Cooked

Oh deary me. Yesterday was just an ordinary day, but the ending was far from it. I set off for home, driving as normal (like a granny ;)) and once on the M11 I started to shift up through the gears until I had to change from 4th to 5th. Except that my gear stick was not to be persuaded to move out of number 4… at all :(

I managed to get all the way up to J20 on the M25 in 4th gear, but getting onto the A41 turned to be impossible without stopping. Fortunately I was able to get going from standstill (in 4th!) but halfway up the A41, I got stuck uphill in a traffic jam which meant I had to admit defeat until the traffic cleared. I could not afford to stop too many times along the way.

After an hour or so I went on my way again and this time I made it home (eventually) with only 1 long stop at the bottom of the A41. By the time I had reached home, the clutch was completely burned out. Smells lovely though… NOT!

Booked

Just booked the Hullavington day with Motorsport Events. Let the countdown begin ;)

Hullavington

Not sure how you pronounce it, hell-of-a-tone, but it’s the venue of the next BRISKODA trackday. Friday the 1st of June we’ll hopefully have 30 or so Skoda’s tearing up the track and burn some rubber. It will also be the first opportunity for me to put the car on the track and see what she can do. A shame it isn’t Bruntingthorpe, but as that has been closed down by the residents on grounds of noise levels, it will have to do :)

She’s here!

The secret is out

What is a man to do if he doesn’t fit in the car of his dreams? Well, he pursues other options of course. So after the BMW Z3 M Coupe, I tried a Nissan 350Z and when that was just as bad as the Beemer I tried a Honda S2000 which was the worst of them all.

So I had a plan, a cunning plan… I would buy another Skoda Octavia vRS (with a little bit less mileage and a little bit younger than the one that has just left my house the week before) and then take it to Jabba Sport to have a bigger turbo fitted. The result? A big increase in power and enough space inside to fit my fat arse :)

When I inquired at one of my friends who has had an IHI conversion done, he mentioned that he had plans to sell his car, and if I were interested… Is Holland flat as a pancake?!?! Of course I was!

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