The Leon was around 300 bhp, the Evo that got past I actually chased down in an earlier session. Straight line speed isn't the S2000's greatest strengh compared to some cars.
At the end of the day, you're always going to meet the other driver in the pits at the end, and unless you're very, very confident and can "handle yourself", making gestures like that really isn't a good idea.
As I've said, I did go and speak to the driver.
Lol hilarious!
Seems like there was plenty of opportunities to over take on the straights. But were you really that much faster than the gt86? At some points like leaving a corner it sounds like your going full pelt and only just about keeping with him.
First time on track in RWD and first UK track day, I'm not going to start racing people. End of the day he could have clearly seen I was behind him so should have moved over like many other cars did for me.
Nice vids. Any info on the ep3?
That Renault Magane looks a weapon on track.
The GT86 guy was obviously in the wrong, but I don't think he was that much slower, which surprised me.
As above, I wasn't racing him, just waiting for him to move. You can't see it in the vid but once I got past I was 3-4 corners ahead within a lap.
It also looks that the S2000 is 'off cam' a lot of the time, which we know is something that doesn't show it at it's best. I suspect if it was in the range it would also have made the difference more obvious.
My map has VTEC coming in at 3850 so it was on cam, but I'm not going to drive it hard when I'm waiting for someone to move out of the way. If I drop into 2nd on some of the corners where I'm revving up in 3rd I may end up putting too much torque into the rears and end up slidy slidy. The back end was quite loose as it was going through Quarry earlier in the day on cold tyres.
Watched those vids its a quick car, quite a lot faster than my motor on the straight, I need that engine
Lots of blipping on downshift, yourself or computer? What rubber were you running?
What car do you have? The blips is heel and toe on downshifts. Tyres are AD08R.
Also someone asked about instruction, there was free instruction on the day so I did a session with one of the instructors. He gave me some good tips on lines and which gears to be in hence early shifting on a few corners.