Anyone at Castle Combe this Saturday?

[MrH]

For the Spring Action day that is?? We've got a pitch for the hire cars and will have all 4 there.

Weather looking dry now, thankfully!

Mark

[High flier]

I should be there around lunch time and sleithykeithy will be there from about 9ish. Not sure if anyone else is going.

Edited by High flier on Thursday 26th April 12:39

[graeme4130]

I'll be there at some point
CC's only 15mins from my house, so I get there fairly regularly
The action days are normally pretty good too

[MrH]

Greame, sorry had a peek at your profile to see where you are and see you're an event organiser?? Any sort of events?

[TDIfurby]

I'm there with about 60 cars, 95% Skoda. And a 97% Skoda only track session at 2pm. Just hope the weather they were promising yesterday fails to materialise.

[WR1 Shane]

This is always a good day out so I'll be going, let's hope for decent weather!

[Slagathore]

I was looking forward to it, then I saw the weather forecast

Might pop along if I have time and the weather isn't too bad.

[MrH]

Looking much better than it was, now dry and cloudy!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecas...

[graeme4130]

MrH said:

Greame, sorry had a peek at your profile to see where you are and see you're an event organiser?? Any sort of events?

Hi
My events company runs triathlons out of the Cotswold Water park
Not really car related, although my 'day job' is for a large Japanese company with a H in its logo
What sort of event were you thinking of ?

[Matt_N]

I'll be there with my mate and his bright pink Saxo race car!

[m444ttb]

I'll be there with a handful of other BMW's. Wasn't planning on taking the Westfield to this one thankfully given the st weather. I'm only staying until late morning then off to Bristol to pick up the remains of my old 328

[Benbay001]

Ill be there. Not really sure what to expect, but its the first weekend ive had off work for a while and will be the last for another few months. Couldnt pass up an opportunity to gorp at cars.

[Matt_N]

Well it's Ben chucking it down here all morning in Chipping Sodbury so it's gonna be a wet and greasy day at Combe!

[Benbay001]

Great day, great turn out.
Was surprised how few exotic cars were there considering the overall number of performance cars.

[m444ttb]

One of the worst action days I've been to in many ways: cold; wet; very muddy. But far more people than I expected and lots of cars. I see they are starting to get on top of the idiots with liberal black flag use. Didn't stop some people drifting in the middle of groups of cars though!

[bulldog5046]

m444ttb said:

One of the worst action days I've been to in many ways: cold; wet; very muddy. But far more people than I expected and lots of cars. I see they are starting to get on top of the idiots with liberal black flag use. Didn't stop some people drifting in the middle of groups of cars though!

i guess that would be aimed at the idiot in the white Silvia? yes, he was a right tt.

On the otherhand, it was so slippery i had no grip what so ever in my 328 and dispite minimal throttle i still couldnt keep the darn thing in a straight line. I ended up right at the back pootling around with an M-Coupe who obviously had the same issue!

EDIT: if you see and video/photos of the 10:15 & 11:30 sessions can you let me know? looking for a few of the car

Edited by bulldog5046 on Saturday 28th April 17:16

[m444ttb]

It was a white e46 I was thinking of!

[TDIfurby]

Thankfully the track was fairly dry for the Skoda only (ish) session which ended up being 2.30 after numerous delays. Fabia performed well with a GPS recorded top speed down before bottling it for quarry of 175km/h (I must change settings back to mph soon )

Was one of the wettest though. Thought it was only meant to be cloudy....

[bulldog5046]

m444ttb said:

It was a white e46 I was thinking of!

bit surprised at that, the ones i saw were pretty well behaved given their reputation and the conditions.

There was one bad green E36 driver but he got his commupance when he blew a water hose. apparently that was a 328 with a welded diff but it was going like a 316 when i saw it!

[bulldog5046]

TDIfurby said:

Thankfully the track was fairly dry for the Skoda only (ish) session which ended up being 2.30 after numerous delays. Fabia performed well with a GPS recorded top speed down before bottling it for quarry of 175km/h (I must change settings back to mph soon )

Was one of the wettest though. Thought it was only meant to be cloudy....

Dont take this the wrong way but i'm glad you had it mostly Skoda this year. Last year i ended up in your session and i cant help but think both myself and all the Skoda drivers would of prefered me to be elsewhere! The cars just didnt match performance wise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTeKb0FkXPY

P.S. Was nice being able to chat while your session was on