Bedford Aerodrome Turismo circuit, is 4.1miles long, and with a 1km straight means you get the top end of the car, and with two hairpins, and numerous other technical corners, it means you get to play on what i would say is a firly challenging, but forgiving track.
Forgiving because it is wide, and the runoff is wide, and mainly grass, which means that you are unlikely to take all the lovely paint of your car with kitty litter or Armco
I finally got to take the car on track and play with what it can do, and I have to say in the dry what a car, superb. I was a little nervous about what i could do with the car, and although i had done 600 mile in it, i was not really that confident with the car yet.
At first I started a little cautiously as the track was a little damp. but once I got into stride, the track dried out and following a minor adjusted to the tire pressure (down to 23 and 25 (front and rear respectively)) the car behave with impecable character and my confidence and understanding of the car really did start to grow.
However after lunch, the rain came (and when i say it rained, I had the wipers on full for about an hour). In the wet the car was a completely different animal, stopping was a trick in itself (one it took me a few goes to master, and cornering, well lets just say there were a few twitchy moments, some from the back of the car, and some from the back of me.
however I class the couple of sideways cornering incidents and the one excursion onto the grass when I failed to make the chicane at the end of the 1km straight as a very successful day.
That coupled with progress as the day went on, to start with i was passed by quite a few cars, but by the end of the day i was passing most of the cars on the track (with a few exception). and before you ask, some of them were the ones passing me in the morning.
I have put a few pics below which a friend took whilst i was playing, and i will upload a couple of vid's which i took on the new "drift HD" cam i brought at the autosport show.
Forgiving because it is wide, and the runoff is wide, and mainly grass, which means that you are unlikely to take all the lovely paint of your car with kitty litter or Armco
I finally got to take the car on track and play with what it can do, and I have to say in the dry what a car, superb. I was a little nervous about what i could do with the car, and although i had done 600 mile in it, i was not really that confident with the car yet.
At first I started a little cautiously as the track was a little damp. but once I got into stride, the track dried out and following a minor adjusted to the tire pressure (down to 23 and 25 (front and rear respectively)) the car behave with impecable character and my confidence and understanding of the car really did start to grow.
However after lunch, the rain came (and when i say it rained, I had the wipers on full for about an hour). In the wet the car was a completely different animal, stopping was a trick in itself (one it took me a few goes to master, and cornering, well lets just say there were a few twitchy moments, some from the back of the car, and some from the back of me.
however I class the couple of sideways cornering incidents and the one excursion onto the grass when I failed to make the chicane at the end of the 1km straight as a very successful day.
That coupled with progress as the day went on, to start with i was passed by quite a few cars, but by the end of the day i was passing most of the cars on the track (with a few exception). and before you ask, some of them were the ones passing me in the morning.
I have put a few pics below which a friend took whilst i was playing, and i will upload a couple of vid's which i took on the new "drift HD" cam i brought at the autosport show.
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