hms Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 The Hornet has a busy start to the year. Jan 15th Silverstone, Stowe Circuit Jan 30th Brands (Cancelled December outing, rescheduled due to bad weather) Feb 5th Bedford GT Reports and video to follow! I will be sprinting again this year, but doing fewer, preferring to do more trackdays. Bring on the fun! h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hms Posted January 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Silverstone Stowe Circuit 15th Jan. Well I'm absoulutly knackered! Track was damp to start with but dried through the day, it stayed dry apart from a short time where there was very light rain. My first time at Stowe start finish straight leads to hairpin, wshere the pit lane enters leading into a sweeping hairpin with a slight kink out to the back straight, end of the back strainght leads into a series of right/lefts leading back on to the main straight. The last right hander has been resurfaced with extra sticky tarmac and you can turnin 5 mph faster than the other corners! At the start of the day, these corners were very slippy, I span on my second lap as the tyres were still cold. (That's my excuse anyway!) We checked tyre pressures and corrected them to 29psi. A dry line started coming out in the late morning, by afternoon to all intents and purposes the track was dry. The Hornet. The track day was run by Lotus on Track with some people there from Honda on Track. As a consequence the Hornet was the slowest car there and being overtaken by everyone else! However in the corners everything was very equal. The Hornet, not having been used for a couple of months, was superb, never missed a beat, and is still soo much fun to drive. Photo's and video to follow. h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Understandable everything evened out on the corners, just goes to prove if she had more power it would be a formidable contender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Lazza has his write up here: http://www.planetmx5.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6574 There is also some video from LoT which shows two other 5's that were there, both ex Ma5da racers, and at about 3 mins I get overtaken! h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Nice write up and vid..... would have liked to see more of the Hornet in the vid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 I have video that I'm working my way through. One session I have looked at time wise, I have one lap each of 1.15, 1.16, 8 laps of 1.17, 2 at 1.18, 1 at 1.19 1 at 1.20 and 1.21. Quickly looked at some video of Lazza , with a passenger he did a 1.15 followed by a 1.12 H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Times are consistent even though the track dried up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 The vid I took the timings from was my last session. Timings seem to be pretty constant with no traffic, losing time when coming off the loud pedal to let people past, the 1.21 is the lap where both the Ma5da racers went past in formation, I was watching them pull ahead, not concentrating on pushing the Hornet! h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted January 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Ikle bit of video here, don't laugh too loud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phipck Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Ikle bit of video here, don't laugh too loud! think you added a letter in your link dude, this quoted one should work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted January 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Ikle bit of video here, don't laugh too loud! think you added a letter in your link dude, this quoted one should work thanks, thought that was whilst the video was Being set up at Photobucket.Now I can't find by delete post button! H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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