Finally, letting my hachi loose at the tracks!

[robokill]

Bas you should have driftet those 2nd gear corners :-) but still your springs suck and your koni aren't adjustet (told you to do it :-)

Pics look like alot of fun next time i wanne come to

[Mux213]

Ivan, they set pillons in the big corners to get the speed down. They got a number of complaints from the owner about the noice and drifting. Really sucked and a real downer for the day

The first round was a slalom course, atleast the big straight at the bottom they put a big slalom, the rest was formed by the corners in the middle part. I did a nice 1:02.19 and 1:02.25 there so I am pretty happy about the results.. Mind you, the car may have roled alot, it did drive very nicely, just a tad bit understeered.

Robo, I tried drifting but the setup I have now is mega understeered. I did get it almost into drift a few times, chickend out because in those corners there wasn't much room if it went wrong. If I had kicked the accel a little more....

That I did once on one of the bigger corners, nearly spinned and for some reason went straight into the grass over a VERY nasty bump. Nothing broke but it scared the hell out of me, thought the impact would have bent something

Drifting is for big parkinglots if you don't know how to do it

I'm gonne tinker around with the koni's soon, just haven't gotten around to it, I wanted to do the tires first! That already improved handling 10fold.

[Mux213]

Here are some more pictures from:

http://www.8200rpm.com/stuffvids/Lelystad2/index.html

[Mux213]

And another one.....

[NoHachi]

Mux...I know that bump....I feel your pain...

[Mux213]

NoHachi,

I believed you even warned me for it in the dutch forum

As far as i can tell no harm done so....

[The Doctor]

nice pics.
Looks like you had much fun overthere

[KristianAE86]

cool pics - but no helmets ????

[Mux213]

Hey Kristian,

Some people wear helmets (esp when they have a rollbar) but the speeds are to low and alot of distance is kept between cars. Very little can go wrong. I did take my helmet along just in case but didn't use it.

The way its done is that the cars line up at a part of the track and one of the marchels lets the car go on the track with about 15 to 20 seconds appart. When you've done your lap you just queue up at the end. There are about 12 cars on the circuit at a time. It takes around a minute to lap the track so you get a fare amount of laps

[NoHachi]

During the slalom days on the same track, the track layout is even slower and helmets are compulsary. If the car is in any way modified from stock setup, then a rollbar is compulsary. I believe these rules grew from experience so I'd think twice before running without a helmet.

The layout of this track is very tricky. Yes the speeds seem low, but there are almost no things to slow you down when things go wrong. In my case, I ended up on top of that hill/ridge you mentioned. All 4 wheels of the ground. If I had gone any faster I would have ended up over the ridge and onto the part of the track behind that. A fast competitor would have already reached that part of the track..do the math..

I read a couple of remarks on the gummen forum and strongly dissagree.
The lelystad circuit is NOT the ideal drifting location. There are almost no safety measures in place and certainly no run-off area's. The circuit is tolerated by the municipality. The first person that becomes seriously injured or killed will lead to the closure of the track.

Now imagine a club day, a FAR faster track layout then usual and a lot of drift indoctrated RWD people, some with skills but most with none at all. You can see that the stage seems set for disaster. It could have been you. That ridge could easily tip the car over.

The fact that a heavy ass alfa 75 V6 put in the fastest time of the day tells me enough. Speeds were much to high. Any lower and those heavy ass POS wouldn't stand a chance.

Just out of curiosity..what times did the E30 brigade run? I'm usually able to keep a couple of seconds between me and them, so that would be a nice indication.

(BTW the fastest times during slalom days are never lower than 1:00. these times are by formula fords/opel lotus and a couple 270bhp, 700kg Escort mk2's)