Croc Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 (edited) Well, we mostly all arrived safely last night. Only one more car to arrive today plus a few visitors. We tech'ed the cars last night which should save some time this morning. Weather is perfect. Dinner at the NJMP Clubhouse last night was a happy affair with some keen wine tasters (not me!): http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/NJMP06212013groupdinnerpic_zpsab87252d.jpg From left to right: Stewart (Sabbot), Mike (Croc), Michael (MichaelD), Tom (yellowss7), Mike (Kitcat), Karl (Blubarisax), Steve (Bball), Ron (Redgoose), Gus (Stewart's UK friend visiting), Dave & Beverly (DaveD). Updates to be posted and indiscretions publicized as the event goes on. :seeya: Edited June 23, 2013 by Croc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted June 23, 2013 Author Share Posted June 23, 2013 (edited) Well...it was a busy day on Saturday. First session saw a lot of trains early until we all sorted out who was fastest. Of course the Audi guys thought they were fastest. The BMW guys thought they were fastest. Of course standard equipment in a BMW does not include a rear vision mirror apparently so they could not see the faster cars behind. The sole Miata in our group was driven by another with no rear vision mirror - I resorted to using my truck airhorns to get his attention after two laps of being ignored. However, slowly and surely we started working our way through the field. Passing anywhere with a point by so a lot of the other cars gave us difficult point bys - around the outside on corners. So we did. I had great fun casually motoring 30mph faster than an Audi R8 around the outside of him on the Lightning banked bowl - he had cooked his brakes determined to show that he was faster than me...oops :svengo: The first classroom session started off with lots of testosterone from the regular car guys. The second had us described as a swarm of angry insects buzzing everyone It was a rather charged classroom session with lots of frustrations as they realized they were not the fastest. :jester: By the end of the day it was clear - we whipped everyone out there. The best driver I came across had a Corvette Z06. I caught him, passed him, and started to easily get away before I had an evil thought. So I slowed down, let the Corvette catch me and proceeded to make him work to chase me. After 3 laps I then let him pass me, he had a fist pump and then I was all over his ass (non-sexual please) to show I was faster - after 2 laps he gave in and gave me a point by back so I promptly pitted as it was the end of the session. We all behaved - only two spin - all from Stewart, one of which was nicely captured on video for later editing :smilielol5: The TrackDaze operator had their Golf GTI race car, emblazoned with the TrackDaze paint job, go out in the hands of one of the staff. He had a big moment at Turn 1, found the dirt, overcorrected and collected the wall on the inside. Made for some interesting instruction in the class room later that he was leading apparently....oops! There were some casualties at the end of session 1: - Stewart's new BDA conversion overheated but he fixed it and was able to resume in the next session. - Doug's R500 absolutely tore up the track and horrified some of the other regular car participants with his blinding fast speed. There is a reason he is the fastest Caterham lapper at both NJMP tracks. Alas, end of session one he pulls into the pits and watches the eruption of steam from under the bonnet. Overheating claimed another victim. Stewart kindly helped Doug wire the fan on permanently so he could drive it the one hour home. - The saddest story of the day was Steve's new crossflow. Rebuilt for the event, dyno'ed, run in - it lasted 3 laps in the first session before signs of overheating and failing. Diagnosis remains open but all signs point to the head failing given the amount of coolant leaking out of the exhaust and pumped out 2 of the cylinders. Just heartbreaking. He definitely won the shiniest car award for his mirror finish aluminium (British English please). Weather is perfect. Sunday looks to be a good day. Edited June 23, 2013 by Croc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1Steve Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 (edited) Well, we mostly all arrived safely last night. Only one more car to arrive today plus a few visitors. We tech'ed the cars last night which should save some time this morning. Weather is perfect. Dinner at the NJMP Clubhouse last night was a happy affair with some keen wine tasters (not me!): http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/NJMP06212013groupdinnerpic_zpsab87252d.jpg From left to right: Stewart (Sabbot), Mike (Croc), Michael (MichaelD), Tom (yellowss7), Mike (Kitcat), Karl (Blubarisax), Steve (Bball), Ron (Redgoose), Gus (Stewart's UK friend visiting), Dave & Beverly (DaveD). Updates to be posted and indiscretions publicized as the event goes on. :seeya: Attractive group !!!!! Big Daddy at the head of the table keeping law and order I would guess..... Edited June 23, 2013 by S1Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHKflyer52 Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Looking forward to seeing some of the video and photos of what sounds like a very good time had by your group. :driving: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) Martin - Just wait 5 minutes. Tom will be along by then to talk about him being the fastest (false), me spinning twice (true - I have no shame, my video will be shown), Jeff exiting stage right once (true), Stewart's BDA sounding magnificent (true), DaveD's incredible lapping improvements and the very impressive performance by a Superperformance S1 on track (true) and Tom being faster than anybody else on track (close but not quite - I will give it to Karl!). Being sensible for a moment the sevens collectively were beating everyone up. As expected from an illustrious group of drivers and cars with pedigree (well...maybe not all of the drivers have pedigree). There were some off track excursions by other drivers who shall remain nameless but magically the video camera was not working at the time. However, the track photographer did capture it supposedly....off to check...:jester: Stewart plead innocent that his GoPro failed....only to find his friend Gus was videoing him at the corner where he spun...I have the video now :jester: We got lucky with the weather - a brief shower did not affect the 3rd session - it was dry. Kitcat struggled with tires all weekend - back to the drawing board for a solution when he gets home. All he should do is follow Blubarisax's lead and spend money to solve the problem. I have lots of video and photos to sift through. It may take a while to edit down the video into something decent. However the still photos will be available on line when I get a decent broadband connection at home Monday night/Tuesday. The laughs came quick and loud today. Any downtime saw us sitting around under the canopies chatting and joking around with each other. Another magnificent sevens weekend and I will look forward to the next one. I want to thank Tom for the time spent putting this together and all those who participated - Steve, Dave (and Beverly), Karl, MichaelD, Mike, Stewart, Jeff, Ron, Doug and our non-driving visitor - Simon . Without all of you I would not be sitting here typing this with a sore mouth from grinning and laughing so much over the weekend. Edited June 24, 2013 by Croc spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowss7 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) I'm home now, but don't have the energy to unpack.:svengo: I am just dead tired. Friday night started with a little party in the paddock, waiting for the evening tech to open. Then we went to dinner and tasted several nice wines that Michael D,Karl and Kitcat brought. Certainly made getting up on Saturday morning a challenge. Croc is right that we were the fastest cars out there. We were in the higher of the two intermediate groups, ours allowing passing anywhere with a point by as Mike said. Weather was perfect, and we ended the day on Saturday the same way we did on Friday, a few beers and a lot of wine at dinner. Sunday started off nice weather wise, and the morning sessions were great. Pointbys were frequent and most of us kept it on the track. :leaving: We'll have to see if there is any good footage of the action. Croc, Kitcat and Jeff are running again tomorrow. They are Hard Core. Croc has hours of video to edit, so I'm hopeful that there will be some good footage to share. It certainly is fun to run together out there as the cars are well matched in the handling area. Not so much in the HP though as Karl, Croc, Jeff and Ron have at least 75 to as much at 200hp more than some of the other 7s. The organizers of the trackday, said that we'd need about 20 cars to get our own run group. So that's our Goal for next year. Tom Edited June 24, 2013 by yellowss7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 Attractive group !!!!! Big Daddy at the head of the table keeping law and order I would guess..... Well it is not as if you would have improved anything by being there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1Steve Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Well it is not as if you would have improved anything by being there! I would never do that..... Haha... Glad to hear the weekend was a great success... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) Some photos of the weekend to keep you occupied while I play with the video. These were done by the pro photographer who has done some brilliant shots. I had trouble uploading in photobucket so apologies if you see duplicate postings of photos. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_7794_zpsf0ffcaed.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_7898_zps54fd5fff.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_7918_zpscbc8dff2.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_1310_zps18a93415.jpg Edited June 24, 2013 by Croc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Croc Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) Dave http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_5415_zpsf18de252.jpg Tom http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_5408_zps5907c0ac.jpg Michael http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_5350_zps3af01574.jpg Mike - has that front tire got a little air? http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/mjohnson555/seats/CSR/NJMP%20Sevens%20Weekend%20June%202013/IMG_5374_zpsc1f8dfd3.jpg Edited June 24, 2013 by Croc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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