Didn’t realise you were there Sean ?
Well I didn’t drive today, wasn’t really up for it and little tired. Popped over and said my goodbyes though, the weather was shocking 
What an absolutely fantastic day. The biggest highlight is seeing and meeting old friends and new. Others include track time ragging the R300 to keep up with Adam and barely but not quite with Seriously Dave. I didn’t really try to creep up the inside Dave honest 
I had loads of fun trying to induce a little oversteer and only ran out of talent the once at rocket towards the end of the day. Lol I was already in the slide when I gave it a sharp prod, whoops! Finally last night was excellent, despite the fact us lot from the “West Midlands” being relagated to table 101 
we all had a proper giggle, mega evening, perfect after such a brilliant day.
Big thumbs up to those who had mechanical gremlins, unlucky and hope you all got home safe. And a big shout out to the MLOC massive. Andy even I don’t admit to being Jonnyfox
Look what they did to my car, ****tards! Forth with my little R300 will now be know as DENNIS.
Massive thanks to Ben and BookaTrack, another superbly run day by the BaT team.
Thanks to Ben and everyone at Bookatrack for another great day out. Really enjoyed it. 
My car was running really nicely, no major dramas thank goodness. 850 mile round trip including the mileage on the track.
Hope those of you that did have gremlins get them sorted soon, I know what it’s like. Mine will certainly need some TLC now it back home.
Tim, no problem, certainly a close call, but no harm to man nor car.
If anyone has any pics of the flames as I was passing the pit wall, would be interested to see. You don’t get the full effect from the drivers seat.
Another awesome Exiges.com annual trackday… the weather held out perfectly - we were super lucky as today was horrible in comparison - gale force winds and rain.
Only one slight stoppage all day says it all when it comes to the driving standards… and BookaTrack/Anglesey always run a great day for us. I know Anglesey is a trek for everyone, but it’s a great circuit with some amazing scenery if you get chance to have a look around ! One of the benefits of it being a long trek for everyone is that most people tend to stay over after the trackday - which gives us a great bit of social and chance to have some banter/chat… something that we don’t generally get chance to do during the day as everyone is busy…
Big thanks to Andy/Stan/Steve/Martin for the improvised alternator repair shop! - and of course to Ben for organising - I know he puts a LOT of hard work into this event with zero reward except seeing everyone enjoy themselves and spending time with like minded people.
Much FUN was had, both on and off track…
I remember thinking that Caterham was quick! I fancy a blat in one someday. 
Anytime Adam 
Just wondering if anyone took some pictures of the event ?
If so, it would be great if they could post them up. 
I have a 30 minute long GoPro video to post up if I can figure out how to work the damn thing. It ends with a blue exige spinning off across the mud at Church in front of me.
I didnt take any pics but one of the photographers on the day has posted a few on facebook. Im Sure he has loads more too If anyone is interested.
What a fantastic day! It was my first ‘proper’ outing in the SC Honda 211, and with a new set of ZZRs it was awesome… Waaay better than me! Had a great time chasing the Sevens of Dave of Ben, and trying to stay in front of Tim in his blue Elise… I thought my day was over when a union on the fuel rail cracked, spraying neat fuel into the engine bay (I still can’t believe that it didn’t all go up in smoke!). Massive thanks to Tim for for having the exact part I needed to get me back on track! (Tim, just let me know when you want a play in the 211!). Then I had a wierd intermittent electrical issue, but that seemed to fix itself allowing me a final exec lent run! Big thanks to Ben for sorting it all and being my ‘Motorsport conscience’ ! Bring on Spa!!
I took a few snaps on my wander around the circuit, they’re here…
https://flic.kr/s/aHskxhzMSR
Some great snaps of a great day.
Cheers
I took a load but we’ve only just got home. I’ll get them up, with a linbk in due course. Can’t guarantee to have caught everybody though.
Great Mike.
I am sure Pesky will appreciate looking at them too
Sure would - thanks in anticipstion
Well I can’t add much to what others have said, a splendid time. I’m sure the same thing happened over at The Bull and other venues, but at about 11pm there was a band of brothers well and truly bonded.
On the way home, my car experienced exactly the same issue as last year, spookily, in exactly the same place! Grease (the ridiculously expensive variety) blown out of the boot and the CV making a very unpleasant noise. Still, I’m getting good at nursing that issue home.
Roll on next year!
Photo link posted on separate thread.
Gutted to have missed it…especially as the weather was GOOD. Damm.
Firstly a massive and heartfelt thanks from me for supporting the event. Every single year, it always delivers and this year was no exception. I’ll be honest, even though its the second time I’ve taken the lead on the organisation front, I was just as nervous when I started this thread and announced details of Anglesey 2016. I guess I’m always worried that it won’t get traction or be missing the secret-sauce that makes it so special. I needn’t have worried though, its everyone being together at such an amazing circuit that makes the event special and the only thing that struggled with traction was my Caterham
I do appreciate the kind words of thanks but its really not necessary lads. I’m passionate about the cars and the community and channeling my enthusiasm into the event is no burden. Ultimately the real organisation is done by BAT and as Chris says I just act as ‘motorsport conscience’ making sure as many exigers as possible are organising their busy lives to spare a couple of days to get to Wales.
So it was an extra special day for me on Thu because it was the start of the annual pilgrimage and I was picking up the Exige from the Edwards. I honestly can’t express enough thanks to Martin/Steve (and of course Gill!) for working so hard to get the car ready for Anglesey. After spending the whole journey on the phone to work it was great to arrive and see my beautiful car sitting in the garage next to Martin’s equally stunning machine. It really is everything I hoped it would be and so classy and resolved, I LOVE it. I know many people love the cars as god intended with standard parts and colours but for me both these cars represent Exige perfection; poise, stance, power, presence…they’ve got it all going on 
Here they are waiting for the off as we busy about moving cars around and getting Steve’s racer onto the trailer. Yes it’s ‘grey’, its a Lambo ‘Grigio Telesto’ which is a bit like primer with pearl in it. Like I said before, not everyone like it but with the TMRs and carbon bits I think it looks mega.
It was great to be back in the saddle after 8-9 months and the car felt fantastic. Lack of time meant there were a couple of issues surfaced with some brake vibration (legacy of PF clag) and a dodgy speed-sensor kept limiting revs to 5000rpm. It of course failed to remove the smile from my face as I was back in my Exige looking out over the shiny greyness and the immaculate interior. Such a shame that the weather was shite and the roads muddy and nasty as the cars looked so immaculate when we rolled them out the garage. After meeting the lads at Telford we bought up the rear of the convoy and took a relatively sedate pace given my intermittent 5k rev limit. Seeing Martin’s ruby red Exige in my mirrors as we drove through Snowdonia did give me a bit of a flashback to slightly more rapid (mental actually) journey one year where on the same stretch of road I was practically wearing Sean’s similarly coloured racecar
Great to see the lads in the bar on Thu night, show off my car and enjoy a couple of beers and banter. It was up early on Fri morning and after a lousy Thu I was super happy to see that the weather had come good on the forecast with clear blue-skies. My car was looking particularly tasty in the morning dew, I just had to grab my camera and take a pic
All was good at the circuit with everyone assembling, lots of old faces and some new ones too. The combination of reduced BAT staff (due to concurrency with their Spa event) and everyone arriving quite late meant that sign-on was a little chaotic so apologies for that. I’m not one for public speaking so was glad to be through that,…and I think Mike made an inspired choice in choosing Gill Edwards to be the next worthy recipient of Con’s Red Calliper award. It was also fantastic to see Mike able to attend after the year he’s had.
What with a couple of gremlins and because its currently so perfect and beautiful I’d decided to give the Exige a day off and spend the day in the R300. I know its an Exiges day but x3 R300’s and Chris’s Honda 211 did make a fine line-up in that end pit garage. We did have a giggle too with the flashing blue-light I’d managed to secure for Jonny’s little fire-engine I know me, Dave and Jonny are getting a bit boring like some kind of Caterham evangelists but when you strap yourself in and head out onto circuit they really are enormous fun. So direct, so pure where input absolutely equals output. A big part of buying it was to exploit that directness and improve my driving and I can now feel it paying dividends . Spending time on circuit with DaveP is helping a lot too, cheers bud. The R300 has a duality that allows you to be neat, tidy and quick or be a total hooligan and much fun was had with the latter…I may have been guilty of a small amount of showboating at certain points in the day So much fun to be had this year. Lots of people commented to me that we seemed to be having fun and this pic sums it up…hopefully DaveP will share some video too (I forgot to put my camera on).
I did however feel gutted for those who missed out due to issues, those that I know about Clio Steve, Graham, Andy/Stan and Chris. I know how that feels I really do and its not a nice place to be. It wasn’t nice for any of them but I particularly felt for poor old Graham who’s returned to the fold only to be let down immediately by his new motor, gutted (wish you’d taken me/Jonny up on our offer bud). Steve was amazingly upbeat and at least Andy/Stan and Chris got some circuit time. Not forgetting Lord Beadsmoore after his large fuel leak to both not have any damage but also get back on circuit again…amazingly lucky day for him!!
After another entertaining night in the Premier Inn I headed to the circuit again on Saturday but…the weather had changed slightly. By the time I headed out on circuit it was classic Anglesey horizonal rain and very treacherous conditions. Even with fresh ZZS’s on the car was like piloting a hovercraft.;…which has its own charms. Dave had a minor issue that stopped play for him and I called it a day too after a relatively short time on circuit. Its a long way home especially as I was dropping the Exige back with Martin and heading for another few hours in the beemer back to London…3x performance cars in one day, lucky boy Martin sent me a pic today of both our cars already sparkly clean again.
Thanks again for everyone’s support by turning up and being so well-behaved on circuit. Only one short stoppage for a mechanical failure speaks volumes. Thanks too to Jonny Leroux, Stuart, Tony, Josh and the BAT team for another great well run event. it was a stretch given the Spa double-header was going on but it worked out. Josh did a great job of looking after us and the cars and was an all round top lad.
I seem to have been rambling on sorry about that. I can’t wait to be out on circuit again, Spa in particular is shaping up to be something special. I’ll put up a survey at some point to gather opinion about the 2017 event!!
Great write-up, Ben. I think it sums the day up for all of us. We are so lucky to enjoy such wonderful cars . . . But if I hear any more about the joys of Caterhams I might have to take the accountant’s advice as I mentioned to you and “spend it” before the Grim Reaper calls . . .