Track Days

[robbieduncan]

There seem to be a lot of car people around here so this might go well! :D

Yesterday evening I spend a couple of fun hours at Brand Hatch (pictures here (http://www.robbieduncan.net/cgi-bin/get_file.cgi?file=pictures/brands2005/index)) learning something about the handling of my little MX-5. Great fun although I need to get some better tyres for next time (and maybe better suspension...).

Anyone else taken their own car on the track?

[Don't panic]

There seem to be a lot of car people around here so this might go well! :D

Yesterday evening I spend a couple of fun hours at Brand Hatch (pictures here (http://www.robbieduncan.net/cgi-bin/get_file.cgi?file=pictures/brands2005/index)) learning something about the handling of my little MX-5. Great fun although I need to get some better tyres for next time (and maybe better suspension...).

Anyone else taken their own car on the track?

sounds fun, however i can't see the pictures (with safari)

[robbieduncan]

sounds fun, however i can't see the pictures (with safari)

Odd. What can't you see? Just the pictures themselves, or the whole site? The site is hosted from a shared server (can you see http://www.robbieduncan.net/ ?). The pictures are hosted from .Mac. The whole thing works for me :(

[Don't panic]

Odd. What can't you see? Just the pictures themselves, or the whole site? The site is hosted from a shared server (can you see http://www.robbieduncan.net/ ?). The pictures are hosted from .Mac. The whole thing works for me :(

i can see and browse the site. I just can't see ANY pictures anywhere

[robbieduncan]

Very odd. Can you see this (http://homepage.mac.com/robbieduncan/galleries/brands2005/pictures/002.jpg) (direct link to one of the pictures on .Mac).

[tobefirst]

I'm not a big car guy myself, but I wanted to let you know that the pics are visible on my system running Panther (10.3.9) in both Firefox and Safari.

[Don't panic]

Very odd. Can you see this (http://homepage.mac.com/robbieduncan/galleries/brands2005/pictures/002.jpg) (direct link to one of the pictures on .Mac).

yes I see that one (nice: how fast did you push?)

I am running 10.2.8 and safari 1.0.3

[Don't panic]

i tried with IE and it worked, so it's a safari version thing

[robbieduncan]

yes I see that one (nice: how fast did you push?)

I am running 10.2.8 and safari 1.0.3
The tyres I have on the car are not really suited to this kind of thing (I was aware that they would not be great, but only needed new rears when I bought the car so got them to match the fronts). I was hitting 100 (mph) along the main straight and did not need to drop below 60 round most of the corners :) A couple of interesting moments as the car went sideways at that sort of speed, but that's the point of doing it somewhere safe!

[Don't panic]

The tyres I have on the car are not really suited to this kind of thing (I was aware that they would not be great, but only needed new rears when I bought the car so got them to match the fronts). I was hitting 100 (mph) along the main straight and did not need to drop below 60 round most of the corners :) A couple of interesting moments as the car went sideways at that sort of speed, but that's the point of doing it somewhere safe!

i gotta try something like that some day! (of course I need a decent car to do it)

[mactastic]

Probably not a whole lot of fun to try cornering my truck. My boss's 911 on the other hand... Where'd he put those keys? :D

[Chubypig]

Do you brits really spell tires "tyres"? wicked weird. :p

[iGav]

Yesterday evening I spend a couple of fun hours at Brand Hatch

Never driven Brands myself... do they open up the GP circuit? or is the Indy configuration you get to run on?

[robbieduncan]

Never driven Brands myself... do they open up the GP circuit? or is the Indy configuration you get to run on?

Was Indy only. In an MX-5 that was fine though, the long straights would have been a waste. The do run track days on the full GP circuit though...