I'm back!
In one piece with car intact. The old girl performed admirably...
When I pulled up, I had a chat with the bloke organising the day, he said "are you going round in that?"
What does that mean I says? "I mean't it looks too nice to rag on a trackday thats all" so that was nice.
Snetterton isn't a great track for the M5, a lot of high speed heavy braking, so a 1700kg M5 wasn't ideal.
I could do 6-8 laps before the brakes were starting to go off, thats with race pads.
Mind you I was seeing 130-135 on revett so it needed some very serious stopping power to get through the esses which probably didn't help! Could have done with a parachute!
There was a smattering of E36's there, plenty of westfields and caterham's, two MK1 golf's with 16v GTI engines which were plenty quick, a VW scirocco! an audi RS2 (porsche tweeked one) which was quick but cornered like a see saw and some dedicated track cars don't ask me what they were... but they were the only cars to out drag the M5 down the straights and I nearly ended wearing his air intake as it flew off on revett!
The tyres and the brakes took a serious pounding, front left tyre being the worst which now has some nasty blisters
I got complimented on my lines and smoothe style by the instructor, he said I would struggle to get the M5 round much faster than I was, which was nice knowing. (and free)
Favourite corner, the bomb hole. ease off on the way in full power from the apex for lots of smiles
oh, and he loved the sound of the S38 at full chat, as did some of the other guys who came up and told me so
Averaged 11.4 mpg which was better than expected, brakes survived the trip, a great day out
A few pics: