My first Track Day 
So apart from having spent all my life, lusting for na experience like this, I have always shone away from it, terrified of something going wrong (even though I’ve had a track day car for 6 years [Group N 106 Rallye] and just banged around through mountain regions rather than tracking the actual thing) so I had never actually been on a track day.
As expected I had sh*t 3 hours of sleep whilst playing out all the dramas that could occur the morning after, had some breakie, checked tyre pressures were all equal and off I went to the local circuit Vasco Sameiro in Braga, Portugal.
Here we have around 3 or 4 different organizers for TD’s and I had to start off with the least organized. Getting in, was a bitch (there were still people filling out registration forms on the cue into the track, while others were changing wheels in the cue) but eventually I was parked, waiting to line up.
I slot the car into N mode, and then, with the car stationary, idling, the thing starts shaking as if I had a cage full of bunnies getting their freak on in the back. Scared as fook, got my helmet off, to try to hear any wierd noises, turned it off and on, and all was good. Any clues on this??
Two laps into the first outing and my tyre pressure up front was at 3,1 Bar and I could feel the tyres slightly baloony, so I stopped to see if I could get a pressure gauge from someone and lower those airships grabbing onto my wheels.
On the second outing I started to feel the brake pedal much mushier than usual, not going down, not exactly feeling the heat from the rotors, just, a worse pedal feel, and two days later I still have that, so I imagine I boiled the stock fluid and have to change to something sexier.
Conclusion: Loved it! Probably not the best idea to start off with a 300bhp car on a first track day, but everything went well, as I kept ECS in sport mode and definitely leaned on its safety net quite a few times to find the limits. I might invest on a few cooling mods, just to make sure the car holds well with the next TDs I’m getting myself into.
Mods for next track day ~November:
Pressue gauge: BOUGHT
New brake fluid: Can this be installed the usual way, or are there any new valves which may require this to be done at a dealer?
Remove rear seats and spare wheel (didn’t remove this time for a rough idea of how this can affect lap time)
So apart from having spent all my life, lusting for na experience like this, I have always shone away from it, terrified of something going wrong (even though I’ve had a track day car for 6 years [Group N 106 Rallye] and just banged around through mountain regions rather than tracking the actual thing) so I had never actually been on a track day.
As expected I had sh*t 3 hours of sleep whilst playing out all the dramas that could occur the morning after, had some breakie, checked tyre pressures were all equal and off I went to the local circuit Vasco Sameiro in Braga, Portugal.
Here we have around 3 or 4 different organizers for TD’s and I had to start off with the least organized. Getting in, was a bitch (there were still people filling out registration forms on the cue into the track, while others were changing wheels in the cue) but eventually I was parked, waiting to line up.
I slot the car into N mode, and then, with the car stationary, idling, the thing starts shaking as if I had a cage full of bunnies getting their freak on in the back. Scared as fook, got my helmet off, to try to hear any wierd noises, turned it off and on, and all was good. Any clues on this??
Two laps into the first outing and my tyre pressure up front was at 3,1 Bar and I could feel the tyres slightly baloony, so I stopped to see if I could get a pressure gauge from someone and lower those airships grabbing onto my wheels.
On the second outing I started to feel the brake pedal much mushier than usual, not going down, not exactly feeling the heat from the rotors, just, a worse pedal feel, and two days later I still have that, so I imagine I boiled the stock fluid and have to change to something sexier.
Conclusion: Loved it! Probably not the best idea to start off with a 300bhp car on a first track day, but everything went well, as I kept ECS in sport mode and definitely leaned on its safety net quite a few times to find the limits. I might invest on a few cooling mods, just to make sure the car holds well with the next TDs I’m getting myself into.
Mods for next track day ~November:
Pressue gauge: BOUGHT
New brake fluid: Can this be installed the usual way, or are there any new valves which may require this to be done at a dealer?
Remove rear seats and spare wheel (didn’t remove this time for a rough idea of how this can affect lap time)
Best upgrade I've ever done is braided lines and Castrol SRF race fluid.
