Baptised

Well after the beautiful clear conditions of the Hot Marques day the next TrackScotland day was a touch wet to say the least! It was the 7th March and it would be our first time out in the wet....it was little daunting waiting to go out but living in Scotland wet trackdays were going to be something we had to get used too!

Since the last track day we had investigated the braking issue and couldn't really see anything very wrong. The brakes were working so we left for the track confident with the wet weather that high speed braking would not really be an issue.

Well, for the second track day in a row the little pig surprised us. The tires still offered up huge amounts of grip and we were finally faster than other cars out on track, it was as if some of them were in reverse. Now you could put this new found speed down to an increased ability level......however i fear it may be more down to the fact we are not smart enough to alter our brake points or too worried about the car sliding off into a barrier :) we were braking later and harder than a lot of cars out there, carrying good speed through the bends and only really losing out on the straights.




Due to the wet conditions the pig had a little but of understeer on a few bends but was very communicative and let you know what was going on at all times, including the time i put the rear wheels on the outside kerb on turn in causing the rear to step out :)

Towards the end of the day the front brakes were shot and due to this the rear wheels were locking up under heavy braking which provide some interesting moments.....

So, we vowed that before the next track day in a couple of weeks will need a new Master Brake Cylinder and a quick rebuild of the front calipers. Great fun as always though and I cant think of a better way to spend a rainy Saturday!