Steve's GKD Legend

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Saturday, 22 September 2012

First track day

Actually it was a track evening at the Linköping Motorbana. About 2 hours drive south from Stockholm. 24 cars of varying types but mostly Porsche and BMW. The car performed really well apart from the rev limiter problem and too much pressure in the tyres. Someone at the track had their Seven (not racing) down to 0,9 bar. On acceleration and cornering it was equal to, or slightly better than the others but on the long 700m straight it only managed 160km/h (on the clock) so I was passed on several occasions!
The on-board gps recording 145km/h on one of the laps. I'm not sure how inaccurate the speedo is, 10% too fast at this speed maybe!
One time I managed to overshoot a 90% bend and locked up all the wheels in clouds of smoke! Spun another time and headed across the grass, stopping a few meters from the metal fencing. All that excitement was almost too much! Before next time though I need to sort out the limiter and tyres as well as install coil over plugs as well as get me some extra horsepower. I also need to sort out the correct driving line as I was pretty crap!
Giving the Porsches a run for their money - at least to the overtaking straight!

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