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TRAX 2001 TRAX 2001 REPORT 2 By Christian Middlemiss At 10:30 on a Saturday morning what a time to get up never normally see the sun before 12 but hey it was for a good cause, have brekkie go out and wash and wax my baby ready for the 4 hour trip south to Trax. When we arrive at the hotel i’m reminded of the pub from American Werewolf in London, what a complete dump in the middle of no-where (Fox and Hounds in Whittlebury don’t go "You see this finger??? That's why Martyn's smiling..." there). No toilet or cupboard in the room no facilities as you can imagine the good missus was not amused. I thought never mind a few bevies in the pub and all will be fine well after the 3 mile walk to the pub I forgot which one to meet in and my phone address book was knackered so I couldn’t contact anyone fek could it get any worse! Still started to watch the match and several pints later wasn’t feeling too bad, it was only Mark’s good foresight, in that he rang me to see where I was and luckily enough I picked the same pub as the rest of the crowd. England winning against Germany Saul nearly getting in to a fight with someone kicking a ball at his car and a Ruby later things were looking up. Early Sunday morning and we are up and out ready to meet at the Towcester Services for the convoy to Silverstone. The dual carriageway outside the Services was turned into a bit of a makeshift racetrack with a long procession of modded motors tearing past the services showing what they’ve got making me wish everyone would hurry up so we could get there and experience everything that is TRAX. Despite the fact it was early Sunday morning and everyone was feeling a bit worse for wear the drive into Silverstone soon woke me up the road was a bit rough to say the least and all the hard work of cleaning the motors was out the window as we travelled down the roughest dirtiest bit of track ever to get to our stand sorry Mark you may have spent the longest time I’ve ever seen in a jetwash but it all went out the window after the dust of that track. (Not as long as Saul) *Mark We all got parked up in the right order “eventually” and it was time to experience all that is trax. Once we had fought our way through the sea of Novas and Fords, I couldn’t believe how many there were the sad b*rds there were several smart cars that stood out though, the Purple modded Scooby (Redline cover car) was mint and have you ever seen so many Evo’s and P1’s in one place ever! I was in petrol head heaven. The two things that will remind me of Trax are the mental Porsche that flew through the sprints and the stoopid ass in the p1 that totalled his car on the track tee hee what a spoon. For my first southern car show I was well impressed with the quantity and quality of most of the cars (excluding the obvious), but out of all the stands I would say ours was one of the most professional a lot more so than some of the larger big named clubs. John did a superb job of playing the wife and cooking on the BBQ, the car spec sheets and sign were of such high quality that everyone noticed how professional the club is and they brought some much needed attention to our ever-growing club. A top shout goes out to everyone involved in the organising of the event (you know who you are), for a perfect day infact it was soo good even our pet monkey was well behaved tee hee. All that’s left to be said is roll on the Three Sisters (no not one of Dave’s fantasies), so we can prove that we are as cool and professional on the track as we are at the shows, infact I bet we surprise quite a lot of people with how swift our cars really are See you all there for another top day. "i tell you - I need balls this big to go out on the track"
CLUB EVENTS Gerrofff mahhh Larnnndd Curborough Track Day WOMBLE FREE ZONE The group gathered to see David perform the famous monkey dance Well another day, another few millimetres of rubber gone from everyone’s tyres. Yet again, another hugely successful track day was held on the 2nd November at Curborough Sprint course. A new venue for one of our events, but a very challenging circuit, with plenty of opportunities to out brake yourself, as demonstrated by a certain yellow Ibiza 16V and a yellow Leon 1.8T. A wide range of vehicles were there from 1.4 Ibiza’s to modified 1.8T Ibiza’s Everyone thought Johns impression of Chaz and Daves rabbit.rabbit.rabbit sucked. But Kylies Spinning around was better as well as many Cordoba’s and a couple of Leon’s, with one of the Cordoba’s making the long trip from Ireland, that was also the favourite to spin off, but more by luck than judgement somehow he managed to keep it on the grey stuff, but plenty of others made quick trips onto the grass. Steve “Nutter” Hutchinson was his normal self, put a rear wheel onto the grass and spun out at the chicane, while Mark Jones and Phil Parker, both managed to out brake themselves at the end of the long straight, but both got away with nothing but a few blades of grass in the suspension. Running the track clockwise to start with, each car went out one at a time, then later we ran the track anti clockwise, and in hindsight, that was not a good move, as there was plenty of drivers with very worried faces at both the top and bottom bends as there car understeered closer and closer to the grass each lap. Just before the end of the day, Bob Nash took the SEAT Drivers Club sponsored rally car out on track, and put in some very quick times, entertaining everyone at the same time. Scott’s Jap Look Cordoba, was an eyecatcher. Seemed to get John all excited, he just couldnt help himself. As usual many thanks to everyone that helped in both organising the event beforehand, and helping to run the event on the day (Mark P, Mark F, David, Pete, Saul) and anyone else I’ve forgot, now we start to work on next years track days. A big thank you goes out to the people who came on the day, hope you all enjoyed it and we hope we can organise bigger and better events in 2002. Now feast your eyes on the photo’s and a report by Saul too. >>> Usage of oil was optional. ;-)
Page 1 and 2: •FOR THE MEMBERS BY THE MEMBERS
Page 3 and 4: I G N I T I O N CLUB CONTACTS & INF
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Page 9 and 10: PISCHETSRIEDER TAKES CONTROL Bernd
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