The weather tried it's best to mess things up but it wasn't happening.
Monday morning started a bit slowly, may be a beer or two too many on Sunday
also not helped by the insurance company sending me the wrong policy..Out on track for a slow and slippery couple of sighting laps, then back into the pits and on with the warmers. Spent half hour or so watching Mick and Frankie having a play on wets while things died out a bit. Finally by late morning got to go and play, 5 or 6 laps and back in to check things over. No Rev counter as it doesn't wasn't play, no camera as it won't stay on, and the rear tyre was tearing up a bit. Dropped 2psi on the rear and ignored the other issues and went back out. Much better, then the fun really started as the track dried. The tarmac is very smooth and the supercorsas where like chewing gum and gave so much confidence and feedback, confidence was reasonably high.
I started getting to the point at the end of the day where I was stringing together corners rather than just riding from one corner to another. A few tips from other riders had helped find better lines.
Tuesday saw a similar start to the day with the weather, but then a weird sensation on the first session. I've never done a 2 day event before and it's very strange starting the day on warmers and going out fast on the first couple of laps. Things just got better and faster as the day went on, by lunch I felt I was riding an entire lap and if a corner was buggered up the whole lap was slower.
While we had lunch I got the rear changed as it was starting to slide in the faster left hand corners. What a difference... The afternoon was getting faster and a change of line into a lot of corners helped.
The banter and crack during the day was nothing like I have ever experienced on a track day.
Big thanks BBS. I've already mentioned next year to Mrs nutz and as I'm still able to walk is not a no..... Think I may have a pic or two, but Frankies well be better, no video as the camera wouldn't play
, so back on with race tyres and away we went. I really enjoyed riding on the wets as ive never used them before and TBH those laps were some of the ones I enjoyed most.
, its a real friendly atmosphere and the open pit lane is a great way to do TD's IMO.
