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if by profound lack of understanding you mean LH and McLaren lied to them to screw over another driver/team, then yeah... profound lack of understanding! lol

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9115.html

and getting much harder for his fans to defend - that's a pretty low act. won't have won him any friends in the paddock either. outright lying to shaft a fellow driver. and after all toyota did for him last year! lol

if your pedal was on the floor there, I'd be starting to worry about turn 2, not turn 1! lol

on street tyres, not semi slicks

loved EC! I prefer higher speed stuff. Turn 1 wasn't as scary or as fast as I was lead to believe, but it goes on forever! I was taking it at about 170 - not really game to look at the speedo until the exit where I hit 180 again. I'll try to upload some of my dodgy video tonight... Oran park is alot of fun. I like the turn 1 kink, but the next 3 slow turns don't do much for me - the Supra doesn't like having to put power down from low speed. But then from the bridge on its all smiles!

unfortunately it was pretty much all noise - 4 seconds faster than my stock supra (with teins, exh & pod) on road tyres. My goal for the weekend was to try and get fastest RWD in Clubsprint. You can't compete with Evos in low grip conditions (street tyres) on a track like that with lots of hard accellerating out of low speed corners... But it wasn't to be - had issues all day with the right rear toe link coming loose on the 1st hot lap of each session, and adjusting itself to full toe in. Didn't really do wonders for its handling! At least it stayed on full toe in rather than flapping around I guess... missed out on fastest rwd by 0.4sec to one of those featherweight FD RX7s with a 3540 turbo hanging off the side and 0.2s behind Brad Lowe (Fujitsu V8 driver) in one of HDT's new retro Commodores. So can't be too dissapointed. Root cause of my toe link problem was the amount of oil that's now spewing out of the Tein SS lubricating that bush nicely... unfortunately that didn't dawn on me until about the 4th time I had to stop on the side of the highway to tighten it back up. I just thought the puny 3/8" ratchet set that I brought with me wasn't able to get it quite tight enough. Emptied a can of degreaser on it and the last 400km home was trouble free. The Teins obviously didn't like Eastern Creek the day before. Anyway, another top event by the Superlap team! Hopefully they'll have another before the end of the year.. and that new HiOctane R34 animal really looks the business! great job in the superlap final too for his FTD and the outright win in its first event! wait till they have time to get it sorted!

gotta love Lakeside. Its more about the driver than the hardware. how was the new surface and the modified front straight? I'm taking the Sil80 out there on the 5th of April for its first run - finally!

good stuff! around the outside on cold tyres. that's the shit!

S13 doesn't have the front end problems that the R32's multilink has when running track oriented geometry. I've had both an R32 GTR and a S13 Sil80. SR20 will make just as much power as an RB20 with less weight. CA18's are OK, but have far less torque and subsequently a narrower, peakier power band compared to the SR20. And I've had both engine too - my built CA18 with Argo rods, Venolia pistons, Tomei cams, head work, custom steam pipe manifold, HKS GT-RS turbo, Autronic ECU & CDI which on 1 bar made 20kw less than a stock SR20 on the same boost with an off the shelf manifold, HKS GT-SS and 550cc injectors, with PFC. and its not just the peak power that's lower, the CA came on more suddenly, peaked and dropped off. the SR has a peak of 270bhp at the wheels but has over 260bhp from 5000-7500rpm! basically there will never be a time on the track where you have less than 260bhp available at the wheels the CA only had that power for an instant. S13 is lighter which means better braking & increased corner speed, while being easier on tyres and brake pads. I think the S13 is the better option but an R32 is OK too, just a bit heavier and wil chew out upper arm bushes. dead sexy engine note though! you'll have a bunch of fun in either car.

these aren't new ones Boz. they came with Rover K series donks as found in the Rover Freelander! maybe they sneak into Production Sports under that limited production rule where they only need to build 5 or 10 cars?

last time I looked Prod Sports didn't allow engine changes, or supercharging unless it was standard... and whatever you're calling these honda/elise things doesn't seem to be on the eligibility list? you may have to go back to the Australian GT Championship unles you want to drop the Rover donk back in.

would we? one of these lotii was advertised for $120,000. You could buy the sister car to the BSM GTR for less than half that... you seem to have left that out of the $120,000 advertisement... rego label, fail where's the number plate go? your local servo has dry brake bowsers?

hey, is it just me or have all the Lotii disappeared from the entry list?

I don't really like the look of the gaurds, front bar and wheels. but I don't care - looks are not really what the car is about! I reckon it will look better with some schtickers to break up all the black. Can't wait to see it in person at Oran Park! gotta admire them for doing Superlap as the car's first event... there is alot of serious competition at the pointy end of the Pro Class - Markov GTR, BSM GTR, that Evo (was it Bel Garage?), and the old Hi-Octane R32 GTR, and I'm sure JP's Zed will be faster around OP this year too! That's a big ask for a brand new car they're still getting ready less than 2 weeks out from the event!

sorry, all that talk about proper CAMS classes seems to have blinkered me from the fact that NSW supersprints don't use ANY proper CAMS classes...

there's also no class for production rally cars, no class for FIA S2000, no class for tarmac rally cars, no class for classic rally cars, no class for Group N... all valid CAMS classes. No historic sports and racing cars, historic specials, historic touring cars, or historic production sports cars either. Why? because this event is not for them. its for the classes defined as eligible vehicles in the events Supp Regs. it all seems rather obvious...

well you and Neil are the only type 5 vehicles in the series... everything else seem to be road registered. no wonder you want in! there were no formula cars at the CAMS National Supersprint series either, so can we stop hearing about the "disconnect" with that? you seem to be the only person with a formula car that wants to come and clean up at this grassroots style event. So let's cut the charade about this being for the greater good.

it is the outright title from the eligible cars for the series. formula cars are not eligible. but you said you didn't want to change it this year - you wanted it changed for 2010??? you must have highly tuned telepathic powers to already know all the dates of the 2010 NSW events! and for rmsport's benefit, I'll say it again... formula cars are for circuit racing. Formula Vee have their own State Championship where nothing else is eligible. How fking discriminatory! better change their rules too! The Formula 4000/Holden car Michele has is from a defunct category that no longer has anywhere to race. its only real use is to be converted to a hillclimber. that's why its (relatively) cheap. caveat emptor. but I have no doubt they knew this before they bought it...

its not for formula cars. get over it. there's only 1 who's entering anyway. some formula Holden times http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results....07/2000.ORAN.Q4 1:06 may be the Sport Sedan record, but there's only a handful of cars in the country capable of doing anything like that, and they seem to have bigger fish to fry than grassroots competitors at a Supersprint. Top State level Sport Sedans run more like 11s. The calibre of Sport Sedan you'll get at a grassroots supersprint will be significantly slower again. For example, there doesn't appear to have been any SS at the 1st round Same goes for the V8 Supercar record. top line cars may be capable of those times, but you won't see any of them at a supersprint. how much slower are the slightly older Fujitsu/Konica/whatever they're called now series cars? moot point anyway because they have better things to do than beat up on grassroots competitors too so you won't see them at a supersprint. I've never seen an old V8 supercar at any supersprint I've done, and I've done plenty in a couple of states over the past 10 or so years. exactly the same applies to the Porsche/Carrera Cup cars. all of this type of hardware is pretty much out of the reach of the typical competitor base involved in grassroots stuff like supersprints. but you now have 1 solitary F4000/Holden at your NSW supersprints. it doesn't really "fit" there, so its excluded from results, but they still let it run so the driver can get their kicks on the track. Its win-win for all parties. Only problem is someone wants to get the trophy for bashing up these grassroots competitors in their road registered cars...

The rules are right. They have been made this way intentionally. I am well aware they're excluded, that's bleedin' obvious, the thing you don't understand is WHY they are excluded. I've explained it. Go and read it from a slightly more objective perspective.

I've never known an inanimate object to be called a tall poppy before. let's not go back to the start of all this. if you didn't listen the first time, you won't now.

tall poppy? too fast? thanks, the thread needed some light heartedness!

you miss the point entirely. you are not eligible for the championship. you bought and entered a car that you know is not eligible for the championship. you can't really come first if you're not eligible, can you? you'll either have to get used to watching other people get 1st outright in the championship, or run an eligible car and beat them fair and square??? you beat a bunch of road registered cars by 3 seconds and you want everyone to know you were the real outright winner??? I'd be embarassed to go up and accept the trophy for that. that's all from me on this subject.

even a road registered clubman has to run DOT tyres to be eligible for outright. on slicks they go into type 5. Its the rules of the series. You chose to enter the series as it was. If you don't like their rules, don't enter. They don't even have to let Formula Libre cars enter at this level of motorsport. And that's what you run as in speed events (as opposed to races) according to CAMS. F4000/Holden doesn't exist except in circuit racing.