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My times unless indicated:

Sat 1a @8:40: 11:01

Sat 1b @8:55: 10:58

Sat 2 @12:20: 9:38 Balls of Steel Cadguy

Sat 3 @6:10: 10:45

Sat 4 @6:25: 10:29

Sat 5 @6:35 incomplete trace ( Andy? )

Sun 1 @8:50: 10:32

Sun 2 @12:00: 11:03+ Jim Potter GPS lost signal just before last bend

Sun 3 @7:00: 10:26

Mon 1 @10:20: 52:42! Was parked up for 40mins. Dub-Donna completed the lap at up to 50mph to pop her 'Ring cherry ;-)

Not the fastest of laps, but consistant which is the true sign of a good driver!

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I've got a Gizmondo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo ) .

The firmware has been hacked so it will run 'unsigned' software and the device booted into WinCE. I wrote a small application which simply logs the NMEA data once a second and writes it to a file with a control to turn the logging on and off.

Plotting the latitude against longitude as a scatter plot gives a 'Ring shaped graph. Overlay the GPS co-ords for the Bridge and Gantry and tweak the original data set so that no points appear between the start and finish. Job done.

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Yeah rich, don't let Pete's Mishap put you off ;-)

Amazing experiance !

According to the marshall on the scene the track on that corner is in shade all morning and as such is a bit more slippery than usual. It could have been any one of us, Pete was just the first one into the corner !

Also you don't have to drive the car hard on any part of the track ! I didn't go there with the plan of breaking any times and just for the experiance and I never regretted a second of it.

I will be going next time without a doubt ;-)

Mark.

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loving my time' date=' concidering i was 4 up in the car

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Pah! I was only 34 seconds slower in my 1600cc diesel auto estate. I reckon I'd have been close to a sub 10-minute if it wasn't for the Sierra Cosworth holding me up! Still shitting myself from your sideways moment on that 9:38 lap though :)

Cheers,

Andy

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