Ever
wonder what it feels like to get up at 5am on a Sunday
morning? Well let me tell you, DAMN it smarts! But if
we were going to get to Donington before track breifing,
we were gonna have to get a move on! We all met up at
the randezvous point, and loaded up the 'Support vehicle'
AKA, Wills Trueno, and then headed off down the A50,
hoping that the rain would hold off so the slicks could
come out to play on track! |
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We
arrive at 8:00, which gives Ian and Gray some time to
prep, whilst Will and myself go and hunt out the Press
office so I can sign on. I get myself infield, and at
9am I get the call, the car's ready, the lads are ready,
the track's going live! Here we go with what will hopefully
be a cracking days track action! The first session starts,
and Ian takes it easy for the first few laps to get
a feel for the car and the numerous corners |
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around Donington Parks short circuit. After a couple
of laps the car feels good, so he lets it fly and puts
in a couple of cracking laps. Soon after in all the
excitement an Elise tackles the chicane in front of
me with a little too much enthusiasm and the back end
decides it's time it became the front end, right as
Ian's closing on him from behind fast! With a bit of
quick thinking a collision is avoided, but the Pug pulls |
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into
the pits! I wonder to myself what's happened and hope
it's just time for a driver change. A couple of minutes
later my phone rings, and it's Will. This doesn't look
good! "Errrrr we've got some bad news, They've
been black flagged for being over the sound limit!"
Now at a racing circuit with Jumbo jet from the nearby
east Mids airport flying over you'd thing they'd get
away with a fairly high dB limit...... |
