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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #585 on: May 17, 2013, 09:59:19 am »
awesome work

hope you enjoy the nurburgring

the car looks great on track

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #586 on: May 17, 2013, 06:27:43 pm »
Thank you very much!  :notworthy:

Yup, after last years engine problems when I had to rent a car, I hope to be able to go around the ring with my car! Fingers crossed to find the finances (because of the long trip ~ 1300 miles to get to Nurburgring, the gas cost is quite high even for a 1.4 TSI).

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #587 on: May 22, 2013, 08:21:07 pm »
And a few shots with the car "in action" (from Hungaroring):









Thanks for watching!  :drinking:

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #588 on: May 22, 2013, 10:42:50 pm »
^^^^
I like the first shot best  :happy2:

Great car colour.


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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #589 on: May 22, 2013, 11:04:40 pm »
Car looks awesome on track  :happy2:

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #590 on: May 22, 2013, 11:19:42 pm »
Money shot's. Looking fantastic!
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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #591 on: May 23, 2013, 05:12:09 am »
Great shots Rex, but most importantly it's great to see you back on track and enjoying your car again after all the heartache  :happy2:

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #592 on: May 23, 2013, 10:59:56 am »
^^^^
I like the first shot best  :happy2:

Great car colour.
Thank you RR! I like that one the best because it is the clearest of the bunch!
I wanted to wait more for other pictures but, since in my opinion a build thread is pretty much worthless without pictures, I decided to go ahead and post these. If newer, better pictures will arrive I will post them too.
As I said many times before, I really love the color (really really lucky that I had the inspiration to order the car with this color)!

Car looks awesome on track  :happy2:
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Money shot's. Looking fantastic!
Thanks!  :notworthy:

Great shots Rex, but most importantly it's great to see you back on track and enjoying your car again after all the heartache  :happy2:
Thanks Jake! Yes, I agree with you and I am very happy that the car is working fine!  :drinking:

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #593 on: May 24, 2013, 01:47:54 pm »
Great shots Rex, but most importantly it's great to see you back on track and enjoying your car again after all the heartache  :happy2:

Agree with this. Happy to read the engine is running again and all seems fine !!
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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #594 on: May 26, 2013, 08:35:36 pm »
Thanks! Me too!
Holger, I think I will go to Nurburgring on the 13-14th of July. Wanna come?

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #595 on: May 26, 2013, 10:48:13 pm »
Thank you very much for this invitation.   :drinking:

I'll see if this manageable for me. Perhaps Jake is willing to come with.

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #596 on: May 29, 2013, 11:00:59 am »
OK, I will  :drinking:
Hope we can take each other around a lap of the Ring :).

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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #597 on: May 29, 2013, 03:41:18 pm »
Thank you very much for this invitation.   :drinking:

I'll see if this manageable for me. Perhaps Jake is willing to come with.

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Holger i would love that but i'm on a plane to Vienna on the 15th so time will be to tight for me to get down to the ring and back in time for my plane  :sad1:


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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #598 on: May 31, 2013, 01:24:23 pm »
I may bore you with this post but hopefully that's not the case...
I want to post another video from the Hungaroring trackday. This is the best passenger lap till now, about 1.5 seconds faster than the fastest one before. This is still about 1.4 seconds slower than the best solo lap but adding another 80kgs is a huge factor for my 160bhp, 1280kg without the driver, Golf.



A few remarks:
1. this lap is an aggressive one and this aggression is seen in the overall time.
2. a point for those of us who ride the curbs: when riding the curb mid corner, the inner wheel will lift and a lot of the pressure is transferred to the outer wheel. If this wheel is already at it's limit, the car will understeer. I am sure most of you already know that but I wanted to share that thought for those who don't know. So careful when riding the curbs!
3. I often get distracted when driving with a passenger and I always want to share my thoughts with them. As I was about to share the above thought with my passenger I lost concentration and I did not brake for the bend at 1:53. Usually the cars understeers when going to fast through there but now, all wheels lost grip and especially the rear. As was fortunate to keep the car on track.
As a conclusion, the car behaved strangely, but wonderfully, this trackday and I had lots of fun. I would not like the car to be so unpredictable at the Ring, though  :smiley:

Comments are, as always, welcomed!
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Re: Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car
« Reply #599 on: June 02, 2013, 10:01:14 pm »
Well done when you kept it !!  :happy2:

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