Car went really well Mick, the new motor is so much gruntier. The first session was so slippery it was all you could do to not spin. The second session the track started coming good and I knocked 1 second off my pb and I wasn't even giving it 10/10ths yet. In fact even my cool down lap where I was just holding a higher gear through corners, I got a better time than I used to get a couple of years ago Unfortunately that's where the day ended for me, I managed to pop a valve-stem oil seal so it was blowing oil out the breather under boost. Can't wait to see what the car will do once I get a proper full day.
There were 5-6 mk1's out there, including 3 yellow ones which made for a bit of confusion. Was the biggest mk1 turnout I have seen. The late-model stuff is getting quicker too, but hats off to that polo pulling 1:09's.
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Sorry, looking back I was a too strident with that post. I've just seen to many racing incidents (and almost been involved in a few) on warmup laps where competitors did the crazy zigzag thing.
I still think that you would be better feeling out the track by pushing at a slow corner (not hard to find those at Wakefield) rather than zigzagging as you need to hurl a car reasonably hard to break grip and forcing a transition mid turn is much more likely to produce sudden breakaway.
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