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Weather besides (which actually made it a little more fun on track but only sucked when you got wet standing around) today was another class day organised by RTOC.
Nice to see all the regular faces and some new.
Thanks to all those who work your arse's off so we can have fun, to sum it up, my mate said on the way home
"Is it bad I look forward to today more than my pending wedding?"
I wont mention names
ill second that just wish i had the nerve to make used of the day on track but after readin what happened towardrs the end think i made the rite choice. only 365 days to get readt for next year lets hope for bit better weather looking forward to it already :)
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Excellent day only spoiled by constant rain:cry:
well done to all the people who make this happen. the weather was a bit wet just made it more fun on the track. thanks to nick for lending me his socket set.
Was a good day. Span my car, which put me off tracking in the rain quite a lot... Didn't put all that time, money and effort into building the car, to bin it on its first outing!
Unlucky Tarmac Trasher - Nick (I think it was him) for rolling the clio! I saw it just as we were leaving :(
Yea Tarmac Trasher Nicks Willy Clio was well and truly fcuked, don't know how many times it rolled but he walked away which was the most important thing :agree:
Have to say I was a bit disappointed with the lack of R5 GTTs on the day...
Bit annoyed with the rain, then again the last few national days have been awesome in terms of weather and we were due a ****ter.
However, the calibre of the standard cars on the day was amazing, loved Brigsys ph2 and Rob@Backyards ph1...:D
The modified/hybrid creations weren't shy either and some of the work that has gone on with these cars is brilliant. We have some clued up members and it really shows :agree:
Looking forward to next year already, I WILL be there in my own car :D
"Looking forward to next year already, I WILL be there in my own car"
second that spooky:D
thanx to all the staff and members for today. had a great time. hopefully i'll have a car to bring on the back of the truck next year :D
You sure will dude, :agree::)Quote:
Originally Posted by devilish dave
yep, what another brilliant event, cheer rtoc organizers!
Good to see everyone again - shame about the weather and to hear about Nick's accident though...
Big big thanks to all that helpped make this yet another great national day.
Great people as always with some interesting weather.
Hope Nick is chilling with a beer or two after some evil knevel style crash.
And big big thanks to all my local members who helped me get my car track ready.
And Mallory and back and some track action all on £40's worth of fuel......... Something ain't right there!
yea, you need to stop driving like miss daisy you big gay :cooter:Quote:
Originally Posted by Logg
RTOC you smashed it, very good weekend away. shame about the weather but i enjoyed it non the less. woud have been nice if it looked like more of a renault turbo club but the mix of cars help to divide the track more evenly. i had a nasty spin but fantastic reactions from the marshals with the flags time and time again saved many and they deserve a pat on the back for sitting in that rain for our safety :agree:
i also killed my turbo but bigdanc kindly lent me one and mike a few other parts off his van so many thanks for that and the help getting it fitted to get me home and back out on track in the afternoon.
I went out in the morning but I couldn't full throttle it at any point on the straights because the back end kept breaking loose.
I left all the gear in the car, the boot was full to the brim and the rear seats too. I had chairs, generator, huge tent, Dawn's massive suitacse, my backpack, tools and all sorts.
Anyway, with all the weight, the car still pulled really well on the 6 laps I did. I did a couple of slow warm up laps to get the engine up to temp. I was a bit a bit reluctant to bin the car after only owning it three days, but after 2 practice laps on the dry line the car was holding stupidly well. The acceleration, stiffness and brakes really blew me away. As i've only owned the car a very short period of time I haven't had a chance to get used to it with the **** weather all week.
Even with the short amount of track time I got, it was still good.
That was me posting, I didn't realise I was logged in as Dawn.
Was a awsome day as said above a shame about the weather but didnt stop alot of you whizzzin around the track!! Deff gunna give ago at the track action next year!! and it was good to finally put some names to faces!!!
if i dont see you all before will see you next year!! :agree::agree:
Good day ...i turned up for a bit on today. Met some old faces and new :) I turned up on me own aswell. Heard about nick...was talking to him about his volvo turbo'd clio ...hope yer ok dude!
ill defo be down next year in my clio turbo ..for some track time also :)
It was very nice that Silvia!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam L
Hmm, after another mamouth journey in the hi lux coating fellow motorists in black smog and burning more fuel than an F1 car...:laugh:, in convoy we arrived at a very damp mallory, thought to myself....it will be greasy out there tommorow, well after a few beers and barbie shennigans the morning arrived!
Got the cup and all it junk to the paddock , fired up the cup after many months and it fired on two...:laugh:, well after me an paul b got well stuck in and got the plugs out and i wire brushed them.....shocking as they were, she fired and buisness was ressumed!!..:)
once signed on , i got the ole girl out there , not ideal conditions i thought to myself for trying out the new lsd box...:laugh:, still the car went well, i did hold back a little as it was crappy out there but the box....after colin {master} adjusted the gear linkage was fantastic, the first ten laps or so i could not get second on the hair pin and that was a proper headache...:cry:, still all in all , despite the crappy weather , i did manage a fair few laps and to meet quite a few people i hadnt seen for ages which was great!!!!.
Hats off to rtoc as a club it has to be said we really are a great bunch!!!,..:D.
I must say, sorry nick that you rolled the car buddy , thers nowt worse than hearing that when you get pulled into the pits, it looked buggerd bud, i must say i did laugh though bud when steve told me what you instantly did with the hat...:laugh:, you legend you!!!, hope your neck gets better soon bud etc, time to use the sympathy vote with tor....;).
On a serious note though , it does show that cages , gloves , suits, boots etc, fire exstinguishers are sometimes bloody good to have!!!
One last big thankyou to jerp for bringing the cup rims despite your back and handsome lomo for bringing the box!!!!! {an not driving the clio...:wasntme:}
Thanks everybody for a good meet ......matty /jesus.
[quote=Spooky;171193]Yea Tarmac Trasher Nicks Willy Clio was well and truly fcuked, don't know how many times it rolled but he walked away which was the most important thing :agree:
Yea hope nick is ok! My old man got all pictures in sequence of the crash and he is one lucky guy, there is one pic with it upside down about 5ft off the ground.
Other than that i had a great day, and the weather made it a bit more interesting and it even dryied out for the last hour to get a go in John's Atom:D
3rd time on track in my car clocked up 101miles and it was perfect yet again.
Loved all the standard 5's, especially the electric blue one. Brigsy's one makes me want to pull my finger out and do mine.
I was most impressed with ha55wel's clio trophy, loved it want to turbo my 172 cup now:D
Roll on next year:agree:
no photographs of the event? ;)
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Brilliant day/weekend for me too, really enjoyed it. Many thanks to those responsible for putting on such a good event :)
I clocked up 141 miles on track in the primered Mk1 172'd Clio. Would have been nice if it stayed dry for more than 10 minutes but never mind, made it a bit more interesting :D
Chris
I haven't been to National Day since 2007, but glad I came along to this one as I really enjoyed it. Hopefully next year I'll even be able to come along in a car of my own :)
I took a few videos of the event which I need to sort out, but with Dave R5's permission there was a special one that I've already uploaded. As there isn't a national day 2010 folder yet I've put it in miscellaneous under crash.mpg.
Thanks RTOC!!, just got back to sunny manchester.. Top weekend, shame about the weather but still made the most of the day and catch up with many faces... Chuffed to win 3rd best of show with my ph1...:).. Was fun to get out in Glens silver evo in the rain, amazed how well they handle in the wet.. :cool: Glad to see nicks ok too :agree: Thumbs all round to the team...
Really good weekend, loved it despite the relentless rain :( As Jim said, highlights for me were the Turbo'd Trophy - what a mental performance on track, the mk1 escort was cool, the cup cars as always, the Spider and a mental ride in the Atom :)
Glad Nick walked away from that clio also.
Thanks to the organisers, really enjoyed it.
great day,but damp here than there tho:laugh:
track bug has bitten, need more days the same!
was there an official photographer or anything taking pics of all the cars on track all day??
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Good day, but to be honest I was only there for the track time! I noticed alot of people were videoing in the cars, and a fair few people braving the rain to take track photos, has anybody found any?
Cheers, and it was me in this;
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...461024x768.jpg
Despite the crappy weather, me tom and the mrs enjoyed the full 3 days. Was good to meet a couple of new folks on the friday night, log etc, saturday was very wet, but between heavy downpours i was out watching the track action , pretty gutted on nicks behalf regarding the flip , but kinda comical as i look over the barrier expecting the worse to see him with a bloody cowbody hat on. , the bike racing on the sunday was also pretty good, however just before we left a geeza stalled on the line and got hit by another bike, possibly broke his leg i think.
I almost had a tool free weekend, i started the r5 just before coming home, let it warm up, then decided to just pop the bonnet for the quick inspection. Im greated to oil everywhere, and notice my rocker cover seems to be missing the cap :( extra gutted because its the ninja style super expensive chrome ones, anyway , out with some the duck tape and half a can of coke, and hey presto i had a oil cap that got me home safe and sound. Still a bummer though as its just took me ages to get rid of the oil , and the chome rocker looks **** with a black standard cap.
Anyway , thanks for a good weekend folks, and those who no doubt put a lot of effort in to making it happen.
You were in a couple of mine early on when I had the camera backwards, there was about 15 mins of footage with Whiteley behind me, the first half being traffic jams. The second half will be on youtube at some point!Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
go the the mallory park website as one of the mrshalls was doing the photography for mallory he said the pics will be up today or mondayQuote:
Originally Posted by Coops
As a 1st timer to National Day i gotta say i had a great day out :agree:
Yes the weather was pants but it was good to see so many enthusiasts and those braving it on the track!
Big thanks to Mike aswell for having the parts i was after and hopefully i'll be able to hit the track next year
heres a few spin videos, the white one was mine i lost complete control but all i wanted to do was keep off the grass or i was going to hit the wall for sure, and 5 mins later dave put his into the wall in the same spot and apparantly 2 span off just before me so maybe there was oil on the track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXWfzoYc58g
https://www.rtoc.org/files/Miscellaneous/crash.MPG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN5yuk6XaVM
Awesome weekend :agree: Big thanks to all the organisers :)
Shame about the rain on sat but still had a good crack! Shocked that i got a couple of awards for the tungy as there were loads of really nice gtt's on show!
Had a bit of a fail on the way home, the fuel pump packed in on the tungy on the a1 outside weatherby so had to get towed home by the aa:laugh: Ragged the nads off the van on track running way too much boost & it never missed a beat sods law eh :D
Was there any official photographers/pics of the cars on track?
Yeah top weekend by me aswell, despite the weather...The old "coupe" didnt go too badly, still afew niggles to sort out but hey
Glad Nick wasnt hurt in his little manouvre :)
James you're one hell of a driver! :eek: You were flying!! :niceone:Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
Top organisation from RTOC for another ND :agree: campsite was intresting with all the rain showers nice to see the usual faces there and new ones :) shame about the weather but what do you expect for good old England :crap: track was very slippy in places had my own far share of slides and nearly spins in the clio :rolleyes: all in all even tho Caroline and Me left early it was a good Nationals day :smokin: all the best to Nick and a speedy recovery :dearme:
I think I may have caught this on one of my videos. Didn't see it at the time, but when I was going through them I saw the VX going off in the background.Quote:
Originally Posted by car.crash
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Hehe thankyou! I absolutely loved it in the rain, only got on the grass once but had plenty of sideways action on that corner! Hopefully see that on some videos :P Not bad going considering I drive the car to work every day :OQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve - Raider
It all started early morning to the pitter patter of rain on my tent. I convinced myself that if I rolled over and had five more minutes the sun would appear and all would be well :)
The reallity was, that the rain that had been forcast at Mallory all week, for once was correct. Now I'll be completely honest with you, my clio is a second car and when it's raining I don't even bother getting it out, so the thought of taking it onto a wet track and pushing it to it's limits really didn't appeal to me :sad2: especially as this was my first ever car track day. So I kind of moped around for a bit watching everyone else wizzing around before I manned up and headed out on track.
Out on track I was initially very cautious, and was devastated to discover that I was miss firing badly when exiting Gerrards. I quickly diagnosed it as fuel starvation thanks to the length of the corner and being low on superunleaded. Other highlights from this session were JamesB sailing round the outside of me at Gerards clearly showing me I wasn't making the most of the grip available. So into the pits for a refuel (@£1.35 a litre :cry:) and a quick breather.
Back out on track and I started upping the pace a little and picking off cars. Everything was going well as I started picking out braking points and getting a feel for the grip levels.
Drama started when I returned to the pits and after chatting to the lads for a couple of minutes turned to walk away from the car just as steam started pouring out of the bonnet :eek:. Turns out my plastic hose joiner for the turbo coolant had snapped and dropped my coolant everywhere. I'll admit I was a little disheartend at this point but everyone rallied round and told me to stop being a tart and get to halfords for a new one. Cue me and AndyRG jumping into his laguna and heading off on a mini adventure through leicester.
Fortunatley whilst sitting at a set of traffic lights I noticed Graham Goode Racing so we popped in there and explained the situation. The lads were great and sorted us out with a suitable hose joiner in record time, and after swinging by Halfords for coolant (as I'm a fanny and didn't want to mix what was left in the engine with a different brand) we were heading back to Mallory.
Upon return the Cole family (Matt,Mark,Johnty) gathered round and helped me get the offending hosejoiner removed, and the new one fitted. After a quick coolant top up and bleed we were back in the game.
I took Matt C and Chris out for a couple of pasenger rides and really started to string it all together, but it was all over to soon.
I'd just like to thank everyone who took time out to pop over for a chat about my car as I was genuinely blown away at how many people were actually intrested in it.
I'm also pleased to report that I won "best car of the show post 1991" which was quite a surprise :eek:
All in it was an absoloutly fantastic weekend (despite the rain) and I'd like to thank everyone who crossed my path for making it so enjoyable.
Cheers everyone and I'll see you next year,
Steve
Cheers for taking me out Steve, :eek:, I know now what I must do, class!!
Well, another top national day for me, infact i persuaded myself not to enjoy the weekend due to the rain and early sat morning i really couldnt be arsed. I couldn't take my car out on track as another fekin wheel bearing decided to start whining coming down the A1. I nearly had a plan to sort it, but the cack weather and lack of time forced me to leave it at the campsite!:( So after fixing various cars (leaks, acc pump arms, breathers, collant issues and hose joiners to name a few) i got the offer for a passenger ride in jaffa's T200. The track was like a swimming pool, but that crazy ******* carried on flat shifting all the way round, twitching on every corner!:eek: I then went out in Chris Blihty's clio cup for about 25 laps which was fekin awesome, and the grip of those things is just mental in the wet. Spent other laps in jonty's dodgy heap, infact we spent pretty much all of the laps facing the wrong way or heading for the barriers!!!:D His 5 ended up shatting its arse out through the breathers and that was that.
I thought i could'nt get round the track any quicker than in chris's clio cup untill Steve Hasswells trophy had a spare seat. Cant really say much really, bloody awesome car built by someone who looks like the love child of two tramps. IMO that car is pretty much what Reno have tried to produce with the entire sport range! Simply perfectly balanced in grip, power and handling and it embarressed pretty much all the jap and german stuff on track.
One final highlight was Andy G's clio with the megane/172 engine. Very aggressive, great fun, and sounded awesome on full boost.
So for me, the best national day to date, and the rain on track made it more fun!!:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-WSMpGjlkQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesB
Think you are behind in parts of the above...there was more before that but it was like a traffic jam
I need more power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cry:
Steves Trophy turbo was awesome, really well thought out car :agree:
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super top day thanks to all who organised it. Rain made it all the more fun span off only twice so alls good lol
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Originally Posted by JamesB
I agree with big Steve you were flying round mate and in those conditions i was well impressed, what under the bonnet on that beast, as that didnt seem like any other zetec s.
Mat
Indeed, it was a great day/weekend - Hats off to Miller & the Committee for another successful RTOC National Day, and thanks to Mallory Park for allowing us back there again this year.
Always nice to meet-up/see the old regular faces, and equally good to see the new breed of RTOC'ers supporting the club's main event.
Lost count of how many laps I drove in the Evo, but all was generally good on track given the conditions, although there were a few characters who made it awkward to over-take where they weren't using their mirrors, or simply pulling over to the right.
Congratulations to all the category winners - There were some great cars on show, and must've been hard work for the judges. The ante has been upped for next year for sure! :)
Some interesting comments at the AGM (thanks Eug'! :coffee: :D), and in particular I personally hope something does evolve from the 'triple-club' trackday idea. As mentioned at the AGM, it used to work very well for the MLR/SIDC/GTROC (before the MLR started going it alone), and I see no reason why it wouldn't work for us if we teamed up with another couple of Owners Clubs.
Was glad to see Nick walking & talking after his off - Lucky lad for sure, even more so given the lack of roll-cage! I appreciate it was a self-induced accident, but it does emphasise in general how easily accidents can happen on track, hence my comment before about the awkward over-taking/lack of mirror usage.
Typical of the weather to be nice the day after the event, but even with Friday/Saturday's weather it didn't matter really, as it was still a badical ND weekend :)
Roll on 2011...
Thanks for another great day. Still unloading and drying parts out :D. I took so much with me this year and didn't even take them out of the van. Good to catch up with alot of old RTOC members and nice to see the new ones. Many thanks for a great event.
Cheers
Mike
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Thank-you :) its still a 1.6, different Cams and omex management being the only power mods, made 134 bhp on track n roads rollers! Michelin pe2s helped massively in the rain! Plenty of sideways action though haha :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Smokey
James you made me smile mate, (admittedly it was my first time out on track) but I remember going round gerarrds thinking "ooh I'm getting near the limits here" only to look out my side window to see you sailing past on the outside of me :laugh: proper made me laugh.
Absolutely awesome day got to thank everyone involved for organising this tremendous event. Ive been looking forward to this event since last year when my car wasnt ready. Dispite the weather I had the best track day ive ever had, maybe not the fastest (by miles) but drove my little 5 to its limits. Had one 360 spin :o that was worrying for about 2 secs then when I wasnt going to hit the barrier it was great fun lol:laugh:
Got to say a big thankyou to iam m, Ryan P and J8TRO for sorting my car out while I went to the briefing.
And thanks again to Iam m for sorting my Bad earthing problem out.
And thanks again to J8TRO for helping me fix my trottle cable.
I must admit I was well impessed with my engine, completed god knows how many laps and no problems at all, Temps were perfect the only problem I had was brakes, I really need to uprate my brakes for next year and maybe sort some lowered suspension out.
Cant wait till next year already.:):)
no problem mate :)Quote:
Originally Posted by morg
thanks for the spin around track was awesome....
and full credit to the engine builder :) :) :)
Yeah yeah, you seemed pretty practiced to me! I bet its at least your tenth!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by SP33DY
hes a bike bum boy that does track days with his mophead every other week
I like a man in leather :cooter:
thanks to rtoc and all its members and commitee
had a great day shame about the rain.
still had a laugh
:)
He probably rides a push bike withought the seat on!:hump:Quote:
Originally Posted by bartebk
:eek:
Ouch!!
I didn't laugh once when I was out on the track, cough cough:rolleyes: