RESULT!

 

A whole track day and not a single breakdown! In fact, there's nothing wrong with the car at the moment (for once!). All it needed for the day was a little top up of oil halfway through, and the rubber sheaths that cover the anti-roll bar connections to the front hubs are shot, but that's not a big issue.

 

The day went off without a hitch, even my dad had a drive, and I think Matt and Keeley enjoyed being ballast. I turned a time (you're not meant to time it but I one of my friends was timing various things all day out of interest) of about 1:33.9 which is 2 seconds behind the qualifying time for the car last year, but then I was carrying a passenger and a full fuel load at the time (probably 60kg's, approx 10% more weight than when the car was racing) so I'm more than happy with it. Especially since a TVR in the advanced session was only turning 1:34's! The day was awesome and since it was so quiet the sessions were extended to 30 mins each... so can't complain with 3.5 hours of track time for £135. Once again got to overtake some Ferrari's etc. (considering putting the fighter pilot style prancing horses for each Ferrari 'kill' I make, as per this months evo magazine!) but without a doubt the most impressive car on the day was a Porsche 996 GT3, cornered as fast as my car, but without the inside-wheel squealing courtesy of my live axle, then blasts off down the straights like it's got a warp drive or something...maybe when I'm older!

 

Next job is to change the cam-belt. Don't know when it was last changed so gonna do it just to be sure. Next year I'll be looking into buying an Academy car for the 2008, if I can get reasonable finance after uni!