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Originally Posted by MJG  Hudson, seriously, just get good part worns at £20 a pop even if you weren't tyre-piling, then adjust for the grippier tyres at the event. Anyone can adjust for that. |
There isn't much of a saving doing that, my new tyres are only £40 a pop and once you take into account tyre changing, and the fact it needs to be done more often on part worns, it doesn't make much difference in cost, it's more about the rate the car burns rubber which affects money LOL and that's what means i have to pick where and when i test the car more carefully.
Either way, Liam has already dealt with my questions, so it's a moot point. If I had the cash I'd be there.
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Originally Posted by retrodan tyres are the BIGGEST thing round this track, i was running very very good part worns on my car, took grip of back to try not to kill tyres fast, but alas i was getting on avarage 3-5 full skid laps, but then i was going nearly balls out and have fair bit of power, so for anyone worried u would easily make a ok set of tyres last a session or more, but for the more experienced skidders tyres will go fast, but the SMOKE/SPEED makes up for it lol |
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Originally Posted by royal Just chatting about this and I reckon its worth making a point of the fact that this is 15minute CONTINUOUS sessions. At a normal skid day with one lap wonders you spend at least 10-15 minutes queueing for every one lap you do. Although understandable due to the small venues, I don't like the way skid days and comps are run with only perhaps 1 minutes seat time for 10-15mins of queueing and only one or if you are lucky 2 laps of a track.
Lots of peole seem to think 8 15minutes sessions is not much track time for the money but I reckon its actually more than most practice days. I reckon the average Lydd (kart track) practice I get about 20 or 30 runs give or take a few, they don't last any more than a minute or two so thats around 1 hours max actual seat time for the average practice day and you only get to do one or two laps at a time. This Lydden hill day has 2 hours and each session is 15mins continuous.
The only place you might get more track time is somewhere like Pod thats not even a track anyway. Its so hard to get proper tracks to support skidding, we need to make it happen. Drifting wont get taken seriously by the motor sports industry until we're skidding real race tracks at high speeds |
No-one said it's a lack of time. I actually said I'd prefer half as much track time if we could split into beginners and advanced so we could make the most of the time available and be balls to the wall every corner. NONE of the drivers at our demo there was able to make a single set of tyres last more than 10 mins so the timing isn't an issue. I was talking about what happens when someone has an off and the track gets closed to rescue them, you should know all about that dave
Rest assured, if i can find some money, I'll be there in seconds.
I'll have a word with Alex at K-Drift as he seems to want to test at Lydd mid-July and it would be far more useful to do a few sessions at Lydden as it's got more in common with Wembley
Hopefully I'll see you all there