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anyone want to buy a 180SX? I think I need an RB20DET R32!

my first day back at Lakeside since crashing almost 5 months ago, so of course it had to rain! I had the boost down to 10psi instead of the usual 16, and the wing and splitter removed so the car's back to normal. To be honest I didn't mind the rain at the start - there was absolutely no pressure to go fast, just ease back into it. And I've always liked driving in the wet - so rare we get a chance to in QLD. Here's a couple of laps from the first wet session. Vid makes it look like just tippy-toeing around, but the next nearest car was 7 sec a lap slower. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZoThcc6Lyk The rain stopped for the rest of the day but it was very overcast and humid so it took till the last session for the track to dry completely. So we got a full range of conditions over the day which was something a bit different from the normal sprint event. My 60.2 in the last session was just fast enough to beat a mate's 250rwbhp 240Z for fastest on the day by less than 2tenths. Good fun!

Webber's number one??? He has a point though - just about anyone in the field could have piloted the 2nd RBR around to 4th, possibly 5th in the WDC. Can he get the car off the line? If so, he's better.

best way to learn car control is motorkhanas and dirt autocross or khanacross. Even in a low powered rwd car - corolla/datto/gemini whatever

I don't go around trying to get CAMS Supersprint Panel and event organisers to change rules or the format of events I've entered, so I don't see how what I'm doing is political. I do sometimes try to get them to enforce the rules they have though... Which is a fundamental difference. You enter events and try to change the rules. I enter events hoping the rules they have are enforced. yes, the cars I've driven and the events I've done have alot to do with whether a V8 Supercar is appropriate for a multiclub L2S sprint against an Alfa Sud and VW Beetle... At the moment I have an average old <200kw S13 in full street trim. So don't worry, I'm no threat to your V8 Supercar. You don't have to change any rules or buy a bigger better car to beat me.

wow, that was big of you. now that you remembered that one of the QLDers beat you... have you remembered its a V8 Supercar yet? or are you still pretending it isn't? by now it should be obvious why not one of the QLDers in last year's event turned up this year. Who's to say we wouldn't have turned up only to find the entire format of the event was something other than what the supp regs said when we entered again??? f**k that jack. They probably want to have fun, not be bullied around by uber political whingers who want everything their own way, but still lose, so 3 months later go a buy a V8 Supercar to make sure you can bludgeon all the amatuer built cars next year... good onya champ

lol my point exactly...

I never said sprints were for road cars only. The reference to road cars there comes from the fact Stuart was complaining about road cars being allowed to run on slicks which end up in the same class as his V8 Supercar from what I understand... or for road cars with capacities over 6000cc being allowed to enter... obviously he considers those things unfair, but bringing out a V8 Supercar (and now pretending it ain't) is all in the spirit of the event. Have a look at the other entries in that class to see why some people think its a bit of a dick move. At least it pretty much assured that he wouldn't get beaten by a road reg HPE Elise with a dirty cheating diffuser this time, eh? Maybe if he didn't spend so much time whinging about everyone else's cars, he wouldn't be coping this flack? At least the radicals and open wheelers all have their own categories, no harm there. They're racing very similar vehicles on a pretty level pitch. That's a pretty different situation.

over here sprints and hillclimbs are seperate. Hillclimbs have always been about the open wheeler F.Libres, which are in seperate classes and other homemade hillclimb specials which run in things like 2A sports cars open. Just like motorkhanas have specials in their own seperate classes. All's fair in those basicaly no limits classes. And its good to see those outright vehicles going head to head on equal terms. Its worth noting that after what happened last year, not a single QLD competitor from last year's Aus Championships entered this year. Tells you something...

even in FIA spec they use inlet restrictors...

nothing wrong with that. that's the nature of motorsport. as someone with a full street trim S13 and only as much power as every almost every modified Silvia road car, I'm under no allusions about my car's position in life either. but there's a fundamental difference between a more modified road car and lobbing up to a sprint event in a Stone Brother's Racing V8 Supercar, then patting yourself on the back for beating the Alfasud and Beetle and on setting a lap record while at the same time complaining about road cars using slicks or having capacities over 6L... Sorry XR6T owners, this V8 Supercar driver doesn't think its fair that you can run your road going Falcon turbo or bolt on supercharged Commodore street car in a sprint event with him... f**k me, sprints are entry level events designed for road cars!

what actually happened is the same guy who said this about this year's event did this last year... read the supp regs, entered the event and then lobbyed to change the event, and finally got his way by continuing to complain up till the morning of the event. The other competitors who entered the event as described in the supp regs got the news at the drivers breifing. There was a vote that looked pretty evenly split but the result was he got his way. Then later said to my face he had nothing to do with it all... but I'm sure I don't have to tell you how politicaly he plays the motorsport game... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/343296-should-a-300km-per-hour/page__hl__australian

remind me, what were those touring cars called in 1999? lol actually screw '99, back in February you said it was an ex Stone Bros' Supercar... supersprints are designed to be an entry level event for people punting thier road cars or club level track cars around. The National Championships is for those blokes to go and have some fun against interstate competitors they don't normally run against, at tracks they probably don't otherwise get to. Its not for ex V8 Supercars to roll out and beat up on some home built Alfasuds and VW Beetles. See any other V8 Supercars there? Any National Series Sport Sedans etc? Ever wonder why? Think we might be trying a wee bit too hard to win this "f*&King Aussie"??? HPE's are allowed in Prod Sports for stock sports cars! And it was CAMS categories 2A, 2B and 2F combined, not your NSW specific speed event classes where 2A is for white camry's with removed mudflaps... He does have 2 seats. And he drove the damn thing there and back as well. Its a perfect example of what Supersprints are about. Fast road cars and amatuer drivers. And that's a startlingly fast road car! but that QLD'er you just finished whinging about did beat you! by 2.5sec! before driving it home lol

no, you were saying "JB hardly showed the mobile Brazilian speed bump the way during his stint with Brawn F1". 6 to 2 12 to 4 = shown the way and they were both in the fast car. not sure why you made that comment?

Lakeside on Sunday? If so I'll swing past for a look and say gday. Only live 10 minutes away from Lakeside.

Really? He won 6 races to Ruben's 2, and over the 17 races the head to head finishes were 12 to 4 in JB's favour. Sounds pretty convincing to me. Ansd that was back when Rubens still had some pace.

but wait there's more on Nataoft than on the Supersprints.com.au results. BMW CAR CLUB - NSW WASCC - WA!!! PCQ - QLD!!! CDC of A - NSW HSV Owners Club - NSW NISSAN DATSUN - SA!!! Maserati Club - VIC!! JDCA - NSW NSWRRC - NSW NSWIPRA - NSW CNCSCC - NSW RENEW - NSW 4 more interstaters for a grand total of 7 interstate entries at the Australian Championships. Yes, sandy vag over last year where some joker complained loudly enough to change the event we all paid to enter as per the sup regs. sandy vag over the lask of national rules. sandy vag over tossers turning up with things like Formula Holdens and V8 Supercars to club level events an patting themselves on the back over the national championships and class records...

no need, I already looked at the results. They didn't list which state each competitor was from like we did last year, but these are the clubs represented: CLUB - # of competitors - STATE -------------------------------- MX5 - 29 - NSW NSWRRC - 20 - NSW MWSCC - 14 - NSW MGCCN - 5 - NSW Commodore - 1 - NSW SFCC - 1 - NSW Lotus - 2 - NSW JSCC - 6 - NSW TCC - 1 - NSW SDMA - 2 - ACT!!! WRX - 2 - NSW Mini - 2 - NSW VICWRX - 1 - VIC!!!! ARDC - 21 - NSW BLCC - 1 - NSW LDCC - 2 - NSW WSCC - 1 - NSW CDCA - 13 - NSW MR2 - 1 - NSW NSCC - 2 - NSW SSCC - 1 - NSW blank - 1 - Natsoft turns the bloke up only at NSW tracks. Driving Sports - 1 - NSW AHRG - 1 - NSW My bad, make it 3 interstate competitors. Yeah, congrats on the "Australian" title... must congratulate that guy on beating the Alfa Sud, S13 and VW Beetle by bringing his V8 Supercar to a club level event

entry list looks like any other NSW Sprint round. 2 interstate entries? Time for CAMS to drop this charade...

The main reason was I found myself going sideways into a gravel trap stopping less than a foot away from the tyre barrier, which made me realise I REALLY didn't want to crash the Supra! The options were to reign it in a bit and drive at 9/10ths or buy something I didn't care much about, that would be alot cheaper to repair and wouldn't break your heart if it was totalled... A couple of years later that part of it paid off. I couldn't care less that I crashed the 180SX! Well, I cared that I crashed, but I didn't care about the car.

I'm with Roy. I don't use a harness in my car. Its hard to get a 4pt harness mounted such that the lap belt stays over your hips when the shoulder straps are tightened. Using the facory lap-sash mouning points pretty much assures the 4pt lap belt will ride up over you abdomen, which can cause internal injuries in an accident. Safer to use the standard lap sashbelt than a poorly mounted 4pt - which most I've seen at track days are. or if upside down... a normal press-button buckle won't release until you get all your weight off it.

lol you think one bloke complaining is crap, try turning up only to find a bunch of interstate complainers have changed the event you paid money and entered to run as per the supp regs - as you say "read the supp regs, if thats the rules and you want to run - do it, if you don't like it don't!" ah, the irony...

my eyes! maybe he should do slightly less of what he wants...

the main point is there are places that are passing opportunities and corners that just aren't. That was one of the latter. Its a one line corner and the guy on the outside at racing speed has to take the racing line to make that corner - having a half-arsed look up the inside there is destined to end exactly the way it did. it would be like someone having half a car up alongside another going into Skyline at Bathurst - you just can't make that work

ouch! glad you're ok. maserati stack was a good'un too!