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MadManMike

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Yeah I think it's just a Scene thing. I often leave my bonnet at half-mast at shows, but I just do it by putting the bonnet-stay in a different hole. I guess if you've got gas-struts a lanyard's a fairly handy way of doing it. (I leave it half up because it looks silly and blocks the view of the car all the way up, plus I like how low Scirocco's roof lines are, and having the bonnet sticking right up detracts from it.)

Currently uploading an in-car video of Nick out on track yesterday. 335 minutes remaining :( I stuck a little Sony Action-Cam (HDR-AS15) I bought a while back on his screen with a suction mount to see how it came out and I'm really impressed with it! The camera's got built in steadying (it's got a 170deg lens, but with the steadying turned on it crops it down to 120deg and moves around the cropped area to keep things smooth, while still managing 1080.) The cars in front and the track seem to stay completely still while Nicks bonnet moves around in the bottom of the shot. I'm pleased with the actual picture quality too. I'd definitely recommend one as a cheaper alternative to Go-Pros for filming car stuff. It does a live stream to, and control with android/i-phones, so you can set-up the shots and start/stop the camera from in the car when it's mounted externally, which is pretty handy. Plus the usual Go-pro-alike stuff, 120fps@720, 60fps@1080, 170deg or 120deg lens without steadying, 60m waterproofing, and it mounts on a standard 1/4" tripod thread.

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Woohooooooooo. Thanks Robin.

Hooray for traffic jams!

Typical Combe really, over 60 cars on track at once in some sessions. i think in the whole day one single car indicated to signal they were ready to be passed, and not a single car backed off the throttle to allow a safe overtake.

You had a choice of sit behind someone slow and waste your money in a short 15 minute session, or initiate warp drive and force your way past, putting yourself off line for the next bend and hugely compromising your line / corner speed.

Not my favourite organisation, driving standards of others are so poor you end up driving like a bit of a cock yourself as if you didn't, you'd just trundle around.

I think the second session Robin got in film was far better, chasing down the Revolution Motorstore Imprezza, that was fun!

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That looks great but the Cupra splitter kinda ruins it, I dot think its necessary and just makes the front look messy

Thanks, I like the splitter though! I got given it for free and fitted it for Edition38. Didn't expect it to last this long to be honest!

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