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whitegtipolo wrote:that was a very small cat for a 1.8t ?? mine was twice the length of that and it made the exhaust alot louder !!

Well, this past weekend was serious fun! Saturday was the Marque, Historics & Classics, Super Karts, Formula V and the new series I took part in, the Clubmans Hatch Series racing.

After deciding only a couple days prior to Saturday to take part, I took care of the necessary paperwork and was super glad to have made the cut off. Saturday morning, we headed off to the track at 06:30, got ourselves setup and cars cleaned for the day. I missed the Warm Up session, due to the cue for registration and scrutineering being long and moving slowly. A little bleak, I knew I had to concentrate during Qualifying, to make it all come together, and together it did come - I did my fastest time of the day - 1:21.5.

Ecstatic, I knew I was going to have to push hard, to keep on top of my time, due to the class being handicapped - we have a 1.5% margin on lap times during races according to our Qualifying lap.

Race 1 - the line up on the start line was a little long winded due to confusion, from a few guys who didn't qualify, namely, the Ariel Atom, an 1800 sidied Golf, S3 and R31 Skyline. Being handicapped, we were started at intervals. With no real tussles, besides playing with the Atom and 1800 Golf, I went on to do 1:21.7's. I think I surprised the two, as they had me on the straight, but in the corners I stuck with them. The Ariel, is definitely not setup correctly, and it's easy to see.

Race 2 - now a little more organised, we started easily and the intervals were now correct, with us all finishing together on the start/finish. I went on to have an awesome battle with a Golf V GTi, the 1800 sidied Golf and the S3. We all got very busy, but respecting each others abilities, things went smoothly and I didn't have to worry about any rubbing. I went on to do 1:22.5's.

I had an awesome day, and will definitely do it again! But, I will admit, the bug has bitten, and I want to do better and better. My previous best was 1:25.1, so a 3.6s drop was way more than I expected. I think with more practise, I'll be smiling. I'm hunting the Polo Cup TDi time of 1:19.

We've got the AMSC Trackday coming up on the 16th - times won't be comparable, as they done by hand. Never the less, looking forward to showing what TDi power can do.

Unfortunately, I only had two photos taken of me on the track, and I only took a few in the pits. But here's the two I've got.





I'll hopefully have more photos to post next week - this Sunday is trackday.

I purchased a cheap boost gauge, just to use as a reference from stock to Sooty's new Vitamin D shot. For those of you that aren't sure - remember I'm at the coast.

I saw spike of 1.5bar and constant of around 1.4bar in stock form.

Now with the Vitamin D (Dimsport - Trevor's intermediate map), I'm seeing spike of 2bar and constant of around 1.8bar. Swopped over the gauge to another make (both cheap) and this showed 0.1 higher across the range.

Changed out the oil today, I've done around 7800km's since she had her 60k service. I thought it was a good idea to freshen her up after the WMI has been running for a good few thousand km's now and she's worked hard on a few occasions. Now she's pretty much ready for the trackday on Sunday.

I'm enjoying the new feel.

Dennis wrote:nice car, nice pics m8!

I think you should go for Lamin-X; GTI headlights are out