Duncan

good work Eric....looking forward to doing it in the dry one day too! But for now it's Wakefield next in December....

for sure...if you beat the z's speed you are a winnah! that thing was crazy

in my experience, if you are going to stay somewhere average it may as well be cheap too. I've not been impressed with travelodges although I haven't stayed in the blacktown one. Try the Ibis at Sydney Olympic Park its new cheap and close (1 freeway)

+1, I was a bit surprised too. Maybe there is an issue with dynamic camber when it squats to leave the line?

a genuine 180 is right on the money, especially on semis...well done. Great times overall

Yeah Ben, it is much easier to book than Wakie....less than half the price and available with 2 months notice instead of 2 years.....we will be back there for sure. I don't think the run offs are a HGE issue with the low average speed (except in a bloody 450kw Z....), and I'm sure they will work on them over time. Lee....were in the WRX?....if so, find out what's wrong in the back of that car! I don't think I've looked through the front windscreen of another car on a race track so many times on the same day before

sooo....did you make it back OK? (big thanks for Bunsen Scott for tailing you home ) Any verdict yet? lol sorry. but that's how i bought mine too....I borrowed someone else's Let us know if you work out what was happening with the brakes...the track is slow and hard on brakes so maybe they were just hot, but it really seems like you have some sort of sticky piston somewhere? or maybe a bad wheel bearing? Great driving Adam, you were keeping a bunch of quicker cars honest out there. Sorry Not. See you at Texi.

Thanks very much to Matt and the rest of the team for organising this day, it was a small group and average weather, but the venue is great and everyone got plenty of good track time. For those that haven't been there before (or still haven't ), this is a shortish, tight track which is brilliant fun. It has everything - tight corners, blind corners, great camber and elevation changes, and a lovely arse-puckering downhill section where commitment really pays off. It is a great track and easy on the car (other than brakes) due to the short sessions and shortish straights. The only real downside is some run-offs are tight (right Eric?....haha who I am kidding....my off was HGE!!!!), so take it easy and you will really enjoy the place. It was great to see so many new faces, and I bet you all learned heaps about how your car handles, and what you can get it to do as a driver. In particular I went out in about 6-8 cars during the day, and i hope the feedback was useful to everyone. Finally, we had a great reception from the guys at MDTC; at the start, during the day and even afterwards. In a world where new tracks and venues are hard to find and very expensive, MDTC shines as a place where you can still enjoy beginner's motorsport.....big thumps up to thos guys. At only $115 or the day, I reckon most people spent more on tyres/brakes/fuel than they did on entry. A++, will try again

just make sure they are going to marulan too there is fuel at the SHell at Sutton Forrest about 30min before Marulan. There is also a BP at Marulan but I don't know the exit road for the track so I don't know if the servo is before or after.

weather looks reasonable tomorrow...see you all out there around 8am

BTW Bob, is your car an ex-Kerry Packer car, or another one?

Sorry, we need to abide by the venue's rules. The motorkhana on 3 September has more open rules There sure are, and we will take entries up until the day until we are full because we have not filled the day. But the only way to guarantee a spot is to pay and send a form prior. the plan is.....put the roof on Seriously though, if it rains, you just learn 10x as much about car control on the day. It's amazing how quickly things change on a track in the wet

The format of sprinting and time attack is identical. And look how hard F1 work to make qualifying interesting....I genuinely wish you all the best getting audiences interested in the difference between a 1.28s and a 1.29s lap of Eastern Creek. I love it....but I don't kid myself that is a mainstream interest. Also, I strongly agree about the anti-modern issues in CAMS supersprinting and racing, and I put my effort/time/work where my opinions are there, eg trying to get skylines covered under sports car rules, and trying to work with IPRA to make turbo friendly rules (and trying with sports sedans too....not that I got far!). The sooner grids are full of 20yo skylines instead of 40yo geminis the better. Mostly the issue for tracks is the damage drifters do to the edges from what I've seen. Very few tracks welcome drift events which makes it damn hard for those guys to practice. BTW....if drifting makes a better circuit racer, why don't 50m freestyle swimmers train as synchronised swimmers?

exactly 206kw at the motor for sure There is plenty of disagreement about whether 2wd vs 4wd makes much difference. I've never run them back to back 2wd/4wd but I have had the same car dynoed at different places with the same tune and found up to 20kw difference. And flywheel to wheels loss also comes with some controversy. Some claim about 25% loss from flywheel to wheels, but personally I guess it is mostly a fixed amount, not a simple%...otherwise a 1000kw car would be loosing 250kw in the drivetrain I'd work on an estimate of 30-50kw loss, but flywheel kw really don't mean much....it's what you put to the ground that matters BTW....191awkw for a dead stock gtr sounds pretty right to me. Great result considering it's 20 years old.

Umm It is almost free to try this sort of event. We are running a 'khana on the skidpan in Nirimba in 3 weeks, entry cost is $50 if you were a SAU NSW club member....ie it will cost more in fuel and tyres than it will in entry fee! Most motorsport is not cheap....but we actively try and create some events that are as cheap as possible. Come along and give it a go.

Sorry, but all you need for a televised series is a willingness to pay whatever they ask for the coverage. Plenty of categories have gone that way over the years, and in 90% of cases they can afford a season or 2, and then if it is successful the tv cost goes too high as the production companies get greedy. Think Porsche cup, mini cup, utes, fford, targa, production cars alone in the last few years. Long term, seriously large sponsor committments of the sort required to build a $300k $uperlap car require multi year TV committments, and a track record of delivery. Time attack has a long way to go before it shows it is anything other than the next big fad after hula hoops, yo-yos, and drifting. There are seriously flawed fundamentals around cost and control competing at the top level, and if only 2-3 cars have a shot at winning a class, the other 10-12 cars spending 50-100k are going to disappear very quickly. Also there is no attempt to link state based feeder series like the existing supersprint/time attack champs, and national travel costs are a killer for most self funded competitors.

none available....I'm keeping mine

lol your g/f might be my mum. everyone else loves it

I've used bendix ultimates for heaps of track days and they were fine. Good in fact. Not a race pad but a very good street/track compromise Bedding in the pads is simple (I'm assuming they've installed and cleaned everything OK). Head out somewhere open and do 4-6 stops from about 80 to 20 (not to 0....) with the windows down. You will smell when they are warm enough Once they are nice and hot do one more stop, and then drive the next 5 minutes without heavy braking to allow the brakes to cool evenly. Yes you do want them to be very hot (compared to normal) to bed in. There are 2 things to acheive: 1/ burn off any coating on the pads 2/ distribute the pad material across the disc. You need to do this ASAP when the new brakes are on, if not they will not bed in or spread there material properly and you will have to start again. If you do have to start again, take the pads out and rough them up on a grinder or even a concrete surface.

Cube mate. It's auto but otherwise brilliant

bullshit!

agreed...unfortunately. Especially if they stay at Eastern Creek where power + aero will really pay off. I don't understand the tube frame restriction at all. If you can have tube frame front and rear ends (where it really matters), allowing total freedom of suspension mounting locations and geometery, why not have a tube frame body as well? The only difference in a tube frame body would be some weight saving. The other benefit for tube frame would be closer match to sports sedan rules (as long as they are 2wd), so these cars could be used more than once a year.

of course...everyone is spending big and won't want to share the results of that spend....nothing different about the top level of time attack to any other category. their specific implications (not accusations I said) were around tyres not being purchased commercially from local supliers, and tube frame cars.

lol, I guess they don't get Wilfred in Seppo land. Interesting article, I'd like to see the equivalent from each of the other top teams. For those that haven't read it, it says "We weren't trying to hide anything, we have some trick cylinder head and run 40psi boost, and we imply but don't say that everyone else is cheating but we are clean"

nope.....you need to die in a crash instead of fade into obscurity to be the best of all time