Derek Nicol
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I seem to remember Milton Keynes doing something like that in central MK, i wasnt there, it may have just been demonstration laps, not proper racing.
Possibly something to do with Stewart/Jaguar/Red Bull F1.
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I seem to remember Milton Keynes doing something like that in central MK, i wasnt there, it may have just been demonstration laps, not proper racing.
Possibly something to do with Stewart/Jaguar/Red Bull F1.
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
Capris were notoriously light at the back, with a 5.7 up front im surprised it didnt do a good ol' boys nosedive
Invetterate
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The Government promised a few years ago to make it easier to set up such events. Guess what - they didn't! Anybody surprised? Course not...!
In the meantime, there are a few places left for the track day at the 3 mile long Snetterton 300 circuit which some of us are going along to on Tuesday September 7th.
You can really open up your Corvette there, believe me, and it has those corner things, you know the interesting bits that join up the straights? I've seen nearly 130mph down the Bentley straight in a C6 before braking very hard for the 40-50mph corner complex at the end, then try pulling about 90mph round Coram, probably the longest corner in the UK. Really concentrates the mind, I can tell you. Oh and it shows just how wonderful these Corvettes are!
Anybody fancy a go?
In the meantime, there are a few places left for the track day at the 3 mile long Snetterton 300 circuit which some of us are going along to on Tuesday September 7th.
You can really open up your Corvette there, believe me, and it has those corner things, you know the interesting bits that join up the straights? I've seen nearly 130mph down the Bentley straight in a C6 before braking very hard for the 40-50mph corner complex at the end, then try pulling about 90mph round Coram, probably the longest corner in the UK. Really concentrates the mind, I can tell you. Oh and it shows just how wonderful these Corvettes are!
Anybody fancy a go?
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
Not for me thanks, ive got a stock post smog crisis C3.
If i had a bigger garage maybe i could put a C4 for track days next to it... if..
Bentley straight.. is that what they call it these days.. used to be the Revett straight.
Gerards at Mallory is surely longest corner.. oh, hold on, theyve messed that up with a chicane now.
teamzr1
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I assume you are mentioning the banked corners of an oval track?
If so I drove a Richard Petty NASCAR at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the corners were banked at like 30 degrees
At 160 MPH plus if your not in good shape due to the G forces the left side of body feels like it is on fire
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
No. flat corners.
teamzr1
Supporting vendor
OK, I hate anything flat, esp women
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
OK, I hate anything flat, esp women
We had Brooklands circuit from 1907 to 1939 which had extremely steeply banked curves (almost impossible to walk up them). More recently we had Rockingham Motor Speedway built like a US banked circuit from 2001 to 2018. All existing UK circuits now in use have 'flat' corners.
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
No they both closed down.
Something big happened in 1939 that caused Brooklands to be closed.. oh, hold on, you guys didnt join in until 1941
Rockingham couldnt get enough ticket sales to keep going.
Derek Nicol
Well-known user
Well, yes, thats why they didnt re-open it after ze var.
Roscobbc
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I know Brooklands was at the very birth of motorsport in the UK and arguably if it hadn't happened perhaps some of the other UK race tracks wouldn't have been built. As fantastic and historic as Brooklands is - you realise that the track right from the very start was dangerous. Simply watching races from the day with the more powerful, faster car actually 'airborne' most of the time, skimming the high-spots on the track. One feels that perhaps if WW2 hadn't happened the finance needed to rebuild the track wouldn't have happened. I'm guessing some of your brickyard and board tracks in the 'States must have been very similar safety-wise back 'in the day'?