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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    This is the closest I'll ever come to catching and passing a 992 GT3RS on merit. It was another RSR rental car, so clearly someone who hasn't driven it, or the circuit before. If it wasn't for me moving over and letting the E36 past through Brunchen I might JUST have had the momentum to squeeze...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    This next clip sums up what I enjoy about the Nurburgring, when you can have a decent battle with a decent car and not let your ego get in the way. The clip starts with the Cayman RSR coming past me on the Döttinger Höhe straight just before the Bilstein Bridge. Clearly I'm at VMAX and it just...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    I've been rummaging through the footage and have chopped up some clips. First, to make @RSRowe feel a little bit better about himself this is the start of our first laps. Shows the Megane just stretching its legs on the Clio and I can't keep up: Next up, one of my favourite sections through...
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    Glacier White 200 Cup

    Regarding your tyre choice for the Nurburgring, I don't find it a particularly heavy circuit on tyre wear for a car like the Clio. It has much more of a flow to it than most smaller circuits and there are only a handful of heavy braking zones. Given that it is your first trip, you're not going...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Did 22 laps overall, was probably the best Circuit Days event I've done. Not a single red flag and only minor breakdowns/incidents. It always helps when the 'more money than talent' brigade don't wipe their £150k car down the barriers at 9.30am. Day 2 ended with dinner outside and a cold beer...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Knocked out 12 laps on Day 1 without a single red flag or stoppage. Day 2 started even better as it was warmer and sunnier. I had a very light breakfast at the hotel before doing 3 laps in the morning. I then had a breather and had a second breakfast at Devil's Diner overlooking the car park...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Resting at the hotel between sessions:
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Track Day 1 - weather perfect, track dry, did 6 laps in the morning just building up speed. Standard Circuit Days photographer getting half the shot obscured by a barrier: You can really see the Cup Racer front end wideeeeboi in this picture at Adenaur Forst #CAMBER. At this point my...
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Nurburgring April 2024 Felt like I was a bit short on time getting the car ready this year, with it only just running right a week or so before the trip, and a hasty MOT checkup. But it was too late to cancel so I just took a gamble that everything would be alright on the night. Started with...
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    Sprint Hillclimb 197

    It's to break the timing beam for accurate timekeeping on sprint/hill climb events
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    MOT passed and car is back with me. Needs a good wash and a hoover, and going to put the OZ wheels back on for a little while to try and use those MRF tyres in Germany.
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Max turned around the calipers in super quick time and they arrived today. The damaged bleed screw on the NSR has been removed, the hole re-threaded and a larger bleed screw fitted. At the same time Max was not happy with the brake line connection so that has been rethreaded and fitted with a...
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    CLIO 197 CUP - Project TF

    Good stuff, what threw me was you talking about painting it and I was like, errrrrr…
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    CLIO 197 CUP - Project TF

    This might be a silly think to point out but please tell me they’re going back to finish those welds?
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    R20 BTG - 200 Cup Track Car Blog

    Haha yep MYP