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1st November 2011, 07:20 PM
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OK Guys, I Did It!
Some of you may have heard (or even delivered) the jibes about my 'cautious' driving. They're usually along the lines that, because I started my '8 experience with a 2.8, and I now have an S8, that I haven't appreciated the difference!
 So, I asked my wife for a professional performance car driving lesson at Scotland's only professional race track - in my own car - for my birthday present. What a great experience! After the initial trepidation, I gradually gained the confidence to throw the car around a bit - and it didn't even twitch (well, maybe once or twice). I even passed a Ferrari 360 and had to slow down on the hairpin for an E-type Jag! So, next meet, I hope you all won't be either stuck behind me or waiting for me. These cars are amazing! 
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1st November 2011, 07:28 PM
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Must have been an ace laugh. How did it fair through Duffis?
I had a 1998 380 bhp Impreza Type R and used to hoon about there with the SIDC track days. Fantastic fun for one and all.
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1st November 2011, 07:30 PM
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Great result and glad it lived up to what you hoped
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1st November 2011, 08:22 PM
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . .  Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble  Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs
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1st November 2011, 08:34 PM
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Nurburgring next year then jim
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2nd November 2011, 07:04 AM
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Glad you enjoyed that Jim.
I did Knockhill on an Awayday with one of the Oil Companies many years ago. We had a wee classroom session safety talk first where we were promised to be taken round in the Cosworth with 550bhp - after lunch when the track had fully dried out. We then got taken 3 at a time round in one of the MGs - they were sponsored somehow by them. I though this will be a bit tame as it's only a saloon car. The driver pootled out the pits onto the track then launched the car at the first right hander! I was totally cacking myself thinking 'No way can this get round here', but it did! He then showed us the right and wrong ways at each corner and you saw that once you were wrong it was easy to stay wrong through a few more corners. We then got taken out in the little MGs - 'no higher that 3rd gear and if I say stop, you stop or you are out'! I was right up there with the best of us in lap times in them. Right, time for the single seaters - can't remember what exactly they were but fast and twitchy. I ended up facing the wrong way a couple of times by trying too hard at the esses - seems it's not girlie to brake slightly going in!! I had a sore chest for days after that with all the steering action as you don't take your hands off, just twist round in each direction. Anyway, back to the 3 door Cossie. They told us at lunchtime that it had been fired up OK and taken round for a warm up but the bonnet had not been properly fastened down so now it had a caved in screen. Never mind we still had our run round. Difficult to see out the smashed laminated screen but the driver still frightened me to death! That was maybe 20 years ago but what a brilliant day
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