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Your EVO was amazingly quick yesterday Eddie!

I've added my photos from the event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnsidc/sets...57622288605257/

Nice footage - seems a lot faster looking rearward Pity about you having to finish early, as the car seemed to be going extremely well

Might try and pop up on Sunday then , got Knockhill tomorrow.

Are you taking part at Boyndie this weekend?

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Congratulations!

I had mine set-up at Wallace Performance. Job well done and reasonably priced. It helps that they are only a 5 minutes walk from my office though, so was able to drop the car off, and pick it up later.

Looks fab

Awesome!! Great write-up, and you are very lucky indeed! Hope to see you and your car back in action at Knockhill soon John

Absolutely superb shots Col Worth the suburn I would say.

It will no doubt turn out to be something very simple in the end. I hope you have a nice courtesy car in the meantime?

You don't need an assistant by any chance

Donald - if you aren't going to Boyndie, then SIDC have a track event on the 19th September from 9am to 1pm. MLR members can take part at the same rates as SIDC members and it would be great to see your car around the track John

Should be a very exciting finale to the season. I'm hoping to get along to a couple of them if I can

Mikey - we have run mid-week events in the past, though not for about 6 years now. In fact we started off by doing 6-8pm mid week events over 10 years ago Whilst some people can take a day's holiday/sicky for a track day, not everyone can and over the course of a year it would account for 4 or 5 day's holiday. In the past for mid week events we had less people taking part to spread the cost over, so the savings on a mid-week event were negligible, maybe £10 per person. Overall, although we were a few people short of break even point on Saturday, over the course of the 4 events this year things will hopefully balance out OK A similar things happened the last time we ran an event in August, with many regulars away on holiday and other events so we'll simply give August a miss next year Looking forward to seeing lots of people at our next event on the 19th September. John

There's a thread on the MLR forums detailing lots of the work Donald has done on his car over the past year here: http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=249675

I honestly wish we could run our events at those sort of prices, but even 10 years ago we had to charge £65 for a 4 hour session to break even. Being a dealer, Autoecosse would be able to claim back the VAT, write off the costs against tax as a promotional event/advertising and the remainder can be recovered from the profit of one or two etxra car sales over the next 12 months making it a very viable proposition to run more events like this in the future. It was great that it has given so many the chance to pop their track "cherry", and given them the bug to come back for more John

I've uploaded my photos from both events here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnsidc/sets...2511933/detail/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnsidc/sets...6683264/detail/ 10 out of 10 for trying hard! John

It was great to see your car running so well at long last - and huge thanks for the passengers laps. Simply awesome! John

Cracking shots as always Neil

We have several Imprezas taking part, but I'm not sure of their build specs.

Great stuff Dale

Just had an email from Mike who is the curator of Grampian Transport Museum in Alford. They have 11 cars already confirmed for Tuesday's event, including a Gallardo , but sadly no Imprezas so far. If anyone is available on Tuesday, and would like to take their car around the track with some passengers on board, then please get in touch by sending me an email on john@sidc.co.uk The event is very well run, and the marshalls handle the loading of passengers etc. You then do 3 or 4 laps with them on board, going fast in a straight line down the "back" straight, before easing off around the corner and the "home" straight Not only will you get a free lunch and refreshments, but you will also get a £35 petrol voucher. Dale did us proud at the last event (photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnsidc/sets...493024/detail/) and they would like a few more Imprezas to take part as they already have a couple of EVOs. John

I wouldn't rate them either. OEM pads lasted about 18k miles with a little bit of track use on my old STi. Red stuff pads lasted all of 7k miles with only moderate road use. Pedal feel was awful when cold, but better once warmed up a bit.