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Ring trip in May.
QD MBE:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on May 01, 2010, 09:53:35 am ---....
At the risk of sounding like your dad, if it's your first time:
- One of the lads here will gladly give you a passenger ride first so you see what the Nordschleife feels like. Simulator games etc are limited.
- Drive your first laps slower and build your confidence up during the day. It's not a race.
- Don't get over-confident or distracted - The Nordschleife demands respect and you need to stay very focussed all the way round. and not look at the countryside........... :P
- Simply drive within both your car's limits and your driver limitations. Have fun but be safe.
- When you think "just one more lap".. Don't do it!
- Keep a very keen eye on your rear view mirrors!!
Enjoy!
I'm not the expert which reading this might lead you to think I am. You're with a crowd who know what they're doing (mostly! :wink:) and who will guide and look after you.
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RedRobin:
--- Quote from: stokeballoon on May 01, 2010, 10:10:38 am ---
- Don't get over-confident or distracted - The Nordschleife demands respect and you need to stay very focussed all the way round. and not look at the countryside........... :P
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....This'll make you and TC laugh, Dave: At the junction where the GP track joins the Nordschleife again (recent VLN circuit trackday) I had to stop myself from checking the righthand side for traffic joining! That part is closed off of course.
However, I am getting better and slowly faster. Or is that faster slowly? Or just slower?
monte:
--- Quote from: SteveP on April 30, 2010, 05:51:16 pm ---When you come off a hard lap on standard brakes I always went for a cool drive drive down the long straight next to the ring entrance.
When you then get back to the car park just leave it in D with the handbrake off. No need to leave the keys in.
I would then give the car 30mins before the next lap :happy2:
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Thanks Steve, but I thought you had to put the car in P to get the keys out???
monte:
Can someone confirm the following for me please??? I am going to book everything now :smiley: (ooh am ded excited)
Thursday night Premier Inn Maidstone??? (anyone got a link?)
Friday 7th May 7.50 am Euro tunnel
Hotel An Der Nordschleife 7th,8th,9th May, single room @ 45Euro's a night.
Monday 10th May 12.20 Euro tunnel.
Also is there a list of thing needed to travel to Germany? e.g. Hi vis vest, spare bulbs, beam converters, Insurance docs etc etc.
Thanks. :driver:
monte:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on April 30, 2010, 06:52:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: SteveP on April 30, 2010, 05:51:16 pm ---
When you then get back to the car park just leave it in D with the handbrake off. No need to leave the keys in.
I would then give the car 30mins before the next lap :happy2:
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....Crikey! I've been leaving it with the handbrake off but in P. Never had any probs so far but I may have been doing it wrong - Anyone explain a bit more detail info about P, please?
Again, I'm probably wrong, but why as long as 30mins? Though it's actually about the same timing I do but not consciously.
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Hi Robin,
I am not 100% sure, but I think (I read somewhere or someone told me) that in P the brakes are applied..............but I could be talking poop :ashamed: :ashamed: :ashamed:
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