Hot Marque?

Eager to try out our new improvements Nick and I noticed there was to be a Hot Marques' track day on the 7th February 09. Now this is supposed to be for prestige marks and expensive cars only........but, the pig is a Porsche, that's prestigious......right?!!

Anyway, a quick phone call by myself to confirm that she wasn't a complete dog and they let us book on - result!

Well, the day dawned and we were greeted with a beautiful crisp winters morning. Filled with anticipation and excitement we set out on track. WOW, the car grips, it actually grips....where did this come from?!!?

Previously we had a bit of comical understeer at every corner but the new tires were a revelation. The car seemed perfectly balanced, it gave masses of confidence to the driver to just throw it in at speed and wrestle it through but it could also be made to dance and flow through the bends.....oh, now this was a good idea - why didn't we do it sooner! We shared the track with some pretty special machinery including one of my favorite cars a Ferrari 360 CS, I mean we were faster than it obviously and had to slow down to let it past....but it was worth it to hear it fly past....;) (faster than it, yeah right!)

The brakes were still an area of concern, the rears would lock up under heavy braking before the fronts would, we decided to investigate later on, we were having too much fun!

One thing that did become apparent on the day (now that the car actually went round the corners), the suspension might need looking at :)



Credit to MotionImages for the pic