2021 Caterham 310R Racer

First time at Donington

Posted on February 19, 2017December 28, 2017 by Matt

Two new things, Driven around Donington Park and for the first time in my life and a dry track day. How I’ve never driven around a fully dry track till now i’m not sure. I can see why drivers like Donington Park. The first time I drove over the brow at Hollywood and saw the Craner Curves, Old Hairpin & Schwantz I knew it was going to be a fun day.

Compared to the wet driving the car is a different animal and had to completely reset how hard I could brake and turn. There were a few other Caterham drivers there and it was good to catch up with everyone and see how they are getting on. I’m not the fastest or the slowest and are a few seconds off the target pace which i’m confident of closing the gap too.

Next stop Brands Hatch on the 26th Feb.

First time at Rockingham

Posted on February 11, 2017January 3, 2018 by Matt

I will admit it was was some trepidation I drove up to Rockingham Speedway Friday night as the forecast was for snow and the drive up was light snow all the way there. Woke up to a car covered in ice but best thing with a caterham is you don’t have to worry about your door or windows freezing as you don’t really have them.

Rockingham has a reputation for being extra slippy in the rain. So sleet and snow made for what was an amazing 50 lap lesson in car control. I’m not sure if it’s the racing seat, race geo setup or i’m just getting more use to the car, probably all 3. Today it really felt like I was able to push on a lot harder and felt at home with the car going sideways a lot of time. Also getting better at finding the grippy tarmac on a wet track.

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A few of my fellow Academy drivers and some of last years Academy were also there. Which was great for following around some old hands to learn the lines and also size up this years competition.

Foam racing seat

Posted on February 6, 2017December 28, 2017 by Matt

Now I’ve done 1k miles in the car I can get the suspension setup for racing which should make the car a lot better on the track.
As I’m a ‘tall’ person I sit to high in the car so need a racing seat as well. Which I got sorted today at Caterham South. Glad I got it done by them instead of doing it myself as you really need 2 people.

Foam seat part one

Foam seat fitting part 2

Race car additions

Posted on January 29, 2017December 28, 2017 by Matt

Now the car is wrapped and I have a spare weekend it’s time to complete a few things needed for racing.
Fitted the side impact bar, wideview rearview mirror, FIA rain light, roll bar padding and the Vbox data logger and cameras.