This sunday I was finally able to spend some time on the circuit with my '73 Dart. The track is at the Dutch city of Zandvoort.
The tracktime event was a 20 minute event that let you run around on the track with other cars.
No race, just free tracktime to gain experience and get a feel of how your is behaving.

First thing that became apparent quickly was how difficult it is to slow down enough for an unfamiliar corner. And how difficult it was to 'see' the corner, especially when the track has elevation changes, being on the dunes right next to the westcoast.
On the street, the brakes and tires on the car do their job just fine, but on the track, with higher speeds and relative tight corners, that's a different matter.

Also learned that the tires needed some heat to become better, as during the first run I slid off track, into the gravel pit when I couldn't slow down quick enough for a short right/left corner.
I was able to keep moving through the gravel and find my way onto the track again.

Luckily, there were only 5-6 other drivers on the whole 4+ km track, so rejoining was easy.

Another thing I learned, during the 4rd lap, was that the transmisison tube really should have a sealed dipstick, as some ATF came out during hard left-cornering.
At that time I got into the pits to find out where the smell of ATF was coming from.
With only a few minutes driving time left for the event and not cover everything with ATF, I decided to call it a day.

The event was Great fun.
My main goal was to find out how the car would handle during cornering. How much bodyroll and such.
I had adjusted the front Hotchkis shocks to full stiff, and added 2 clicks on the rear QA1 shocks, above the 5 clicks from 0.
For a next time I will be upgrading brake pads, tires, and maybe some more engine power as well. But the car's 234 rwHP were reasonably adequate, for now.

I have onboard footage of the entire event, which I will be uploading to my YouTube-channel this week. Although watching back the in-car footage, everything sure looks 'dull' and boring for the most part

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Short clip of my car on the track;
https://youtu.be/_pvFTPwUlEI?list=LLtrx_z3PXNJYuLEui9O-hkg&t=690

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