chip
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Originally posted by Wrighty
 @ chips attitude
sorry to anyone it offends, Im just bored of idiots on forums talking nonsense, lol
trackdays are there to develop your car off the road safely IMHO, so that is what I was doing
[Edited on 29-12-2008 by chip]
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Ojc
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Spotty kids?
I think most of the people that have posted in here have been on track you turd.
I didnt mean on a ps2 mate, I meant a few dozen track days in real life at least to get an idea for what does and doesnt happen.
Which I doubt more than 1% of the users of this site have done.
Which is fine, but then maybe they should just stick to posting about things they have done, lol
Are you always this ridiculous? Even if it was 1% of the core users of this website, they would all still be better drivers than you hey?  
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Robin
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Chip, with all due respect, you clearly know nothing about a lot of the members on this site, out of the people who posted in this thread, I would say that half of them have done their fair share of track days, maybe not as many as you, but they've still done a decent amount.
I've got nothing against you, you're a good laugh in person, but you can come across as a bit of a kid on the internet, fair enough being defensive when you've been mildly attacked, but you could do it with more maturity, instead of calling everyone a spotty kid who has a ps2. I know I'm neither....
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Robin
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I agree with your point about doing it off the public roads btw.
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Wrighty
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Originally posted by chip
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Originally posted by Wrighty
@ chips attitude
sorry to anyone it offends, Im just bored of idiots on forums talking nonsense, lol
trackdays are there to develop your car off the road safely IMHO, so that is what I was doing
[Edited on 29-12-2008 by chip]
didnt offend me, but you cant come on a forum saying its full of kids when you know nothing about it - and it looks like a 16 year old has styled your own car ffs  i dont really think youve got room to gloat
idiots on forums talking nonsense...spose thats mig 
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RCS
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Originally posted by chip
Lmao @ some of the people commenting on my driving based on DHDev putting up two totally loaded sets of pictures of it.
If he put up pictures of the 50-60 or so times I went round the hairpin, you would find that about 30, it was a great drift on the way out, a few times I spun out pushing it and finding its limits, and the rest I was just trying different lines without sliding.
For those who want to comment, at least have a look at an actual video of what I was driving it like.
Here's one:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8O-Eoaprw
Its the first time ive driven the car in anger since I totally redesigned the rear suspension with homemade rosejointed arms and mk4 struts etc, and the first outing on the new engine.
I was there to learn about its handling, and that involves overcooking it now and then, thats what trackdays are for IMHO, it certainly beats doing it up the highstreet at those speeds (was doing 70mph when I spun it in those pics)
Id imagine most people commenting havent ever even been on a track, what with this being a site mostly full of spotty kids, LOL
Need to improve your throttle control. The car looks a bit snatchy when you overcook it.
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jr
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"disclaimer" without owning a 300bhp+ rwd nova this is all theory
MY preference would be to use airfield days, mainly due to less risk of hitting things and ones i've been to being seen as generally more of a test than an out and out track day
regardless of people on forums, if the organizers (which im not sure as ive only ever been with people like MSV and javlin) were happy with track conduct then theres not alot people on here or anywhere can moan about
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jr
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can we try and keep this slight on topic and away from basic slagging off
*as theres only a few forums left that chip hasnt had to argue on as yet
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Nic Barnes
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tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
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Ste L
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willay
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we can however moan about chips attitude!
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willay
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Originally posted by Ste L
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
Yeah that is true, but what about the people who were there to take it seriously and improve on their track ability who were being held up like Rob has stated by someone arsing around?
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chip
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Barnes, exactly the point, love the people telling me Im overcooking it on the throttle etc, I know I am, Im actually capable of pedalling a car round a track very neatly when I want to, ive been doing trackdays for about 15 years now so have picked up the basics like, I was just having a laugh and pushing the car and seeing how it reacted past the limit so I know what to do with it next etc.
I wasnt there to set any laptimes etc.
The spotty kid comment was purely to see how many nerves id touch with a quick stereotype as an irony test for those posting who were commenting just from a few loaded pictures of my car without knowing the whole story.
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RCS
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
But there are people there with serious cars which cost them £££'s. Imagine being taken out by someone having fun in a Nova? Just need to show a bit of consideration really.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by RCS
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
But there are people there with serious cars which cost them £££'s. Imagine being taken out by someone having fun in a Nova? Just need to show a bit of consideration really.
Beat you to it
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chip
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Originally posted by Ojc
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
Yeah that is true, but what about the people who were there to take it seriously and improve on their track ability who were being held up like Rob has stated by someone arsing around?
I spent VERY little timing holding anyone up, I know, cause I was there, lol
There were others out there FAR worse than me for holding people up, loads of the evos wouldnt pull over and let Rob past in the mk2 astra that I map for example.
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jr
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Originally posted by RCS
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
But there are people there with serious cars which cost them £££'s. Imagine being taken out by someone having fun in a Nova? Just need to show a bit of consideration really.
works the other way , Ive generally seen much more expensive cars beeing driven far far worse on alot of uk tracks
for example the pug and s3 which knowone has mentioned yet did worse things
[Edited on 29-12-2008 by jr]
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by RCS
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
But there are people there with serious cars which cost them £££'s. Imagine being taken out by someone having fun in a Nova? Just need to show a bit of consideration really.
yeah i dont doubt that for a minute. but what are the pictures showing us? twice a car span but didnt crash? yet there are other pics of other cars that are smashed up, rolled etc from same track day. i havent seen anyone mention anything about their driving as such?
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jr
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nic is correct................
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willay
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nic are you trying to say there is some sort of secret nazi hate campaign targeting chip regarding his driving skills?
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Ojc
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I like the way this thread is heading
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chip
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quote:
Originally posted by RCS
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
But there are people there with serious cars which cost them £££'s. Imagine being taken out by someone having fun in a Nova? Just need to show a bit of consideration really.
My car has cost more than a lot of the cars there acutally, both in terms of money and definately in terms of time.
And I didnt take anyone out at all, what the hell are you on about, the only people near me when I spun it were my two mates in the evo and they knew I was going to be arsing about in front of them so kept a bit of distance, the only place I lost it at all other than that was at 5-10mph on the hairpin, and if someone gets taken out by that, then lets face it they wouldnt have managed a lap of a track without crashing anyway, LOL
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Rob B
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Originally posted by chip
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Originally posted by Ojc
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
tbh, i think it looks like chip had the most fun. id rather have fun in a car like that nova than take it all too seriously.
Yeah that is true, but what about the people who were there to take it seriously and improve on their track ability who were being held up like Rob has stated by someone arsing around?
I spent VERY little timing holding anyone up, I know, cause I was there, lol
There were others out there FAR worse than me for holding people up, loads of the evos wouldnt pull over and let Rob past in the mk2 astra that I map for example.
He wouldn't pull over and let the clio past either... *
*Gets real and line
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jr
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nic are you trying to say there is some sort of secret nazi hate campaign targeting chip regarding his driving skills?
i wouldn't say that, but when you see a series of pictures of the car spinning on various different sites you do wonder
chip has said what actully happend, then wound poeople up getting a reaction, hence page 3 and possibly 4
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