since you gave me good advice for the preparation and about what to expect, I thought I should tell you what happened.
After the trackday, I traded the Morgan for a Porsche 911 GT3.
Don’t worry, I’m joking. The Morgan it still alive, not damaged, I possibly will keep it and I can tell you, that was fun !!!
As adviced, I prepared the Roadster with an inspection, yellow EBC track pads for the brakes, new DOT4 brake fluid with higher boiling point and new rear tyres AVON ZV5.
Arriving at the racetrack, I found myself between 60% 911’s, most of then GT3’s, some BMW’s, Ferrari’s and other special prepared cars. Hockenheim is a wide GP-racetrack, even the F1 used to go there. So I started the first session with mixed emotions. But the faster cars were really civilized and respected the moving hurdle on the track. A 3-series BMW tried to pass me on a straight and went off the track in the next corner, red flag, session interrupted.
After lunch, I had the ordered lesson with a coach. After letting him drive the car to understand the potential, we went out and he took me trough the track. All in all, the line that I had chosen during the morning was not that wrong, but his advice was, to steer in earlier than I thought and point more aggressive over the deflectors. Together with the sliding of the car you then get the best line and widest radius. And I was sliding most of the time. The road tires were the most limiting factor through the day. Modern road tyres and track tyres seem to be able to hold much higher g-loads, this was obvious in every corner. I constantly had to watch rear traffic trough the curves. The second factor were the brakes. After 2 turns, the brake pedal got soft, there was a constant strong smell from the brakes and I had to manage the usage to keep them running.
But again, it was huge fun, I can only recommend it to everyone, and I’m thinking about the necessary modifications to improve my lap times, which I will not mention here… :-)
So, what track tyres do you recommend? Which brake upgrades?
Is there any advice from German drivers, which have to deal with the TÜV requirements? I’d like to keep the car road legal.
