Trackday photos

[Matra et Alpine]

OK, so everyone's probably bored with me yammering on about how track days are cheap and the best way to find the limits of your cars.

Well here's set of photos from one fo oru days at knockhill.
This was a local club day and we had a variety of cars....

Enjoy ( or igrnore )
At least I know it will head off any abuse from Egg-Nog et al about my comments

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Lucky bastard in that 360 Spyder... I bet my VW would own him through the corners.

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Getting boring ( and maybe bored ? ) Why can't we post more than 4 at a time

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Well werwe they of any interest ?

BTW, the most impressive car on the day was the new Civic R-type. Really fast and handled nicely. Put some of the 'supercars' to shame

The Subaru estate surprised a few !

The Diablo spent 10 minutes in the pits 'warming the engine' ( aka posing ! ) and then did 5 laps and then sat in pits with engine bay open ( aka posing again ) and then on his second outing stuffed it into the sand trying to keep up with Elise. Didnt' see the driver as he hurriedly put the car into the transported and disappeared !!
Our driver of the day award went to the guy in the S2000 who took EVERY corner sideways with a HUGE smile on his face. he didn't care what his lap times were he was just loving getting to find how controllable his car was

[Swissbeatz]

Nice day, nice cars and nice shoots. I love the Spider 360 . And the Alpine... is it an Alpine in Blue

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by Swissbeatz

Nice day, nice cars and nice shoots. I love the Spider 360 . And the Alpine... is it an Alpine in Blue

Yep the Alpine is mine
Sadly the guy in the 360 sold it a couple of months ago....Right after his first service when Ferrari told him every gearchange and revs on that day (!) and pointed out that as he was driving it that hard then there were more things done in the service and more would be needed for the next.
He had already used 25% of the life of the discs ( not pads - DISCS ).
So he was looking at a 5 GRAND service.
So he sold it and got another 911 !!!

[Swissbeatz]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Yep the Alpine is mine
Sadly the guy in the 360 sold it a couple of months ago....Right after his first service when Ferrari told him every gearchange and revs on that day (!) and pointed out that as he was driving it that hard then there were more things done in the service and more would be needed for the next.
He had already used 25% of the life of the discs ( not pads - DISCS ).
So he was looking at a 5 GRAND service.
So he sold it and got another 911 !!!

lol, you see why I would never buy a Ferrari... your Alpine looks great. The interior is in leather?? this is a masterpiece you know that??

[Batmobile_Turbo]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Well werwe they of any interest ?

BTW, the most impressive car on the day was the new Civic R-type. Really fast and handled nicely. Put some of the 'supercars' to shame

The Subaru estate surprised a few !

The Diablo spent 10 minutes in the pits 'warming the engine' ( aka posing ! ) and then did 5 laps and then sat in pits with engine bay open ( aka posing again ) and then on his second outing stuffed it into the sand trying to keep up with Elise. Didnt' see the driver as he hurriedly put the car into the transported and disappeared !!
Our driver of the day award went to the guy in the S2000 who took EVERY corner sideways with a HUGE smile on his face. he didn't care what his lap times were he was just loving getting to find how controllable his car was

stupid Diablo guy, i would be out there kicking as much ass as i could instead of posing, my posing would be if anyone wanted to take pics of me going through corners.

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by Swissbeatz

lol, you see why I would never buy a Ferrari... your Alpine looks great. The interior is in leather?? this is a masterpiece you know that??

Sadly no, the seats are cloth/velour yuk.
Very confortable and good support in corners but not the 'look'

As the car was used in TV series in Spain they didn't want leather seats as it causes noise problems when recording
If anyone knows an A610 leather interior, I'll take the seats