Nasty pile up at the Ring.
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Never going back, due to the arguments and video footage above. Lots of other great places to drive. 
Paulwirral
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TitanTim said:
Give over , m6 is nowhere near as busy
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Paulwirral
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I was just unlucky this year , we turned up on the Monday night after a big pile up on the Sunday that closed the track after an hour for the full day , hence everyone stayed on for Monday . It was a minimum 30 minute wait to get out of the car park or on the access roads just to get to the toll barrier, on a bloody Monday night !
I gave my car keys to my mate and told him he was welcome to try it if he was willing to wait and he promptly gave them back and we went to watch . Then it chucked it down the day after !
Just as well I've been going for years so I didn't feel I'd missed out on anything , in fact , I quite enjoyed just watching .
The staff are also now actively discouraging lap timing , and about time to , not like your going to win anything
I gave my car keys to my mate and told him he was welcome to try it if he was willing to wait and he promptly gave them back and we went to watch . Then it chucked it down the day after !
Just as well I've been going for years so I didn't feel I'd missed out on anything , in fact , I quite enjoyed just watching .
The staff are also now actively discouraging lap timing , and about time to , not like your going to win anything
Thought I'd posted this earlier, but I've realised I didn't because the youtube upload failed.
[youtube]97NMEwVRyJk[/youtube]
Anyhow, it was just a dashcam video (didn't take the GoPro/datalogger this time) of a steady warm up lap from my last trip to the Ring, to show that it's not always busy or full of nutters, with yellow flags or crashed cars around every corner.
Tyres are not in the best condition as the car has more or less been sat since it's accident in December 2015, so this would have been it's first proper shakedown.
It had originally been taken to the Ring in 2016 for a shakedown, but did 2 laps with my tame test driver driving it (on his insurance) and he said it wasn't 'right', and I shouldn't push it. I decided not to risk driving it on the Ring at all and brought it home.
It also shows that the time spent getting everything truly 100% - almost a year after the bodyshop/insurer insisted the car was fine - was worth it.
[youtube]97NMEwVRyJk[/youtube]
Anyhow, it was just a dashcam video (didn't take the GoPro/datalogger this time) of a steady warm up lap from my last trip to the Ring, to show that it's not always busy or full of nutters, with yellow flags or crashed cars around every corner.
Tyres are not in the best condition as the car has more or less been sat since it's accident in December 2015, so this would have been it's first proper shakedown.
It had originally been taken to the Ring in 2016 for a shakedown, but did 2 laps with my tame test driver driving it (on his insurance) and he said it wasn't 'right', and I shouldn't push it. I decided not to risk driving it on the Ring at all and brought it home.
It also shows that the time spent getting everything truly 100% - almost a year after the bodyshop/insurer insisted the car was fine - was worth it.
North West Surrey
