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Did anyone go in the 'Ring Taxi?
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Originally posted by flyingalexf68 flyingalexf68 wrote:

Did anyone go in the 'Ring Taxi?

Yip, when the track was damp as well (result, as originally I was booked for 10.20, but I changed it to 3.30)

It was great, and way better than last year.

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Originally posted by Steve Gill Steve Gill wrote:

Originally posted by flyingalexf68 flyingalexf68 wrote:

Did anyone go in the 'Ring Taxi?


Yip, when the track was damp as well (result, as originally I was booked for 10.20, but I changed it to 3.30)


It was great, and way better than last year.



Why on earth are YOU going in the Ring taxi???
You could drive one yourself! Much more interesting driving than all the sideways crap.....
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Originally posted by UweM3 UweM3 wrote:


Why on earth are YOU going in the Ring taxi???
You could drive one yourself! Much more interesting driving than all the sideways crap.....

lol - It was great fun, well worth it this year (wasn't so convinced about last year)

Here's the vid from our lap Uwe -

http://www.stevesfiles.com/files/silverstone-trackvision1.av i
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Great footage, Steve (including a fair bit of my car/laps)...what do you use in terms of equipment to acheive the footage, camera wise, and how do you superimpose the data?
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Yes nice footage Steve. Looks quite treacherous out there. I wouldn't fancy doing any high speed stuff on a track as wet as that. Please do tell us what camera and equipment you use. I'd love to get something like that for my own track day records.
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Only treacherous for anyone not able to drive!!

There was only one casualty of the rain, as far as I'm aware (an E36 M3 that went off backwards into the wall on Farm Straight just before Bridge)....but he managed to drive it back to the pits and it wasn't gonna stop him driving it home, either...

There was, as far as I'm aware, only one other body damaging incident when an E30 M3 (black one) went off in the dry morning sessions at Copse... looked a bit sad, but not unfixeable.
Considering the conditions, I was surprised that there weren't any more, really...There was an E9 CSL bat road car that was pumping out a bit of oil all day and finally expired when the engine cut out at copse in the afternoon resulting in a harmless spin...But it caused the session to be stopped as the car needed a tow back to the pits and was stopped on the track.

Perhaps worth remembering that BMWCC bill it as a "Better Driving Day" and to be a better driver you need to be able to handle the wet as well as the dry!
(saves the expensive R rubber, too)



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I'm desperate to see the link and it opens up Windows Media Player, but all I get is the sound - any ideas guys?

BTW - it wasn't my CSL putting out the oil!
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Martin, it was good to see you ,

Jules, It was good having a gew laps in close formation with uou, I left the R888's on for the whole day which made the afternoon sessions interesting, I was pleasently surprised at how well they gripped in the wet.

Steve, great video as always I must get the trackvision sorted. Was that me in front of yoy just before you pulled into the pitlane. If it was the car is looks to be moving around much more than it felt from the drivers seat.

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link dosn't work for me either.

Knowing Steve, it is probibly the latest version of the
latest software, all singing all dancing...


BTW - Steve hows the CSL standing ?

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Link works ok for me .It's Fantastic, Sam, REALLY good! You say that you can't get it?? You're missing out Big Time, isn't he everyone.....

What a good event. First time for me but well worth it! We just went for the rides and thoroughly enjoyed them all! Simple pleasures for simple people, eh, Uwe.....

Sabine was Great. If you're not used to it, then it's a Terrific couple of laps. What was better though was during the last session when I was in Martin H's m3 and you could see The 'Taxi', headlights ablaze closing in on us in the passenger mirror - Sideways. "What an enduring image, isn't it, em? MARVELLOUS!.... Small boys at the side of the track, cotton wool for earplugs, mmm, isn't it? MARVELLOUS....."

Many Thanks to the organisers......




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Hi M3ck - is that Chris? or David?

I now think my noise is a detailed image

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It was remembering Ryans problem that made me change my view - I thought the diff was on the way out

I put your petrol container and air pump in the boot of my car - will give them back to you when I next see you?

 

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Originally posted by Fushion Julz Fushion Julz wrote:

Great footage, Steve (including a fair bit of my car/laps)...what do you use in terms of equipment to acheive the footage, camera wise, and how do you superimpose the data?


Thanks, which was your car? I'll see if I've anything else. I presume you were one of the many e30s that went flying past me!!  j/k

The equipment is a DL1 data logger with a bullet cam, using software from trackvision.net to combine the two. Works well, unfortunately I've not worked out how to get the revs connected yet

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Originally posted by SFH3L SFH3L wrote:

I'm desperate to see the link and it opens up Windows Media Player, but all I get is the sound - any ideas guys?

BTW - it wasn't my CSL putting out the oil!

Best to right click and save as, then watch it

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Originally posted by Steve Gill Steve Gill wrote:

Originally posted by SFH3L SFH3L wrote:

I'm desperate to see the link and it opens up Windows Media Player, but all I get is the sound - any ideas guys?

BTW - it wasn't my CSL putting out the oil!

Best to right click and save as, then watch it

I forgot to add you need the divx codec
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Originally posted by kevin kevin wrote:

Martin, it was good to see you ,

Jules, It was good having a gew laps in close formation with uou, I left the R888's on for the whole day which made the afternoon sessions interesting, I was pleasently surprised at how well they gripped in the wet.

Steve, great video as always I must get the trackvision sorted. Was that me in front of yoy just before you pulled into the pitlane. If it was the car is looks to be moving around much more than it felt from the drivers seat.

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Kev, I don't think it was but I can't really remember

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Originally posted by Steve Gill Steve Gill wrote:

Originally posted by Fushion Julz Fushion Julz wrote:

Great footage, Steve (including a fair bit of my car/laps)...what do you use in terms of equipment to acheive the footage, camera wise, and how do you superimpose the data?


Thanks, which was your car? I'll see if I've anything else. I presume you were one of the many e30s that went flying past me!!  j/k

The equipment is a DL1 data logger with a bullet cam, using software from trackvision.net to combine the two. Works well, unfortunately I've not worked out how to get the revs connected yet



Mine is the Henna Red E30 M3 (D221 BJB).

I have a bit of footage of your car on that same session, but am having a few problems with the transfer to PC at the moment, but will get it sorted before the weekend and I'll upload then..

Nowhere near as good as your footage, though!
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Originally posted by 215DMX 215DMX wrote:

link dosn't work for me either.

Knowing Steve, it is probibly the latest version of the
latest software, all singing all dancing...


BTW - Steve hows the CSL standing ?

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