30th november - brands hatch

Today I was with regular customers richard and pascal green in their caterham.

The day started wet but dried up so we got to work on both wet and dry lines. We also worked on the ever crucial area of braking and turn in - the hardest part of driving.

A good if cold day out
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29th november. NSPCC charity day

Today we ran our annual charity trackday at castle combe circuit.

As ever katie has put a lot of work into planning and organising the day. A big thank you to everybody who attended and to castle combe circuit for giving us a good deal.

A damp start meant it was a bit slippery but the track dried out from midday to the end.

We raised £4000 for the NSPCC which is absolutely brilliant considering the current economic climate!


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24th november - week 5 of ADI training

My ADI course is coming along nicely. My instructor is very happy with the driving. My scores on the theory test are nearly at the level needed to enter me for the exam.

Hopefully I won't have to wait too much longer for my CRB certificate and then I can start the exams.
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Sat 22nd nov - goodwood

A lovely sunny day shared by regular customers richard + pascal green and also ryan ratcliffe who was getting his first taste of a track after last saturdays airfield day at alconbury.

Richard and pascal found that goodwood is flat out when you're brave for a good portion of the track in a 150 bhp caterham. Both thoroughly enjoyed their first run on this circuit.

Ryan built up steadily and was going very well by the end of the day. We were in a rented car for this run but he gets his saxmax race car next week. Planned next is a training day at llandow in the race car and to send ryan to have his race licence test at either castle combe or thruxton.
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Brands hatch 20th nov

Today I was working for www.track-club.com on one of their corporate events.

This is a tough job as an instructor as you have to strike a balance between bringing people up to speed in a few laps and not encouraging them to go too fast and out of control. Most of the drivers were total novices.

Everybody had a good day and the weather stayed dry all day which is always pleasent.

Next up is goodwood on saturday.
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Silverstone 19th november

At silverstone yesterday I was coaching in a porsche gt3 with regular customer Kevin and in a audi tt powered elise with Mathew.

The picture was taken whilst Kevins car was having its rear pads changed.

I worked with Kevin mainly focussing on vision and brake pressure modulatiion on approach to the corner.

Mathew has recently done an alconbury day with me and this was his first time at silverstone. It takes a while to learn the gp track so his confidence increased in the afternoon.

We worked on the general approach to track driving plus dealing with putting over 300 bhp down in a car weighing 800 kg. To say this car is fast is a bit of an understatement!

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Another ADI lesson and off to france

I've been a bit quiet this week after having to take a few days off because of a stiff neck.

Maneuvering was a little difficult as I still can't turn ny head fully!

I'm now waiting at the eurotunnel. I'm at abbeville circuit tomorrow and then staying in calais until saturday for the 'old farts' racing driver agm (an annual meeting involving copious amounts of beer!)
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