Today was a full track day at Taupo Raceway, an excellent track with modern infrastructure in an absolutely beautiful setting, surrounding by mountains, forests and steaming hot springs.
This was a new track to me and I was quite looking forward to it. The weather forecast a day earlier had been for snow…luckily it was completely inaccurate, and we enjoyed bright sunshine all day.
The track is great fun and the team that runs ‘playdaysontrack’ there did a great job. I can’t say enough good things about this track; it suits the Exige but is also safe and challenging so get there if you can.
I had one huge spin but only broke my pride. One of the highlights of my day was tagging along with a local driving an M3CSL in a very neat and fast fashion. I followed for a couple of laps and learnt a bit.
Another thing that is becoming a standard feature is jousting with Grant (V8 MGB) on track. This time I was right behind while he was giving Rebecca a ride when he had a spin. Rebecca had a big grin on when she got out.
In the evening our “minder” Doug (a new Zealand police officer) cooked an awesome barbecue and we watched the sun go down over Lake Taupo over a few beers until the temperature plummeted and drove us inside to review the days video footage and photographs.
We had an early night as I had picked up Rebecca’s chest infection.
Nice vid! How are the tyres and new suspension holding up?
Sorry to hear about the lost luggage in Syd, but glad to hear you guys are having fun! Looking forward to the next blog entry.