Abbeville with Belgians On Track

March 20th we'll be at Abbeville in France with www.belgiansontrack.be

EMA track day March 1st 2009

Chambley June 13 2009

A nice halfday in Chambley France.

I wont say more than enjoy the ride...

Videos:

Spa June 17 2009

Here you are... A great day at a great circuit...

Thanks very much to the organizers from Belgians on Track. There is a picture gallery here.

The car is still in it's factory setting for suspension, all dampers set at 3. Road tires Toyo C1T.
Best time was 3.03. The best estimated lap was 3.01.

The videos:

Zolder July 3rd of 2009 - Marc Duez Days

A fantastic day in an incredible circuit. T shirt weather (except on the way there in the ardennes) and sun all over. And for a Friday traffic time, there was litterally no one on the road... No radars, no piggies, no road works to speak off... Just the warm air to refresh you...

First few laps to warm up were done with a buddy Giovanni who does quite a bit of racing in BTCC, Belcar and other GT events. Great pilot! This was my first time driving in Zolder although i've driven it extensivelly in Sim Bin's GT-Legends. The game is not exactly the same... There was also a sonometer limit of 94 db and i did a 94.5 on the first round... Easy to fool with a shorter uplift to fifth where the sonos were...

We even had a snap thunderstorm as you can see at the end of the third session.

The drops quickly stopped to go rain on somebody else and we went back to the sunny 26 degrees and sun which dried my NOs polo in an hour flat! Whatever was left humid was quickly dried up in the next session...

Zolder is a very technical circuit demanding on brakes, tires and suspension. It changes direction and attitude almost all the time and you can't really relax for long.

I did 5 out of 6 sessions all of which a pleasure!

Lap times where: 1'54" best laps and 1'50" best theoretical. Semi-slick tires could have helped here.

Nurburgring F1 Circuit August 31 2009

2009 is just the year and today was just the day... The day just swung like jazz, it rocked and rolled, and we went to the ring and back in one piece and a big grin on our faces!

Great weather with clear skies and 24 C, little traffic and a well tempered track day.

The F1 circuit rarely opens but what a pleasure when it does... You see, i played for month after month on this circuit with the SimBin M3 Challenge on that same circuit. I managed to do 2:12 laps and the record was around 2:10... And amazingly, with the Atom i was still 12 seconds away! I can see where i can grab another 10 seconds... But then how can you compare real rubber to virtual rubber? This is not a real race event either and it's more a question of having fun, enjoying the car and the track with everyone else. This was also a great opportunity to practice car-passing...

Well, i'll let you discover the videos and pictures as they come in. We are now equiped with a much better camera and the video support is going to come later with hopefully perfect sound restitution (let's not hold our breath here, coz that's just wishfull thinking for the moment.)

On the technical side, i kept the same tire pressures (.8 at front and 1.0 at the back cold) and the rebound was stiffened one notch for the next session with good results... The car didn't skid more...

Here's the videos:

Session 1:
currently uploading

Session 2:

And here's the pictures...

Spa Francorchamps with other Atoms

We'll join other Atoms on this track day in Spa. Not sure we'll drive the car yet.