SKCC - Southern Kit Car Club. A Club for kit car owners across Southern England. Kent, Sussex, East Hants, Surrey, Berks, Middlesex, London

Morning all,

Just thought I'd share a video and some blurb from / about a trackday I attended at Oulton Park on Friday.

I appreciate this circuit is a long way from most of you, but if you're track-inclined I strongly recommend it goes on 'the list' - definitely one of the best, if not the best, in the UK

Anyway, it was a classic December trackday with a wet track, temperatures hovering around zero and a severe lack of grip, which made sure concentration levels were high! A dry-ish line appeared throughout the course of the day which allowed everyone to press on a bit.

One of the highlights of my day was receiving some instruction from a chap called Mike Wilds. Mike's currently in his 50th year of paid racing, did a few Formula1 races in the 70s, won the Britcar in 2008, and his son came 2nd in the Westfield race series a few years back - so he knows his onoins. To be honest I was a little nervous of what he might say, haha, but luckily he was fairly complimentary about my driving, highlighted some areas where I could improve and went on to say that my car handled beautifully and asked if he could have a go - result! I've been tinkering with car set up, spring rates, damping changes, geometry and home-making various iterations of anti roll bars for the last 18 months or so and it all felt to me like it came together on this day, so to have someone back that up was great.

I've rambled on enough, here's a video! Hopefully see some of you out and about on the track next season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcj__NEuSa4

Cheers,
Adam

Excellent - sound like you had a good day

Nice one Adam, looks like you had fun. Great video as well.

Good video, nice smooth driving when you were following the Radical
From the marks on the grass there were a few offs during the day.

Great video - looked quick and lots of fun. Armco is very close to the edge of the track in a lot of sections isn't it!

Cheers guys. Yes, smooth was the order of the day - and there were indeed a few offs, including one where a BMW got so stuck they had to find a tractor to pull him out!

Close armco? Tell me about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4D-g2Hz6Q

AdamR wrote:One of the highlights of my day was receiving some instruction from a chap called Mike Wilds.

My jaw dropped when I got as far as this, and it took me another 10 minutes to calm down and read the rest. Wow. Worth going just for that. Has he still got his upside down teardrop helmet? I remember reading his Autosport column back in the '80s. Geez, I'm getting old....

Your comment about Oulton being one of the best in the UK. Can't argue with that. But, have you done Cadwell? Armco's a bit "bitey" there as well if you're not careful.

Yeah, definitely worth it just for that - and it was free, so can't argue!

Haha, his helmet didn't seem anything strange to me (ooh err missus), it was bright yellow though

I have indeed done Cadwell, a few times, and also know the armco there fairly well...



There's a common theme running here, isn't there? haha

You're a lot braver than me!
Well done for posting the Armco video, it looked like you nearly saved it.