Howard Strawford made Coombe into something really special. Fast and very challenging circuit to drive, great paddock grass for camping and, most of all, great paddock restaurant with excellent food, staffed by people who gave every impression of wanting to be there - with Howard always to be seen eating at one of the tables. Best club race circuit by a mile.
Very entertaining! Some close chasing on at the end with the MX5s, the way some people were spinning out from being stopped on the grass you would think they have welded their diffs!
Basically it's the first hard corner. From the start straight there is a fast right up hill, it then bares left over the crest which is also the main braking zone for this corner. The car is unweighted and unbalanced and you are braking hard from almost top speed. The back of the car steps out if you are not straight as you brake. The corner it self is slightly off camber and down hill which just adds to the unsettled car. It is a notoriously bad corner for the inexperienced but also great fun if you hit it right and plant the throttle for the run to the first chicane
The last corner also catches people out if you miss the braking zone, it's a lot tighter than people realise, if you miss it you're going on the grass, or spinning in the middle of the track with a bunch of cars behind all braking hard to avoid hitting you. Check out some of the performance action day track videos for some real cringe moments.
sniggs101 so my suspicions were close. This is my home track in California USA, Thunderhill Raceway. “The Bypass” and “Cyclone” gets people, both an off camber crest that breaks right. ua-cam.com/video/4MqUDR_C-AI/v-deo.html
03:25 lmfao, he's pointing and waving his hand at the other driver mid spin.
Props to the camera man! You have such a good sense of when and where the interesting things are going to happen!
Rick Morris and Tiff Needell coming together! how retro is that
Howard Strawford made Coombe into something really special. Fast and very challenging circuit to drive, great paddock grass for camping and, most of all, great paddock restaurant with excellent food, staffed by people who gave every impression of wanting to be there - with Howard always to be seen eating at one of the tables. Best club race circuit by a mile.
Very entertaining! Some close chasing on at the end with the MX5s, the way some people were spinning out from being stopped on the grass you would think they have welded their diffs!
That corner should have been yellow flagged till it was clean. Far to much dry mud on the track.
UNSAFE!!
Too
Light cars with skinny tires means you better be a great driver!
Nice Video! Some really good saves there.
4:45 presentation of the new model Lamborghini Lawnmower.
That number 55 Miata needs stickier tires lmao
Chris Davies or drive lessons...
Is there nobody yellow flagging when there's a necessary caution? Cars racing through when there's a crash or fluid spill.
Lambo being solid lawnmower
No. 14 nicely done, have a mars ice cream 🍦
Loads of great examples of how the commentary cant see the most exciting / incident prone part of the track.
Were the marshalls on strike this day
The FF No. 34 (PRSRH01) looks like my old car!
More like "novice day"! So many of the cars waving around in the grass have the black x on their behind
Well. Most were novices. You can tell by the yellow bic with a cross. Its means novice driver
Why is it that Tiff Needell cannot take responsibility for an accident..... EVER ????
3.43 Tiff ?
Mr Green looks too fat to be tiff
It is him, I think Tim Harvey was also in the race
Does anyone know what caught fire on the Megane?
speedingtube Looks like a fuel line leaked
Announcer: Eddie Izzard.
Those bmw’s were hooken
5:17 looks like the bmw is eating shit
Hooligans....
Someone please explain to me the dynamics of this corner that it upsets so many cars. Is it off camber with an elevation drop on entry?
Basically it's the first hard corner. From the start straight there is a fast right up hill, it then bares left over the crest which is also the main braking zone for this corner. The car is unweighted and unbalanced and you are braking hard from almost top speed. The back of the car steps out if you are not straight as you brake. The corner it self is slightly off camber and down hill which just adds to the unsettled car. It is a notoriously bad corner for the inexperienced but also great fun if you hit it right and plant the throttle for the run to the first chicane
The last corner also catches people out if you miss the braking zone, it's a lot tighter than people realise, if you miss it you're going on the grass, or spinning in the middle of the track with a bunch of cars behind all braking hard to avoid hitting you. Check out some of the performance action day track videos for some real cringe moments.
sniggs101 so my suspicions were close. This is my home track in California USA, Thunderhill Raceway. “The Bypass” and “Cyclone” gets people, both an off camber crest that breaks right. ua-cam.com/video/4MqUDR_C-AI/v-deo.html
No. 14 nicely done, have a mars ice cream 🍦