Alfaholics Track Day

Got up nice and early this morning - met a few guys from the Welsh
section of the AROC and we went down to Castle Coombe to watch the
Alfaholics track day, for 105 series cars.

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi kicked
off at 3pm. Argh!

http://www.italiancar.co.uk/Alfaholics

Some decent shots, some shite, but I'm quite pleased considering it was
a £150 faux-SLR style digicam that's several years old.

--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...



--
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"Tim S Kemp" <news (AT) timkemp (DOT) karoo.co.uk> wrote

SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...

Soccer is such a pathetic sport. What's fun about watching a bunch of
overpaid poofters kicking a ball about for ninety minutes, claiming all
sorts of horrible injuries just for attention from the referee?

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"SteveH" <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Tim S Kemp <news (AT) timkemp (DOT) karoo.co.uk> wrote:

SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...

You're a deeply sad case, you know.

Says the "real petrolhead" who left an Alfa Romeo track day to watch
overpaid weaners kick a pigs' bladder about a grassy field.

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Tim S Kemp <news (AT) timkemp (DOT) karoo.co.uk> wrote:

SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...

You're a deeply sad case, you know.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

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SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...


Soccer is such a pathetic sport.

The same could be said of people who log their fuel costs really though ;-)

I tried to watch American 'Football' on TV the other night (you know the
version of our game americans invented but play it wearing padding and using
their hands as well for 'Football' - presumably to overcome hand-eye
coordination issues...) - ye gods that is **DULL**. They run like, 5
metres, then stop and spend another 15 minutes setting up for the next
attempt to make no ground at all. Still, it helped my insomnia :-)

The FA Cup Semi final was good today though :-p

--
Dan

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SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...


Soccer is such a pathetic sport.

The same could be said of people who log their fuel costs really though
;-)

Absolutely, but I don't get paid at all to put numbers into my PDA.

I tried to watch American 'Football' on TV the other night (you know the
version of our game americans invented but play it wearing padding and
using their hands as well for 'Football' - presumably to overcome hand-eye
coordination issues...) - ye gods that is **DULL**. They run like, 5
metres, then stop and spend another 15 minutes setting up for the next
attempt to make no ground at all. Still, it helped my insomnia :-)

I don't pretend to understand it either. Four quarters somehow lasts for
five hours.

The FA Cup Semi final was good today though :-p

That's an oxymoron.

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SteveH <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Grabbed a few pics, but left early 'cos I though the FA Cup Semi
kicked off at 3pm. Argh!

As long as it finishes on time...


Soccer is such a pathetic sport.

The same could be said of people who log their fuel costs really though
;-)

Absolutely, but I don't get paid at all to put numbers into my PDA.

If the sponsors are willing to pay it to them then they'd be stupid not to
take it heh.

I tried to watch American 'Football' on TV the other night (you know the
version of our game americans invented but play it wearing padding and
using their hands as well for 'Football' - presumably to overcome
hand-eye coordination issues...) - ye gods that is **DULL**. They run
like, 5 metres, then stop and spend another 15 minutes setting up for the
next attempt to make no ground at all. Still, it helped my insomnia :-)

I don't pretend to understand it either. Four quarters somehow lasts for
five hours.

The FA Cup Semi final was good today though :-p

That's an oxymoron.

In your opinion. Unless you're a Watford fan, then it's fair I guess :-)

--
Dan

Iridium <iridiumdan (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:

The FA Cup Semi final was good today though :-p

That's an oxymoron.


In your opinion. Unless you're a Watford fan, then it's fair I guess :-)

It was a decent game, aye.

Shame I didn't realise it was an evening kick-off or I'd have hung
around at Alfaholics for a bit longer.

However, there weren't that many cars there, with it being a 105 series
specific day - there's only so many times you can watch the same 20 cars
go around before it wears a bit thin. Especially when almost every
session was curtailed because someone span at Quarry.

Anyway, it's given me the kick up the arse I need to organise at least a
couple of track days this year - looking at doing them on the airfields
at Keevil and Hullavington, 'cos there's nothing much at Pembrey and
Castle Coombe are piss-taking cunts when it comes to charges. £225 for
that shitty litte place vs £89 for the airfields.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

"SteveH" <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Iridium <iridiumdan (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:

The FA Cup Semi final was good today though :-p

That's an oxymoron.


In your opinion. Unless you're a Watford fan, then it's fair I guess :-)

It was a decent game, aye.

Shame I didn't realise it was an evening kick-off or I'd have hung
around at Alfaholics for a bit longer.

However, there weren't that many cars there, with it being a 105 series
specific day - there's only so many times you can watch the same 20 cars
go around before it wears a bit thin. Especially when almost every
session was curtailed because someone span at Quarry.

Anyway, it's given me the kick up the arse I need to organise at least a
couple of track days this year - looking at doing them on the airfields
at Keevil and Hullavington, 'cos there's nothing much at Pembrey and
Castle Coombe are piss-taking cunts when it comes to charges. £225 for
that shitty litte place vs £89 for the airfields.

The problem with airfield days those seems to be stone chips in the extreme
and serious tyre wear. That just seems to be a theme I hear from people who
have done them though, definately the case at Elvington.

--
Dan