Brands Hatch 14th December

[m3pilot]

Is anyone from here going on the novice trackday on the 14th of December at brands hatch?

[wmumford]

Hi, I am Wayne
I have booked in for this but am currently trying to get a 1 day car insurance cover, have you any ideas?
Have you driven this circuit / a track day before?

[m3pilot]

Driven brand hatch 3 times so far and never bothered with insurance as i usually use my 205 which isn't worth much.

Think i'm taking my M3 Evo but only got it back from having a new engine today so am a bit worried about blowing it up again!

[wmumford]

I've got a quote but they don't seem to cover third parties, hence if you hit something else, your not covered, bit concerning. Is it normally quite well behaved, i.e. 'not allowed to squeal tyres', or does it get moving at a decent pace?

[m3pilot]

Most people seam very well behaved, i think theres only around 40 people there and i know the 7 people i'm going with will give everyone the room they need.

I think the key is not to get pushed to drive faster than you want to, which isn't easy.

[flying scotsman]

I am going tomorrow, 12th, have been once before and everyone was very well behaved with only 1 spin in the day -Grifith provoked! Anybody else joining the me in the Z4M and my mate in the mighty Golf V6 4Motion!

[carrera2]

flying scotsman said:

I am going tomorrow, 12th, have been once before and everyone was very well behaved with only 1 spin in the day -Grifith provoked! Anybody else joining the me in the Z4M and my mate in the mighty Golf V6 4Motion!

I saw you there, car sounded good

Was your mates the red golf that had the off after druids?

[flying scotsman]

Thanks, gained confidence throughout the day as the track dried out. Were you having the tete a tete with the Tuscan mid afternoon?
I don't know who the red golf was, my friend was in the mark 4 black v6 4 motion that was keeping a 'steady' pace throughout the day. We were following that golf and to be fair it looked like they were possibly pushing a tad too much?!

Edited by flying scotsman on Thursday 14th December 23:03

[Carrera2]

I was exactly the same - building up as the track dried. I had a couple of tete a tetes with the tuscan (I was in the grey CSL) and the silver M3.

Great day - looking forward to the next one now!

How did you find the Z4M? I've got a friend interested in them but we'd heard they were supposedly a bit twitchy at the back....any truth in that?

[flying scotsman]

Ahh... Were you the guy I confused by saying we were evenly matched. You were sitting in your car just after coming in, parked up by the fence overlooking the back straight?
The only time I felt the back end being twitchy was under hard braking at the end of the straight when all the weight was transfered to the front, other than that I must say that it felt pretty well planted. I certainly think that it could be provoked to be tail happy but as long as you are measured with the inputs then there is plenty of grip.

[carrera2]

No you must have spoken to the other grey M3 there - it looked very similar. I don't think I actually saw you on the track at the same time I was out there unfortunately.

Looking forward to the next one now!