{"id":488,"date":"2008-12-23T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=488"},"modified":"2008-12-24T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:49:53","slug":"track-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/track-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Outing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A great day out today! Together with Andy Eccles, Adam Tier, Olly Bloxham and Paul Young I hired a small sprint circuit in the Midlands for a morning of ‘testing’ and photography. This is something I tend to do around this time of year, mainly because it’s nearly always damp or cold enough for a low-friction tyre-friendly oversteer surface – but not today! It was 10 degrees and bone dry – a couple of quick cornering tests presented far too much grip.<\/p>\n

Fortunately Andy had a great idea during the planning phase, so we’d brought some irrigation for a nearby water supply.<\/p>\n

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The line up:<\/p>\n

Neil – E39 M5
\nOlly – E39 M5
\nAdam – E39 540i (manual)
\nPaul – E87 120d
\nAndy – E91 325d<\/p>\n

Andy and I are sideways veterans at this circuit, so we set about using the wetness to get all attendees sliding their cars around the bend.<\/p>\n

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Great success! We spent the vast majority of the morning just hooning around. I learnt that I can do over 45mph in reverse, and that the M5 doesn’t need much help from me to oversteer: look mum – no hands!<\/p>\n

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In an attempt to get some vaguely scientific information out of the day, we recorded some laps times. Andy has neatly converted these into a Top Gear style “Power Lap” board!<\/p>\n

The diesels did really well against the massive V8s, but again the nature of a small sprint circuit will level the playing field somewhat. Interestingly I did a lap in Andy’s 325d that felt every bit as fast as my M5, but that was a 1:28.<\/p>\n

Overall a fantastic day out – throughly enjoyable! Best bit was that there were absolutely no complaints from the M5. I did over 300 miles, visited the rev limiter often, spun, got the oil well over 100 degrees etc, and it took it all in its stride on just one tank of fuel. What a car!<\/p>\n

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