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tintin 27th August 2021 08:52 AM

God I miss the 'Ring...
 
...and watching this made me just want to go back all the more ;)

https://youtu.be/Mo31yusAvLk

steamship 27th August 2021 10:56 AM

I was fascinated by the central display with the views from the rear and side cameras being available, as well as having the physical mirrors as well (less excuse for not 'seeing' another car). Can you enlighten me on the drivetrain image where certain parts kept changing colour? The battery one was obvious starting of green and eventually ending up red.

tintin 27th August 2021 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by steamship (Post 166500)
Can you enlighten me on the drivetrain image where certain parts kept changing colour? The battery one was obvious starting of green and eventually ending up red.

I'm pretty sure that a status display, so I very much doubt he could have done back-to-back runs in his M3P without letting the battery cool off, as it's not really built to do that - unlike a MS Plaid, which has rectified that shortcoming...;)

sarg 27th August 2021 01:38 PM

I didn't have time to watch to the end, did he manage to complete the lap before the battery ran out of juice?? :ROFL:

sorry :D

tintin 27th August 2021 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sarg (Post 166505)
I didn't have time to watch to the end, did he manage to complete the lap before the battery ran out of juice?? :ROFL:

sorry :D

Of course he did :rolleyes:. If you'd not got bored so quickly you could also had read the comments to find out how much "juice" he'd used :ROFL:

Ameiseuk 28th August 2021 05:02 AM

It got a bit squirrelly at 3.33!

tintin 28th August 2021 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Ameiseuk (Post 166518)
It got a bit squirrelly at 3.33!

It did a bit, didn't it? Not a bad recovery though....;)

Nick Jones 5th September 2021 09:23 PM

No sound but tortured rubber....... seems.... odd.

I have done precisely one lap of the 'ring, early in the morning in September 2009, as a passenger in my own 1967 Vitesse 2L, driven by a very good friend who has considerable competition experience, though no 'ring experience at all. It was quite an adrenalin rush.......

This was at the beginning of day 4 of our first Club Triumph 10 Countries run and we had driven up from Italy overnight having already driven the length of France, over the Pyrenees into Spain, back over the Pyrenees through Andorra and over the Alps twice, so the poor old car had already had 2,600 miles of thrashing...... Measely 120 bhp and boot full of tools/spares notwithstanding, we (he) managed a lap in just under 12 minutes. He wanted another go to improve his time but given that the brakes were already smoking vigorously and fates nose well tweaked, I figured we should quite while we still had a working car!

Nick


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