Chennai Track Day on 27/07/08 - Pics and reports. EDIT: July 09 pics added

esteem_lover · 27th July 2009, 15:38

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Originally Posted by petrol_head

I doubt if it was paid for

Then that would be the cheapest laps in history.

Hurray for the mistress !!

Nikhilb2008 · 27th July 2009, 15:48

Heh. Nice! Wish I could have come.

Bottle was in awe of his XM1+. Says they were superb. He was thinking of upgrading to Advans, but after the trackday, he says he will never shift from the XM1s! :

yzfrj · 27th July 2009, 15:58

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Originally Posted by headers

The timing was in the range on 2.20m.

Ahem...!

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Originally Posted by nitrous

Since I wasn't driving, I was timing everyone. There wasn't one car which broke 2.30 yesterday.

Why did't you drive ?

Where are the pics guys ?

narayan · 27th July 2009, 16:04

when was this ? never saw any discussions on this coming up ?

fiery enzyme · 27th July 2009, 16:26

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Originally Posted by narayan

when was this ? never saw any discussions on this coming up ?

And I was wondering why you were missing.

btw, I though a lot more pictures were taken.

petrol_head · 27th July 2009, 16:30

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Originally Posted by esteem_lover

Then that would be the cheapest laps in history.

Hurray for the mistress !!

Just kidding... Was supposed to be a joke .. Duh!!!

Waiting for the photos.. not many from my cam. Guess venom rider, bottle and neo should have quite a few pics. Venom even had quite a few videos.

neoranjit · 27th July 2009, 16:36

neo did not shoot pics. He was busy on the track.

headers · 27th July 2009, 16:52

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Originally Posted by nitrous

Since I wasn't driving, I was timing everyone. There wasn't one car which broke 2.30 yesterday. I think petrol_head,bottle were doing ~2.30s.

Sir, You were busy yapping with everyone while we were busy on track - It was your open challenge that prompted "me" to time myself while i went on track. We were least bothered about timings when we came to the track. So kindly refrain from areas which you are not familiar with

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Originally Posted by neoranjit

No. The mistress did a couple of laps after all of us were done.

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Originally Posted by esteem_lover

The exclusive test drive, eh?

Yup some like it exclusive for the fear of being timed

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Originally Posted by neoranjit

Once you are on the track, you should not think about VFM. Every minute spent is VFM by itself

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Originally Posted by neoranjit

neo did not shoot pics. He was busy on the track.

Wow. I thought Neo did a photoshoot with a henchman on duty!

OK, where are the pics guys!

Its great to know that you guys had a blast!

And for people who missed out - Sorry, we did a last moment plan and landed up. Maybe the next time we will try and be a little more planned!

nitrous · 27th July 2009, 19:00

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Originally Posted by headers

Sir, You were busy yapping with everyone while we were busy on track - It was your open challenge that prompted "me" to time myself while i went on track. We were least bothered about timings when we came to the track. So kindly refrain from areas which you are not familiar with

I wonder how you "saw" me yapping at the pits while you were busy driving on the circuit.
Since you took it in such a "sportive" way, I'll post what I didnt want to discuss. I'd just say that everyone at the track knows your timing you did in the sx4.

I'm sure petrol_head will concur that you said 3:20.
Maybe,next time you can do a 2:20 and I will post it on here. Its easy to just throw figures.But, I've learnt how tough it is to make every 10th past 2.30 having had ZERO circuit driving training whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by headers

There was a slight issue with braking but one gets used to it in a couple of laps. The timing was in the range on 2.20m.

Even without the bad brakes, you can't do that. You wanna prove me wrong, go ahead.

headers · 27th July 2009, 20:13

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Originally Posted by nitrous

But, I've learnt how tough it is to make every 10th past 2.30 having had ZERO circuit driving training whatsoever.

Nitrous, just walk the talk. No point throwing words at anyone and everyone.

If you did not have circuit driving training, then you better understand that there are others who've had it and ARE better than you are. No offense to you. CHILL - PERIOD

nitrous · 27th July 2009, 20:54

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Originally Posted by headers

just walk the talk.

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Originally Posted by headers

The timing was in the range on 2.20m.

Look who's talking!

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Originally Posted by headers

I also managed to have a nice tug with Venom_rider and Petrol_head both of whom overtook me after a lap or so not because they were faster - Its because I was not pushing

I'm pretty sure as the better professionally trained driver you are, you could have kept those puny cars and street drivers at bay with the SX4.

Note: This is just a technical discussion to bring out the importance of lap times to avoid fantasy lap timings being thrown on this international forum.
Cheers

ajmat · 27th July 2009, 21:11

Note from Mods

Please stop the cat fight

yzfrj · 27th July 2009, 21:21

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Originally Posted by nitrous

how tough it is to make every 10th past 2.30 having had ZERO circuit driving training whatsoever.

Well, with a stock car with adequate power 2:20 is possible I'd say. It means an average speed of just over 100 Km/Hr

Track distance 3.717 kms (Full loop)

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Originally Posted by headers

just walk the talk

Walk when you talk ?

PS : Its just a way to have some fun time, why you guys getting so serious ? For example see Jackass err... I mean petrol_head

Disclaimer : Last time I was on the track I was doing 2:40 ("stopwatch" timing on my own so accuracy is anybodies guess. ) lap in my Zen (93Km/Hr average speed). I was the best I could do without breaking me or the car.

EDIT : Next time is there anyway we can get someone to get people timed accurately ? Its a track right, so they will have the "stuff" required.

Dug this up from Old P&P we had

Swift with RD ECU set a P2 mode - 2:22
SX4 2:27 (Yup the one with the turbo)
Elantra 2:17

Please note all the cars did have some "mods", however 2:20 is not impossible with a good stock, street spec car with no mods.

petrol_head · 27th July 2009, 22:17

I guess everyone is getting something a little wrong out here. From what I understand what Headers actually meant was a lap in the 2 minute 20s region.. just that so much attention was paid to exact lettering that everyone presumed it was a 2:20.

At the end of the day no one was out there to take lap readings. It was purely an outing just to have fun so why get all worked up about it. Timings were irrelevant.

But ... but... I remember Slipstream timing one of the laps on the swift at 2:35. If those figures were true with the conservative driving that was done in the swift (The car just has just 1800 kms on the odo) I see no reason why a late 2 minute 20s (read as 2:27, 2:28, 2:29) is not possible with the ikon. I remember seeing one of the onboard videos from the last track day where I have the ikon doing late 2:31s (calculated using the player's timing counter so accuracy may not be great.. but still). That time it was done with
1. A first timer in a car on track (atleast in the same car)
2. A broken brake oil reservoir which meant the car hardly had any brakes
3. A severe bout of tyre damage phobia (my yokohamas were 40 kms old)
4. A camera that had to be held in place (of course someone else was holding it)

So this time when none of those issues existed I fail to see why the timing could not have been below 2:30. I did not bother timing my laps or anyone else's laps, its just a calculated guess. but either ways it does not really matter as the whole purpose of the meet was get out on a sunday and have some fun. If people get so worked up about what times others are setting, lets get it formally timed the next time around and put this discussion to rest. At the end of the day if we had really bothered about those hallowed figures, we would have bothered getting it timed. But noone of us did. That is where it ends so it really does not matter who set what.

Lets end this and appreciate the good time we had the other day. Photos awaited

Venom_rider · 27th July 2009, 22:23

Was awesome guys... thanks for arranging!

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Originally Posted by headers

I also managed to have a nice tug with Venom_rider and Petrol_head both of whom overtook me after a lap or so not because they were faster - Its because I was not pushing

ahem... I have video proof

LOL

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Originally Posted by petrol_head

Where are the photos and videos? Venom Rider.. waiting for your on board shots dude... especially the C1 adventure...

Coming up in a while, I don't have much probably around 15 - 20 snaps that's about it.

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27th July 2009, 22:17	#89
petrol_head BHPian Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Madras Posts: 234 Thanked: 60 Times	I guess everyone is getting something a little wrong out here. From what I understand what Headers actually meant was a lap in the 2 minute 20s region.. just that so much attention was paid to exact lettering that everyone presumed it was a 2:20. At the end of the day no one was out there to take lap readings. It was purely an outing just to have fun so why get all worked up about it. Timings were irrelevant. But ... but... I remember Slipstream timing one of the laps on the swift at 2:35. If those figures were true with the conservative driving that was done in the swift (The car just has just 1800 kms on the odo) I see no reason why a late 2 minute 20s (read as 2:27, 2:28, 2:29) is not possible with the ikon. I remember seeing one of the onboard videos from the last track day where I have the ikon doing late 2:31s (calculated using the player's timing counter so accuracy may not be great.. but still). That time it was done with 1. A first timer in a car on track (atleast in the same car) 2. A broken brake oil reservoir which meant the car hardly had any brakes 3. A severe bout of tyre damage phobia (my yokohamas were 40 kms old) 4. A camera that had to be held in place (of course someone else was holding it) So this time when none of those issues existed I fail to see why the timing could not have been below 2:30. I did not bother timing my laps or anyone else's laps, its just a calculated guess. but either ways it does not really matter as the whole purpose of the meet was get out on a sunday and have some fun. If people get so worked up about what times others are setting, lets get it formally timed the next time around and put this discussion to rest. At the end of the day if we had really bothered about those hallowed figures, we would have bothered getting it timed. But noone of us did. That is where it ends so it really does not matter who set what. Lets end this and appreciate the good time we had the other day. Photos awaited
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