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Snowy/Bris, what program are you using for editing the POV film? Do you have to convert them to .wmv files first? Mine is not cooperating...

Also, with the fuel cut did it just stop the car completely and require a re-start, or did it regain power again after a while? Seems quite dangerous to just be rolling around!

In your defence Snowy you can clearly hear and see that your foot was on the accelerator and brake at the same time. For that to happen on the limit would alway result in an off. Having driven one of those before I know that without race shoes you have no hope of hitting the peddles right.

I once borrowed the old mans Lancia fulvia sport to go to basketball in... I had chunky bball boots on and after failing to stop at an intersection because I stood on all 3 peddles at the same time I went back home to get some better footwear... that was scary enough I can't imagine doing that at Spa in a Caterham... your a brave man

it's nice having peddles really close but only when you've got the right shoes on!

Snowy/Bris, what program are you using for editing the POV film? Do you have to convert them to .wmv files first? Mine is not cooperating...

Dane I just use Windows Movie Maker to edit mine, very easy, just open it up and drag the file in.

It's strange, the laptop is a few months old and has plenty of everything to spare... must just not like it for some reason. It's a real pain! I'm going to blame Vista :P

Actually - the lappy that turns the pictures pink runs Vista. I've also tried using Adobe Premier Pro on that lappy and it imports the video's upside down! (Go figure).

This lappy works fine and its not as powerful as that other one - but it runs XP. So....

Hmmmm, who knows then??! I definitely think it's a vista thing though, it's very glitchy and gives me heaps fo grief. I'll try and run it on my other old laptop and see if it works.

Out of curiosity, how much were the R400's to hire at SPA? And are you being re-converted to RWD after all this AWD cheating?? :P

Spa wasn't cheap - it was basically $6K for the car and 2 days of track time (So it was $3K ea.) - but which included all the fuel, tyres (we went through 2 sets of front Avon Race tyres in the 2 days and the set of rears were ready to be tossed as well!) and all the coffee, cordial and biscuits you could manage. It was open pit from 9am - 6pm both days and you could do as many laps as you liked. (Although they did ask we try and keep it to 40mins / hour to give the car a rest).

You could do it with 4 of you and still get more than enough track time - we sat around doing nothing for a good part of the time simply because it was 35degs so we were exhausted.

That doesn't seem like too bad of a deal considering the tyres/fuel etc in a properly quick car like the R400, it's actually quite good if you were to spread it over a few more people. Pity about the airfare to Europe :P

I reckon that's pretty fair. $1500 per day for each of you. that's a lot of track time. hey a single set of RE55s costs more than that and to use 'em you still need a car and a track. so putting it thaty way it looks good. :P

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