What a car!!!
I was kindly invited to a private track day in Mondello – Ireland’s finest motor racing track by the guys in the Irish Kit Car Club who I met at the Mosney Classic Car Show (the organisers thought the Cappuccino was a kit car)!
The track day was a mixture of heavy rain and sunshine (it is Ireland we are talking about)! There were a fine mixture of kit cars mostly Caterham / Lotus 7 clones – some pure racing machines which race in a class in the North of Ireland and some odd standard cars like my Cappuccino.
This is the first time in 8 years that I really drove the car off road in “anger” and to the limit. I have to say the car was a eye-opener - it just handled beautifully, While the top speed on the straights was always going to be a problem – on the twisty sections it was fantastic, both wet and dry. This is not just me, glowing on about the car – but lots of drivers and spectators came to me afterwards and commented how impressed they were with the little cars track performance.
I had just 2 errors and had 2 wheels in the gravel, but no spins – lot of scary moments!!!!
Was able to keep up with and even pass some standard Vauxhall?Opel Speedsters and some of the slower Caterhams.
As I was on my own on the day I have no pictures of the actual track driving, but a photographer has promised to send me on some of me in “action” which I will post in the future.
Paddock Mondello Park
Getting ready Mondello Park
Ready for the track
Waiting for the rain to clear
What made me smile today!
With the kit cars at the Mosney show