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by **Dico** » Mon 01.10.2007, 12:53

Me and Murph are off to Aintree on Saturday if anyone fancies popping along.
Murphs driving the striped beast, i'm just going along so I can be thrown around in the passenger seat (no, not in a gray way gary!) for a day.

by **abmunro** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:02

How do you get them over the Fences? :-D

by **abmunro** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:11

I am interested.
Does the cost alter if you have passenger, is there a minimum age for passenger.
What time does it start how much track time do you get.
I take it that these are the details below...
Have you been before.
Sorry for all the questions but I have never done track day before.

Event Details
Date Sat 06 Oct 2007
Venue Aintree
Type Car
Organiser Liverpool Motor Club
ATDO Member? No
Status Firm
Cost £99
Places/Remaining 80 / 80
Groups 4
Noise Limit 105dba
Instructors? Yes

by **abmunro** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:25

I just got one of these yesterday, It was only £123 including 2GB memory card instead of the £199 +£40

The second one on the page.

I got it from Firebox.com

http://www.trackdays.co.uk/Track-cam.htm

On-Board Race Cameras

Features:
- Multiple mounting design (bike, helmet, etc)
- Product Size: 109 x 45 x 45 mm (Approximate) (without mounts)
- Professional Helmet Cam looking Design
- 640x480 VGA CMOS sensor
- 32MB internal memory (NAND flash)
- SD memory card support up to 2GB
- Black & white HTN LCD for status display (VA = 20 x 15mm (TBC))
- USB interface (Acts like a memory stick-mass storage device)

Battery Life
Standard alkaline AA batteries will give you 1.5 hours of power at 20 degrees C. Li-Ion AA batteries 4-5 hours.
Track Camera

£199.99 - ORDER NOW
Please allow 48 hours for delivery

Track Camera Memory

£39.99 - ORDER NOW
Please allow 48 hours for delivery

Keys: (3 buttons)
- Shutter (Movie only) (one or two beeping sounds)
- Menu (one beeping sound)
- On/Off/Enter (two beeping sounds)
- Buzzer for key tones and other alert sounds
- Internal real time clock
- Operated by 2 x AA batteries (we recommend Li-Ion batteries)

Recording Time:
At highest resolution and frame rate, you will get approx 30 mins on a 1Gb SD card and 60mins on a 2Gb SD card.

More Info

This Waterproof Action Camera is a digital video camera that enables the user to capture video clips of their sports activities. Weighing in at 200g (with batteries), this hands-free action cam delivers digital video in 640 X 480 VGA at 30 frames per second. Compatible with Macs and PCs, it works seamlessly with most video editing software. Expandable up to 2GB, with built-in SD card slot, it mounts easily on helmets, bikes, race cars, dirt bikes and more. Wipeouts in a white out? No worries, the camera is waterproof. Play hard, record everything!

Features:
- Captures video clips with sound.
- Three selectable resolutions (640x480, 320x240, 160x120)
- Video clip file format: AVI - 640x480, 320x240, 160x120
- Two frame rates (15fps and 30 fps) for all three resolutions.
- With built-in memory and SD card slot for memory expansion
- Waterproof
- Low battery detection
- Power-saving management
- Firmware upgradeable

The package includes the min unit, mounting accessories (i.e. mounts, strips, rubber pad and velcro pads), the user manual, a USB cable and silicon grease (for the O-ring)

Website · by **theelanman** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:33

thats at least half a dozen of us with the same cam now so we should get a good rescource going........
I just need some decent editing software (free of course) :-D

by **Monty** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:40

abmunro wrote:I just got one of these yesterday, It was only £123 including 2GB memory card instead of the £199 +£40

The second one on the page.

I got it from Firebox.com

http://www.trackdays.co.uk/Track-cam.htm

IIRC halfords were doing them for £99 and i`ve seen them on ebay at £50 :roll:

You can get the memory cards for approx £15 of ebay.

by **Monty** » Mon 01.10.2007, 16:47

abmunro wrote:I am interested.
Does the cost alter if you have passenger, is there a minimum age for passenger.
What time does it start how much track time do you get.
I take it that these are the details below...
Have you been before.
Sorry for all the questions but I have never done track day before.

Think all the places have gone, you have to send the form of ASAP once it`s gone live to get a place. I`ve not done aintree before so looking forward to it but it`s 10 minute sessions

so can`t see me doing it again. There`s a few NORLOGers going to thats why i`m just going for a laugh really.

IIRC it`s £10 for a passanger which u can pay on the day, u`r welcome to have a pax ride once Dico has been :smt078

it`ll be an early start for me ie get there for 7.30 at the latest, but passangers can get there later as i don`t think they have to be at the briefing

say 9am to 10am

by **Monty** » Fri 05.10.2007, 20:30

Well tomorrow is the day :rally:

and the weather looks good :-D

by **Dico** » Sat 06.10.2007, 18:04

Liverpool salvage yards have had a busy day! :shock:

At least Murph and the striped beast made it back in one piece. Handled as well as ever.
Sadly one of the many smashed up vehicles was an Elise

by **John_W** » Sat 06.10.2007, 19:02

Sorry to hear there was damage done. Glad you both avoided problems.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Any pictures? Opinions of Aintree and organisers?

The weather up here's been brilliant, so I hope you got sun too.

John

by **GeoffSmith** » Sat 06.10.2007, 19:14

John_W wrote:The weather up here's been brilliant, so I hope you got sun too.

We were forecast a sunny day - still waiting for the sun to show up. :evil:

by **Dico** » Sat 06.10.2007, 19:27

John_W wrote:
Did you enjoy yourselves? Any pictures? Opinions of Aintree and organisers?

The weather up here's been brilliant, so I hope you got sun too.

I was just a passenger (fortunately).
Weather was perfect.
It quite a good day but it was a 'sessioned' event which meant each group (and there were 4 groups) only got to go out for 10 minutes at a time. So in theory you got to go out fo 10 minutes every 40. In practice however we only probably managed 6 or 7 times in total due to the long winded breifing, and the multiple breakdowns and smashes

.
There were 2 crashes involving 2 cars in each, 1 of which involved the Elise which got side swiped by a Subaru after spinning. The Elise then ploughed into a big bale of hay, smashing the windscreen!
Another smash involved 2 souped up japanese racers ploughing into each other. One was quite badly damaged. The driver proceeded to chase the other driver round the race track :lol:

Another involved a Westfield type which ran into the solid embankment

The track itself seemed a little dangerous in my opinion. There were no run offs as such and no gravel traps.

Knob of the day went to a Corvette driver. An absolute plonker who should have been removed!

Footage to come via Murph and his crackly cam corder.

Oh, and we tink his head gasket has blown....... for the 3rd time this year! :twisted:

by **chris.t** » Sat 06.10.2007, 19:55

Glad you guys managed to steer yourselves around the trouble. Monty's a good driver so thats to be expected.

sounds like you had the Muppet show on the track today, a lot of pissed off faces at home at the mo. Your report is going to put a lot of peeps off doing track but honesty is the best policy. This sounds like a poorly organised and inappropriate track venue.

I really hope that its not hgf but Monty does drive the beast hard and fast so mechanical failure is bound to be ramped up the scale.

by **Monty** » Sat 06.10.2007, 20:15

Yep i had a great day and wasn`t as bad as Dico makes out :roll:

but some people do push the limit and you have to be prepared for something going wrong

The old git (Dico`s age) in the Corvette was just not pulling over and kept out braking himself and had a spin and IMHO he shouldn`t of been in the intermediate at one point going down the straight at 110 trying to over take him and just got a head but he just stayed on the inside line (right hander) and didn`t slow down and he had to lock his brakes and thought oh here we go his going to wipe me out as i turn in :twisted:

I really enjoyed Aintree as it`s quite a fast circuit (1.5 miles) but it`s quite bumpy, the 10 minute sessions are a killer saying that it wasn`t a bad thing as i was getting slight temperature issue which i think it`s the beginning of a head gasket failure :cry:

and was planning on doing Oulton next month

Anyways a bit tyred and just stuffed my face with a Madras so i`ll sort some footage out another day.

by **Dico** » Sat 06.10.2007, 20:23

Monty wrote: wasn't as bad as Dico makes out

So exactly which bit of my above comments doesn't ring true?

I await your reply with baited breath!

Monty wrote:some people do push the limit and you have to be prepared for something going wrong The old git (Dico's age) in the Corvette was just not pulling over and kept out braking himself and had a spin and IMHO he shouldn't of been in the intermediate at one point going down the straight at 110 trying to over take him and just got a head but he just stayed on the inside line (right hander) and didn't slow down and he had to lock his brakes and thought oh here we go his going to wipe me out as i turn in

And breathe :-D

by **Monty** » Sat 06.10.2007, 20:33

The driver proceeded to chase the other driver round the race track

by **John_W** » Sat 06.10.2007, 20:37

Dico wrote:And breathe

Must be difficult to add punctuation when typing one-handed while stuffing your face with nan and curry. :-D

John

by **chris.t** » Sat 06.10.2007, 21:12

errr Jay, when we went to Bedford I don't think there were any crashes, people chasing others round the track. everyone went away happy and content. In comparison this sounds like a blood bath. Enjoy your curry!

by **Monty** » Sun 07.10.2007, 15:15

chris.t wrote:errr Jay, when we went to Bedford I don't think there were any crashes, people chasing others round the track. everyone went away happy and content. In comparison this sounds like a blood bath. Enjoy your curry!

Chris,
thats cause there`s very little to hit there and if u remember there where plenty of spins. At Aintree there`s a quite a few things to hit ie styles that the horses jump :shock:

you can see them in the vids

and here are the vids

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3fkhx1-0M

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3KP9B3u0P8M

by **Monty** » Mon 08.10.2007, 12:24

Here`s one more vid

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wM_6FwFaibY

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