My weekend away at Prescott Hill Climb - VERY CAR PIC HEAVY

arry · Super Spammer Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Karma :

Last weekend was the SXOC's "Weekender" event at the Bugatti Owners Club in Gloucestershire so I thought I'd take a ride out there to spend a weekend on the sauce and watch some hill-climb action Smile

First off - took a nice ride through to Chipping Norton, along to Stow from there, then up through to Gotherington - nice roads out that way. I'd been around there before but didn't really have the time to properly explore - did this time, it was ace Cool

I was also pleased the weekend gave me a bit more practice with my new Canon 450d - since the only other time it was used was at Le Mans and I wasn't too great at getting good shots.

So anyway, Sunday's track action - pictures Very Happy

Shame though, because I was knee down through the hairpins and everything, and I broke the record of 36 seconds round there easily and everything Mr. Green

(actually I didn't take the bike up Embarassed

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Hope you enjoy Smile

Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Prescott is my favorite track, every corner on it tries to kill you.
The first "0rchard" is a gentle left hander that tightens on the blind exit into the 200degree right hander "Etore's" with negative camber and a tighter exit than entrance, slow in and slow out unless you want to end up in the kitty litter. After Etore's hammer it downhill and then up into the incredibly tight left hander " Pardon" as soon as you exit Pardon it is full throttle through the "Esses" if I do this right both of by boots will hit the road and the marker flapper will hit my arm as you come out of the penultimate S hit the brakes hard and try not to lock up as you go hard left and then open up as hard as you can up the hill tucking into the right of the track. This leaves you blind for the last bend but I use the marshal's box on the right as a breaking marker, as you pass the box bank hard right into the never ending "Semi- circle" you need to throttle as hard as you dare through here as the semi-circle grips the side of the hill leaving the exit blind, if you are not on full bore before the last marshal box you have missed the mark. As you exit you see the finish line so it is full pelt without changing gear to the flag.

I love Prescott

Very Happy

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