in awe of the place
I went there a few years back with my GSXR1000 after I'd finished racing at club level. The bike was perfect, rarely got caught by traffic except for the serious cars like the ChryslerViper that does hot laps. I was on bridgestone road tyres and only started to push after lap5. My mates on TL1000s and Blackbirds didn't have as much fun because they didn't have the same track experience, got stuck in traffic and didn't enjoy it as much. On one of the downhill straights I almost went into the back of a VWGolf and had to overtake on the right (naughty, naughty) - the disparity of the speed of the vehicles there is the biggest problem - I saw 183mph on the clock by the time you pull off the on the start-finish straight... amazing place.
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