Brands Indy - 10th May - ESS - £120
 

There is a 2 day school event on Mon 9th & Tues 10th. I'm going along on Tues on the ' PACE (non-standard) day ' which runs alongside the school.

£120 for 5x25mins sessions. Laps are timed + proper marshalling, so there aren't usually any stopped sessions.

Anybody else going/ fancy it?

would love to but I'm on a ferry to France Weds AM and can't take the risk .....

i am watching the weather, I might well be there

Weather looks like it's going to be good (for now anyway!).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1262

yep im there tomorrow.

red 996r with "gaicomelli" stickers, i look out for you to say hi Wylie, there are probably not too many duke's there tomorrow, hope this rain stops???!!!

Oh well, 3 out of 5 dry sessions, 1 damp + 1 wet session. Could have been worse I guess.

Nice meeting you Sean.

Piccie from yesterday attached. Sean about to fly past on the start/finish straight. Damn that 996r is quick!

out of interest what times were you guys doing? looking good out there.

Don't know yet. You get your laptimes after the event. I'll post them when I find out. In the meantime, another piccie:-

god dayyymmm wylie, those are cool pics, in the first one it looks like your belly pans about to touch down first, was it broken off?

Definitely looking very good out there!

Nope, just a standard road fairing.

actually first time ive ever done a indy curcuit at brands, (done the gp before a couple of times) so the first session was steady. second session my seat came off after just a few laps, (poor preparation on my part huh) third session was lapping fairly constantly at the at 58.3- 58.7 margin. i wasnt at the point in the day where i try to brake a little harder , just braking gently for the corners, was hoping to sort that out and improve on the times during the after noon, however ther weather turned to rain, and the wets came out and got fitted to lap at 1.03. for the last session it had dryed up so looking forward to a dry session i put thesupercorsas back on only for it to rain about five mins before session, with no time to change them back to wets , knowing how usless they are in the wet i loaded up and went home alittle disapointed. but in one piece.

good to meet you wylie, ping me a u2u if your around sunday and fancy a ride out.

Bungi.....being a bit modest there. You dipped into the 56's a couple of times & was doing consistent 57's in the 3rd session. Your times are attached. Looked well impressive in the wet session mate, quick& smooth.

As for meeting up on Sunday, I'd love to but I'm picking my Termi can up in the morning & probably won't get home 'til after lunch. I'd definitely be up for a rideout next time, so u2u me next time you're up for meeting.

Cheers,
Lee

Lap times attached (it started spitting with rain in the 2nd half of the session & was bloody freezing all day):-

See above

Is the transponder supplied at the ESS days or have you got to provide your own one?

Darren

Transponder is supplied by ESS. You have to buy the bracket for a fiver (which you then keep) + pay a tenner for ' transponder insurance' (hire :puzzled: ) in case it gets damaged in a spill.

Here's a link to the transponders they use/ sell:-

http://www.europeansuperbikeschool.c...lt.php?cPath=7

[Edited on 12-5-2005 by Wylie1]

[Edited on 12-5-2005 by Wylie1]

Yep, but the beauty's in the detail :lol:

wylie i cant open the attachment from home as its a pdf document and every time i open one it locks up my computer. what were the session 3 times?? perhaps you could u2u them to me?

i looked up the time on the website and though i thougt that there was a session (3) missing from what i read, but couldnt be sure?, i admit i was a little disapointed with 58's but mostly coz i knew i could have improved a little if we had got one more session? im sure you probably felt the same?

not so much "nice battles" weeksey, wylie was very smooth and i stuck behind him for a while watching him through the section on to clearways which i didnt know, nice and consistent, nothing really on him in the corners but on the start-finish straight the extra horses made light work of it. when you have that kinda advantage it difficult tomake it back up unless back markers or the odd mistake

cancell that request for the times wylie, ive found them, looks like theve listed under the wrong date, 10-00-05?? :puzzled:

Sure did. I was really looking forward to the last session & then the rain came down just before it started. Gutted. Still, that was my 1st trackday of the year (not including my trip to the Nurburgring over Easter), so I can't grumble too much.