Cheeky January trackday

[Foz]

What’s the story with that LT? Is that a press car? Mclaren has the ‘P1 OOV’ number plate for its halo press car

Just to match the press cars tbh, he also has a P1, a MP4 GT3 car plus loads more and is doing British GT again this year

[Coaster1]

Poor sod!

[Coaster1]

Chaps, do you know these guys? There are quite a few strut tower failure cases (981 and 991).



Said car at Knockhill:

[Barry]

As much as he's driving the car hard (and a little badly) surely that's what the car is intended for so they can hardly blame him for the failure?

As for the strut issue, he needs to get legal advice on handing that back to Porsche and demanding his money back. No way I'd be wanting that fixing..

[Foz]

That’s the third car I have seen doing that..

https://auctions.hills-motors.co.uk/veh ... ch=&page=1

[Foz]

https://auctions.hills-motors.co.uk/veh ... ch=&page=1

[Coaster1]

Yeah it’s crap.

As for the strut issue, he needs to get legal advice on handing that back to Porsche and demanding his money back. No way I'd be wanting that fixing..

Esp when Walter Rohrl and co promoted these cars on track!

[mik]

That is Pete RevsRUs. Not sure if he made it here from teh Evo forum?

Other than running out of lock when trying to drift it at the hairpin, and losing it at the chicane, I don’t see anything I would describe as bad driving barry?

But we don’t call him Mad Pete fur nuthin.

That strut tower failure looks nasty.

[duncs500]

That’s the third car I have seen doing that..

https://auctions.hills-motors.co.uk/veh ... ch=&page=1

Would that one be all that dear to fix?

Anyway, this seems to have rendered all new GT3/4 cars worthless. I'll take one, I don't drive all that fast anyway.

[Coaster1]

That is Pete RevsRUs.

Hope he’ll get it sorted one way or another easily. Not had much luck has he? His M3 broke down at the ‘ring IIRC.

Nothing wrong with his driving in my eyes.

[Mito Man]

I think the first gen Audi R8 has a similar problem - much bigger scale though.

[Mito Man]

That is Pete RevsRUs.

Hope he’ll get it sorted one way or another easily. Not had much luck has he? His M3 broke down at the ‘ring IIRC.

Nothing wrong with his driving in my eyes.

Took a while for my brain to engage. Yes he’s the chap aho lent his M3 to someone who grenaded it on the ring

[duncs500]

That is Pete RevsRUs.

Hope he’ll get it sorted one way or another easily. Not had much luck has he? His M3 broke down at the ‘ring IIRC.

Nothing wrong with his driving in my eyes.

Took a while for my brain to engage. Yes he’s the chap aho lent his M3 to someone who grenaded it on the ring

It was a relation IIRC? Probably worse!

[mik]

His bro was driving when the engine went. Yes.

[Foz]

A quick google and the strut top issue really is a pretty big issue..

Stripping third gear seems an even bigger one mind.

Regards fixing that strut top I would absolutely fix that, in fact I shouldn’t look too hard as it’s giving me ideas!!

[Barry]

His driving is fine but if he's known as the guy throwing in the gravel at every trackday (as mentioned in the vid, not my words) I'd say he was doing something wrong, or over driving to some degree, that's all I was referring to. Fair play for using it properly all the same.

I'd still be throwing that car at Porsche and making a stink in the media about it though, that's shocking for a car to be failing in that manner in this day and age.

[Coaster1]

A quick google and the strut top issue really is a pretty big issue..

Stripping third gear seems an even bigger one mind.

Regards fixing that strut top I would absolutely fix that, in fact I shouldn’t look too hard as it’s giving me ideas!!

At least that was the manufacturer Getrag’s fault and Porsche has issued recall and exchanging gearboxes for the cars affected.

No news from Porsche yet AFAIK about the strut top, despite numerous cars having issues.

[nuttinnew]

Fook

I dare say Porsche would use the spin into the gravel against any claim in that instance, not that that's relevant for the other cars that have suffered.

[Foz]

Porsche have a history of being pretty cunty regards significant engineering defects mind..

[scotta]