After my crappy experience at Snetters
which was largely the fault of the car but I also blame the trackday people for
organizing an event full of male-chest-beating snot rags, I am very glad to
report that I had an ace event at the GRRC members track day in October.
The weather was fine. I fuelled up at the
night before (I was staying with my Mum and Dad in Emsworth). I left the house
at 7:30 and crept stealthily away in my virtually full-race S190 before the
rest of gentle Emsworth had ‘come-to’.
First of all - the noise test. Yeh, passed that. 102 dB I
think. Easy peasy.
I decided to use my feminine charms and ask
a friendly instructor for a few helpful laps before I made I complete womble of
myself in front of all the boys. It was easy to be a womble because the other
cars in my group comprised a Golf R32, Porsche 994 C4s, Ferrari 360, Nissan GTR
running about 750 hp and finally an Aston Vantage V12 (which is a girls car).
Anyway I got blown away by the fast cars
for about the first 3 sessions and then something clicked. I got the instructor
out again and this time we were getting quick. No one overtook me (I went out
half way along the line up).
The final session of the morning was epic.
I went out behind a gorgeous race Ferrari 250 GT and tried like mad to keep up
(I couldn’t). 3 laps later I got overtaken by the 997 at no-name and then ‘did’
him back at Lavant (me likey lavant). I overtook 4 cars on that session
including a lightweight E type so I was very happy indeed. I’m getting to like
track days, especially when they are more Ferrari than ‘Fast and Furious’
I still think that there are nowhere near
enough girls at track days and certainly not many girls who bring their own
cars….this must change!
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