Euro Trip 2012 (R8 Factory & Ring) - April

[Hedgehog Dodger]

My only decent vids are from the convoy on Monday morning!

I removed the camera at customs and was travelling to quick after to re-install it!  LOL.

Anyway, here goes....  Use headphones or decent speakers for full effect!

Nige and Adam actually disappear at the end of this one, completely out of shot!  :shock:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-KQZ6UQzw[/video]

Nige's V10, ASBO and Darth line up  :thumb:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ikoxJQtrd8[/video]

Tunnel Run 1 - ASBO

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7uPvqyTDs[/video]

Tunnel Run 2 - Don't think we we're very popular with the Volvo driver

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvuVw9t984[/video]

Your car sounds nice man.

Those are great videos.

I bet that guy in the Volvo though WTF is going on here!!!!

LOL Great vids m8

[amanda1]

I havce to say Amar's car looks the beez neez.

Also where is Amanda's red slug?

My 6 was there and went round but there are no photos of her I also went round for 2 laps in this and all I can say is OMG!!!



I want to say a massive thanks to Dave you lot missed a fab trip I am difinatly up for this next year. Was nice to meet old friends and make some new one

I have totalled my fuel Costs alone and it has come to £800 for this mileage door to door!!!! My god that 6 can drink at 140+ Was it worth it?????................OMG YES

[chunky79]

So after 11 laps in the swift I decided to do the last hour in the R8... OMG now things started to liven up, I had tracked the car at Snetts on 888’s but had my road wheels with Michelin Pilot Super Sports on and the grip was nout short of phenomenal. Took DK out for a warm up (not slow) then Pete (fantastic lap with Sonny on a mission, he has fantastic car control and nads of steel, big respect for staying in front of an R8 V10 in the B7 also on road rubber!!) and finally took a German friend of Amanda’s round who knows the place very well and he was very complimentary... he actually jumped out to look and ask what tyres I was running, was shocked at the grip I had.

Thank god, somebody else knows the score with these tyres! I am running them in 275/30/19 form on mine and I have been preaching to the others about the rude levels of grip on them. Chunky however, will swallow his own tongue before stating that there might actually be something better out there that his Goodyears lol.

I have been really ragging these tyres over the last few weeks (especially now with the XP10 pads in) and they are nothing short of sensational in my experience of a lot of different tyres over the years. They are bloody good in the wet too imo, did a few esp-off damp/wet powerslide runs at the weekend around a roundabout at the bottom of the A331 and again, perfectly controlled. Madam was in the car at the time too and felt perfectly safe.

Just imagine how much faster you could have gone with goodyears

Sadly i have never driven a car with mich's on so can't comment on them.

[sonny]

Great write up Nige, enjoyed reading that!

[sonny]

Well I have just worked out how much that trip cost me...

5 tanks of fuel total £454
25 lap Ring ticket £416
Hotel £84
Chunnel (late book) £167
Food and drink around £60

Total £1182

You cant put a price on fun

[bam_bam]

You cant put a price on fun

Errrrm, yeah ya can! Fun costs £1182.

[HYFR]

only cost me £500 but i had a mate to go halves with some things, used Tesco vouchers for my Chunnel and had a fecken 1.2TFSI Leon and didnt do 1,000,000 laps like Sonny did

[Mr V10]

DK - How much were the Swifts? I'm definitely hiring them next time.

[HYFR]

Go on rent4ring website

They are pretty cheap if you share them

Start from 99e for 1hr. We paid 199e for the whole 6hr TF session

[Mr V10]

Just googled it, that is very cheap. Regret not getting one now. Next trip can't come quick enough.

[JCviggen]

Looks like you all had a blast. Miss sitting in the PK at night talking about the eventful laps of the day Maybe next year again...too bad my RS6 is too far away and too unsuitable, hopefully I can pick up a B7 RS4 some time and keep that in Europe for fun.

I bet that guy in the Volvo though WTF is going on here!!!!

Hah, gotto be careful with some of those volvo turbos though My T-5R was way faster than my remapped C5, at least up to 160 or so when it ran out of gearing.
It's currently being rebuilt with a bigger turbo and everything FIA so we can compete with it in some german championships.

Just googled it, that is very cheap. Regret not getting one now. Next trip can't come quick enough.

It's cheap if you don't write them off. There's quite a bit of excess.

[HYFR]

Excess is only 2.5k€

Cheeeep!

[JCviggen]

Excess is only 2.5k€

Cheeeep!

Plus all the barrier & posts you'll need to write it off

[sonny]

Few pics from the iphone

[RS04YOB]

Well thats me home 1600 miles odd more and a couple of table spoons down. I missed the LMS tour because the traffic was hidious at that time and could not queeze into the layby I was made up with the R8 tour and the ring it's self which was a eye opener.

Few of my pic's that are very much the same as everyones else but never mind