Lads don't apologise for being privileged (middel class), this is why we listen. More 599 GTO stories from Neil please, and questions like who has drank the most bottles of Petrus would be much appreciated. Keep up the good work 👏
What’s wrong with earning money, taking advantage of skill, opportunity and good fortune to make a life for yourself? I find this podcast aspirational. Jealousy is so ugly. And for those that get bent out of shape over people living their best lives, if they didn’t have nice cars, nice houses, and do fun things then the money wouldn’t go to builders, car factory employees, tour companies and so on. Grow up, haters!
This podcast is all the better for you lot being middle class, couldnt think of a better collection of four posh petrolheads to make me laugh every week. PS can we have a roadtrip, One caterham and one 560 SEC, and you flip a coin to decide who sits where. Keep up the stonking pod chaps.
My favourite racing image is of 2 917's in Spa clipping the curbs and hitting the cones flying of in the distance while a marshall with the image of a bird on its back is just casually standing 2 meters from that corner.
Collecting Addicts Bingo: Track limits, Ferrari 468, CC discussed it with his sons, Luca di Montezemolo, Orthopaedic surgeon, MP has only owned one car (bonus if he mentions what it was), NC “I’ve owned one”, Probably loads I’ve missed; and adding whenever Neil mentions his dyslexia, which I also have, seems cruel. But then again bingo is brutal… Please add…
Great episode lads…. On the point of Chris’s choice of motorsport image… That is Frank Kelly from County Tyrone N Ireland, the rally team and the car are pretty legendary. Many clips can be found on RU-vid of there antics including those at Rallylegend.
I did my first trackday as a 22 year old chap last winter, I’ve been lucky to do some karting as a kid and consider myself a relatively skilled driver but even I found the trackday extremely intimidating. I went in my £900 116hp 2005 Mini Cooper with 120k miles on £30 a corner road tyres and it was bloody hilarious! I think the key for me to enjoying my trackday was going in a regular car, knowing that even if I was shit, no one could take the mick whereas if I turned up in a gt3 I think there would have been a feeling of needing to be fast because of the capability of the equipment. Thanks for the podcast fellas!
Agreed. Best track experience I've had is in my "track-tool" Fiesta St150. Worst is in an uninsured gt4rs. And knowing that the front fenders cost 12k each on the rs, it wouldn't probably have been much more fun even if it was insured. Scary thing on a track with 20 other fast cars
Two of my favourite motorsports photos are Mansell giving Senna the taxi at Silverstone in 1991, and Senna looking confused at Mika Hakkinen's data to see where he had gone faster.
As an owner of a 1995 C36 AMG, I genuinely loved the "seat adjustment button" segment. There's a very simple baseline pleasure one receives when operating these particular switches. Bravo gents 👏🏻
Quality! Please remain as middle class as you like! You mentioned a fun day without the intimidation of a track day. North Weald Airfield near the M25/M11 intersection do Action Days. They are a hoot. I have no affiliation with the company other than I've done a few of their days. Worth checking them out. I assume there are a number of these types of Action days around the country, usually on airfields.
A lower class track day is exquisite, what you do is take the car out after midnight and ignore the speed limit, it's even free, you just have to dodge those patrolling tax farmers who carry a gun and have unlimited authority
Thanks for letting us into your successful and obviously privileged life, through that success, into a world I would not otherwise have sight of; like the banter to.
Watching this is pure joy each week! Hysterical, informative, entertaining and such a simple formula but you just have the right five components to make it work. Best podcast out there and frankly my favourite go to on RU-vid. I could listen to you talk about any topic. Plus actually learnt a lot about a lot of topics. Please keep going 👍👍.
Don't apologise for the fact that you've all worked and are in a position where you can afford the best cars. No one would listen if it was about vauxhall and ford. Keep it going as this is the only thing I actually can't wait to come out each week
First image in motorsport that came to my head was when Nigel Mansell’s tyre blew in the “ Canon” car. As my mother was the dealer executive for fax machines in Scotland HQ and acquired the correct red canon baseball cap so I was watching avidly with said cap on in my childhood.
One of the greatest motorsport photos is the Castrol Celica on the Safari rally. Either ploughing through the muddy waterhole or all four wheels off the ground with Mt Kilimanjaro as a backdrop
In stitches again. Chris Cooper is obviously enjoying his cornish sherberts 😂! Really looking forward to Neal's forthcoming track day with his two mentors on Sept 11th......would it be possible to video it as a separate item on you tube?
This podcast is getting more and more tipsier, certainly got that Friday feeling 😄 Great episode look forward to this every week and now into the 30's, Love the new intro gents/Ed smashed it 😎💪
I've never done a track day in a car but I've done a couple on a bike: Chris Harris' take (19:56 -->) about sums up my (limited) experience. There's always some knobber or three who want to put the wind up the newbies and my opinion about these types is "if you think you're that good, why don't you sod off and try your hand at racing?". Track days are supposed to be an enjoyable and exploratory outing for all.
Yeah he was bang on with that. I’ve done a fair few motorbike trackdays and a little bit of racing a few years ago. It got to the point with both where I just squirrelled myself away to the quietest corner of the paddock. The egos would always spoiled the day before it had even started.
Beano’s arrived. It must be Friday. The seat button adjuster feature caught my interest. If ever there was a question. “Which buttons would be better replaced and put on a screen in the car”. It’s the seat buttons which have to be operated without looking at them, and are often a complete mystery to many car owners throughout their ownership. Porsche even have 18 way adjusters BTW. Thanks as usual guys.
Hyundai N cars have 5 years warranty inc non competitive track days! So bought a i20N for the wife and school run and fun. She loves it and it does what it needs! Top gear car of the year 2021 I believe!
The whole "go racing instead!" argument assumes cost is no issue. Racing at almost ANY level is an order of magnitude more expensive than track days. I'm fortunate to have a fairly expensive and capable car to take to the track but I've done a little club level racing before and the costs just aren't comparable.
Best image: either or both airborne at the Nurburgring. The BMW 3.0 CSL Castrol "Batmobile" (Hans Stuck) in 1974 and/or the Chaparral 2F in 1967 (Phil Hill).
Agree with the Mazda B2000. I have the Australian version, Ford Courier 2.6. Has 395,000km on it. Unstoppable, slow, thirsty. Replaced clutch and clutch cylinders at about 320,000km and that’s it.
As a Trinidadian, Land Cruiser 70 series 4 door wagon or pickup. 33” tyres, ARB suspension. For the second, Grp 4 MKII or MKI escort. As bad as some of the roads are, there are those that would put a smile on your face.
Here’s a topic,,, ‘most optimistically named cars’? Kia Carnival comes to mind. Vauxhall Victor? Any recent ‘Superleggera’? Or maybe just the Ford Fiesta 🎉
28:57 I've driven across Europe many times and I drove taxi when I was a student (Norther Europe, so in a new E-Class), what helps for getting tired: take a nap or just close your eyes for a minimum of about 8-12 minutes, maximum is about 15-18 minutes. Set an alarm for 15 minutes, close your eyes and let your eyes rest or take a nap for 15 minutes. It will transform you for at least half an hour. Nothing else will work.
You crazy Brits. What's wrong with your track days over there? They're quite safe and well organized in the states. Well, at least for me in 2nd biggest state. I've had several track days over the years and all of them with road cars. Never once saw crash. Fact... I might have been the most unfavorable at a couple of them. (Ran out of gas once. Ohhhh I felt like such a twit.)
This made me think about what car I'd do 1000miles in and despite owning probably more statement making cars, honestly the two most enjoyable long drives I remember are in my at the time brand new Mk5 R32 golf (great seats, sound and headlights) and a 944 turbo (best seats ever, pop up headlights and riding that wave of old school boost are the stand out feelings)
This was a great episode and made me home sick as I can confirm all of your choices for a Tobago cars where spot on. And I’d put money on the fact that Manish fell in love with Speyside. That’s the cultural side that makes you keep coming back
Haha, I missed the beginning of Manish's recounting of the Spa race, but I recognised exactly what he was talking about because I was at that race, watching it all unfold!! Amazing how sometimes everything just clicks and one moment can encapsulate and represent so many stories of so many people as sort of a snapshot.
Funnily enough I could never buy a Mercedes because i think the seat adjustment buttons on the door panels are quite simply very ugly. How often do you adjust your seat? Once. The buttons belong out of sight down on the seat squab. Next!
After years of ‘cheap bikes’ and a few cars on track, spent 50k on an FL5 Type R, and only bind it. Sticking to road driving until I get a pass for a track car/bike.
The problem with track days in North America is the selfishness of many participants. Competitiveness over camaraderie, regardless of talent. I've seen the Nurburgring tourist days have started to suffer from this also
You could all be billionaires or brokies i dont mind, its still a great listen while im doing chores around the yard .. My personal desire would be to talk more about entry level, budget cars like Z3's, Civics and Ford Fiestas 😂😆
Love this podcast, but I’ve noticed it has a bit too much specialised knowledge. I can’t keep up with what an E39 M3 is or a w125 Mercedes. I’d prefer a model year and a picture.
I know you guys love a good bit of automotive pedantry, so let me set you straight on one error that keeps getting repeated on the show. The seat squab is the backrest. The bit you sit on is the cushion. I'll put the anorak away now. Great work, fellas.
Ford Transit Custom Sport…fresh as a daisy when you get out. Did the E42/A60 south last week with the whole length at 3 figures. Room in the back for toys too!
Gents, still love it and always look forward to listening in to the next instalment. But Mr Cooper you're slurring again, you might benefit postponing getting on the sauce for an hour or so longer next time 😂.
If say go for a hill climb drivers day like prescott. There's no t%£ts trying to drive over the top of you, a massive range of cars from pre war to brand new and always a great laugh.
“F1” Ferrari have given the drivers many calls from the strategy team only to have the drivers dismiss or change the call. So perhaps the results are because they aren’t doing what the strategy team has chosen. Discuss
Last month I drove from Brussels to Belgrade in one go (19 hours) in my new (but poorly equipped and pathetically small dieseled) 3 series. What you want is a quiet and comfortable car with radar cruise control (the one paying option I have). And it did about 4-5 litres per 100km (or about 60mpg).
