I haven't really done too much to the car lately, i've tweaked the wheel alignment to get the car handling just as I want it, painted the lip spoiler and just today fitted a sticker license plate. Otherwise I've been just enjoying it whenever possible
It's been on a few club runs, lugged camera gear around and for the first time since Winton in Feb 2009 it went out on a race track
I went down to an Events O'neil track day at Sandown to take some photos, however later in the day most of the guys were going home... With thanks to Luke who runs these events I managed to get myself out on the track and do at least 15 or so laps over two sessions. Awesome fun on a pretty much deserted track. I only had 3 cars for company, a Ferrari 599, 997 Porsche 911 GT3 and a 997 911 Turbo! I had one of their instructors in the car, it was Nick Percat who dominated the Formula Ford championship last year and is racing V8s this year. Of my car he said it felt like a Formula Ford only with more grip, of my driving he said the only thing I could do better was brake later. After a few more laps I was getting there with that (overcoming the car feeling like it wants to swap ends on you), until I started to suffer a bit of brake fade (possibly due to old fluid -I also need to fit those 1.8 brakes under my bed!-) and began to cook the tyres. It was a great fun afternoon, the way its set up it feels awesome out on the track! I've caught the bug and will be back out again this year! I was also pretty impressed that there were no ill effects in going out and wringing the cars neck on a track. The only noticable difference was that a couple of mm tyre tread wore away along with some meat off the brake pads.
(In the pit lane after the track closed)
