Had a great day yesterday at Donington Park - took the Scooby for it's first outing and was thoroughly impressed with it and all work done so far.
The car felt structurally rigid, which I think the full roll cage with door bars provides! Handling was great. It started off as a cold, dull, wet morning so was running on the normal alloys with road tyres. By lunchtime however, it was lovely and sunny! Track had dried out so popped on the lighter alloys with Toyo R888 track tyres
Boy did the car handle with these babies on!! Was going flat thru Kramer Curves and the thing was awesome. Keeping up with an Escort Cossie for a while and also a (poorly driven) RS4.
There was a wide range of cars out on track. Many were the usual hot hatch brigade and Westfields. Not much exotica except for a lovely GT3 that was being driven under instruction.
Some pics.......
My fave pic with my mate driving....
Infield still a mud-bath - such a shame
Wet in the morning - track starting to dry tho'
R888's fitted
My Garage Mate
fully stripped 318is -went well!
1 series with performance stoppers - anyone on here??
Lovely GT3 RS
Nice 'Turbo
Some nice E46 M3's
Awesome Lotus 11-2 - cornered like it was on rails
Ex Clio-Cup works car - LHD and sequential box - could drive around other cars on the corners - so fast - went out with him at Oulton Park - the thing defies physics!!
I loved this Cossie - sounded awesome and very tail happy
The only disappointment of the day was how bad the circuit looks
The infield is pretty much a mud bath with JCB's trying to smooth it back over. The track is in good condition but you can see now why it was still a million miles away from ever becoming a serious F1 contender.
Looking forward to doing another day there though!