RS6 at Bruntingthorpe!!

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RS6 at Bruntingthorpe!!

Post by W8PMC » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:42 pm

Well i took the beast for a little run out to Bruntingthorpe & played alongside some awesome cars & the Beast totally held her own :D

The event was VMAX, organised by Craig from Pistonheads & what a day it was. 30+ of the most exotic cars available which included a few Ferrari 360 Modena's (1 was a Stradale 8) ) a gaggle of Porkers, mainly Turbos, GT's & a couple of RUF's, a handful of TVR's (Tuscans, 350's), a Noble, an Ultima :shock: & no doubt a couple of others that i've forgotten, oh & of course my slightly modified RS6 :D

The max speed i managed down the strip was 175MPH, although there was quite a bit more left in her, but there was not quite enough road :cry: This speed IIRC was only bettered by a RUF Turbo & a modified 996 Turbo, even the couple of 360 Modena's could only manage 172 & 173MPH, although the Stradale could have pipped me if he'd wanted to. Of course round a full track this story would no doubt be a little different & the Ultima & Nobles would i'm sure have dispatched me, but this track was made up of more than just the 2 mile straight, with a handful of interesting twisties in the run back to the starting point.

Although there is absolutely no gloat at my car having beaten many far more expensive & exotic cars including head to head wins with a 996 GT3RS & a 993 GTS it does give me the feel good factor at owning such a stealth car that can cut the mustard in such company.

It was a fabulous day & many thanks to Craig for organising this event.

I got some excellent feedback from the handful of people i took out for passenger rides & was pleased with how amazed they were at the power, performance & handling of the RS6 & the effortless way it can apply such power & performance. One comment as we hurtled round a bend at 90mph :o was that it felt like the RS6 was only doing 40mph & she was not ruffled by anything during the day except a Pheasant that decided to wander in front of my car whilst doing 165mph down the straight :o taking evasive action at that speed is fairly startling but the RS was again not ruffled (like the pun? :) ).

Moments for me were the passenger ride in the Stradale & my appreciation at just how composed that car is with power delivery, gear changes & braking & its such an organ dissrupting car :D , the run out in a Tuscan & the passenger ride in a modified 996 Turbo.

If someone can host, i have 20mins worth of video from the day which include my passenger run in the Stradale, numerous supercars on the track & a passenger video of one of my runs round in the RS6.

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http://www.tyresmoke.net/gallery/albuo65?&page=2
http://www.tyresmoke.net/gallery/albuo65?&page=3
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Post by DaveP » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:02 am

Nice write up matey...we can host the video here....PM myself or PhilT and we'll sort it out...
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Post by PhilT » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:48 am

Indeed. The V-Max days are always a pretty good giggle. I assume the Gallardo didn't turn up?

This has to be the yearly quote from most of the Audi boys - "The max speed i managed down the strip was 175MPH, although there was quite a bit more left in her, but there was not quite enough road" - I hope you come to Germany with us so that we can fix that ;)
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Post by W8PMC » Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:02 am

Dave,

Cheers for that. I've got someone to host the vid for me & apply Codec to reduce the file size to a more sensible level. I'll be sending the file to him tomorrow, as i'm in London for a couple of days & can't access my home PC where the file is located. If he has probs, i'll be in touch later this week.

Phil,

Gonna have to take the Beast to Germany now, as there will be no other way of concluding a full VMAX speed. Lots of stuff on this year including moving home in the next 4 weeks & baby due in 8 weeks, so not sure i can make a trip this year, but we'll see. The trip you mention, are the details on this forum?
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Post by PhilT » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:35 pm

Indeed the details for the trip will be in the "Track Days and Meets" section.
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Post by W8PMC » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:06 am

Phil,

You say the details will be in Track Days section, but the only Ring outing i could see was for April this year which i missed. Is another one being planned that i can't see in that section?
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Post by DaveP » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:10 am

Try the RS drivers challenge 2004 thread....23-24 October if I remember correctly!
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Post by PhilT » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:23 pm

There's also a potential Ring visit in Sept that might appear ;)
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