Physician
15-09-2004, 09:01 PM
Yesterday evening I was chatting to one of my neighbours who has always had 'interesting' cars on his drive. It turns out he had his own Company named (wait for it) Caterham. He has just retired early but said that he is still very active with one of his other Companies which Manages/arranges track days etc.
"I'll be at Bruntingthorpe tomorrow with ERA (Tiger cars) - if you want to come along I'm sure we can get you on the track." Slobber, slobber - yes pleeeeease.
So, I've spent the whole of today on the track and had a fantastic time - far better than Silverstone and I guess similar to Castle Coombe. It was ERA's track day for their customers and potential clients .... my neighbour Derek introduced me to the MD of ERA and he just wanted a nominal £30 to go towards his costs.
So my eldest daughter and I did around 30 or so laps in 2/3 lap sessions whenever we wanted to go out ........ mainly to allow my brakes to cool. Anyway, we were chatting to one of the Tiger Racing Team drivers and he offered to take my daughter out in their R6 Tiger (see photo: http://homepage.mac.com/rgdavies2000/.Pictures/kd.jpg). I had been chatting to the guy standing beside the car who was helping Kirsty belt up and telling him that I would follow behind and video her on track. According to Kirsty, he told the driver (Gary) that I was going to follow and video but the driver said that I wouldn't be able to keep up so it was pointless ....... anyway, see the video link below. The driver was so impressed that he wanted to go out in the VR4 afterwards!
BTW ........ so that you can get an idea of the speed the 'warning-over speed limit' you will hear is set at 80 mph.
http://homepage.mac.com/rgdavies2000/.Movies/tiger.mov
"I'll be at Bruntingthorpe tomorrow with ERA (Tiger cars) - if you want to come along I'm sure we can get you on the track." Slobber, slobber - yes pleeeeease.
So, I've spent the whole of today on the track and had a fantastic time - far better than Silverstone and I guess similar to Castle Coombe. It was ERA's track day for their customers and potential clients .... my neighbour Derek introduced me to the MD of ERA and he just wanted a nominal £30 to go towards his costs.
So my eldest daughter and I did around 30 or so laps in 2/3 lap sessions whenever we wanted to go out ........ mainly to allow my brakes to cool. Anyway, we were chatting to one of the Tiger Racing Team drivers and he offered to take my daughter out in their R6 Tiger (see photo: http://homepage.mac.com/rgdavies2000/.Pictures/kd.jpg). I had been chatting to the guy standing beside the car who was helping Kirsty belt up and telling him that I would follow behind and video her on track. According to Kirsty, he told the driver (Gary) that I was going to follow and video but the driver said that I wouldn't be able to keep up so it was pointless ....... anyway, see the video link below. The driver was so impressed that he wanted to go out in the VR4 afterwards!
BTW ........ so that you can get an idea of the speed the 'warning-over speed limit' you will hear is set at 80 mph.
http://homepage.mac.com/rgdavies2000/.Movies/tiger.mov