Really enjoyed it. Very wide track and takes quite a while to get around it! If you've not driven it before, don't think it'll be OK to come off because there's loads of run-off (which there is). There's a massive gully between the track and field and the field has loads of ruts and hidden crap in it

Interested in doing Brands again (assuming it's the Indy circuit?). So when you get more info stick a thread up.

Well seems llandow has started to claim another car. My big end bearings might be on the way out, hopefully I have caught them earlier enough to avoid a Norledge style mr2 implosion.

Just need to sort out getting it checked over. Hopefully a full rebuild wont be needed.
Proper rebuild if it does though

Rich just bare in mind as soon as bearings start tapping, every mile you do risks a score on the crank which means a regrind.

80% chance it'll need a polish atm.

Crappy vid, no one spun

Norledge wrote:

Rich just bare in mind as soon as bearings start tapping, every mile you do risks a score on the crank which means a regrind.

80% chance it'll need a polish atm.

Its now parked up on the drive. Only place it will be driven now is to Tim at TB Dev, or Nathan at MrTwos.
Bike to work tomorrow.

ash wrote:

had a great day, was passenger and second driver in the grey 205 gti6 i had some good battles with the tb'd 16v clio and a stripped 182. was also passenger in the black 306 gti6.

some good cars there, after watching the white 106 rallye it really needs some softer suspension settings, waaay to bouncy and leading to alot of twiching

thanks all who helped organise the day

I was impressed with your 205, it's setup nicely! Caught a few seconds of it in the link below. Shame we couldn't get the dice up on camera really, would have been awesome!

Some pretty impressive motors out on track and clearly some able drivers too

Hats off to Sam, that Clio was one of the highlights of the day!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdIZgBGDmw8

Video from Jo's Del Sol. Jo is first in the vid and Jamesy takes over at about 7 mins!

ahhhh so excited to see that!! lemme know the link buddddddy

Awesome day out just a shame about the weather and my poor proxies!

Was really pleased with the mr2, don't think its faster than the gti threw the little intricate areas of the track but I didn't buy it for that I brought it to put a smile on my face and it deffinatly did that.

Big smiles I would of thought and the good thing is Llandow is a small track so on the bigger tracks is where it should shine mate with all the extra speed!

Awesome video!! you can see me getting more confident as the laps go on ha

Did well out there Jo for your first track day...and it was wet!!

Now you have the bug it's time to finally start spending some money on that Del Sol and also get your name down for Angelsey!

Hell yeah! Definetly up for Angelesy now, money well spent on my del sol itll be!

I have soooo got the bug now! loved every second of it

Thanks for sorting that vid for us mate

Rallye James wrote:

Second vid, my session in the dry afternoon period. More Clio lolz inside

Thats some serious commitement by Sam going through the bus stop!

jamesy wrote:

Thanks for sorting that vid for us mate

No probs mate, the link is updated now and it's on youtube so you can watch it on the forum!

Rallye James wrote:

Second vid, my session in the dry afternoon period. More Clio lolz inside

Just realised that I'm driving in that video! Lmao at the roll!

JoanneM wrote:

Hell yeah! Definetly up for Angelesy now, money well spent on my del sol itll be!

I have soooo got the bug now! loved every second of it

Jo you'll be coming back for more and more. Just like me, except without crashing lol

Will be interesting to compare the del sol to the mr2 at anglesey

Was a good day, thanks to Stu for organising.

To whoever commented about our brake lights, the 3rd centre brake light is wired as a rain light as per racing regs. we dont have/need sidelights just a high intensity rear light for wet weather.

Will upload some incar from us in a bit

Burp wrote:

Was a good day, thanks to Stu for organising.

To whoever commented about our brake lights, the 3rd centre brake light is wired as a rain light as per racing regs. we dont have/need sidelights just a high intensity rear light for wet weather.

Will upload some incar from us in a bit

Will be nice if you have some incar following me in my sisters car mate

cuj wrote:

Really enjoyed today, thanks to Tony for initially coming out with me for the first session, it made a big difference knowing which lines to take (not that I followed them every time)

Had one very hairy moment coming down to the bus stop too quickly. In the back of my mind I was planning on taking the 'oh poopoo' lane, until I saw Tony was already stopped in it so I had to haul the Integra around the left hander and just held on to it!

Good to put some faces to names, hopefully see you all on track again soon. Also hope the damaged/broken cars are easily fixed

Cheers, Jon

I thought i was going to have a head on with you, when i span at the second corner. I saw Jo's Crx and you behind, and then the next thing you starting to overtake when i was stuck in the middle of the track facing the wrong way! Pooped myself.

jamesy wrote:

Burp wrote:

Was a good day, thanks to Stu for organising.

To whoever commented about our brake lights, the 3rd centre brake light is wired as a rain light as per racing regs. we dont have/need sidelights just a high intensity rear light for wet weather.

Will upload some incar from us in a bit

Will be nice if you have some incar following me in my sisters car mate

What car is it mate?

Was the blue del sol.

No got nothing, didnt have the camera rolling all the time, sorry

Great day...thanks for organising it

Bit of knocking noise on the way home thought it was some uneven tyre wear as checked wheels nut ect but checked today the driveshaft nut on the nearside was loose - oops

great photos - ordered mine already


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Now I've had a chance to edit them, the pics are looking a whole lot better. Cheers to those that have ordered a disc, they'll be in the post shortly. Here's a sample while you're waiting











Full gallery here

jezer101 wrote:

cuj wrote:

Really enjoyed today, thanks to Tony for initially coming out with me for the first session, it made a big difference knowing which lines to take (not that I followed them every time)

Had one very hairy moment coming down to the bus stop too quickly. In the back of my mind I was planning on taking the 'oh poopoo' lane, until I saw Tony was already stopped in it so I had to haul the Integra around the left hander and just held on to it!

Good to put some faces to names, hopefully see you all on track again soon. Also hope the damaged/broken cars are easily fixed

Cheers, Jon

I thought i was going to have a head on with you, when i span at the second corner. I saw Jo's Crx and you behind, and then the next thing you starting to overtake when i was stuck in the middle of the track facing the wrong way! Pooped myself.

Ah that was you yeah I was just lining up to overtake Jo and the next thing I see is a car facing me on the racing line, I also had a WTF moment!

That corner caught a few out, Gunge span off there too in session 2 and ploughed up the field! There was a lot of standing water on the track.

I was so impressed with your DC5 cuj, hope I didn't slow you up too much in the earlier sessions!

cuj wrote:

jezer101 wrote:

cuj wrote:

Really enjoyed today, thanks to Tony for initially coming out with me for the first session, it made a big difference knowing which lines to take (not that I followed them every time)

Had one very hairy moment coming down to the bus stop too quickly. In the back of my mind I was planning on taking the 'oh poopoo' lane, until I saw Tony was already stopped in it so I had to haul the Integra around the left hander and just held on to it!

Good to put some faces to names, hopefully see you all on track again soon. Also hope the damaged/broken cars are easily fixed

Cheers, Jon

I thought i was going to have a head on with you, when i span at the second corner. I saw Jo's Crx and you behind, and then the next thing you starting to overtake when i was stuck in the middle of the track facing the wrong way! Pooped myself.

Ah that was you yeah I was just lining up to overtake Jo and the next thing I see is a car facing me on the racing line, I also had a WTF moment!

That corner caught a few out, Gunge span off there too in session 2 and ploughed up the field! There was a lot of standing water on the track.

All that ran through my mind at the moment was DC5 = ££££'s - I'm going to be bankrupt!!

lordy wrote:

ash wrote:

had a great day, was passenger and second driver in the grey 205 gti6 i had some good battles with the tb'd 16v clio and a stripped 182. was also passenger in the black 306 gti6.

some good cars there, after watching the white 106 rallye it really needs some softer suspension settings, waaay to bouncy and leading to alot of twiching

thanks all who helped organise the day

I was impressed with your 205, it's setup nicely! Caught a few seconds of it in the link below. Shame we couldn't get the dice up on camera really, would have been awesome!

Some pretty impressive motors out on track and clearly some able drivers too

Hats off to Sam, that Clio was one of the highlights of the day!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdIZgBGDmw8

not my 205 mate, but i was driving it at the time. ive a white 205 2.1 16v rallye. (theres a thread on here about it in members cars)
good video, and yeah would of been good to have seen me behind you for a few laps...

heres my 205 that will be back on track v soon.. 25th march@combe is the next one. fancy it?

Tony enjoyed himself and says Hi to everyone

Spoke to Tony at length... lotta common sense

like that bloke



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