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Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:15 pm
by steve-e
There's been a bit of digging going on at Pembrey, now after coming round the long lefts before the Esses there is the option of a short straight into what looks almost a chicane left/right.. there's something going on along the back straight but I haven't seen any photos of that yet.
The spiel for it is funny, it makes it sound a lot more exciting than a chicane but heyho..
Details on Pembrey website here..
http://www.pembreycircuit.co.uk/news/35 ... the-future
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Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 8:41 pm
by lee a
All that space and put a chicane in .. i remember kris hibberd and myself digging that grass with our heads one sunday morning ....
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:03 pm
by oldbelly
The photo shown hasnt any of the tarmac alterations on it according to the computer images. its all after the 4th corner on the present layout ?
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:00 am
by steve-e
lee a wrote:All that space and put a chicane in .. i remember kris hibberd and myself digging that grass with our heads one sunday morning ....
Me and brother Ian did the same one warm up. Into the esses and the back wheel was toeing out for some reason. As the back started to slide I put some weight on it and the thing suddenly spun like a top as it gripped. Upside down somewhere near the hairpin by the time we stopped.
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:57 pm
by Dan
steve-e wrote:Me and brother Ian did the same one warm up. Into the esses and the back wheel was toeing out for some reason. As the back started to slide I put some weight on it and the thing suddenly spun like a top as it gripped. Upside down somewhere near the hairpin by the time we stopped.
Quite obviously passenger error once again Steve
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:29 pm
by Whites
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:33 pm
by steve-e
So it's two chicanes, one before the Esses and one before the kink on the back straight.
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:35 pm
by oldbelly
Cant make much sense of that compared to whats there now ?
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:40 pm
by steve-e
Hairpin unchanged, spitfire right then the next left unchanged... as you go left at the bar don't do the last apex but straight on a few hundred yards. Then the new 90 left into a 90 right that brings you back onto the Esses and down the slope to Brooklands hairpin (watch out for the knuckle scraping high kerb on the inside passengers
) onto the back straight. As you go along the back straight there's an earlier slight right into a 90 degree left, 90 degree right back onto the straight just before the fast kink and then Honda onto the start finish line.
If memory serves me right
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:45 am
by teamradar
Two more good corners spoiled by chicanes.
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:01 pm
by the gobshite
The only bad corner of the lot was the first hairpin, would have been worth doing something between the hairpin and the left before the bar
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:04 pm
by steve-e
they're slow already. I don't know what is going on but the plot seems to be slowing down any fast corners, not the dangerous ones.
The hairpin at Pembrey is a sod of a thing, I'm sure peeople get hurt there more than flat out through the back kink
Re: Pembrey circuit changes over winter
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:37 pm
by oldbelly
Whats the point in racing if you dont give yourself a fright now and again .