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For those that were invited to the scooby trackday, a few things to remember ...
Thanks to KevTurbo of the WYIOC, and *AB*
1. Corradoboy
2. Kevturbo
3. StickyStuff
4. Chishy
5. TRF (Chris)
6. Monkey200 (SXOC)
7. bren (SXOC)
8. Vez (SXOC)
9. DazWRSport
10. DJ MOD WRX
11. RRH (Simon)
12. Mark Jessop (LancerEvo.net)
13. Redman
14. docbob200 (SXOC)
15. SteA (SXOC)
16. Kes (SXOC / 323GTR)
17. bgood
18. Trickle (SXOC)
19. Steve Chaps
20. Yak (SJ Hawkes)
Additional Drivers
1. Corradogirl
2. Mrs. Kevturbo
3. Mr. AB (Kevturbo's mate)
4. Mrs. AB (Kevturbo's mates wife)
5. Bren's mate ? - Ann
6.
Tuition
1. TRF ?????
Non-confirmed (CARS)
1. Tony Chaps
2. Kenji Lewis (Clio)
3. dral (LancerEvo.net)
4. Stuart148
5. Swebb200sx (SXOC)
6. Jon C
7. Alric (LancerEvo.net)
8. white scooby ??
9. Evo Matt VI
10.
Saturday the 1st of October 2005
Video of DRY LAP (http://media.putfile.com/Rallydrive)
Video of DAMP (scary) LAP (http://media.putfile.com/Rallydrive2)
Video of Dazza's overexhuberance (http://media.putfile.com/DazOvercookin)
The Venue
Rallydrive is 10 miles south of Scnuthorpe just outside the village of Blyton, and is sited on a disused WWII airfield in the middle of a cornfield. As it is not a pure racing track in the mould of Donnington or Oulton, the surface is a little rough and there are some potholes (imagine TopGears track). The circuit itself has been set up to challenge the balance and handling of the professional racing and rally teams whom use it as a test facility, and so provides plenty of fun on its 1 1/4 mile lap.
Schedule
The venue will be ours for the whole day from our arrival at (hopefully ) 8.30am to sometime around 4.30pm, allowing plenty of track time for everybody. We will continue with our successful 4 token system with 4 cars on track at a time. Previous experience shows that most people do 3-6 laps (5-10 minutes) and then come off for a breather so everyone should get as much time as they want.
Facilities
Facilities are somewhat spartan so it's recommended that you bring your own refreshments, picnic chairs & tables and prepare for any bad weather we may have (let's hope for some rain ). I'm sure the WYIOC gayzebo will be making an appearance, along with one (or more) BBQ's
Don't forget your sausages, burgers and rolls for the BBQ
Costs
As before, this is a non-profit event organised purely for the fun and enjoyment of Scooby and other performance car owners, and the costs are to be shared equally and hence the price cannot be finalised until the day when we know exactly how many are there. As an example, if we have...
15 cars it will be £40,
20 cars is £30,
25 cars £25.
DONT FORGET YOUR EXTRA MONEY - IE COST OVER DEPOSIT
Tuition
Tuition will be available hopefully from the venue owner Howard Patterson, who has been an international rally driver competing succesfully for over 30 years. Many of the guys have had tuition from him or his staff in the past and will confirm its merits to anyone interested. The cost is £150, shared equally between those involved.
Getting there
We will meet up at 7.30am at Ferrybridge Services on the M62 to group up for a convoy to the venue
SAFETY
Last but foremost in everybodies minds must be safety. On track we run 4 cars at a time with NO OVERTAKING. Any measurement of abilitiy will be done with a stopwatch. Off track everyone MUST observe a strict 5 mph limit. There will be people, and possibly children walking around the paddock area. Anyone thought to be endangering safety shall have a single warning, then be asked to leave the premises with no refund. Thankfully it has never come close to this, and I doubt it ever will.
Helmets must be worn by anyone in a vehicle on track, driver or passenger, so if you have your own it is advised you bring it, otherwise Rallydrive have a selection of sweaty used ones to lend us for the day.
CLICKY to show you what went on last time, and the time before CLICKY. Many of the pics have been cleared out, so maybe we could sort out a WYIOC Photobucket account with the password made known to members for anyone to drop suitable shots into for use by anyone in the club
Legal Bit
Your payments will be made directly to Rallydrive, and you will be asked to sign a disclaimer fully accepting that you understand the dangers of driving in an unrestricted area and that you accept full liability for your own actions and any consequencies resulting. Your contract of sale shall be with Rallydrive. By accepting to attend this event you also accept these terms and conditions.
Members of SXOC may spectate if they wish, AFAIK.
Ferrybridge Services is the M62 / A1M junction ones?
Yep :nod: handy for all of use except the Sheffield twosome who have to pass the venue to meet us. Si Webb is used to not using the straightest route anyway so no worries :wack:
Hi Kev, I dont suppose there's any spaces left for this is there? I've just booked Cadwell and this looks a little bit more forgiving as a little practise :)
It was invites from West Yorks Imprezza Owners Club, part of Scoobynet, you can find the thread on Scoobynet and ask the organisers.
Oh did'nt realise it was personal invites, thought it was just them inviting the sxoc to fill places :( Oh well not to worry.
Wasnt a club invite :no: but still worth asking on the thread.
Drivers licence required? I know you need it for those book a track days, so I sent off for the replacement 1.5 weeks ago and its still not here :cry:
I'm not sure Swebb can make it, but dont want to speak for him/rule him out on the basis of the conversation last Sat.
Edit: Just checked the scoobynet thread and they are talking about letting 15 year olds out on the track :eek: , so that anaswers the driving license question I guess.
Edit: Just checked the scoobynet thread and they are talking about letting 15 year olds out on the track :eek: , so that anaswers the driving license question I guess.
I am pretty positive they meant as passengers :thumbs:
Yep, passengers :nod:
You better ask about licenses on Scoobynet
Convoy from Birch anyone? 6-45am.
Ste - Grab your camera back from Scott and we'll swap mounts :nod: so you can use the sucker mount.
Bren will be in the S13 :D which is nice.
Convoy from Birch anyone? 6-45am.
Ste - Grab your camera back from Scott and we'll swap mounts :nod: so you can use the sucker mount.
Bren will be in the S13 :D which is nice.
Scott didnt manage to pick it up so I still have it, I will be bringing it :nod: cool idea that man :D
I'm going up to my parents tomorrow which is just around the corner from the track so I will see you there ;)
My cars been in its drift bitch look for the past few day driving around lik this with 7 wheels in it :wack:
http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=23086&stc=1
Scott mentioned your camera issue today, Its actually Petrols mount but he wont have any problems with us swapping mounts so we can both get footage :nod:
Petrol :notworthy for yet another loan of the vid camera, thank you, thank you.
Any idea where you get the seat mounts from? Ive got my self a cheapy sh1te vid cam but need a mount for it + my SD card i bought for it is lost in the post so i cant film much anyway :(
www.b-hague.co.uk :)
edit - convoy from birch suits me Kev :thumbs:
balls - just put my new track wheels on the car and one has a puncture :( best get that fixed then.
std s14 wheels free to a good home if anyone wants them (Kev? - for your collection ;) ) not legal tread on the tyres but might be a dry session in them if you push it.
edit - and my tyre bloke has just been on the phone and the sidewall is split as well :(
lucky i had a spare pair of tyres :thumbs:
should be all set for tomorrow :nod:
I'll always have more wheels :rolleyes: you know me.
If there isnt much life left in them you should take them and kill them on Sat :nod:
I cant grab them Sat as the car will already be full :wack: but I can do one evening mascrat if you can fit them in.
No overtaking!!?? :cry:
Can we run slicks?
Do you really want to run slicks on a airfield?
But yes, you can.
Overtaking - We'll just have to pick who goes out with who carefully.
Bren - Remember my airfield wheels please :nod:
If the width of the track is as thin as it looks on the vids i can see why there is no over taking.
Bren: Any chance you could bring some pads for me along with you?
A guy on Scoobynet wants some Silk 5w40 at the trackday if you feel like business on your week off too .....
Oops. Didnt realise you werent working this week :o
car now sorted :D . see you folks tomorrow :thumbs:
just been to sainsburys too and have plenty of food for the barbie :)
Bugger, BBQ ... I posted to remind you all about it then forgot :rolleyes: I think I've some burgers in the freezer, just need some buns.
corradoboy
30-09-2005, 19:48
Just thought I'd pop in over here to say thanks to Kev for attracting you guys along, and thanks to all of you who are coming.
Just in case anyone needs it tomorrow, my mobile no. is 0798 0967815.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
David.
Cheers Corradoboy :thumbs: and to KevTurbo of Scoobynet/WYIOC for sending the invite via *AB*
Looking forward to it :D Despite the onset of man-flu :down: so no snogging from me at all :no: :wack:
Yeah!!! I'm coming aswell so I'll see you lot at ferrybridge :D
Yeah!!! I'm coming aswell so I'll see you lot at ferrybridge :D Is anyone taking a trolley jack and stuff?
Yep, I will be, from the sounds of it you better be bringing a spare set of wheels/tyres.
Airial of the site....
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=486750&Y=396500&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=GB&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&out.x=6&out.y=11
Yes, just chatting to engine swap, he was there today ;) see the "rallying" thread
We have your wheels Kev and we will take a pot of 5/40 and some pads for Yak :)
I gave the guy directions to the unit, he went and got some ~3pm today :nod:
Cheers :D Did you see the vids yet? first few posts.
Thats good :) and I will be bringing my old wheels but dont really have the tools without going and borrowing them. Do you bring different sized sockets or just the right size for your wheels cos the alloys on me car have a different sized wheel nut to the standard ones.
I'll probably take a scocket set, Bren will be towing and I imagine with full toolkit, afterall he has a S13 :p
Aye, we will have tools :nod:
Anyone got details of where this place is, I suppose its time I looked up where we are going at 6am tommorrow :wack:
No overtaking!!?? :cry:
Can we run slicks?
DO NOT run slicks on this surface :no: - I spent half the day on that track this morning and it is MEGA rough :nod:
Meet at Ferrybridge at 7-30 Bren :nod:
See this thread for some pics from today
http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=174569
I dont want to slow you down, I have a trailer dont forget :( Have you got a postcode?
Im taking the rally moulded slicks and will have the Toyo 888s as back up but I really dont want to have top run them as theyll get shredded. The slicks are staying where they are ;)
Well its a convoy, it will go as slow as the slowest car hopefully. Apparently its easy to miss, theres directions on scoobynet, and Engine swap was there today, he's probably best qualified to answer
Kev, Its "no more , coilovers fitted". I got a scare with your crap punctuation :p
The commas in bold btw, it just doesnt show up too well ;)
We will aim for the convoy then, just dont moan at me if we slow you all down too much :nod: :)
lol, its an old pic too, but I dont have access to my sig webspace anymore, and I suppose it only pops up every 100-odd views :p
Its where WYIOC asked us to meet.... Ferry bridge, I dont think its 20mins from there.
Ive found it and printed off lots of maps on good 'ol multi :nod:
Ill meet you guys there, I dont want to hold everyone up and it seems simple enough to find :)
Well its a convoy, it will go as slow as the slowest car hopefully. Apparently its easy to miss, theres directions on scoobynet, and Engine swap was there today, he's probably best qualified to answer
Not easy to miss :no:
Once on the road its based on there is a nice big sign saying 'Rally School' and its just after you turn on to main road :nod:
M62
M18
M180
A159
Is that the way you guys are going? Is that the way you went Mr Swap?
Read the Scoobynet thing about the entrance being hard to spot, something like "just look really hard 1-2miles out of blyton for a little sign.
Read the Scoobynet thing about the entrance being hard to spot, something like "just look really hard 1-2miles out of blyton for a little sign.
Must have gone a different way - I used Sat Nav and I found it as soon as come on to the road (Kirkton Road?)
Seeing as youre meeting at the A1 junction I assume youre actually going A1 then A631 to the A 159.
No matter, we will get there one way or another. If its wet then Im fecked so I pray for a dry day :D
M62
M18
M180
A159
Is that the way you guys are going? Is that the way you went Mr Swap?
:nod: :nod:
Seeing as youre meeting at the A1 junction I assume youre actually going A1 then A631 to the A 159.
No matter, we will get there one way or another. If its wet then Im fecked so I pray for a dry day :D
It was wet today and it was slippy :nod: not that it matter in the rally section - the wetter it got the faster we went :wack:
Cool, we will go that way :)
You dont know how laaaaaaggggyyyyyyyohcomeonimgettingborednowFECKMEO HMYGODWEAREGOINGTODIE brutal our S13s power delivery is ;)
Gary@APT
30-09-2005, 22:54
i know, so does christian!!! ;)
laaaaaaggggyyyyyyyohcomeonimgettingborednowFECKMEO HMYGODWEAREGOINGTODIE
LMAO :notworthy
hmm ..................rally track :D
that's entirely my cup of tea.
really looking forward to this :nod:
Well see you all tomorrow, dont forget your vid cams :nod:
Need my ugly sleep, and hopefully shake off some of this fecking manflu :(
i know, so does christian!!! ;)
I know, I heard you both screaming as you rocketed up through the gears and past the entrance to your units estate and noted the shakes when you came back :D :p
Dont be so gay Kev, Im just getting stuck into a bottle of wine! :D
Well see you all tomorrow, dont forget your vid cams :nod:
Aye, wish my SD card and mount had arived in time. :(
Bren you know what pads im after?
Aye, wish my SD card and mount had arived in time. :(
Bren you know what pads im after?
i have a 512meg card lying around if you want to borrow :)
No, we were just going to take what we had, what do you want?
I should also have a spare card somewhere but youd have to show me what they look like to make sure its correct :)
Yeah if i could borrow the 512 SD card that wold be cool. Ill bring the cam then though i cant mount it.
The scobynet vids look like they were hand held!
Er you dont use S13 pads anymore though do you Bren? :confused:
Just was after some red fronts and black rears thats all.
No but I can bring them :)
Ill see you all at ferry bridge ;)
Im leaving Home at 6am :wave:
.....and hopefully shake off some of this fecking manflu :(
Well I'm alive :eek: and I'll make it, see you at Birch @ 6-45 :nod:
Alarm clock :rant:
I might have been better staying in bed. :indiff:
Oh dear. You suffering now :/
Yeah, felt shit most of the afternoon, and I'm blaming my wide-wing mod on ManFlu too :nod: not over exuberance :p
Oh no not overexuberance :wack: :p
corradoboy
01-10-2005, 21:15
Just got in (had dinner at my Mum & Dads after dropping the old man off) and thought I'd pop in to all the relevent forums to express my thanks to all whom made today an excellent one. Best turnout yet, and mostly due to the other marques as the Scooby lot are getting very boring in their old age ! After the fun today I will almost definately be organising another next year, most likely late March/early April, so I'll be sure to post an invite up here again.
Pics are starting to flood in over on Scoobynet (look in the "Gallery" and "WYIOC Events") and I'll montage all my little vid clips up if I get chance tomorrow and put it on Putfile, so be sure to check them all out and see if you're famous.
Thanks again, David.
Just uploading some vids at the moment, should be up in a couple of hours or so, broadband connection is on a go slow today! Apologies for the sound, forgot to switch on the wind cut on the mike...
www.323gtr.net/323gtr/video/Rallydrive1.avi - 16MB
www.323gtr.net/323gtr/video/Rallydrive2.avi - 20MB
www.323gtr.net/323gtr/video/Rallydrive3.avi - 30MB
www.323gtr.net/323gtr/video/Rallydrive4.avi - 43MB
Here's what not to do :o
www.323gtr.net/videos/Rallydrive-spin.avi - 11MB
http://media.putfile.com/WYIOC-TD4
Scoobynet little vid.
Hope you haven't done too much damage Kev :(
Hope you haven't done too much damage Kev :(
Theres a vid in members ;)
I've just bent the bumper fixing points, and wing a little, as stated, nothing a little :smash: wont cure.
So the important question - did we show the scoobies up? ;)
So the important question - did we show the scoobies up? ;)
:nod:
Particually SteA, massive respect for "track virgin" Trickle who was :notworthy Kev1nc hasnt tracked his 200 before and was also pretty rapid although I'm unsure of his spec to gauge his driving off.
Bren was quick as expected, but struggled with Laaaaaaaaaaaaag on his big turbo and a tight, twisty 1st-3rd gear course.
:nod:
Particually SteA, massive respect for "track virgin" Trickle who was :notworthy Kev1nc hasnt tracked his 200 before and was also pretty rapid although I'm unsure of his spec to gauge his driving off.
Bren was quick as expected, but struggled with Laaaaaaaaaaaaag on his big turbo and a tight, twisty 1st-3rd gear course.
Excellent :clap: :clap:
I never got out of 3rd gear either when was there on Saturday... looks like you got some good weather from the vids too - sweet :D
OK, more vids from saturday.
WARNING hand held cam wobberlyness may cause :hurl:
Mount is on order.
Camera man Kes
http://www.zen27248.zen.co.uk/RallyDrive1.avi
Camera man Ves
http://www.zen27248.zen.co.uk/RallyDrive2.avi
Camera man Trickle (this is the 2nd attempt after failingto record anything the first time but did manage to turn the marco on so everything out side the car is a little bury :wack: )
http://www.zen27248.zen.co.uk/RallyDrive3.avi
and the trip back to the paddock on a trailer with Bren, Ann, Kez and Ves after Kes's car broke
http://www.zen27248.zen.co.uk/Clip(18).3gp
What was up with it BTW?
If you cant get these to play because of the format, install this player.
http://www.videolan.org/mirror.html?mirror=http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/&file=vlc/0.8.2/win32/vlc-0.8.2-win32.exe
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It will play just about any vid other then Real media files :thumbs:
The connector came off the map sensor! A bit of a bugger, as had I spotted it straight away, we would have been able to start it again and carry on. All sorted now, and drove home fine, just got to sort the slight cosmetic damage where we ballsed up on getting it on the trailer...
Trickle Ive got your helmut BTW. You left it in the back seat of my car after my last run.
Bugger.
I'll have to nip up to your place when you are free. Thought things went a bit too smoothly.
Many thanks for the rides out there from Bren and Yak. Worth the entry fee alone :thumbs:
Bren was quick as expected, but struggled with Laaaaaaaaaaaaag on his big turbo and a tight, twisty 1st-3rd gear course.
Aye, the lag was horrible and forced me into grabbing first on a couple of corners which made for a not very smooth drive :(
Was a lot of fun but by far the scariest course Ive ever been to because of the intermittant piles of concrete, potholes, no marshals etc :eek:
Cant complain for 25 quid though, bargain :thumbs: :D
:nod:
Kev1nc hasnt tracked his 200 before and was also pretty rapid although I'm unsure of his spec to gauge his driving off.
Car is at stage 2 with special 19psi tyre pressure :eek: on one of the backs for the whole of the morning and 205's all round :wack:. It was my second track day but first in the 200 and would thoroughly recommend it to all. Before saturday I was scared of losing the back end where as now although I dont have any finnese when it comes to controling the back end it does'nt worry me anymore :thumbs: I had a fantastic day with plenty of hairy moments and cant wait until Cadwell where hopefully I'll get that passenger ride Bren :p :thumbs:
You looked very quick, the back end was squirming around a lot round the quicker corners as you put the power down, looked very fast. I struggled to gain on you in the s13 because despite the power advantage and rally slicks youd just feck off out of the corners whilst I waited patiently for the turbo to wake up :rolleyes: :nod: :wack:
Nitrous is being fitted before the next track day :nod:
Vids are back. Still sh!te just not quite as sh!te.... i hope...
You looked very quick, the back end was squirming around a lot round the quicker corners as you put the power down, looked very fast. I struggled to gain on you in the s13 because despite the power advantage and rally slicks youd just feck off out of the corners whilst I waited patiently for the turbo to wake up :rolleyes: :nod: :wack:
Nitrous is being fitted before the next track day :nod:
Cheers Bren :D, Cant wait till Cadwell, I want it to be NOW!!! :D
There will be none of this struggling to keep up at Cadwell, Ill just kick your ass there :p ;)
You need to come for a ride, I forgot on Sat, you should have nagged me :nod:
Will definately take you up on that passenger ride, cant wait :cool: . I just assumed you did'nt want to take the car out again on saturday so didnt bring it up, not to worry though my car was quicker anyway :p :D
It will be quicker there and I have my fingers crossed that itll have a 6 speed sequential box as well, how cools that :cool: :D :D :D
Very Cool you Git :smash:
....and I think some slicks will be out for me, what with insurance / little bump / rollcage & 310 kit this month. Can anybody guess I've just got a new 0% credit card :p :p
I'll just have to hope the michelins arent as crap as I think they are going to be :(
It will be quicker there and I have my fingers crossed that itll have a 6 speed sequential box as well, how cools that :cool: :D :D :D
:eek: Fooking hell!!! :eek: :notworthy :D that'll be an absolute animal :cool: :cool: :cool:
Very Cool you Git :smash:
....and I think some slicks will be out for me, what with insurance / little bump / rollcage & 310 kit this month. Can anybody guess I've just got a new 0% credit card :p :p
I'll just have to hope the michelins arent as crap as I think they are going to be :(
I've got hold of some nice light wheels for track, 255's on back with 225's on front, I think semi slicks should complement my suspension work, new engine and brake upgrade :D
Its gonna be several months at least before I can afford both the track day and semi slicks though.... should be fun next year ;) :p
Looks like I'll be doing some overtime in the not to distant future then if I'm going to have any chance of keeping up with you lot :rolleyes: :D
Anybody else having trouble with the video's? I keep getting chucked off the net when I try and view them :confused:
corradoboy
19-12-2005, 05:00
There is a 3 page article on the day in this months Banzai magazine...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/2dobes/banzai1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/2dobes/banzai2.jpg
I have just started the ball rolling on another one in late March or April next year. I do hope some more of you guys will join us again next time and make it another success and great fun.
Seasons Greetings from myself, and all the WYIOC (West Yorks Impreza Owners Club).
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