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Rural New South Wales in Australia - about normal for driving standards. He still does better than the average driver in NY or NJ states. :leaving: I do like how I can hear the cicadas in that video singing away loudly.

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From the NJMP website: Camping and Electric Camping & Electric Services: While visiting NJMP for your club events, please take advantage of our camping and electrical services located at our Thunderbolt, Lightning, and Karting tracks. CAMPING A camping permit is required for any overnight stay whether it is in a tent, your vehicle, or a Recreational Vehicle (RV). The rate for a tent or personal vehicle is $5 per night. The RV rate is $20 per night. These rates are applicable to all vehicles entering NJMP for an overnight stay with the exception of our Villa and VIP Suite confirmed guests. ELECTRIC Electric hook-ups are available at each of our tracks. To enhance your visit to NJMP, we have streamlined our offerings to include electric box rentals, either low or high voltage, or the complete box. By renting the box, you have the control over its usage. Upon rental, each electrical box rental will have the appropriate tag attached to the box for easy identification of status. Electric box rentals are on a first come, first served basis. Daily Electric Rates*: $15 Low Voltage Portion of the box – 15AMP/110Volt ( 2 outlets) $25 High Voltage Portion of the box – 30AMP or 50AMP/220 Volt (2 outlets) $35 Complete Box * Above pricing applies to club events, please contact NJMP Registration at 856-327-7256 for Major Event pricing. To be honest I always thought the power hookups were free. I can recall Karl using them to power the fridge and TV in his trailer once. However, the website says otherwise. The power hookups are at the back of the pit area at Lightning where it is (sort of) grassy. On the track map link it is the pits area on the other side of the skidpad from the marked classroom. http://www.njmp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Lightning-Classroom-Board-clean.pdf

I would only consider it if it had cycle wings - too much front end lift with clamshells :hat:

Skip - did you have a particularly fiery curry or chili the night before? :jester:

Hi Jim, I recommend you go through BookaTrack. http://www.bookatrack.com/event-calendar They operate the finest track days I have ever attended. Open pit lane format - not crowded at all. Passing only on straights on the left. At Spa there is no point by as there is a 80+mph speed differential between the fast and slow cars on the long straight. They have 10 Caterhams R300 spec (2 x SV chassis 8 x S3) for rent at their own events and other track day operator events. R300, Duratec 180hp, 6 sp, 13", stripped out race cars, tillet buckets or foam rubber seat. Visually a little beaten up but mechanically are very well looked after. Fully supported - you turn up and drive and it includes a session of free instruction. They have a spare should your assigned car break. Jonny LeRoux in the video above runs BaT - a top quality guy. Great driver and a brilliant sense of humor. It is not cheap....but it is bucket list so....and BaT provide a good quality experience. You do need to book and pay well in advance - I missed out on the July events when they opened in December! Driving quality is usually pretty good and well mannered. You have to register to see the prices and you will what types of cars they get booked in for the event. I have booked for the November 2014 Spa weekend. I was too slow to book the summer double header with Zandvoort but am on the wait list and expect that it will clear. I am also booked for Donnington and Anglesey in May/June. Who wants to join me? :driving: RSR has turned up with rental cars at BaT events. Well supported and organized. A quality outfit. I have only seen them rent Porsche at Spa. They also run their own track days but are more European in style which you may not like... We can talk by phone offline if you want to find out more. As a bucket list item Spa is worth it. I am still in awe of the hour I had on track virtually by myself with maybe only one or two other cars early Sunday morning when I was last there.

Then that makes no sense. He is backing way off throttle on corners where he would not have to lift at all with only 140hp. Puzzle for later I guess.

Here it is 2.45 lap set in 2009 in a borrowed R300 Caterham. Lap record still stands today. He also ended up winning the race

I have not seen that video before but having driven Spa last year I can see this video is pre-F1 modifications made in 2012. The new F1 pits are not there and the area at the end of Blanchimont straight is the old Bus Stop layout. I am curious what spec car he is driving? He has a lot of straight-line power that others do not and that strikes me as it cannot be all one class racing. The other thing that gives it away is that he backs off on Blanchimont corner and Eau Rouge . I worked out how to get through Blanchimont flat out with out lifting in an R300 (180hp) and was very close to doing the same on Eau Rouge. Top driving for all of that! I love that circuit. I need to dig out the video of the R300 lap record set and held by Jonny at Bookatrack. That was one hell of a race too.

I don't want to come across as negative but...in reviewing these latest posts it has just hit me that we are at our original cap for number of cars in track. We set it low deliberately to ensure a decent driving experience on track although not necessarily clear track race hot lapping experience. Tom and I will huddle together today and talk to NJMP to make sure we are not overcrowding the place with sevens. If we do have to put a cap on driving numbers we will take reserves and from past experience there is a very good chance that they will get a drive as people do drop out once it comes time to put up the money. I want to get this out now to be fair to people who are contemplating attending. I genuinely never expected we would get over 20 sevens wanting to be on track - call me naive but the positive response on this thread just goes to show the level of enthusiasm by the owners on this forum. :driving:

I think all of us would crap if confronted with a 4000 mile drive in a seven! I think he wins the all time drive stakes :iamwithstupid: That said I would love to see the old girl again. She is a wonderful car - wish I could have afforded to keep her as a road car along with the CSR. I really get a kick out of Jude driving her everywhere in Alaska. :cooldude:

Good grief Jude! Have you recovered from your last trip from Jersey City! :ack: Thats another 4000 mile slog! wow!

I can tell you who not to use - Reliable definitely was not reliable! Hopefully someone else here has had better experiences with a carrier. What did you buy? :hat:

Hi Mario :seeya:- Tom (Yellowss7) and myself are partners in crime! He has you down on the list and we are in close contact to make sure we are coordinated. Cheers mike

Come on Steve! Since when has been getting a BDA been going to the dark side? They are not that far removed from each other. They both leak copious amounts of oil like the Exxon Valdez. And they both sound absolutely awesome with some revs! :drool:

Thats ok...Tom is pretty old too! :jester: Tom commented well on the spirit of the day - drive safely, enjoy your car in the setting it was designed for and have a fun social time at the end of the day. If you do have problems so far from home then we do have a local mechanic in town that seems to services a lot of the local track cars. There is a good tire shop for remounting tires and balancing but probably would not have any exotic tires in stock. If it is something that needs Caterham parts then we have access to George Alderman, about an hour away in DE, who could probably help out. But an engine rebuild....then we would probably be pushing uphill to help out at short notice. Best way to avoid the scramble though is with good preparation as you noted.

I do respect a gentleman with good taste in cars in his garage. :cooldude:Very nice home for that Stalker.

Sebastien - when you get close enough you may want to drop Red Duck (Steve) on here a PM as he is in CT and I am sure will fill you in on his efforts at the DMV. Another one to PM is Bruce (11Budlite) as he is also in CT and not too far from you.

Hi Sebastien Welcome to the USA7s forum and welcome to Seven ownership. :seeya: We would love to welcome you to the event later this year. Have you started construction of your kit yet? If you have questions, post them on the forum. Someone always has come across them before you do. Cheers mike

I wish you would not post porn on this site Tom! :conehead: My wallet is having trouble coping with the concept of such an expensive engine. :ack:

Sadly I recall from a Blatchat post that this may no longer be true. IIRC, last year he took a stone into a cam belt which made a big mess of the internals. Mind you that is not unique to this engine - could happen on any engine without a belt/chain guard for that matter. Just a monumentally expensive problem to fix on the RST V8. :ack:

It would be good for donuts in one direction! :rofl:

Great idea Mike! :iamwithstupid: I have a catalytic converter than accidentally fell off my previous seven that I am currently using as a door stop Karl has the entire parts collection needed to construct a Caterham SV - thats what happens when you rebuild your car from the Cosworth parts list! Tom has the world's surplus supply of clam shells. Steve from St Louis has surplus ali polishing compound that he can do live demonstrations of how he keeps so shiny. MichaelD probably has a goodly supply of broken clutches. And of course I suspect that you have many many broken pieces of engines lying around your garage? :jester: Tom has talked with George Alderman and his son at MidAtlantic Caterham and Dave Hutchinson at Ragtops & Roadsters (Birkin Dealer) about participating. George sounded keen to join the fun!

Speechless with laughter :rofl:

They look good - enough detail but not too complicated a design. The black powder coat is a great look. Which size 13" 15" or 17"? I have a set of custom BBS 13 inch wheels now shipping. They were the only ones I could find that gave enough inside clearance for the rear brakes and Passat hub on my CSR. They are not listed on the website but are a 3 pc alloy with a square 8 spoke design with a black inner sold as a Caterham race wheel. This will allow a lot of tire options including slicks that are currently impossible with a 15" set up difficult to get. Other goodies in the shipment include a cold air intake vent for the bonnet and tires - Avon ZZR