danny m

Hey Harry a little birdy told me you landed on th fence at the eastern loop I never even did that in the rain

Harry thats called going from 9th on the grid to 4th by the first corner only to get tagged from behind from a Phil Laird RX7 who couldn't see the end of his bonnet turning me around in the carousel only to be hit by a Gemini in 2nd last as he saw me and jumped on the brakes and when it wouldn't stop he was pulling up at the wheel to push harder, funny thing though the guys in front of him in a Falcon sprint with 4wheel drum brakes had no problems Yes I was on R's but as you will remember it started to fine up a little for the first groups (which funny enough Harry was in) so I decided to leave the Yokohama A048R's on which are not the best thing going as they're the IP control tyre but I had a set of freshish Brdgestone RE55's in the WT2 compound just in case as they are a wet coumpound and I have since run them in the rain and you barely have to back off with them as they are that good but I didn't want tear them apart in the dry. That is why I nailed it out of the pits and if you watch an IP or a Sports Sedan race that is what is done to gauge the grip as quite a lot of time on the newer type hotmix's just because it wet or has that sheen across doesn't mean it'll be slippery as Lakeside wasn't that bad in the rain when there was some rubber down. Another thing with some of the non- Yokohama R tyres is they don't need any heat in the wet or the dry as they are usually good cold and tend to go off when hot like the Bridgestone WT's and Dunlop S's As far as not seeing the flags, the windows were fogging up and I was pretty busy tring to keep the thing in a straight line down the straight so if you saw the whies of my eyes you were doing well as I wasn't looking at you guys as I was looking straight ahead, propbably similar to the instance where someone said I gave the finger to the flaggies, Yeah I was waving at them coming out of the carousel but I never give the finger to someone giving up their own time so we can have fun As far the noise issue the car has been measured numerous times by good quality computorised monitor equipment as well as by the EPA directly in NSW again in the last month and does not go over 92db. If they would go to that much trouble themselves to quantify the levels they would be saving themselves alot of grief as John says he's already had to kick a guy out in a Ferrari 599 that was straight off the showroom floor for hitting 99db and complains that the exhaust wasn't ADR approved. The gear they are using is causing them grief in similar way that MGCC was having using CAMS's old radio Shack meter All I can say guys after talking to John is you guys better make the most it as it's a long way from a certainty with the council as they are being unrealistic Danny

If you're not careful Harry you're going to go blind living up to the reputation everyones got of you Danny

Harry you should wake up and smell the roses Or come and play with the big boys (but them you wont be able to cheat) I was told it was a drive by test exactly the same as used at Mt Cotton and mine is alway under the 95db limit but then again that is on a computorised monitoring system that gets regularly calibrated unlike the gear Lakeside is using and I have had a lengthy conversation with John over this event and what he is up against I very much doubt you will ever be doing any racing on Lakeside as they have to be under 70db or so at the nearest residence which is absolute bullshit as most lawnmowers are louder than that as I know my Honda has an 82db sticker on it! As far as missing the black flags unlike yourself I actually did race at Lakeside for a number of years and the marshalls never hung the flags where that glorified brainstrust Mr Chappell did because no one could see them!!!! but then again he wouldn't have known that because he has as much experience as you do. the black flags were always positioned at the tower with the starter and on the exit of carousel!!! When you are wheel spinning down the main straight in the rain with all your windows fogging up to actually see a black flag being held in an inappropriate place where they can't really be seen properly in the dry is asking a bit much but then again I don't have your superpowers of vision to have seen them as well as counting the tickets on myself which you have no problems obvisously in doing or then there is the genius that states that I was giving the flaggies the finger he must have super powers as well as I do remember waving at the flaggies while I was going sideways out of the carousell as it was that slow out there but then again they didn't see it because the windows were fogged up! For the person that thought I was being juvenile out of the gate, well we'll see how that goes as the best place to find out the levels of grip on a race track in the wet is to have a go out of the gate at place where there is lots of room and little to hit which is especially the case at Lakeside. So next time it's wet at Lakeside I might come and have a watch to see which fence you land on. All I can say guys is you should get out there as often as you can and turn laps as it's not going to last the way things are going unfortunately but then again you could actually get out there and do some actual circuit racing as you learn stuff all driving around on your own Danny 0409 470055 PS Harry if you've taken offence of anything I've said feel free to ring me as web boards are usually not the correct place to go shooting mouths off

HI Harry It's amazing what you find when you google your name! You whould probably get your facts straight before shooting your mouth off as the crap that went on with that knob Doug Chappel was from his own inexperience as most of us that actually race and not potter around at sprints always give it a bit of a suirt coming out of the pits IN THE RAIN to see how much tractions available and unlike most my thing comes on like a train at 4000rpm and like bounce off the limiter at 10k in the dry let alone the wet but Doug or John wouldn't know that as they've never had anything with any poke! Then when he carried on like a spoilt 5 year old because I didn't see the black flag, is because it was raining and mine like every other IP car doesn't have a heater so the car was fogging in places and when go down the straight with the Motec saying hte front wheels are doing 178kph and the back wheels doing 204kph with a G sensor reading strange, you know maybe I wasn't going in a dead straight line and I was a little busy! as even when we raced there for real they had two black flags, 1 at the start line up at the tower and another coming out of the carousel as you never saw the one on the start line let alone one being held by an inexperienced knob on the fence! As far as the noise of the thing it has been tested numerous times here in Qld and interstate by the NSW EPA! at has never read more than 92.6db at 30mt's as per Aust Standard and even here at Mt Cotton on their on and the Redlands Shire Councils regularly calibrated computerised monitoring gear the car never goes past 92db with it normally around 91.6db. So to find out that I was being judged on a rather suspect hand held piece of junk what hasn't ever been properly calibrated and the controllers not being able to decide between themselves whether it was 102.5 or 106.5db does not distress me that much but what does worry me is the amount of bullshit going between all parties that control Lakeside is that you guys better make the most of the opportunity you have now as it could all go pear shaped as the council had unrealistic goals when even brand new road cars are failing the noise limits with ADR complianced exhausts. And yes I am welcome back with the car but they want me to rework the exhaust but they will not accept that it isn't the exhaust which is popping their Dick Smith-Tandy Radio Shack sound meters but instead the induction noise If you have any questions or disagreements with anything I've said ring me as I don't bite and I tend not to shoot my mouth off too much in public Danny Ps If your under the impression that you were going to beat me around there I'd get you credit card out as my old single cam engine did 60.8's on old Yokohama A008R tyre and not even the RS's! and Gerry got down to 58.29 sec with his 168RWHP YB Cosworth powered Escort and mine makes ALOT more than that and has had a lot more development and before you start going on about the track IT WAS ALWAYS THAT BUMPY and the patches on the corners they aere always there in some form so you can't blame that for you only doing high 2's