I arrived way too early, went & got some petrol & when I went back Crunchie had arrived & had made a new friend - a guy who was hard put to believe the Ultima's engine was 7 litres, then enquired if it was a diesel & finally told us that a while ago - some time ago - maybe last year, he'd seen a Ferrari (spoken in hushed tones as if he was describing seeing a dragon).
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So in for breakfast & await the others, the breakfast was good, the café was VERY Irish.
Arriving at the track, Crunchie & I parked on an empty stand next to some other kits. When Neil arrive he commented that we were on the wrong stand & after a short investigation I ascertained that we were, in fact, on the Caterham club stand. We decided that was OK then & re-arranged some signs to make it look like we were in the right place.
I took the Fury down for a sound check & was told that it had "just passed" which I took to mean it had
just failed but they weren't going to make an issue of it, back to the stand only to realise time was short for my track session, so off to the driver's briefing & dash about to get the car into the queue - where we sat for 40 minutes wondering how they had got so late when they'd only been running for 1 3/4 hours. Perhaps the time slots were organised by a team of doctors?
The track session was OK, quite slippery, but there were only a couple of opposite lock moments, the R888Rs coping admirably & I did get up to 90 at least once (only looked at the speedo once), but the video shows me in the wrong bit of the track, in the wrong gear most of the time
. Thanks Matt for the load of the lid.
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I like 100es
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Neil, id you know how close to the floor that can gets?
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I overheard the owner of this telling a passer-by that "it's a GBS" - reminded me of something .......