***TRACKDAY, Snetterton 300, Wed, 17 April***

[C J R]

Feeling dispondent I\'ve missed one of my favourite tracks !!
 
Enjoy yourselves guys.
 
Chris

[Casey]

Thanks Chris; you\'ll be missed! Hope you and the car are fit for other events very soon :Thumbs-up

[Casey]

THERE ARE STILL PLACES LEFT FOR ANY LATECOMERS, BUT YOU HAVE TO BE QUICK!

At the moment, it\'s looking like there will be no more than ~50 cars booked on this event so, with a 45 cars track limit, the 40 minute sessions shouldn\'t involve any queuing at all and would allow us one or two short sessions in each 40 minute window. In reality, this could work out better than a heavily booked Open Pitlane day where we could be queuing in the pitlane, waiting for cars to come in.

Stuart at MSV is putting the payments through on our credit cards (if he hasn\'t already) on Tuesday morning. We didn\'t get to the ten we needed for the discount, but I\'ve spoken to him today and he\'s letting us have a pair of garages next to each other at no charge :Thumbs-up. That should be enough for the 6 of us to stow our gear and do any work needed during the day, especially as the forecast is for mostly dry, maybe mist and drizzle very early, but temps up to 17 degrees by the end of the day :cool

BOOK DIRECT WITH STUART ON 01474 875226, quoting "Rotary Group" for a last minute place!

The List so far...
1. Casey - PAID
2. Wildman10 - PAID
3. Stewartm - PAID
4. GregR3 - PAID
5. Lennycarloff - PAID
6. Predator66 - PAID

[GregR3]

Thanks to Casey for organising this fantastic day, met some wonderful people and had a great time. Look forward to seeing any photographs that anybody can share!

[lennycarloff]

Thanks malcom for a great day. Met some great folk and the track was quite compared to a few we have been on with the standard of other drivers been some of the best.
Heidi says thanks again for the passenger ride.i think she preferred your driving style
Thanks jim & Heidi

[stewartm]

Thanks to Casey for organising this fantastic day, met some wonderful  people and had a great time. Look forward to seeing any photographs that  anybody can share!

Well thanks to the impecible timing of our car throwing a wobbler and sidelining us, I got time to take a LOT of pictures. Some of them were even in focus .... a bit.

(Click to see the bigger image on Flickr):



























Anyway, despite us not getting our car out on track, me and Katie had a fantastic day. Lovely to see everybody and many thanks to Greg and Malcolm for our copious passenger rides.

Hopefully we will get our car back to full health and will see you at the next one

[Casey]

I was cream-crackered when I got home last night so just catching up on here now  

Stewart and Katie, so glad to hear you got home safely. I hope you can get your car fixed real soon, one way or another, so you can enjoy the RX-8 experience on track again later this year.

Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday. Being a smaller group, and with the "20mins off" each hour, there was plenty of time to chat with everyone (in between brake pad changes)! Fantastic to see not one, but TWO RX-7 2nd Gen Turbo II\'s (T2) on track. Jim\'s face positively lit up when he saw his car had some company  

Thanks to Greg for the passenger rides in the T2 - absolutely amazing on track, especially given it\'s age - well driven too Greg :Thumbs-up

Stewart those pictures are stunning; professional quality. Your panning technique is awesome - you must give me some tips next time  

Ian "Black Flag" Dale - don\'t worry too much about the reported sparks from your brakes, having looked at them with you I suspect it was just hot brake pad material.

Ian "Predator" - good luck if you decide to go to Cadwell on Monday. It\'s a fantastic circuit. I\'m sure, once you\'ve been, you\'ll want to return there.

Quick comments on the day from me;

Sign on - a breeze, no queue, friendly staff.
Noise test - sorry, MSV muck-up with having us on a separate list which the noise testers didn\'t have access to, until I managed to collect one from the sign-on people and hand one over. To be fair, this was a result of Stuart Garland being super helpful in putting card payments through at 5pm the day before - had we managed to get to 10 people he would have given us all the discount. As it was, he let us have the pair of garages for free.
Briefing - one of the best. Very clear, delivered with the right amount of facts, light humour and encouragement to enjoy the day.
Format of the day - Worked really well I thought. The 40 mins OPL, followed by 20 mins "off" (to watch, and HEAR, two "open-wheelers", or do some quick brake pad changes) was just fine.
Fuel - at £1.55 per litre for 99, quite reasonable for onsite.
Lunch/snacks - very good choice at reasonable prices, friendly staff.
Helicopter - nice of Jonathan Palmer to "drop in" to see me  :^o
Weather -  slightly damp track to start, but dried out amazingly quickly. Shame the sun didn\'t make much of an appearance, but reasonable temperatures throughout the day.

I thought, generally, the driving etiquette was excellent, just one or two minor transgressions, but nothing major at all. A VERY enjoyable day out, and full trackday number 28 completed for my dear old car :wiggle

Roll on Japfest  :lol:

[Casey]

Forgot to add that I had great fun in the last track session hanging on to the tail of Jim for lap after lap. I was struggling to keep up, so those tyres you were using were working really well, combined with the extra power. I had Greg in the car with me so I\'ll blame the extra weight on my inability to get closer :Giggle

I\'ll see if I can salvage some video later - if it\'s any good, it\'ll have some banter on the soundtrack between me and Greg

[lennycarloff]

I must say did enjoy that last session you can see the difference in driving style your smooth touch giving you much better speed out of the corners and shall we call it my hit it with a hammer approach. And I did have Heidi in with me. I did mention that she is going to have to go on a diet.;-)

[GregR3]

The driving skill of Malcolm and Jim was very high, if you do manage to upload any footage you\'ll hear me laughing at Jim hounding a brand new 911 Turbo and spitting flames on every downshift! Brilliant, just brilliant haha! The comparison between the Turbo 2 and the RX8 was my favourite part of the day both fantastic cars in slightly different guises

Can I second that the running of the day was spot on and the company made it even better. Having our MRC/RX8OC garage was good, couldn\'t believe the mechanics that went on the 20min breaks you guys really are competent around these cars

Another highlight was the Turbo2\'s pulling out of chicane at same time giving the pit wall spectators nice blast that moment was just too cool

Stew your photography is amazing, well and truly caught the spirit of the day

[Casey]

Here is a a video clip of my last session of the day, having fun trying to catch Jim in his T2 :Laugh Massive fun; GregR3 is on my passenger seat (no, I\'m not talking to myself!). Excuse poor quality of video ...

A couple of 2m32s laps in there (finish line to finish line) which is slightly quicker than my fastest previously at Snetterton, so well pleased with that too.