Giving coupe owners a bad name

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mmm-five

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Just saw this on BridgeToGantry.

Initial couple of seconds show how bad some of the Dutch drivers are...even at slow speeds...but it's in a Z4C, so relevant here!

3m:06s in shows that the driver has assumed he'd have more grip on his later lap than when he understeered on the earlier lap :headbang:

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Just normal tin top driving I thought.. :poke: :rofl:

Top marks to the little blue mini. Who needs abs, dsc, tcs, lsd's etc. When all you need is 'ickle car and a handbrake... :thumbsup: :rofl:
 
jakblade said:
Just normal tin top driving I thought.. :poke: :rofl:

Top marks to the little blue mini. Who needs abs, dsc, tcs, lsd's etc. When all you need is 'ickle car and a handbrake... :thumbsup: :rofl:
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That 'little blue mini' is a well-known car/driver at the 'Ring (Achim's Ring-Mini).

He's out in all weathers, and is faster than most things on the track due to it having a turbo'd Honda engines.

More info here
 
Is that video in slo mo? Looks to me as if the only car with any turn of speed is the mini. Also the motor cyclists are going around bolt upright. Obviously I'm missing something here but looks like most are out on a Sunday pootle.
 
mmm-five said:
jakblade said:
Just normal tin top driving I thought.. :poke: :rofl:

Top marks to the little blue mini. Who needs abs, dsc, tcs, lsd's etc. When all you need is 'ickle car and a handbrake... :thumbsup: :rofl:
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That 'little blue mini' is a well-known car/driver at the 'Ring (Achim's Ring-Mini).

He's out in all weathers, and is faster than most things on the track due to it having a turbo'd Honda engines.

More info here
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Cool. I loved my mini.. :thumbsup:
 
I was just about to post about that , nearly everyone does that on their first laps . It's beyond me why anyone would even consider going around a wet track on a bike , I won't even do it in a car these days .
 
If it's pissing down, then there tend to be more grip than when it's greasy - and you take the required amount of car in the wet too.

In the greasy conditions - especially a damp track after a race when there's rubber laid down - you can come into a corner at 20mph and have the car doing a 4-wheel drift.
 
Bit boring. But laughed when the Forester drove through like it was bone dry. Bet he was loving killing M3's that day. :lol:
 
mmm-five said:
jakblade said:
Just normal tin top driving I thought.. :poke: :rofl:

Top marks to the little blue mini. Who needs abs, dsc, tcs, lsd's etc. When all you need is 'ickle car and a handbrake... :thumbsup: :rofl:
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That 'little blue mini' is a well-known car/driver at the 'Ring (Achim's Ring-Mini).

He's out in all weathers, and is faster than most things on the track due to it having a turbo'd Honda engines.

More info here
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Just managed to watch this and thought it was a bike engine in the back with air intakes on the side of the mini.

Looks great fun but no grip on the corner at all :cry:

Did your ring trip go well? Never saw a post but I may have missed it.
 
AlfaScozzesi said:
Did your ring trip go well? Never saw a post but I may have missed it.
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The trip went well, although I didn't get out on track in my own car as my mechanic/engineer told me not to risk doing any more damage to the diff, and he'd write me a report for the insurer.

He's the only one in a position to offer an objective opinion as he did the inspection 2 about 2 weeks before the accident, and knew that the diff/gearshift were both fine.

Just got to see whether the insurance engineer agrees and what they're going to do about it.

Looks unlikely that I'll have it fixed before our National Meet in a couple of weeks, but hopefully have it back for my regular September ring trip. Just got to learn how to drive it properly again.
 
Better action on this greasy day...better Z4C control too.

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mmm-five said:
AlfaScozzesi said:
Did your ring trip go well? Never saw a post but I may have missed it.
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The trip went well, although I didn't get out on track in my own car as my mechanic/engineer told me not to risk doing any more damage to the diff, and he'd write me a report for the insurer.

He's the only one in a position to offer an objective opinion as he did the inspection 2 about 2 weeks before the accident, and knew that the diff/gearshift were both fine.

Just got to see whether the insurance engineer agrees and what they're going to do about it.

Looks unlikely that I'll have it fixed before our National Meet in a couple of weeks, but hopefully have it back for my regular September ring trip. Just got to learn how to drive it properly again.
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That's crap if you can't get it sorted in time for the National.....you still coming in another car,or what if so,Tony??
 
craig3.2 said:
That's crap if you can't get it sorted in time for the National.....you still coming in another car,or what if so,Tony??
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Only other car I've got access to is is my daily 115bhp Alfa 147 JTD, so that's unlikely to be able to keep up - unless it's pissing down as it's great in the rain with it's Michelin Cross-Climates :P

Just got to decide whether to cancel, or just get up there in the Alfa and then try to shotgun with someone who's passengerless.
 
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