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Blitz Grand Master

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Thats us.

Pretty dissappointing, looks like we picked the wrong night to go for a virgin run. Neither Carlo or myself had run the quarter before so it was a good experience. I chose stupidly to ignore judds advice to give it 6k off the line (more like 4,000) and bogged down, this along with a very ordinary run and not knowing what to expect landed me a 14.8 (boo)

We hoped to get back to have a proper run but the buggers turned us away at the last minute.

benm Grand Master

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Everyone seemed to be having problems last night (Everyone being SAU guys). Missing gears, bogging down, traction etc it was all happening.

Still though its great that your all getting out their and giving it a go. My highlight of the night woulda been the rotary that wheelstanded and left half his rear bumper behind. Thats gotta be the best wheel stand ive seen in my life. I think he still held onto it to get a 11-12sec pass lol.

judd Proficient

judd

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Originally posted by Blitz

I chose stupidly to ignore judds advice to give it 6k off the line (more like 4,000) and bogged down, this along with a very ordinary run and not knowing what to expect landed me a 14.8 (boo)

hehe..nar first time cant expect much n e way. any one got the vid of my run :) I wanna see the burnout couldnt tell if clutch was slipping or tyres spinning. I actually launched at around 6,100 felt ok cept hit rev limiter in 2nd for about 5seconds...before i relised was soo stupid but hope to give another go in 2 weeks.

Tex Collaborator

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Originally posted by Majanal

Tex... I'm starting to think that you need to either a) quit your job and become the full time SAU camera man (the pay sucks though)

B) hire someone to be your assistant!

Soooo... I should choose between quitting my job, therefore having no income, to do a job that pays nothing, OR I should hire someone (presumably using some of the money I don't get paid for doing the job) in order to help me with it?

Hmmmm... Let me sleep on that one. :bahaha: :rolleyes:

Has anyone ever told you you're an ideas man, Dan? :)

akira Rising Star

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Carlo,

Ur adrenalin levels may have caused you to apply the throttle a little to much 4 a RWD, plus the extra grip of the surface at EC.

With my old GTST, I tried different throttle applications when accelerating from the hole-shot.

eg: try 3500rpm launch and progressively accelerate by squeezing the throttle B4 nailing it.

With a Helmet on, and cars and people around you.....it really is harder than it looks.

and yeah, Trackdays are way more fun....:(

400HP Experienced

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As soon as my new clutch goes in I'll be out there too :(

Nick - I did a few trials before going out to EC and I found anything below 6000rpm I bogged badly. I was heaps hesitant to do it but the only way to get it off the line fully is to use the rev limiter or just shy of it..... while you're holding it on the line like that it seems like your car is going to explode haha. I've been told to hold the car with the handbrake and let the handbrake slip whie I come off the line..... I'll try this next time out.

Judd what times did u get? I remember last time I saw ur out there you did pretty good for a stockish GTR.

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yes im quite happy.with the time..just not the circumstances.car i was meant to run throttle jammed open so i was waiting there by my self. waiting for the car looking back next minute i looked at my lights and they were green..i know its not timed from then. so put me off..but still managed PB time. so happy in that respect.

Most of us got 1 run which sucks. Buster got 5 runs..but he got there at 2pm. i was planning too but got held up then crash on the M4 didnt help. wasnt a real good day.

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