1:30pm after lunch i brimmed the tank & cans but then an allmighty hail shower dropped and the track was soaked again, ahh puka. waited again till its just damp before going out
1:46pm now the scary moment where i let my dad drive around
thank god its dry enough. most of the torque comes from 5-7k rpm and he's changing way to early before 5k hence felt sluggish. he was prob afraid of wrecking the engine or unsure of the cars behaviour at the limit. once pitted the shower hits again
2:44pm the track dries abit after the shower, i drive out but had to wait first in pit queue cos of red flag, someones gone off. green light, i was first to go out. everyone was very cautious n slow and i passed afew, twas abit greasy.
but at 10mins into the vid i had a hairy moment at the fast turn 1 where i must've trail braked and the back end slipped out unexpectedly on the very wet corner.
i thought hang on i didn't want it to go there, its oversteering, don't crash. took a millisec to recall my prev vauxhall VXR trackday skid training at rockingham that i should countersteer and just floor it to pull the front straight, thankfully i caught it in time and twas a relief. new underwear please
laptimes were:
2.27
2.27
2.24
2.33
2.31
3:18pm i take my cousin out for a ride. track was still abit greasy. at 2:00 i brake into 3rd then turn for the scary double right hander.
i should enter wide into the first false turn but i always feared the car would just understeer strsight onto the grass and then game over so i tended to turn in prematurely from the middle.
my mistake was i went slightly too fast for the damp corner, turned in, she started to understeer wide and my wrong instinct was to back off and steer more to try scrub speed but that unlocked the lsd which made it understeer more till the back wheel touched the wet grass and she went into oversteer
oh crap, countersteer and full puwer! i tried full left steer without cross arming but it didn't react enough for the steep angle i was sliding at so had to cross arm steer to apply more steering which recovered the first skid.
before it straightened up i felt the rate of spin from countersteering would prob pendulum the car to the other side if i didn't straighten the steering fast enough so i turned the wheel right just as it was pointing straight but was abit too much and didn't release the throttle fast enough which caused a secondary spin towards the righthand barrier but with abit of off-roading i recovered it
laptimes were:
2.39
2.19
2.20
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