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We look back to eCoty 2010 to recount some unplanned excursions...

that nobody speaks of. Could get you kicked out of Fight Club that sort of behaviour. Anyway, as he’s loosened the drawstrings and the cat is scrabbling to get out, I thought I might as well tell you what happened in 2010.‘Cadwell on a dark, chilly, rainy Tuesday was risky, especially with a couple of the cars being on lightly treaded, trackday-style rubber. One of them was the.

‘I’d like to say that never have I been so close to crashing for so long, but I can’t. On the other side of the hill back in 1993, indays, I slid off the asphalt on the right-hander, Chris Curve, in a 968 Clubsport and travelled about the same distance on the grass. However, on that occasion I found the tyre barrier at the Gooseneck. I was photographed leaning on its rear spoiler… while it was hooked up to the recovery truck.

Not really a problem given that I wasn’t travelling that quickly. Except that, as John had already proved, you don’t need a lot of speed to travel a long way on wet grass. I saw the bank coming and tried everything I could to pull up short, but it was futile. From memory it did both ends and of course Matt was in prime position to capture the moment for posterity. I drove the R8 back to the pits but it went no further in the test. A manual R8 Spider was subbed in in its place.

 

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