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Fester Curve - NOW WITH PHOTOS


Wile7

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It's a wee devilish little thing and can catch out the unwary.......watch this space for more info..... *arrowdown* *wink*

 

Here are the photos of the dreaded 'Fester Curve' incident *eek* 😬

 

Dave Ardley. White Xflow with Clams

The Bearded Clams

King Sh1t Of Clam Hill!

NEW Updated Photos here

 

Edited by - Wile7 on 15 May 2007 08:05:34

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Hello groovers.....I've only just seen this thread as I've been a bit busy....what with baling water out of the car and an enormous cleanup job, plus arranging to sell our Beetle to someone whose coming to see it at 8am tomorrow, then we depart for Marseilles where my dear bro in law has discovered that the Lanci now has developed a serious waterpump leak, and a dead starter motor.

 

Could this be because it didn't like being nicked and refused to play?

 

Pain in the nether regions anyway. Big bill too.... *mad* *mad* *mad* *mad*

 

I suppose I should explain why Twinker was trying to get into that ditch *tongue*

 

The black Elise 111S was driven by my good buddy Pat Perrier, who is driving in the Historic Grand Prix at Pau on 27th May. Pat lives in the area and was taking us on a special route instead of the regular Saturday Blat route arranged by Hugh Dent.

 

We'd already had the experience of trying to keep up with him on what was an old hillclimb ascent, in which Fran, myself and Twinker did in fact stay with him, and this was maybe 15 minutes later, when we were just trundling along on a very windy ascent through some woods.....I saw Pat scuttle into a left hander, I was going a bit too fast (as it turned out) and realised I should have been in 2nd instead of 3rd, but being lazy, thought "never mind, I'm a bit wide in 3rd but the Yoko AO21s will stick and we'll go round at the edge of the tarmac".

 

Nice in theory, but what I hadn't reckoned on was that this was in fact a 180° hairpin with a slightly negative camber, and, worst of all, a huge drift of DDE gravel all around the outer edge, making adhesion impossible.

 

I did some 'cadence braking' ho ho ho and we ended up balanced on the edge of a deep ditch with lots of liquid mud at the bottom (as Dave quickly demonstrated).

 

Fran was about to get out, but the final scene from "The Italian Job" popped into my mind and I councelled her against this....instead I got out and took some lousy pix on the lowest setting of mu £20 digital throwaway camera. Fran was all that was stopping the car from sliding into the ditch! It was actually right on the balance point.....

 

Ta Dave, your pix are nice & clear!

 

Amazingly, there was absolutely zero damage as the front right wheel hadn't contacted the far wall of the ditch, so may last second braking/course adjustment did some good after all! 😬 *cool*

 

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds..ooooh hooo hooo!!...

😬 😬Abbey Road Time-Machine *eek* *eek*

 

 

Edited by - Unclefester on 16 May 2007 09:20:16

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Pat Perrier

 

Names changed to protect the inocent. 😳 😳

 

Meanwhile

Peter Pellagrino and his sister Ellie Evian were having dinner with Bridget Badoit and her toyboy lover Ty Nant.

 

on the other side of the Resteraunt that famous Porn Actress Trinity Springs was ordering a simple side salad from a Polish immigrant waitress Nahdia Nabeghlavi.

 

 

Then Buxton Dasani created an ugly scene because........

 

If at first you don't succed Sky diving is not for you

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Patrick Perrier of Perrier fame......no, no relation as far as I know.

 

Good 'pilote' though and very modest....this is the guy who had the miraculous escape at Pau a few years back when one of the crazies had exploded his motor and dropped oil everywhere, about 8 cars wrecked, marshalls running all over the track, Pat came round the corner to see total chaos and realised there was a lot of oil on the track, but without using the brakes somehow threaded his way through the carnage....he reckons it was the most intense experience ever, just images of crashed cars, flashes of colour, flags, and people all over the track running in different directions. His word was 'miracle'.

 

He told me that around the Pau circuit, he actually stops breathing for longish periods it's so intense.

 

He's in Formule Ford at the Pau Historic GP end of May, we will definitely be there, Hotel is booked.

 

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds..ooooh hooo hooo!!...

😬 😬Abbey Road Time-Machine *eek* *eek*

 

 

Edited by - Unclefester on 16 May 2007 20:46:31

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Fact: clams cause lift therefore understeer therefore hedge-finding actics galore

 

Fact: Cycle wings are for pooftahs *biggrin*

 

Dave Ardley. White Xflow with Clams

The Bearded Clams

King Sh1t Of Clam Hill!

NEW Updated Photos here

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