Audi Driver International 2012

[R5YUG]

A great day, really feel more trusting of my RS3 traction control now...
Even if I did get cautioned for 'drifting'

That Rs6 was smoking badly, quick in a straight line though!

Really enjoyed my spin in the in the GT, and won a session in the RS4 at Millbrook with Audi next week - bonus!

[PhilT]

Saw you, but didn't get to say hello. Sorry

[Ian_C]

A great day, really feel more trusting of my RS3 traction control now...
Even if I did get cautioned for 'drifting'

That Rs6 was smoking badly, quick in a straight line though!

Really enjoyed my spin in the in the GT, and won a session in the RS4 at Millbrook with Audi next week - bonus!

Daytona RS*3GUY? Yeah you were going for it on track! Recall giving you a wave as you finished a session and drove passed the RS246 area

[chunky79]

Strange, i put about 3 pics of darth up this morning

I read over on the other site that the golf driver who was really ragging the arse of hismotor got told off for sliding it around the corners
Must have been around 4 times we ran out of the bridge when hearing tyres screetching only to see him going down the straight.

[PhilT]

Guys, please deal with this asap:

On Saturday night there was some slight confusion in that 8 members of RS246 turned up for the meal but only 5 had paid. I didn't want to cause a fuss and let them stay, but said we would need payment on Mon/Tues.

Below are the 5 who had paid:
Duncan
Faye
Nick + 1
Luke

I have left a message with Luke as he had already paid for himself, so he just needs to pay for his partner.
Can you contact these two people and ask them to ring me today with payment - thanks

Sally
Tel: 01525 750 500

[Mr V10]

For the record, I gatecrashed the dinner and have made contact with Sally now to arrange payment for it, I was going to see if she'd forget as I didn't really even eat it and also, Autometrix offered me a refund on my sprint runs when they had to close early at GTI International which I didn't take them up on, so technically, I'd already paid for that dinner months in advance anyway.

[Jonmurgie]

Strange, i put about 3 pics of darth up this morning

I read over on the other site that the golf driver who was really ragging the arse of hismotor got told off for sliding it around the corners
Must have been around 4 times we ran out of the bridge when hearing tyres screetching only to see him going down the straight.

He does make me laugh - crashed in front of me at the last VAG day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ct00zG5AQ&t=6m40s

I make a comment about serving him right - seems more of you have now seen how he drives!!

That's also why he had the grey wing/bonnet on:

[chunky79]

Guys, please deal with this asap:

On Saturday night there was some slight confusion in that 8 members of RS246 turned up for the meal but only 5 had paid. I didn't want to cause a fuss and let them stay, but said we would need payment on Mon/Tues.

Below are the 5 who had paid:
Duncan
Faye
Nick + 1
Luke

I have left a message with Luke as he had already paid for himself, so he just needs to pay for his partner.
Can you contact these two people and ask them to ring me today with payment - thanks

Sally
Tel: 01525 750 500

If that's all she said then result.

Sally was great on the night and we really should thank her, so, Thank you Sally.

[chunky79]

Jon, your mate was driving how I would. It was a track day and he wasn't putting anyone else on the track in danger so fair play to him.

[Ian_C]

Would Autometrix be the people to contact reference obtaining photos taken by the photographer hanging out the passenger window of the Golf during the childrens parade and club members parade?

[Jonmurgie]

Jon, your mate was driving how I would. It was a track day and he wasn't putting anyone else on the track in danger so fair play to him.

That's me driving my RS4

[R5YUG]

A great day, really feel more trusting of my RS3 traction control now...
Even if I did get cautioned for 'drifting'

That Rs6 was smoking badly, quick in a straight line though!

Really enjoyed my spin in the in the GT, and won a session in the RS4 at Millbrook with Audi next week - bonus!

Daytona RS*3GUY? Yeah you were going for it on track! Recall giving you a wave as you finished a session and drove passed the RS246 area

Yes the rather abused RSX3GUY was me :-0
I did cheekily park on the club stand (apologies I hadn't organised this but didn't have the time with work etc.) I have several paid up stickers.

Over the years I have visited Combe several times before, previously in my Supercharged Corrado VR6, R32 Turbo and B5 RS4. I was keen to get an understanding of how the RS3 technical trickery deals with things. I haven't really had the chance to push the car on the road since buying it in May so this was a great opportunity to 'have some right foot fun!'

I got there really early and did the drivers briefing / noise emissions first @08:30 so was the first out on track at just before 9am. - I must had done about 7 laps with the track all to myself when I decided it was just too wet out there.

I purposely had some cheapo Nangkang tyres fitted on the front of my recently fitted BBS LM's... they aren't great in the wet I have found, and I wasn't prepared to risk my relatively low mile car driving with traction control fully off!

I had a thoroughly great day and did a full tank of Esso high octane fuel! On the track the RS3 is a completely different car - I have far more confidence in what it can and can't do now. The stability program was killing power but it made for an interesting drive when throwing it into corners with your foot flat to the floor. On my last run at about 3:30pm - it was getting wet again, and as I had gained the comfort in how the ESP would assist, I really threw it into the corners and had it sliding about quite a bit. (I need new tyres on the front!) - The marshal's seemed to think I was four wheel drifting - I didn't get black flagged but was warned when I came in OOPs -

I will be interested to see if anyone has any video footage of this? I found some brief youtube clips?
I found some clips of me driving past on YT, but any other links would be appreciated.
The black RS6 was quick in a straight line (smoking quite badly) but slow in the corners, apart from the enjoyable drive in the GT spider with Audi (thanks I also won a drive in the new RS4 next week @ Millbrook too!).
My highlight had to be the red H plated (Welsh plates) mk2 Golf that was being driven within an inch of it's life but had the perfect apex on all the corners, despite him being on 3 wheels every corner I couldn't get the space to overtake him. - Quality moment was the look on the face of the 997 4s driver when we both came past him

Some great pictures I found here... (and for download at quite a cost) - has anyone else found a good thread of the pictures from the day?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42000933@N02/8084231305/

Nice to speak to some of you and I'll be looking forward to the event... hoping my R32 Turbo will be ready for the VW driver day in July first.

For those that haven't taken their car on a track before I can thoroughly recommend this experience to help understand the limits of grip and handling... really helps you if you ever need to use it on the road.

Guy
(– who is now arranging a MRC stage2+ as the RS3 in standard trim just doesn’t have enough ummmmph above 60mph!)

[Mr Footlong]

He does make me laugh - crashed in front of me at the last VAG day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ct00zG5AQ&t=6m40s

I make a comment about serving him right - seems more of you have now seen how he drives!!

That's also why he had the grey wing/bonnet on:

I loved the guy and honestly he was driving exactly how I would have been too. You have helmets, you are on a track, your car is worth £50 on a good day, drive it like you bloody well stole it. I kept watching with a big grin every time that he came around as I knew he was genuinely giving it his all and if you aren't doing that, why are you on the track exactly?

[Mr Footlong]

For the record, I gatecrashed the dinner and have made contact with Sally now to arrange payment for it, I was going to see if she'd forget as I didn't really even eat it and also, Autometrix offered me a refund on my sprint runs when they had to close early at GTI International which I didn't take them up on, so technically, I'd already paid for that dinner months in advance anyway.

Lol Amar, did you tell her that the bigger boys made you do it? I emailed her yesterday morning to thank her for going to so much trouble arranging the event and dealing with the mix up, she handled it brilliantly. At the end of the Day Bam was utterly certain that his +1 was confirmed and this got lost in translation somewhere. The 3 people bunched at that table shouldn't have been booked there as there weren't 3 spaces free.

[Jonmurgie]

He does make me laugh - crashed in front of me at the last VAG day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ct00zG5AQ&t=6m40s

I make a comment about serving him right - seems more of you have now seen how he drives!!

That's also why he had the grey wing/bonnet on:

I loved the guy and honestly he was driving exactly how I would have been too. You have helmets, you are on a track, your car is worth £50 on a good day, drive it like you bloody well stole it. I kept watching with a big grin every time that he came around as I knew he was genuinely giving it his all and if you aren't doing that, why are you on the track exactly?

I appreciate what you're saying but there is a line where you start putting others at risk... but it's all to be expected at Combe TBH.