Santa Pod

[daddysumo]

If the waether is kind tomorrow I will be going to RWYB at the pod its a day and night meet so the air themps should help when the sun goes down !
What sort of quarter times should I be getting ?

Steve

[Adrian W]

11's if you can get any traction but realisticaly 12's. good luck and don't break anything

[alex s]

I took the noble there about 3 years ago, you will suprised how slippy it is!!
I had trouble with traction until 3rd gear ( and back then I had blocked cats - therefore about 285bhp!!)
Will dig out my times.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

As Alex says it's horribly slippy. And whilst you're right about more power in the evening, as the dew comes down it goes from wet road slippy to ice rink!

[alex s]

Just dug out my time...was 13.24sec with a terminal speed of 107mph. Even with only 285bhp I was spinning the wheels on every gearchange!!
That was with the original 5 speed box and bridgestones.
If you can get corsa's hot and keep traction, in theory, as Adrian says 11's are possible.
Have fun, and dont kill your clutch!!

[snuffy]

I took my Esprit GT3 there once, the surface is truely awful. They claim that if it's even a tad damp it's slipperly but when it's bone dry it's fantastic. If you look at the web site it shows the surface looking like a sheet of glass.

[obes]

yep, be VERY careful with your clutch
I burned one out in no time at all doing 0-100-0's at Millbrook !

[snuffy]

Well ?

[daddysumo]

Ahem..... Ah well errrm ........ I must say it is very very slippery and errrm....... it was cold and wet.... and oh yea (opens his book of good excuses) I am rubbish too !
So with all the excuses made my best was 12.54 with a terminal of 112
Everyone loved the car tho

[Adrian W]

Considering............thats pretty good, you should be happy with that.

[daddysumo]

Yes I am but the traction was so bad I was getting wheelspin at 2k rpm and half throttle whereas at FT I was getting 3k launches at near full throttle so on a warm day when the tarmac is stickier I think an 11 is within reach !

Steve

[Adrian W]

The surface at Santa Pod comes good if you really lower the tire pressures (about 8-10 psi) and burn out till they are tacky, not really what a Noble was designed for.

[daddysumo]

Yes I agree I decided that doing just that wasn't worth killing a set of tyres over,as its not ever going to be a drag car. I had to change gear four times in the quarter so that in itself is a big time looser.
Did have a good day tho