ARDS Test
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Thanks for the replies 
The standard of driving at the day was very good with no chavs about. Well, a chav did turn up in his Aventador, did two laps and got kicked off for noise - 115dB! So then he proceeded to razz around the car park and then had a group of 20 hangers on from out of nowhere. Young lad too, perhaps 30-35.
The car, for what it's worth, was ok. Good power and a really good front end for FWD. I didn't get close to it's limits because I was being a good boy.
Haha! No, but the instructor did on some of the lines people were taking.
What he did say to me was that my awareness was top notch. Despite listening to him and learning the car/circuit, he commented a number of times how I saw approaching cars he missed.
You are graded from A to C on about 15 categories. A = Good, B = Average, C = Poor.
I think I got 5 Bs and the rest A. The main areas he said to focus on was braking because I was braking too much. Of course I was, you kept telling me to slow my pace down! Plus I couldn't get a feel for them!
The other one that I can remember was mechanical sympathy. I was quasi power shifting. Although he said my gear change technique was very good.
The instruction itself was ok. I appreciated the pointers on positioning for a couple of braking zones and some more appropriate lines, but what I did find odd was how much coasting I was doing around the lap. They mentioned a bit about weight transfer and for the sake of the test, I played dumb. My style has always been overdrive the car, then wind back. This is a dumb technique, but it always works for me so to do the reverse was again another 'out of my comfort zone' factor.
Still, I need to build a race car car now. I'm thinking Turbo'ed NB MX5 - light, plentiful, handle very well, cheap to fix/parts and reliable.
The series:
http://www.750mc.co.uk/formulae/roadsports.htm
What he did say to me was that my awareness was top notch. Despite listening to him and learning the car/circuit, he commented a number of times how I saw approaching cars he missed.
You are graded from A to C on about 15 categories. A = Good, B = Average, C = Poor.
I think I got 5 Bs and the rest A. The main areas he said to focus on was braking because I was braking too much. Of course I was, you kept telling me to slow my pace down! Plus I couldn't get a feel for them!
The other one that I can remember was mechanical sympathy. I was quasi power shifting. Although he said my gear change technique was very good.
The instruction itself was ok. I appreciated the pointers on positioning for a couple of braking zones and some more appropriate lines, but what I did find odd was how much coasting I was doing around the lap. They mentioned a bit about weight transfer and for the sake of the test, I played dumb. My style has always been overdrive the car, then wind back. This is a dumb technique, but it always works for me so to do the reverse was again another 'out of my comfort zone' factor.
Still, I need to build a race car car now. I'm thinking Turbo'ed NB MX5 - light, plentiful, handle very well, cheap to fix/parts and reliable.
The series:
http://www.750mc.co.uk/formulae/roadsports.htm
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From: Here and awake!
1)win the f@#king race at all costs
2)overtake everyone
Well done on the ARDS Ron, regarding the racing, go for it son