So last weekend I found myself in Cornwall with a group of petrol heads like myself. We had a 911 turbo, M5 V10, Ginetta G33, MG V8, 630i BMW, Clio 182 cup, Civic Type R and My trusy S2. (All seen below except for the S2 as I was already in cornwall by that time)
As most of you would know in the south, the weather was truely awful and we pretty much had non stop rain. This got all very interesting when we went to see the local hill cimb in lostwithiel as the car park was basically a field on an incline which was like a boggy pitt. Below is the Porsche 911 Turbo pretty far up the hill before his 4wd had enough and spun up all his tyres.
You can see the tyres marks where he span out and just over the roof you can see where the 6 series had to settle for (Yes, they grey spec in the distance)
This is where I ended up with my brother giving the thums up as we made it all the way up the hill and had the least distance to walk!
The best part was yet to come though. Whilst we were watching the hillclimb it decided to chuck it down with rain which meant the entrance/exit was nothing more than slushy mud. I slowly descended the hill (whilst doing a diff lock drift
) and got out of the gate pretty easily to be honest, as did the 911 but then the BMW attempted it... lol
You can see how bad the mud was:
Cue one very embarrassed owner:
In the meanwhile I was back at the hotel washing the car down with the porsche owner:
Whilst this was happening the M5 was having the bonnet catch replaced with a piece of shoestring as it unfortunately gave way after I asked him to pop the hood to show us the V10...Opps!
It really was a fantastic long weekend away, even though we spent most of the time driving there and back. If anyone ever fancied an S2 run I would be up for it or if they fancied joining the pistonheads bunch they would be more than welcome to. Besides, it gives us a chance to stick to an M5 in the wet around the twisties!
As most of you would know in the south, the weather was truely awful and we pretty much had non stop rain. This got all very interesting when we went to see the local hill cimb in lostwithiel as the car park was basically a field on an incline which was like a boggy pitt. Below is the Porsche 911 Turbo pretty far up the hill before his 4wd had enough and spun up all his tyres.
You can see the tyres marks where he span out and just over the roof you can see where the 6 series had to settle for (Yes, they grey spec in the distance)
This is where I ended up with my brother giving the thums up as we made it all the way up the hill and had the least distance to walk!
The best part was yet to come though. Whilst we were watching the hillclimb it decided to chuck it down with rain which meant the entrance/exit was nothing more than slushy mud. I slowly descended the hill (whilst doing a diff lock drift
) and got out of the gate pretty easily to be honest, as did the 911 but then the BMW attempted it... lolYou can see how bad the mud was:
Cue one very embarrassed owner:
In the meanwhile I was back at the hotel washing the car down with the porsche owner:
Whilst this was happening the M5 was having the bonnet catch replaced with a piece of shoestring as it unfortunately gave way after I asked him to pop the hood to show us the V10...Opps!
It really was a fantastic long weekend away, even though we spent most of the time driving there and back. If anyone ever fancied an S2 run I would be up for it or if they fancied joining the pistonheads bunch they would be more than welcome to. Besides, it gives us a chance to stick to an M5 in the wet around the twisties!
mucho kudos to the oldest car of the bunch 
Still remember watchin a bmw holding up 1/2 a mile of traffic when the owner wouldn't give it up and put his snow chains on in the french alps a few seasons back, talk about snaking it.
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