All "Opel" trackday in France

[B'stard Child]

Destination - Croix en Ternois Circuit (Sunday 28th Feb)
Date -Sat 27 february 20103 - Waiting for a ferry

People - A few "East Anglian" Marham regulars





And the support car - nice reliable A3 Diesel (if a little dirty)



Anyway to continue the coverage

Morning early session – track was damp but looked like a dry line would soon appear

If you want to get an idea of the track layout this video hosed by Gillou showed a lap in his Commodore A – unfortunately he stuck it in the kitty litter on the start of his second lap – ooops Something he repeated on numerous occasions but he wasn’t alone in this – it was bloody slippery

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

Back to the pics

Parked up outside the Hotel



Some of the attending cars













































On track pics to follow and maybe a bit of in car video

Edited by B'stard Child on Friday 12th March 10:33

[B'stard Child]

Anyway more pics

Some from Paul (Dirty A3 Diesel)













































































And some more pics from me (if my car is in shot it's because being an all Opel day Paul and his son Thomas were car sharing on the track with me in my Monza

[B'stard Child]

I have to thank Thierry (one of the French Guys) for these video (3 mins each)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPahX8tAWXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnhYnJfIHk

Nice watersplash feature ;D

I've never been on a full wet track day - worst I've had is at Marham

1 - had a bit of rain part way thro a track day but it dried up again

2 - Had a rain in the afternoon after a dry morning

3 - Started damp but soon dried out

This one was actualy very very enjoyable - I quickly found the limits of the car and for the first time ever I drove to the event on the same tyres I left with and never changed a tyre all day

Plus I liked how the car drove in the wet - normally I can't find the limits in the dry it just hangs in - this time it stepped out a lot and was fun in a whole new way

Anyway this was just for interest

[robg2]

That looks good fun - I think I'd like to go next year if the Nova's still running.

Is this the event co-ordinated by ABS Ian?

[B'stard Child]

robg2 said:

That looks good fun - I think I'd like to go next year if the Nova's still running.

Is this the event co-ordinated by ABS Ian?

It was co-ordinated by me on the ABS - you wanna come next year I'll sort summut out

[Grandad Gaz]

B'stard Child said:

Anyway this was just for interest

Always interested in reading things like that

I'm surprised you didn't need a bigger support vehicle, though!

[B'stard Child]

Grandad Gaz said:

B'stard Child said:

Anyway this was just for interest

Always interested in reading things like that

I'm surprised you didn't need a bigger support vehicle, though!

2 25 yr old Monzas made it there and back under their own steam without incidents - with a stripped out interior and just two seats you can carry a lot of stuff - just needed some seats for the journey home as support if one got damaged or went bang (european rescue can bring the car back)