Marham track layout......
Discussion
Haven't got time to do the picture thing this evening - it's very nearly correct - except for at the left hand end of the picture, the track does not extend all the way to the end of the runway, but it peels off to the left a few hundred metres short of that to follow the track (the one with the big white rectangle on it) that joins the runway a few hundred metres up its length. Otherwise, spot on and a nice mix of surfaces. long corners, slow corners and fast, long straights...
MG Mark
MG Mark
Edited by MG Mark on Tuesday 16th February 22:37
Edited by MG Mark on Tuesday 16th February 22:38
[quote=browny,s blower]hi kev the main straight is about a mile and there are no bloody tyrewalls to hit just some cones and runway lights
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Runway lights!!!! thats the front splitter gone then for starters, might get it flat chat then (170+mph)as the senna straight ( snett) is 3/4 mile and the challenge cars manage 165mph there. Matt will have kittens !!! at that speed LOL
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Runway lights!!!! thats the front splitter gone then for starters, might get it flat chat then (170+mph)as the senna straight ( snett) is 3/4 mile and the challenge cars manage 165mph there. Matt will have kittens !!! at that speed LOL
B'stard Child said:
kg55 said:
i must get there sometime (i only live 20mins away) how long is the main straight?
How fast's your car 
seriously it's abouut a 3.something mile circuit so maybe a milelong enough to give the car a break or to go for v max
This little beast it needs a good test session without other race cars so we can set the car up properly ( chris will be happy if you look at the rear wing)
kg55 said:
B'stard Child said:
kg55 said:
i must get there sometime (i only live 20mins away) how long is the main straight?
How fast's your car seriously it's abouut a 3.something mile circuit so maybe a milelong enough to give the car a break or to go for v max
This little beast it needs a good test session without other race cars so we can set the car up properly ( chris will be happy if you look at the rear wing)
MG Mark said:
[quote=browny,s blower]hi kev the main straight is about a mile and there are no bloody tyrewalls to hit just some cones and runway lights
Aye, and you get onto the runway at a fair lick if you get the entry corner right...MG Mark
If I remember correctly, some of the jap stuff and that F499(?) were clocking 180mph...shame they were dog slow around the corners
stevo666 said:
MG Mark said:
Aye, and you get onto the runway at a fair lick if you get the entry corner right...
MG Mark
Approx 90 - 100mph entry speed in the old girl. MG Mark
If I remember correctly, some of the jap stuff and that F499(?) were clocking 180mph...shame they were dog slow around the corners
And for those that can manage it, 175mph+ (in a straight line) is quite de rigeur down the runway (and I have had the pleasure as well of riding shotgun in an Enzo which broke the 200 mark down it). The great interest comes when they find some of the old girls snapping at their heels in the corners!
MG Mark
I was in 3rd gear onto the main straight out of the left, could not tell you the exit speed as I didnt look but did get 170 b4 I bottled it, may have got a little more maybe 175?? But that was plenty fast enough not much went over 150mhp anyway. Not sure if I'll make it as it really killed my tyres on the last one in October 
Got to add to this.... As Stevo666 says, the old girl goes pretty well round the track.... it even gives its own version of a "sonic boom" at the end of the straight (thought i'd been shot when it first happened!) and coming off the straight at 110+ certainly makes you grip the seat in places you didn't think you could grip!
Absolutely gutted i can't make the April one due to Cars on the Green but have fun those that go!!!
Absolutely gutted i can't make the April one due to Cars on the Green but have fun those that go!!!
Edited by Shortie123 on Friday 19th February 08:11
Quote..about 70-75 through that corner in a vaguely controlled 4-wheel drift, which is entertaining enough from the inside....
Thats about all I can manage too...although in all the years I've been coming I can honestly say I've never managed to get the correct line through that corner...I've followed many other cars hoping to pick up tips and the most memorable one was when I let a EVO IIRC (complete with well equipped driver and passenger kitted out very professionally looking gear, complete with intercom) pass me after the pits...as we hit the first apex I thought there is 'no way' I can follow on that line and started turning in then watched as the EVO shot off the track onto the grass....thinking 'note to self', don't try that line, it doesn't work! ...
Thats about all I can manage too...although in all the years I've been coming I can honestly say I've never managed to get the correct line through that corner...I've followed many other cars hoping to pick up tips and the most memorable one was when I let a EVO IIRC (complete with well equipped driver and passenger kitted out very professionally looking gear, complete with intercom) pass me after the pits...as we hit the first apex I thought there is 'no way' I can follow on that line and started turning in then watched as the EVO shot off the track onto the grass....thinking 'note to self', don't try that line, it doesn't work! ...
stevo666 said:
If I remember correctly, some of the jap stuff and that F499(?) were clocking 180mph...shame they were dog slow around the corners
It was a Ferrari 599 and he was dog slow but his mate was bloody quick. Strangely the owner won't ride in the car with him.Oh and I'll second Lee's comment about the "sonic boom". I thought the diff had blown. Scared the crap out of me
MG Mark said:
[quote=browny,s blower]hi kev the main straight is about a mile and there are no bloody tyrewalls to hit just some cones and runway lights
Aye, and you get onto the runway at a fair lick if you get the entry corner right...MG Mark
Oh blimey I do so love Stevo's car
from the first time I clapped eyes on it jealousy reigned
I love the entry to the straight from that corner
flat out wide(80 rising in the Midge) and cross the hatched line into the apex of the corner coming out about 70/75 like Mark's "old lady" and straightening out left to be overtaken
Well she is only a 1275 in road trim
At the other end though I love how she takes the complex into the hairpin, down from 113 last October. The Midge is better at the corner than I am however, so I do like following Mark's A and Gary's Frogeye into there. When they brake so can I, usually just before the return into the hairpin
don't Mintex stink huh?
from the first time I clapped eyes on it jealousy reigned
I love the entry to the straight from that corner
flat out wide(80 rising in the Midge) and cross the hatched line into the apex of the corner coming out about 70/75 like Mark's "old lady" and straightening out left to be overtaken
Well she is only a 1275 in road trim
At the other end though I love how she takes the complex into the hairpin, down from 113 last October. The Midge is better at the corner than I am however, so I do like following Mark's A and Gary's Frogeye into there. When they brake so can I, usually just before the return into the hairpin
don't Mintex stink huh?
Mark in Ireland said:
Quote..about 70-75 through that corner in a vaguely controlled 4-wheel drift, which is entertaining enough from the inside....
Thats about all I can manage too...although in all the years I've been coming I can honestly say I've never managed to get the correct line through that corner...I've followed many other cars hoping to pick up tips and the most memorable one was when I let a EVO IIRC (complete with well equipped driver and passenger kitted out very professionally looking gear, complete with intercom) pass me after the pits...as we hit the first apex I thought there is 'no way' I can follow on that line and started turning in then watched as the EVO shot off the track onto the grass....thinking 'note to self', don't try that line, it doesn't work! ...
That reminds me of this glorious moment of Marham'ing...Thats about all I can manage too...although in all the years I've been coming I can honestly say I've never managed to get the correct line through that corner...I've followed many other cars hoping to pick up tips and the most memorable one was when I let a EVO IIRC (complete with well equipped driver and passenger kitted out very professionally looking gear, complete with intercom) pass me after the pits...as we hit the first apex I thought there is 'no way' I can follow on that line and started turning in then watched as the EVO shot off the track onto the grass....thinking 'note to self', don't try that line, it doesn't work! ...
Experienced from the passenger seat - honest!
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