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Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
xjay1337:
Great update . Nice to read that the car is being enjoyed still! :party:
fuscobal:
Happy for you my friend and hopefully will be able to join you next time !
rex:
--- Quote from: xjay1337 on October 12, 2013, 10:15:23 pm ---Great update . Nice to read that the car is being enjoyed still! :party:
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Thanks! The car will be 6 years old this November and I enjoy it more and more.
As I previously said, I wanted to keep the car for 4 years but now, after 6 years, I don't plan on selling it. This car really suites me and my needs.
--- Quote from: fuscobal on October 13, 2013, 08:54:26 am ---Happy for you my friend and hopefully will be able to join you next time !
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Hopefully so!
:drinking:
rex:
And now for the hard part...
As I said 2 post before, during the last Hungaroring trip the car was all over the place and I lost control of the car on three occasions. Twice I managed to turn the car 180 degrees and stop it but once I did not. This is the story about that case...
It was the last session of the day and the last or second to last lap. Since I had a lot of traffic during the previous sessions and because I really wanted to go as hard as I could, I pushed hard even in this closing session (I never ever push hard in the first or last session). So now I was on a fast lap and there was a car in front. I was in "racing mode" (aka stupid mode) and I thought the Peugeot left the racing line open for me to pass. Once I got mid corner I realized the Peugeot was still committed and I realized our lines will intersect (I was at the cars limit and my line would take me to the outside of the corner, into the Peugeot). So I decided to release the gas pedal (that corner is flat out) and immediately the car severely oversteered. I tried to control it, that I tried to brake but none of these actions prevented me from fitting the barrier. :sad1:
Considering the fact that I lost control of the car at ~130km/h (~80 mph) I can consider myself fortunate the car only had the following damages:
And I also have a rear hub and TD Pro Race 1.2 rim damaged (I have to see how bad the rim was damaged).
In the end I am fortunate I could drive the car back home.
Really happy I was untouched!
I am posting the video so that other people may learn from my mistakes:
I know I've been reckless and I am ashamed of my driving. I think I should only drive like that when I am alone on the track and not close to other cars. So shame on me :sad1:!
When there are slower cars in front, I sometimes push harder because the only way I am going to pass them is on/after the corners. I have no chances of passing cars in the straight lines (with very few exceptions). But this is not an excuse.
I hope I learned my lesson and I hope none of you will repeat my mistake!
P.S. After the crash I asked the officials to give me a paper saying I crashed the car at Hungaoring so that I would not have problems with the police in Hungary, Romania or when crossing the border. I ended up in the F1 Control Room where the manager was. I got to see what view they had (32 cameras around the track) and I got to see my accident from one of those cameras. It was pretty unspectacular, just like any other crash you seen on TV when racing....
fuscobal:
It's a shame that happened...damage is not that bad considering what I'm seeing on the video. I'm keeping my opinion that something's wrong with your car's balance (F/R weight ratio, geometry, B16 settings...) !
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