Graham88
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Good day out, weather held off and track dried off by the afternoon so plenty of fun was had by all. Couple of offs, some not so serious but one guy rolled it at Paddock Hill Bend in the gravel. Don't know if he's ok or not to be honest as it happened right at the end of the day so the day was ended when it happened.
My Fiesta performed so well, I'm really impressed. The Brembos and the Ferodos performed all day, no fade, the tyres gave in before the brakes showed any sign of losing effectiveness. Just lacked power down the straights because around the twistier sections I was keeping up easily with the high powered cars.
Looking forwards to more tracktime next year now.
[Edited on 25-11-2009 by Graham88]
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broster
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some good pictures there, you car was going well, seems to carry alot of speed thru the corners!
shame the ended it before you had a go in the focus
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willay
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good pics looks fun!
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Jenko_Sport
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Looks like a good day, cant wait to get my zs on track 
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P1CK4D
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Those pictures are impressive. Nice one. Your so bang on these track days now 
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Jenko_Sport
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Only thing id say about the pics is there abit dark.
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jr
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car looked good graham, what rolled into paddock ?
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FAZ
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fords are so 
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Joe-Tait
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Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2 
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SVM 286
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Dammit! Shouldn't have looked at the pictures.
Was feeling quite sick with envy before I was a third of the way down the page.
The more I scrolled, the worse it got.
If that's a real RS1800 I think i'm going to have a brain haemorrage.
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SVM 286
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Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2
THAT'S RICKY HUTCHINSON???!!! 
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SVM 286
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Why did I buy an RS Turbo? 
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CorsAsh
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Any more of this one Graham?
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by broster
some good pictures there, you car was going well, seems to carry alot of speed thru the corners!
shame the ended it before you had a go in the focus
Cheers Mark, I was so impressed with it. Held its own around Clearways against every car there, just lacked power everywhere else
Never mind! The bloke driving was even running around trying to find fuel so I could go out
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Originally posted by P1CK4D
Those pictures are impressive. Nice one. Your so bang on these track days now
Mate it's awesome fun, so much better than hacking around on the roads and risking my licence
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Only thing id say about the pics is there abit dark.
Yeah that's with brightening them up a bit in PS too. It was a dull day and I just gave my mates the camera on a rough setting for them to use.
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car looked good graham, what rolled into paddock ?
Cheers. It wasa MK5 ZS, think it was one of the Fiesta Championship ones as it was all decalled up. I didn't like the aggressiveness of the drivers driving though so it didn't surprise me that he wrapped it.
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Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2
Fighting off? More like trying to get the hell out of his way straight after the corner Thing was a BEAST
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Any more of this one Graham?
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/GrahamVFR/Brands%20Hatch/Performance%20Ford%2024-11-09/63.jpg
I don't mate, only one of the front end in paddock. It was a V6 I think
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CorsAsh
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Yeah my mate's V6 Cosworth.
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Graham88
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Ah yeah thought so If I had been taking pics I would have had alot more but hoping some other people from the day will post up as there was a lot of cameras around
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jr
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Originally posted by SVM 286
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Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2
THAT'S RICKY HUTCHINSON???!!!
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SVM 286
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In a Sapphire. Bizarre. Did he pop that in there Ash or did he buy it like that?
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SVM 286
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Originally posted by SVM 286
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Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2
THAT'S RICKY HUTCHINSON???!!!
King of the Palace (Crystal)
He's the chap who had the LUNATIC 'P' reg British Racing Green 1.6 sport on Cosworth rims with a 2.1 all steel dry sumped Pinto with 50s and no air cleaners that I told you about a while back.
He's the one that turned up to the Chelsea cruise one night with a racing fuel cell sunk in the boot floor and the arse end all tubbed out in alloy, Kevlar bonnet boot and doors and perspex windows with polysterene cups jammed in the doors to keep the perspex drop-glass up.
It used to go across Battersea bridge in such an interesting style.
Saw his car (after hearing it coming for a couple of minutes) enter the roundabout by the gates of Chelsea park and do two or three laps of it completely sideways, the whole way round, in the dry.
Bit of a South London hero from the early 1990s. He had an X-Pack car built for the Vecta Fast Ford challenge too.
I'm wondering now if that white car is a new build/aquisition or perhaps put together from any one of his cars from years ago.
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CorsAsh
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In a Sapphire. Bizarre. Did he pop that in there Ash or did he buy it like that?
Story goes he used to have a 400bhp Cossie 4x4. Scrapped that and then set about putting the Cosworth V6 from a Scorpio into a Saph shell.
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SVM 286
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1) That looks lovely.
2) He 'scrapped' a Cosworth? 
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ianofbhills
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How many pics lol!
some nice ones looks like you had fun.
also whats with the random proton satria?
and any more pics of the lotus cortina?
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CorsAsh
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Originally posted by SVM 286
1) That looks lovely.
2) He 'scrapped' a Cosworth?
Goes well too.
Well, not sure if he scrapped it or what, was an unlucky car though, so he got rid. Had 666 in the number plate and kept going wrong, think a piston ring went and it pressurized the crankcase and eventually popped or something in the end
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
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Originally posted by jr
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Originally posted by SVM 286
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Originally posted by Joe-Tait
Niceone
Like the first picture of you fighting off Ricky Hutch in his big power mk2
THAT'S RICKY HUTCHINSON???!!!
King of the Palace (Crystal)
He's the chap who had the LUNATIC 'P' reg British Racing Green 1.6 sport on Cosworth rims with a 2.1 all steel dry sumped Pinto with 50s and no air cleaners that I told you about a while back.
He's the one that turned up to the Chelsea cruise one night with a racing fuel cell sunk in the boot floor and the arse end all tubbed out in alloy, Kevlar bonnet boot and doors and perspex windows with polysterene cups jammed in the doors to keep the perspex drop-glass up.
It used to go across Battersea bridge in such an interesting style.
Saw his car (after hearing it coming for a couple of minutes) enter the roundabout by the gates of Chelsea park and do two or three laps of it completely sideways, the whole way round, in the dry.
Bit of a South London hero from the early 1990s. He had an X-Pack car built for the Vecta Fast Ford challenge too.
I'm wondering now if that white car is a new build/aquisition or perhaps put together from any one of his cars from years ago.
are you sure its the same guy
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SVM 286
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quote:
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Originally posted by SVM 286
1) That looks lovely.
2) He 'scrapped' a Cosworth?
Goes well too.
Well, not sure if he scrapped it or what, was an unlucky car though, so he got rid. Had 666 in the number plate and kept going wrong, think a piston ring went and it pressurized the crankcase and eventually popped or something in the end
That's fair enough. As long as he didn't scrap a Cosworth.
Would have had to receive a 'visit'.
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