Interest in track days in the club appear to be minimal so for 2019 Im just using one thread to document what Im doing.

Im making a start tomorro Sat may 11. with an outing to Three Sisters Track near Wigan.

I will be taking things easy as last outing here in Oct 18 I had a fairly major "off track" experience.:whistling:

 

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A good start to the season for me. Weather was dry, bright and not too hot.

A challenging day for me as this was the first time I had driven on the full circuit rather that the perimeter layout of previous years.

At 1450M its still not long but it does contain at least 10 corners so there is no time to relax even for a few seconds.

My first session was spent learning the new part of the layout. Very few cars out with me so enough time and space to experiment.

My second session was much busier and I overtook a number of cars and in turn was overtaken.

On such a narrow track joint cooperation is needed for this to happen without incident.

My third and final sesion semed to consist of a group of cars all about my pace so I never caught anyone and was never caught either..

That was useful and Im feeling settled with driving the new(to me) part of the track.

The next Track Attack day is Jun 16 and I hope to be there.

If all goes to plan with my ZR debut early Jun I should have the luxury of two cars to choose from!!

Check out the couple of pics I took. There were a couple of lensmen there so maybe some action shots of me will pop up on FB soon.

 

Edited May 12, 20196 yr by Slick Pete.
Track route drawn on map!

Looks like you had a great time Pete and thanks for the updates and pics. Looking forward to more. :thumbup1:

Looks like you had a great time Pete and thanks for the updates and pics. Looking forward to more. :thumbup1:

 

Cheers Gaz, it was an enjoyable day.

As predicted some pics have ben uploaded to Facebook.

Thanks to Marc K Photography for allowing his pics to be shared.

The hatchback picture shows how close the overtaking action can be!

 

Great to see a zx on the track.

Time for an update!!!

I havnt driven my slicktop since that day?

Im now using my ZR on track and enjoying it as much as the slicktop..

I have decided to call time on it. So it will be unbuilt this summer.

Its been a great car. I have enjoyed building it.

I have done dozens of  1/4miles in it and countless laps on track but its time to move on.

Here are a couple of  pics of the new track car

Just to be clear here Pete, are you calling time and unbuilding the Z or the ZR? [emoji848]

1 hour ago, Joely P said:

Just to be clear here Pete, are you calling time and unbuilding the Z or the ZR?

Calling time on the slicktop.

So there will be a lot of stuff up for sale over the next 6 months.

4 minutes ago, Slick Pete. said:

Calling time on the slicktop.

So there will be a lot of stuff up for sale over the next 6 months.

Sad times Pete. ?

1 minute ago, Gaz 300 said:

Sad times Pete. ?

No Gaz there is no sadness. I have had a huge amount of fun with this car. I saved it from the crusher back in the day , built it up in to my car.

Met lots of great people.  Old age eventually catches up with you and the car is now too big and heavy for me to look after it and drive it like I used to.

The car will be carefully taken apart and many other owners both new and long standing will get parts to use and enjoy. Nothing will be wasted.

 

21 minutes ago, Slick Pete. said:

No Gaz there is no sadness. I have had a huge amount of fun with this car. I saved it from the crusher back in the day , built it up in to my car.

Met lots of great people.  Old age eventually catches up with you and the car is now too big and heavy for me to look after it and drive it like I used to.

The car will be carefully taken apart and many other owners both new and long standing will get parts to use and enjoy. Nothing will be wasted.

 

Old age catches up on us all one day ? But good to here you will be still racing Pete and keep us updated  no mater what you are racing.  Keep well mate.