lovely to see you all chaps..and an enjoyable afternoon...shame about the morning where i managed 5 laps, and almost hit 50mph on one of them..
my little rant for the day is about bl00dy radicals & caterhams. why is it that every track day i go to seems to be red flagged by yet another radical sat in the kitty litter/on the grass verge, or a caterham with a feckless driver constantly spinning before finally burying itself in the gravel somewhere.
when the radicals are actually working all they seem to do is badger around behind you on the entry to corners generally getting too close before roaring past on the straights making a god-awful noise for a lap or two before having to pull into the pits yet again to fettle their grunions or grease their weasels or whatever the fcuk they spend all the time doing with bits of bodywork scattered all over the place..
caterhams either buzz around on the entry to corners (see 'radicals' above..) or wheeze around powered by an asthmatic 1200cc ford anglia engine, racing each other badly as they try to out slide each other in every corner whilst bleating on about how many horsepowers they have per ton (forgetting that its reduced dramatically by the two fat middle aged chaps in silly racesuits sat in the thing) and generally just getting in the way all the time. apparantly having a caterham means that their indicators don't work, but also apparantly their rear view mirrors don't work either..
then they fall into the gravel, or bits fall off, or they spend a few hours in the pits polishing their steering wheel centres so that they minimise each little bit of weight...
i thnk they should have their own sessions every track day. the organisers would only need to give them 5 minutes every hour - and that would cover the in & out laps as well...and allow the rest of us in cars to enjoy the trackday.
although to be fair there were two stoppages due to porkers in the barriers today...
Matt
BTW - Vic - hope your car is better mate
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