MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Cochese on May 18, 2009, 09:14:06 pm
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Just had my GTI on track (Knockhill) for the first time. :driver: LOVED IT! :jumping: :jumpmove: Can't believe it's taken me this long to get it on and can't wait for my next shot. Roll on next month!! :party:
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How was it? Hints, tips?
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It was wet as a barstewards so not ideal track weather. However, still the most fun I've had in the Falcon by a mile. Best tip I think is get a Quaife diff cause this really helped me get all the grip I could out there today. Through the twisties I was catching my mate's M3 although as soon as we hit the straight he was gone. :scared:
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i love track time :party:
what was the music of choice? i always love a slice of the FOO's :evilgrin:
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How do you guys book your track time?
Im quite intesested in getting into it
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most circuits have track days for the public on a regular basis just a case of finding the closest and looking them up for details usually :happy2:
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Only soundtrack I had on the track was my engine, but I was pumping Panama by Van Halen all the way there to get me in the mood :jumping:
Matty most tracks have websites where track days will be listed, you just have to phone up and book :driver:
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good stuff mate . track days are great fun . i need to get back out soon . and now my mk1 has a engine again im booking up autometrix at combe
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wet???
i was at knockhill yesterday taking pics, clear blue skies, stonking weather!!!! :grin:
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You got lucky then chungster, that's knockhill had it's one day of summer weather for the year. :happy2:
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some of the cars i saw at KH.
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i can hear this in my head!
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nice shots
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Those drift guys were at Castle Combe at this weekend's JapFest.
The track doesn't appeal to me at all - I much prefer the ever changing dynamics of the road and also the journey.
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Nice pics chungster :happy2:
C'mon Robin, it would be a waste to have all your mods and not take your car on a track to fully utilise them. :driver:
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track is alot more fun then the road , well for me anyway . driving fast on the road will either catch you out with plod or end up hurting your car or worse still someone innocent . don't get me wrong im no sunday driver but there is defo a time and a place .
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C'mon Robin, it would be a waste to have all your mods and not take your car on a track to fully utilise them. :driver:
....I don't agree about my car's mods being "a waste" - They may be a waste for you and many others, but not for me - The car doesn't have a brain that's capable of differentiating whether it's being driven on a road or on a track and so all it's suspension and brakes etc etc are still given a healthy and enjoyable workout. I prefer not to drive any vehicle at its limit in any circumstance - I keep the car's limits beyond my own driver limitations. Judging from my many passenger rides on track I think I would get bored by the repetition of laps in an often featureless landscape. I love the ever changing dynamics of a road journey.
I've been driving a new supercharged S4 Avant this week and have been having a huge amount of fun on the roads without driving dangerously, and that's obviously a car with much more power than my GTI and also with quattro+sports diff.
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that looks like the time attack lot that were at Oulton the other week
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S4 . NICE
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S4 . NICE
....S for Superb! I'll be writing and posting a review. :happy2:
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Those drift guys were at Castle Combe at this weekend's JapFest.
The track doesn't appeal to me at all - I much prefer the ever changing dynamics of the road and also the journey.
yes the main EDC guys went upto Knockhill for Round 2 of the championship. The ones who contest the 2nd tier champ (BDC) were at Combe showboating. Did you see the accident at the final corner?
Here's a in car vid of it. Watch how the passenger's helmet smashes the side window :surprised:
Drift crash at Japfest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbgQiOFNMk)
ps: how do you embed the damn video into the post??
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that looks like the time attack lot that were at Oulton the other week
that's cos they are, it was Round 2 @ Knockhill. :happy2:
won't be able to do Round 3 at Silverstone tho. :sad:
wish i could take shots like these tho!
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^^^^
That pic with the exhaust flames is awesome! :happy2:
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^^ I'd love for my GTI to do that! :evilgrin: