Monday 31 August 2009

Stirling Moss?

It may not look it but I was moving very fast here.

This is the track day that I went to last week, a present from my dad. After a briefing session about how not to crash the car (or I would have to pay the damages), I got to go out on the track in a mini cooper with an instructor. We did a few circuits so that I could get used to the racing line, where to turn into the corners, and generally not having to worry about speed cameras. Then it was straight into the single seater to be let loose on the track and see how fast I could go, it really wasn't all about speed though, braking at the right time and getting around the bends without loosing too much speed was half the battle. But the car was very fast on the straights, I didn't have too much trouble passing the Ferrari 360's that were using the track at the same time.
A great experience - I think I could go for a career change.