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lol apart from the strategy of putting enough fuel int he car to finish the race!

a few reasons - #1 KERS up the straight. #2 end of the straight is the only passing opportunity there. #3 No adjustable front wing ont he RBR cars, which may have helped when stuck behind a slower car... because of a screamer from Ruben who jumped every single car in front of him, and Massa who was always going to pass people int he run to the 1st turn! Vettel only got to show his pace for a few laps at the end of the race, and was catching Webber and the Brawn cars which are the class of the field, hand over fist. It was only strategy that let him down, and that's nto the driver's call. All they had to do was fuel himlong in the second stint and he could have leap-frogged Rubens into a 2nd place. nearly got stuck behind Alonso when Alonso passed him... yep, he was quick when his team put him in wide open spaces. Vettel didn't get the same opportunity, spending 63laps stuck behind a slower car. And after his complete shocker and Webber's awesome race, he was only 5sec behind him at the end.

the drivers don't make their own strategies...

it was RBR that had the shocker for Vettel. 63laps they left him stuck behind a 2sec slower car on a track that's notoriously hard to pass on. And the car he was stuck behind had KERS so the only opportunity on the front straight was pretty much never going to happen. Vettel lost positions to 2 people ont he start - Ruben, who went around everyone, and Massa who also got a great start and with KERS was alwatys goign to make places in the run to the first turn. It wasn't like he bodged the start or got out-raced into the first turn. Vettel had a shocker?

that's a very selective summary of what happened. Mark made up the majority of his time on Massa and Vettel when they were on their long final stint running the much slower hard compound tyres and Mark was on the fast soft tyre. Mark got all that clean air running and spent alot more time on the faster tyre, and managed to beat his team mate who spent 99% of the race stuck behind a KERS car that was 2 sec a lap slower, by just 5 seconds. It was just strategy. If RBR had got Vettel ahead of Massa in the pits or just fuelled him long in the 2nd stint to get him some clear laps at the end, and minimise his time on the slow tyre it would have been a totally different story. All he needed was about 7 seconds to make 2nd place, which is what - 4 clean air laps???

Vettel still out-qualified and out reaced Mark. Only beaten because RBR had absolutely no strategy for Vettel... I don't know what they were thinking leaving him behind Massa all day. What was that going to achieve? Webber got home by 5 sec over his team mate, despite Vettel being held up by the Ferrari all race and doing many more laps than his team mate on the 2sec slower prime tyre. Would like to see the times from both RBR cars from the last handful of laps after Massa had to start coasting... WTF was with the Ferrari almost runing out of fuel at the end? Do they only get a certain amount of fuel to use in a race, or did they just totally balls up the refuelling?

I use a cheapo ($90) SD card camera. It doesn't have the highest frame rate or resolution, 640*480 and 30fps max, but you have to reduce the quality a fair bit for uploading to youtube anyway to get a reasonable file size - at least with my software. The full res video looks fine on a computer screen and OK on a TV. A single 2GB SD card is more than enough for a normal sprint day. I don't have to worry about damaging it (or a laptop) at the track.

lol lets call it a draw Dave! this place will be called S13AU before long! it screws on. NFI how they got the screwdriver shaft out of the handle

Rega wheels eh, I had no idea what they were. They are pretty light. Steveo, that's because it is a screwdriver handle... It was on the car when I got it and I kinda like it. Also has the fully sick drift button on the handbrake lever like Richards. I didn't like the old 15" Momo wheel though, but I kept the Sparco off my previous Datsun 1200 track car. JJR coilpacks are OK for the little running its had so far. but like I said, I've only had the car a few months and its just done 1 track day... Dave, are your bumpers and side skirts held on exclusively by zip ties and tek screws? lol mine's an ex drift car. It had bog falling off the drivers rear quarter when I bought it. I've re-bogged and resprayed the quarter panel, and side skirt on this side to cover the white marks from rubbing a tyre wall in its previous life... Here's my dyno sheet. The 271bhp peak doesn't tell the full story. There's over 260bhp at the wheels pretty much from 5000-7500rpm Benno, you better get some D03's mate!

ok, time to lower the tone a bit! this is my new track hack. Bought it as a race only import in January, made a few changes and did its first track day a couple of weeks ago at Lakeside. Ran a 1:00.32 first time out, which is OK considering how bad it was handling. Have since discovered the front springs were 9kg (about 500lb) so have replaced them with some 7kg/390lb jobs that came out of the rear. My ride heights were all over the place too. So that's sorted now and hopefully it will be a fair bit better for its next outing. Other than that it ran fine all day, so that's a pretty good start. S13 black top SR20 271bhp atw @ 16psi HKS GT-SS Turbo 550cc sard injectors Z32 a/f meter Walbro fuel pump GTR front mount intercooler Apexi PowerFC Alloy radiator oil cooler and filter relocator Brand new brass button clutch Locked diff 5 stud conversion Skyline 2spot rear brakes S14 4spot fronts Tein coilovers Front – Sport Spec Type HR Driving Master (no shock adjustment) Rear – Drift Spec Type HE Winding Master (adjustable) Tein castor rods Cusco 28mm front sway bar front and rear strut bars rear camber arms non HICAS model 17x8 17x9 wheels - made in Russia! 225 & 235/45 Toyo R888s pumped front gaurds and flared rear gaurds Bride fibreglass shell seat 6 point jap cage complete with crumple zones in front legs... nothing flash, in fact its alot rougher than the photos make it look, but it should be capable of some pretty respectable times once the handling's sorted.

Ben, appaently it flooded down there with all that rain we had on Easter Monday. Thanks Roy. The walls are a bit close in places, but it really is a great fun track to drive with the elevation changes, camber crests on corner exits and the high average speed. Mick, it was actualy the first track I ever drove on. you'll be alright if you treat the place with respect and learn the track before pushing too hard. It scarred the crap out of me first time I drove there...

from last weekend's Street Sprints. new PB for the car 1:00.79. I think the lap in the video is a 1:00.89 if I got the right lap from the right session. Might inspire some of you southerners to come up here for a drive of the fastest track in the country.

more expensive does not necessarily mean better. quite often they're worse. http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/gearbox/...view/index.html

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I expect Vettel to keep you guys busy making excuses for Mark

My mistake - I didn't read the entire set of rules. I just based it on the fact that Sport Sedans has always been "engines are free", and I had a skim over the engines section and it was still the same... I see they snuck that engine rule for 'floorpan vehicles' into the Transmission section of their rules. way to make life difficult CAMS!

there is no requirement in 3D Sport Sedans to retain original block. RB30 with forced induction can be used: the limit on the total engine capacity for Sport Sedans is 6000cc. There is a 1.7 multipling factor applied to forced induction engines. So the maximum capacity engine that can be used with forced induction is 6000cc/1.7=3529cc. All CAMS rules are a PITA to interpret until you get the hang of them.

I preferred EC to OP. Longer corners, higher speed corners, more flowing, and less advantageous to AWD cars. Sure there's 3 hairpins but they're fast for hairpins giving you a decent chance at getting power down in a RWD car. And the surface is good. Only turn 2 really give the AWDs a big advantage with its off camber slippery exit. OP has too many slow gripless turns where acelleration out of those tight turns is really important. Advantage AWD. And some of those ripple strips are ridiculous. Who cares if you can see the whole track or not from one vantage point? By that measure QR is brilliant, you can see the whole track from your pit bay. As a spectator, I'd rater see a couple of good corners up close than some speck of a car over the other side of the track that you can't really hear or see what its actually doing. That's not good spectating. Besides, you're never going to get too many people to spectate at Superlap. Its not as exciting to watch as head to head racing, and even State Championship rounds don't really pull crowds. Do it for the drivers who are paying the bucks to enter. The ones who are coming to watch will still come to watch whether its at EC or OP. Probably get less spectators driving out to Wakey rather than more. I'd say run the next Superlap at EC. See how the field goes on a totally different type of track. Actually, run the next one at Lakeside. Highest average speed track in the country!

lol. there is also the possibility he enjoyed overtaking LH so much he kept mucking around afterwards to let him back through just so he could do it all again... you know, just for giggles

maybe that's it lol but lopping off that out of proportion roof certainly hasn't hurt either.

you guys obviously aren't familiar with the previous Skelta! now that was an butt ugly car. This is at least less offensive to the eyes. That's high praise for anything wearing the Skelta badge.

isn't that what everyone wants? overtaking?? I'm not so convinced about Webber's performance as some of you. How many times did he almost loose it or run off the track attempting to pass? He was certainly having a go, but not entirely convincing if you ask me. I thought he spent a few laps there doing his best "accident looking for a place to happen" routine. Sure he looked fast in the wet when he jagged the right tyre decision to go to inters despite the black sky that looked to be promisig the downpour that came later. But that was against a crap car (McLaren). And let's not forget he got owned by Glock's Toyota in the wet as well. How would Vettel have gone if it wasn't for that incomprehensible 10 position grid penalty?

I don't get the local's dislike of EC. If you want to see a boring horsepower track, try QR! Why can't they bulldoze that track?

Agree with Roy. EC is more open and flowing. Seems to reward cars that can carry good speed through long, higher speed corners, compared to OP that rewards cars that can accellerate out of short slow corners. I don't think EC would favour AWD cars quite so much as OP.

Charlie didn't make them lie during the FIA Stewards Hearing to try to screw over another driver/team. That's what they got disqualified for.