We took the Golf (Mark 3 GTI 16v) to Abingdon Airfield Trackday organised by Motorsport Events on 18th July.
Despite a bad weather forecast it stayed dry all day. The circuit was fairly fast with 3 tight chicanes and a couple of tricky corners. It was our first time at this course which made it interesting and the track was layed out anti clockwise which was a first.
The Golf went out nine times and performed faultlessly all day (again). We managed to improve our lap times by about 10 seconds over the day (timed by video afterwards not during the day which isn't allowed).
There was a nice MK2 Golf with a 2 litre bottom end and kr head, we went up against him on one session and we were pulling away from him on the straights but he was slightly faster than my wife through the corners, we were 2 up and he was on his own. He is on the ClubGTi list I believe.
Highlight of the day was when I mentioned to my wife that she could go round the slight bent before the chicane flat out without using the brakes, she thought I meant the chicane and went through the chicane sideways but controlled it very well, much better than I did from the passenger seat - priceless. Low point of the day was being overtaken by a Vauxhell Astra estate, not too bad when we found out he was turbo powered.
Got a day booked at Colerne next Saturday and a full day at Castle Combe at the end of the month. Few mods to do before next outing - remove carbon canister, fit lighter M3 mirrors, make a better cold air feed to the airbox and enlarge the hole in the airbox.
Paul