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Post by robin » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:23 am

pete wrote:
Right. I could probably manage Oulton especially as it is near my folks.
Mrs pete is off to Africa next week on safari. With her mate. Leaving me to babysit.

Kind of sick of hearing about it and need something to look forward to....

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Why? Surely she is going to have a great time and that's good for everyone - after all, you like to get away in the car and enjoy yourself and it's just the same ... just think of the brownie points and smile :-)

Let us know if you get an Oulton Park date organised - without doubt my favourite UK circuit (though have only driven it, Croft, Donnie and Brands) - would love to tag along if I can ...


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Post by pete » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:18 pm

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Why? Surely she is going to have a great time and that's good for everyone - after all, you like to get away in the car and enjoy yourself and it's just the same ... just think of the brownie points and smile :-)

Let us know if you get an Oulton Park date organised - without doubt my favourite UK circuit (though have only driven it, Croft, Donnie and Brands) - would love to tag along if I can ...


Cheers,
Robin[/quote]

Hahaha. Yes my thoughts exactly once but... I also love to go on holiday and the safari was actually a prize my Dad won but I couldn't get the leave and someone has to babysit and Suzy will REALLY enjoy it.
So I'm delighted for her in a "hope she has a great time" kind of way and jealous in a "I'm not really as nice a person as I want to be" kind of way :lol:

And here's me with a new DSLR :(

The problem with Brownie points is they are so difficult to accrue and so easy to lose eg.

Agree that wife should go on free 5* all expenses holiday without you. [+10,000]
Help her pack, sort out visas paperwork etc, sort out and buy photography equipment etc [+2500]

And then one innocuous comment, made in good faith-

"yeah those jeans do make your bum look a bit big" [-50,000]


With that in mind I will begin scouring the internet if I get a chance in work this afternoon, before I burn all my points by mistake, for Oulton Park dates and let you know. They obviously do dates through their website but I imagine that will be the equivalent to Hot Marques/Hot Hatches. I'd much rather do a CE/SIDC type affair as they are better organised IMHO.

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Post by tenkfeet » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:38 pm

Book a track have a Oulton Day on the 15th of July but its £239 . :shock:
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Post by pete » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:14 pm

But it is a full day... The dates are no use for me though.

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Post by tenkfeet » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:34 pm

DOH! :oops:
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Post by pete » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:00 am

Actually the dates might be OK on mature reflection... Suzy should get her roster in the next couple of days and I need to wait for that to confirm but would you be interested?

http://bookatrack.com/-pB?664

It is a lot but it is for a whole day or until our cars break... And it seems to always cost that much (minimal research - easytrack are charging roughly the same).

You know it makes sense...

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Post by tenkfeet » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:37 am

Thats true . I could be tempted . I would have to get leave as I work every Friday night , my tyrant of a boss should be ok though. Did you look at the opinions? Here is a quote.

" THIS IS A MANS CIRCUIT THROUGH AND THROUGH. LIKE CADWELL, ONLY BETTER. WEAR A MANS SUIT, SOME BRUT AFTERSHAVE AND START A FEW FIGHTS BEFORE YOU VENTURE OUT TO TACKLE ISLAND, DRUIDS, CASCADES, OLD HALL AND LODGE. SERIOUS BALLSY TECHNICAL CORNERS FOR ADULTS. THINK MICKEY MOUSE ANGLESEY, THEN THINK THE OPPOSITE AND YOU HAVE OP. GOOD LUCK MOFOS !"
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Post by robin » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:26 am

It is without doubt a technical circuit and has caught out some good drivers, S_Ers amongst them.

However, apart from the time when 4mil Mckean broke my car there (:-)) I have always had a good time there and drive too slowly to crash, so thoroughly recommended ... July 15th won't work for me as I'm away on the Lotus On Track French Frolic trip ... you will have a ball, so go.

BTW, book-a-track runs a tight ship when it comes to track days - they insist on co-operative overtaking, for example, so you shouldn't have problems with driving standards. Meanwhile Oulton Park also have a noise limit that they enforce (103dbA IIRC) - a standard exhaust will be no problem, but a decat pipe + loud sports exhaust can fail.

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Post by pete » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:36 am

Getting excited already.

My car is standard except for a Lotus sports exhaust and the website says 105 (or was it 106). So we should be fine.

229 for 8 hours is damn near the same price as KH @ 55 quid for 2 hours (justifying it to my self!!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulton_Park

Makes it sound quite scary. definnitely not KH (although the blind chicane there always scares me a bit :lol: ).

I'm booked in provisionally, I'll post it to the Yahoo roup too to see if anyone else is interested...

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