"I belong to all the major internet car chat forums, I will post negative review of your organization.."
Laugh but, they are really out there...and some of us have to get in the passenger seat occasionally!
For a comprehensive list of driver's excuses don't forget to check out the originals on JUSTGOFASTER.COM!
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July 25, 2007
Spectacular incompetence
A while back we had dug up a 70's era home movie where hapless Germans flipped VW beetles at the Nürburgring. Fast forward to the UK in 2007, Castle Combe's own touristenfahrt and we find Charles Darwin is instructing again. I apologize in advance for the music but I cannot wait to hear comments from out JustGoFaster friends across the way...
you got to feel for the poor guy in the Lotus 9 at the end...ok, he's lucky to be alive but that is really adding insult to injury!
(credits on the clip)
June 19, 2007
Extreme Eau Rouge Fetish: are you flat?
Please note the quick M5 wagon...and the slooooow Skylines accompanied by some choice comments.
OK, StraighOn....if that is your real name, the gauntlet is thrown. We are at Watkins Glen today and tomorrow, Summit Point Saturday and Sunday, we'll see what we can come up with.
(StraightOn from JGF with the gray M3CSL above says the M5 Wagon was driven by Nigel Mansell and his sons....how cool is that?)
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June 6, 2007
Ring Pics
Here are CG's snapshots from his recent trip.
Crowded party, EVO's Jertho Bovingdon who was there to try for a sub 8 lap and real CSL's.
Some classic 'ring cars: the Ring Mini, Skyline GTr and Lancia Delta Integrale Evoluzione.
The mean looking TVR Sagaris and a nice family car.
Ultimate sleeper minivan (we had a feature on these), a donkey CSL and mean green.
Hamann Drift Taxi The JGF crew welcomes CG.
The rental car....
Some local color...
Crowded party, EVO's Jertho Bovingdon who was there to try for a sub 8 lap and real CSL's.
Some classic 'ring cars: the Ring Mini, Skyline GTr and Lancia Delta Integrale Evoluzione.
The mean looking TVR Sagaris and a nice family car.
Ultimate sleeper minivan (we had a feature on these), a donkey CSL and mean green.
Hamann Drift Taxi The JGF crew welcomes CG.
The rental car....
Some local color...
May 30, 2007
May 28, 2007
CG at the Nurburgring part II
From the live webcam you can see it's pouring rain. If anyone out there knows a time of year when it does NOT rain in the Eifels PLEASE let us know!
Sounds like CG was happy to have gotten some dry laps in yesterday and was going to keep it on the safe side today. Hopefully we can take a look at his Traqmate data and pictures in the next couple of days.
May 28, 2007 5:39:04 AM EDT
Rain gods are out again. The track is more treacherous and slower than yesterday. I try pushing more but I go all over the place.
I'm giving the justgofaster guys some laps, finish my ticketed laps and wait during lunch to see if the sky clears. If not I'm heading to Frankfurt early.
May 28, 2007 2:41:50 PM EDT
Ok. I'm safe and sound at the Frankfurt airport.
Never dried the whole day, so still decided to be out as much as I could, and learn a thing or two about driving on soapy water....
Took the justgofaster guys out for several laps. Some ocassional silence moments, but I think they trusted me by the end of the lap.
I was only once close to loose it and game over, but that was when I was on my own. It was braking downhill for the 3 apex corner 500m after Kallenhard that the Brits call Miss-hit-miss.
Again, is the braking that kills you in the rain. In the corners I'm ready for the car stepping sideways or sliding more than anticipated as I tend to drive "rally style" by compromising entry mid road (more gripand pushing on the middle of the corner to either use the extra track to accelerate or correct whatever went wrong (usually opposite lock to 4 wheel drift on track out).
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Back to incident: As in many ocassion I went for the brakes but had immediate ABS lockup, so as usual eased a bit, and pressed again but this time the surface remained extremely slippery and being downhill almost no speed was lost. Went right to the edge of the track thinking baout how much 20ft of Nring Armco will cost and if it was better to induce a spin and pay for the two fenders and door, or just loose the bumper, fender and front suspension. Close to the edge I still decided to give a fight and turned the car.it slid niceley all the way to the endge and I turn with half a tire (skinny 225s) on the grass and half on the white line. Made that arc for a whole 100yds until I felt enough grip to birng it back over. That was my cardio workout for the weekend.
The rest of the time, I just became so used to prolongued slides, 100mph+ sudden twitches that I felt relaxed correcting with ease. It was not fast track driving but probably one of the most instructive track days I had. Remind me of the Senna documentary that talks about the endless days he spent as a child at the gokart track having his servants continuosly spray water over the surface after a day he was handed his own ass by another kid in a wet race. Its all about practice and building up that self confidence (nothing new here just like any other sport...)
All in, it was a great experience, maybe the best ever I had at a track, as I was able to demistify a mythic place and make it seem achievable to lap as we do our local tracks. I'm coming back for more soon, so I hope you guys can join..
Best times of the weekend were 8:36 dry and 9:47 wet (last lap of the weekend), but those numbers are irrelevant as what counts is the experience.
As for the rental car; its not cheap, but I can't think of a better way. This guy (Theo, VERY nice guy) knows what he is doing, the cars are perfectly setup for the Nring (probably too soft for a track like ours) and they don't miss a beat, so why reinvent the wheel or drive a compromised AVIS rental, or your precious Euro delivered car?
No major car sightings today as the weather shys most exotics away. Nice to see the green GT3 RS being lapped by a good driver.
Here is Part I of CG's ring trip.
Sounds like CG was happy to have gotten some dry laps in yesterday and was going to keep it on the safe side today. Hopefully we can take a look at his Traqmate data and pictures in the next couple of days.
May 28, 2007 5:39:04 AM EDT
Rain gods are out again. The track is more treacherous and slower than yesterday. I try pushing more but I go all over the place.
I'm giving the justgofaster guys some laps, finish my ticketed laps and wait during lunch to see if the sky clears. If not I'm heading to Frankfurt early.
May 28, 2007 2:41:50 PM EDT
Ok. I'm safe and sound at the Frankfurt airport.
Never dried the whole day, so still decided to be out as much as I could, and learn a thing or two about driving on soapy water....
Took the justgofaster guys out for several laps. Some ocassional silence moments, but I think they trusted me by the end of the lap.
I was only once close to loose it and game over, but that was when I was on my own. It was braking downhill for the 3 apex corner 500m after Kallenhard that the Brits call Miss-hit-miss.
Again, is the braking that kills you in the rain. In the corners I'm ready for the car stepping sideways or sliding more than anticipated as I tend to drive "rally style" by compromising entry mid road (more gripand pushing on the middle of the corner to either use the extra track to accelerate or correct whatever went wrong (usually opposite lock to 4 wheel drift on track out).
.
Back to incident: As in many ocassion I went for the brakes but had immediate ABS lockup, so as usual eased a bit, and pressed again but this time the surface remained extremely slippery and being downhill almost no speed was lost. Went right to the edge of the track thinking baout how much 20ft of Nring Armco will cost and if it was better to induce a spin and pay for the two fenders and door, or just loose the bumper, fender and front suspension. Close to the edge I still decided to give a fight and turned the car.it slid niceley all the way to the endge and I turn with half a tire (skinny 225s) on the grass and half on the white line. Made that arc for a whole 100yds until I felt enough grip to birng it back over. That was my cardio workout for the weekend.
The rest of the time, I just became so used to prolongued slides, 100mph+ sudden twitches that I felt relaxed correcting with ease. It was not fast track driving but probably one of the most instructive track days I had. Remind me of the Senna documentary that talks about the endless days he spent as a child at the gokart track having his servants continuosly spray water over the surface after a day he was handed his own ass by another kid in a wet race. Its all about practice and building up that self confidence (nothing new here just like any other sport...)
All in, it was a great experience, maybe the best ever I had at a track, as I was able to demistify a mythic place and make it seem achievable to lap as we do our local tracks. I'm coming back for more soon, so I hope you guys can join..
Best times of the weekend were 8:36 dry and 9:47 wet (last lap of the weekend), but those numbers are irrelevant as what counts is the experience.
As for the rental car; its not cheap, but I can't think of a better way. This guy (Theo, VERY nice guy) knows what he is doing, the cars are perfectly setup for the Nring (probably too soft for a track like ours) and they don't miss a beat, so why reinvent the wheel or drive a compromised AVIS rental, or your precious Euro delivered car?
No major car sightings today as the weather shys most exotics away. Nice to see the green GT3 RS being lapped by a good driver.
Here is Part I of CG's ring trip.
May 14, 2007
Speaking of driver's schools...
Our track-tard UK friends over at JustGoFaster.com have just released their latest masterpiece to wide critical acclaim and bimmerforum.com shock.
"A Distinct Lack of Talent" opens with a spectacular JustGoHome moment and just spirals from there. It's great fun, Axis Approved!
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To get serious for a moment, two issues come up with regards to the recent BMW school we attended.
Rather than the traditional hand signals for passing, using turn signals was tried, most hated it. I didn't mind at all mostly because, if done right, one could indicate willingness to be passed (for example) before turns are over without taking a hand off the wheel and almost crashing (don't laugh, I have seen this a number of times!).
I wonder if a lot of the confusion and discomfort was because people were asked to signal the side they wanted to be passed on rather than the side of the track they would stay on during the pass. The natural instinct, I suppose it to signal left, stay left. I noticed that is what they must do over in the UK.
The second issue is spins... spins are good, ideally everyone would experience spins, in fact there SHOULD be spin out exercises at all driver's schools. Most people have never spun and are both terrified to do so and clueless as to what to do if it happens. Once you know what a spin feels like you are much more likely to recognize the impending problem early enough to do something about it.
Sadly most of the tracks we have, especially here in the North East, are super fast and with very little run off. Look at the aerodrome track on the video...huge space and moderate speed: a big autocross. A very good place to get it all wrong and to learn how to keep it shiny!
"A Distinct Lack of Talent" opens with a spectacular JustGoHome moment and just spirals from there. It's great fun, Axis Approved!
download
To get serious for a moment, two issues come up with regards to the recent BMW school we attended.
Rather than the traditional hand signals for passing, using turn signals was tried, most hated it. I didn't mind at all mostly because, if done right, one could indicate willingness to be passed (for example) before turns are over without taking a hand off the wheel and almost crashing (don't laugh, I have seen this a number of times!).
I wonder if a lot of the confusion and discomfort was because people were asked to signal the side they wanted to be passed on rather than the side of the track they would stay on during the pass. The natural instinct, I suppose it to signal left, stay left. I noticed that is what they must do over in the UK.
The second issue is spins... spins are good, ideally everyone would experience spins, in fact there SHOULD be spin out exercises at all driver's schools. Most people have never spun and are both terrified to do so and clueless as to what to do if it happens. Once you know what a spin feels like you are much more likely to recognize the impending problem early enough to do something about it.
Sadly most of the tracks we have, especially here in the North East, are super fast and with very little run off. Look at the aerodrome track on the video...huge space and moderate speed: a big autocross. A very good place to get it all wrong and to learn how to keep it shiny!
October 14, 2006
New braking technology from across the pond
The scientists over at the JustGoFaster labs have released their latest innovation, the JGF Brake Limiter Kit is guaranteed to increase you corner entry speeds by up to 25%!
"...For the very first time, one of JustGoFaster's secret products is available to the public. The result of 5 years of intensive development, the Brake Limiter Kit guarantees you increased corner entry speeds of at least 25%.
Fully customisable, the amazing Brake Limiter Kit can be trimmed with simple tools to provide any desired level of retardation prevention. Kit is supplied with high quality Blu Tak fixing kit (normal price bought separately £12.63)..."
I believe BadBadM got one of these to give Stee for christmas this year.
"...For the very first time, one of JustGoFaster's secret products is available to the public. The result of 5 years of intensive development, the Brake Limiter Kit guarantees you increased corner entry speeds of at least 25%.
Fully customisable, the amazing Brake Limiter Kit can be trimmed with simple tools to provide any desired level of retardation prevention. Kit is supplied with high quality Blu Tak fixing kit (normal price bought separately £12.63)..."
I believe BadBadM got one of these to give Stee for christmas this year.
June 10, 2006
One hilarious website....
Man, I love JustGoFaster.com. a true role model for this blog to aspire to! Check it out.
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