Cully's Bianca 6 R150 YVM

[cully]

Cadwell park Trackday 12th September

we had planned to make this a three day trip
Day 1 travel up
Day 2 trackday
Day 3 Travel home

Day 1.
First part of our trip was to cleethorpes just outside Grimsby,
M5->M42->A42->M1->M18->M180->A180->A16.

320 miles used 38 ltrs of fuel to return 38MPG in the 6.

good going i thought doing around 75mph all the way,
we had no traffic hold ups and only made one stop on route.



found our Premier Inn new home for two nights
booked breakfast for next morning then went for a stroll along the seafront,
Funny accents you northern lot, and gravy with everything what's that all about!
found a Hungry horse pub for some tea
wouldn't go there again!
back to the Premier inn
in the car park was this beast all 5Ltrs of it



Day Two

Up early for breakfast at 6:30 crap food left most of it
wife demolished her helping.
left hotel around 7:10
signing on was due to start at 7:30
punched the postcode into the sat nav Cadwell was 30 mins away, at-least the car will be warm for the noise test

arrived at Cadwell about 8:10, found the other members from the gti6 forum that were going,
two Nicely turned out Bianca Rallyes and an Eton charged blaze 6, later on a 5 306 turned up looked to be a fully tricked out track car in a lime green.

change from my road wheels to my track tyres
some nice newish R888's

went and did noise test 92db @ 5K hmm my cars getting louder but all was fine as the limit was 105db

parked up and went to sign on which turned straight into the drivers briefing
same info as most other places with the same questions from the drivers
time for sighting laps behind coarse car!

wrist band for signing in
wrist band for drivers brief
sticker for car for noise test
signed sticker for sighting laps

from the sighting laps i could see this was going to be an epic day, this was not a flat circuit it had up hills,down hills, s's, and bloody hairpins,
nothing like I've been to before
coombe is flat with some bends
Llandow is flat with some bends

Cadwell is well, you can see why its nicknamed mini-Nurburgring



the other guys went out so i tagged along hoping to follow some lines but they had been here before and my Balls wern't that big yet!
so did a few laps at my pace to get to know the sequence of corners then came in to check tyres and fluids.

adjusted pressures as the fronts were to high and the rears were to high
and off we went again...

i was enjoying myself

Hall bends.
are epic but getting it stopped for the Hairpin you can so easy out-brake yourself....Bad idea as there is little to no run-off in that area!
Barn.
Is a hard corner to set up for as it tightens but you need speed to enter the straight..

Coppice.
this corner is something else its a flat straight into a left that climbs, how brave are you?
at the beginning of the day i was changing down to 3rd to take this but at the end of the day i was taking this corner flat in 4th under power! not to be done with cold tyres

Charlies.
out of coppice you climb and turn into a blind corner
keep wide then cut back aiming for the speaker pole in the distance you cant see yet then adjust for the final exit,

Parkstraight.
out of Charlies down hill then it rises again over the brow on power and down the gears to hard brakes to Park

Park.
this is tighter than it looks but you need speed on the exit

Chris curve.
POWER and hang on changing up the gears as i went, ATB diff working well stopping the understeer

Gooseneck.
ow man what a double corner getting it slowed, right followed by left that changes to downhill mid corner

Mansfield.
down hill slow it to a second gear hard right
each time pacing this made me smile as the marshal had his feet up in his hut
power up through the gears to one of my favourite combination

The mountain.
down the gears to 2nd, hard left then hard right to fast climb almost air at the top car goes so light the revs pick up at the traction changes

Power again to Hall bends to do it all again but better

Favourite corners!
coppice, show you've got balls and do it!
Gooseneck, for the shear amount of changes in one corner
Mountain, just like a roller-coaster at the top
Hall bends, got to be brave as no run off's

in and out for sessions all day i racked up a total of 147 track miles about 67 laps using 40 ltrs of fuel 16.7MPG


my tyres were excellent R888's did very well
with the ATB diff I'm not killing the outside edges with understeer so the tyres are evenly worn across the face
this is the first full track-day with the ATB and I'm well impressed







i went out for my last session at about 4pm stayed out quite a long time, temperatures were under control and not climbing all in the car worked as it should very well all day

i was changing back to my road tyres when i was offered a ride in the charged 6 oh yes please,
grabbed my helmet and was in as it was close to 5pm track closing time,
i think we managed 3 laps...an epic 3 laps being one of the last cars on the track
i must say a welded cage and proper seats and harnesses make a big difference in a car oh and the extra horses too

back to the paddock
finish changing the wheels pack the car and say goodbye to everyone

on the way back to Cleethorpes we stopped for a carvery in a pub which was a lot better that the stuff we ate the previous day

Day 3
Home day
reversed our trip of day one
A16->A180->M180->M18->M1->A42->M42->M5
320 miles used 38 ltrs of fuel to return 38MPG in the 6.
so it wern't a fluke! 38mpg on a run

any way home now and unpacked the car which needs a good wash as its ate lots of flies

the future of my 6..
i was spoilt going out in the charged 6 i would love that car but...
its not what I want from my car

I want a Sunday car I can take the wife across the moors
and do the occasional track day

Oh wait I have that now!

what i really want...
a Van so i can tow the car to track days further away so i can try more different circuits

Humm