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Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« on: 30 April 2009, 19:24 »
With a 6.3 mile track this should be incredible:



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I'll be driving and marshaling, for what it's worth.
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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #1 on: 04 May 2009, 20:22 »
That looks mint  :cool: :cool:
And for a good cause too!

My one concern though... won't concrete dust be bad for the car?

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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #2 on: 04 May 2009, 22:51 »
oh my, that looks good  :cool:

if only i havent spent all my monies already on going to the ring later this year.
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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #3 on: 05 May 2009, 01:57 »
That looks mint  :cool: :cool:
And for a good cause too!

My one concern though... won't concrete dust be bad for the car?

can't see concrete dust damaging the car.  tho concrete dose eat tyers so will be on nasty nangkangs or something cheep after i finish off trashing the toyos
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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #4 on: 05 May 2009, 09:27 »
If only i havent spent all my monies already on going to the ring later this year.

Go to the 'ring any time.

You've probably got the opportunity to do this only once.

I'll not be wearing my R888s for this one - T1-Rs to DEATH all the way  :grin:
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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #5 on: 05 May 2009, 16:43 »
That looks mint  :cool: :cool:
And for a good cause too!

My one concern though... won't concrete dust be bad for the car?

can't see concrete dust damaging the car.  tho concrete dose eat tyers so will be on nasty nangkangs or something cheep after i finish off trashing the toyos

Won't it get into all the bearings and what not?

Really am tempted to go to this though!

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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #6 on: 05 May 2009, 17:06 »
id be more worried about the lack of runoff! can see quite a few crashes happening. i hope theres a lot of marshalls there

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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #7 on: 05 May 2009, 18:24 »
id be more worried about the lack of runoff! can see quite a few crashes happening. i hope theres a lot of marshalls there

That's because it's not Brands Hatch, which is for laydees.

You may find there's a *slightly* brighter set of sparks at this event than most of the numpty track-day events out there.  I'm not saying accidents won't happen, but there's likely to be less have-a-go-heroes.
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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #8 on: 05 May 2009, 18:32 »
lol, whys that? are you only letting good drivers run?
its 4 times as long as most circuits, and noones gonna be familiar with it, plus the surface is dusty and theres no run off as mentioned. i think youll find theres a lot more crashes than normal, thats all im saying. no need to get all defensive and start insulting as usual

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Re: Unique MOD charity track-day at Bovington, Dorset
« Reply #9 on: 05 May 2009, 19:59 »
i think youll find theres a lot more crashes than normal, thats all im saying. no need to get all defensive and start insulting as usual

Define 'more than normal' in the context of a track on which track-day events have never been run?

The smaller, targeted events, (like this) where most of the drivers can remember the eighties, to which I tend to go only seem to have a very occasional off, rather than the demolition derbys you seem to be anticipating and are maybe more familiar with.  Maybe that's why you think there's going to be all this carnage?

Either way, it's clearly below you and it's a relief you won't be lowering yourself to this sort of event.  :rolleyes:
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