Mark The Cabby
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My wonderful wife, Mandy purchased a one to one experience day at Silverstone and all I can say is how educational and entertaining the whole day was.
The day started of with a 07:30 departure from home just south of Oxford so not a long journey but I wanted to stop to top up the tank and grab a light breakfast. We arrived at Silverstone an about 08:25 and made our way around the outer perimeter road and bumped into a guy who works there and asked directions. He gave them and then said "5 litre? I said yeah. He replied oh enjoy your sideways day!"
We then drove to the correct building and found my instructor for the day, Chas was his name and I can't recommend the guy enough. You will see why in the rest of this post. We had a safety brief and then I signed my life away. Chas said he would take my car out for two gentle laps to show me around and to get a feel of the cars abilities.
We entered the circuit and after a few corners to my instructors delight the cones had been set up for the complete F1 circuit instead of the international one, Bonus 1.
We then came off for me to get into the drivers seat, Of course I was nervous but Chas was a diamond bloke who talked me though everything and gave me confidence all day long. After about 20-30 minutes track time we would come off for about the same amount of time to give the car a chance to cool down and to talk though my performance (good or bad). As the morning progressed I was making fewer and fewer mistakes and by 12:00 we had to stop for lunch and to pop to the local BP and fill the car back up.
I've had the car for about 6 week now and covered just over 2000 miles averaging about 20.8 mpg but on the track we were averaging just over 8.0! It was completely bonkers to get the 50 mile range left warning going off with half a tank of fuel left. On the whole tank I covered 101 miles...
So back to the track after lunch and there was not another car on the track, I had the place to myself!
I was getting faster and faster as I made less mistakes and reached 135mph at the end of the long straight!
I even gave line lock a go and Chad cracked up with laughter as the smoke was building up around the car.
The day has really opened my eyes to a chap who hasn't driven a rear wheel drive car with so much power and for a 2 ton car I was completely surprised how well it handles... I'll post some you tube links later when I've uploaded the clips...
The day started of with a 07:30 departure from home just south of Oxford so not a long journey but I wanted to stop to top up the tank and grab a light breakfast. We arrived at Silverstone an about 08:25 and made our way around the outer perimeter road and bumped into a guy who works there and asked directions. He gave them and then said "5 litre? I said yeah. He replied oh enjoy your sideways day!"
We then drove to the correct building and found my instructor for the day, Chas was his name and I can't recommend the guy enough. You will see why in the rest of this post. We had a safety brief and then I signed my life away. Chas said he would take my car out for two gentle laps to show me around and to get a feel of the cars abilities.
We entered the circuit and after a few corners to my instructors delight the cones had been set up for the complete F1 circuit instead of the international one, Bonus 1.
We then came off for me to get into the drivers seat, Of course I was nervous but Chas was a diamond bloke who talked me though everything and gave me confidence all day long. After about 20-30 minutes track time we would come off for about the same amount of time to give the car a chance to cool down and to talk though my performance (good or bad). As the morning progressed I was making fewer and fewer mistakes and by 12:00 we had to stop for lunch and to pop to the local BP and fill the car back up.
I've had the car for about 6 week now and covered just over 2000 miles averaging about 20.8 mpg but on the track we were averaging just over 8.0! It was completely bonkers to get the 50 mile range left warning going off with half a tank of fuel left. On the whole tank I covered 101 miles...
So back to the track after lunch and there was not another car on the track, I had the place to myself!
I was getting faster and faster as I made less mistakes and reached 135mph at the end of the long straight!
I even gave line lock a go and Chad cracked up with laughter as the smoke was building up around the car.
The day has really opened my eyes to a chap who hasn't driven a rear wheel drive car with so much power and for a 2 ton car I was completely surprised how well it handles... I'll post some you tube links later when I've uploaded the clips...
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