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Hi guys, here's a further link to photos of the day courtesy of the chap accompanying Lucky P and Louise, at Goodwood yesterday and there's quite few of them!
I believe it was Stephane, correct me if I am wrong here.
What a great day out, weather was brillant, there was only 15 of us there, but my regular trackday pals there, a not well Simon M, Mika, Gaz1, lagerlout (Porsche), and the as ever very laid back C240 Sport 97, all with their AMGs. Great to see Lopes and Gary again mid morning with their emergency car 2, having suffered initial technical things with car 1 first thing, but arrived and straight into the usual 'charge' routine, always gets me. Also Isv in his lovely Audi R8 in the morning, Kin in his red Intergra R, very quick, Nick K in his Cayman, he seemed to be getting faster as the day wore on, then a couple of new faces to me, Ed and Steve in their amazingly quick Evo, and Steve in his JC works mini, seeing off a few cars, that on paper seemed was not possible.
Then we had Paul, (Wagon) with his sneaky lightweight Porsche, what a great car and guy, made me laugh most of the day, even when I was not feeling at my best, having been out with Maff in an unbelievable session early afternoon in his Mclaren, with Traction control off!, lamely had to go in early, not well, sorry to cut your session early Matt, but grateful he did not have video of my lame efforts as passenger as Lucky P did the previous year in his Porsche GT3, **a mental note, never be a passenger again. This bringing me finally the heavyweight cars, Lucky P and Louise both awesome drivers, and accompanied by Peter's friends Stephane and Ucchi yesterday, I hope they both enjoyed the sunny day out, Peter and louise are such good company and fun on these days. I liked to thank also Maff who altered his schedule to make the day, bringing his Mclaren, to which we we were all astounded how awesomely quick it was, and the noise!, I know a few of us got the privilege to ride pillion, and all as said with traction off mode, and getting off the gas at points for sound checks, it was something else.
All in all, I personally enjoyed this particular day, perhaps because I did not have the full on organising as previous year, but also the company and banter with you all was fantastic, a very relaxing , albeit tiried when I got home, and thoughly enjoyable day out, and i thank you all for coming along on the day, it was great, think I spent more time talking than driving only went out three times, and still managed to fry my front calipers to a golden colour, not far off Savman's new engine covers. I blame Paul (Wagon) and Lagerlout for this, had a great session out with Paul, he drove too fast, and Lagerlout was ballast in my passenger seat, probaly terrified by my appalling driving ability, and hence Iprobably pushed the brakes too much! (thats my excuse anyway)
It was all worth it, great day,thanks again all of you that attended, so enjoyed your company and your banter, and liked to think we will do it again sometime.
Will see some of you in November, look forward to it.
Stay in touch.
Regards
Ricky
, you can see when the alchemist moment turned his brakes to gold in the vid just before he let me past at the end ..