First annual

Just picked up the car after its first annual service. Spent 721 EUR + VAT. I had about 521 eur worth, the rest were materials (mostly oils). The high labor charge is due to the immense ammount of work that these cars' anual entails.

I am quite thrilled about what I was told by the mechanic. Car was in great shape. Tyres and brake discs and pads are still going strong even after 5000 miles and 9 track days! talk about low running costs.

They installed a manual override for the fan. Hopefully that will solve the heating problems I have been having in traffic (having to turn the engine off because the needle was rising above to 100ºC and the fan did not kick in!). There's a track day this weekend and another one on the next! woo hoo!

First footage of a TD

Here's are four videos which ammount to a full session at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, with a nice spin at the end. I was doing 2'38" which would put me in the 7 place from last in the grid of the Portuguese Graduates Cup when they raced at AIA. Feeling pretty proud of myself!