Track Day September 2014 Snetterton

Oct 13th. 2014
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Open Track . Snetterton . Tony Harrison Photography . Trackday
By mapw
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Having been away from the track for too long, a track day came up with Open Track www.OpenTrack.co.uk at Snetterton on the 300 Circuit on Monday 29th September 2014; it was a late addition to their calendar.

Unfortuantely track time during the day was limited in the morning due fog delaying the start. Visibility was down to below 50m, meaning you couldn’t see the marshalls’ post or the lights or from one end of the pit lane to the other, so sighting laps couldn’t get underway until 11am once the fog had lifted as it wasn’t safe to go out. But once the fog lifted track time got underway, and it was a dry, busy morning on track. The afternoon brought some light showers. The ambient air temperature was good at around 15 degrees C, meaning inlet air and water temperatures were fine all day.

One additional change had previosly bew made to the gearbox oil cooler, and after monitoring on track the highest temperature recorded was 109.8 degrees C which is a huge improvement over the 125+ which was seen with no gearbox oil cooler fitted during similar track sessions.

There were still some fantastic pictures of the day, taken by Tony Harrison.