Still trying to get this thread up to date 
One apology first, I've read trough my lasts few posts and I realize that my spelling and language is a bit off sometimes. But I guess you all survive
Anyway after the X-mas and New Year celebrations was done, my "car" itching started again and it was soon due for some icetrack racing with the hellrot. Before the events I wanted to make sure that everything was sorted out and OK to go (oil level, battery level etc...). This resulted that I also finally got around to install the "new" handle on the glow compartment lid.
Old vs New:
This is literally a 2 minutes job, where you spend most of the time getting seated correct with the work light
Also had mate/co-driver on the icetrack events coming over with some "new" studded tyres and to put them onto the car. And yes, it was a cold afternoon. Just a note on the studded tires, the ones I use is road legal and can be used on the road to the track. There is another version which has much longer and stronger studs, however this are not road legal. But they do perform a lot better of course on the track and is much more fun. However the ones I use do give a lot of fun as well
Since my friend (co-driver) never really had tried the a Z3 on winter roads, we did at little (ok, with some detours) trip to the gas station checking air pressure and let him test the car a bit.
With the car ready and co-driver motivated to drive, all we needed to do now was to wait for the weekend arrive.
First event was at a frozen lake about 2.5h drive from our location, so we got up early to be there in good time and actually had "lunch" at 7am in the morning
We made it to the "track meeting" and technical check point in good time and finally at 9am the sun started to give us some light so we could drive. In line to get onto the track.
The car behaved nicely the whole day, except that on the last leg the oil lamp came on. However when we stopped to check this it turned off again and the level was good. To be honest the Z3 is not an easy car to drive on ice tracks with and the studded tires where not good (to worn). However it was great fun and we got our skills tested quite good a few times
Got a short video here, is not the best one (was from one of the first laps we did), but you get an idea. (I'm the one driving)
Some more random pics from this event:
The following week we had quite some snow here in Norway, so after a day the Z3 looked like this:
Took me some time and effort to get it back on the road again:
The weekend after Norwegian Sportcar club had setup an event on icetrack which was located on the fields to one of the members of the club. So we went there as well with the hellrot. This time I had my oldest daughter and my nephew with me as well another friend as co-driver. The kids absolutely loved it and spent the whole day playing in the snow and getting trips on the track with me. This is the first time my oldest daughter has shoved interest and joy of being with me in these Z3's. The same night when we got home, she asked me when next event was (my nephew is already car crazy).
The cool thing with this event was that we got to test several cars and I got the chance to test a Subaru on the track. And I must say that car really outperformed the Z3 on ice/winter conditions.
Any a small video from this event as well:
And some pics:
A cool home made car for ice/field tracking:
And the king of the track that day:
So this how we "play with cars" in winter time over here in Norway, while we wait for the summer to arrive again.....
One apology first, I've read trough my lasts few posts and I realize that my spelling and language is a bit off sometimes. But I guess you all survive
Anyway after the X-mas and New Year celebrations was done, my "car" itching started again and it was soon due for some icetrack racing with the hellrot. Before the events I wanted to make sure that everything was sorted out and OK to go (oil level, battery level etc...). This resulted that I also finally got around to install the "new" handle on the glow compartment lid.
Old vs New:
This is literally a 2 minutes job, where you spend most of the time getting seated correct with the work light
Also had mate/co-driver on the icetrack events coming over with some "new" studded tyres and to put them onto the car. And yes, it was a cold afternoon. Just a note on the studded tires, the ones I use is road legal and can be used on the road to the track. There is another version which has much longer and stronger studs, however this are not road legal. But they do perform a lot better of course on the track and is much more fun. However the ones I use do give a lot of fun as well
Since my friend (co-driver) never really had tried the a Z3 on winter roads, we did at little (ok, with some detours) trip to the gas station checking air pressure and let him test the car a bit.
With the car ready and co-driver motivated to drive, all we needed to do now was to wait for the weekend arrive.
First event was at a frozen lake about 2.5h drive from our location, so we got up early to be there in good time and actually had "lunch" at 7am in the morning
We made it to the "track meeting" and technical check point in good time and finally at 9am the sun started to give us some light so we could drive. In line to get onto the track.
The car behaved nicely the whole day, except that on the last leg the oil lamp came on. However when we stopped to check this it turned off again and the level was good. To be honest the Z3 is not an easy car to drive on ice tracks with and the studded tires where not good (to worn). However it was great fun and we got our skills tested quite good a few times
Got a short video here, is not the best one (was from one of the first laps we did), but you get an idea. (I'm the one driving)
Some more random pics from this event:
The following week we had quite some snow here in Norway, so after a day the Z3 looked like this:
Took me some time and effort to get it back on the road again:
The weekend after Norwegian Sportcar club had setup an event on icetrack which was located on the fields to one of the members of the club. So we went there as well with the hellrot. This time I had my oldest daughter and my nephew with me as well another friend as co-driver. The kids absolutely loved it and spent the whole day playing in the snow and getting trips on the track with me. This is the first time my oldest daughter has shoved interest and joy of being with me in these Z3's. The same night when we got home, she asked me when next event was (my nephew is already car crazy).
The cool thing with this event was that we got to test several cars and I got the chance to test a Subaru on the track. And I must say that car really outperformed the Z3 on ice/winter conditions.
Any a small video from this event as well:
And some pics:
A cool home made car for ice/field tracking:
And the king of the track that day:
So this how we "play with cars" in winter time over here in Norway, while we wait for the summer to arrive again.....
Happy to hear your daughter is showing interest in your hobby, my eldest was interested in fishing with me when she was young. Could get up at 5.00 in the morning to go fishing but struggled to get up at 8.00 for school.
