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saff_cossie Grand Master

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Was a great day, thanks to the WRX club for the organisation and Gareth/John for stepping in to fill Snowy's shoes as he didnt show, really appreciate it guys.

Enjoyed the super sprints later on but car just seemed to lack power all day compared to everyone else so might need a dyno run to see how it is performing. Concentrated more on the corners and upping the psi (tyre boost!) made it a lot more fun to slide out of the corners rather than slowing and accelerating again more than needed.

Times were very poor but did manage to improve significantly after upping the pressures from 36 to 42 after advice from Roy Cushan, thanks mate :P

Need more power now and track time. :)

archie01 Community Regular

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Great day for racing.

Sandown can be a daunting track for a first timer.

Spoke to a lot of people, built up the confidence with every session and followed a few others around to get an idea and this all helped greatly. Thanks to those who offered their advice, I appreciate it.

Was really enjoying it by the end of the day.

ps what's up with the snowsmobile?

BBGTR Experienced

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Great day for racing.

Sandown can be a daunting track for a first timer.

Spoke to a lot of people, built up the confidence with every session and followed a few others around to get an idea and this all helped greatly. Thanks to those who offered their advice, I appreciate it.

Was really enjoying it by the end of the day.

ps what's up with the snowsmobile?

Great lap time for your first Sandown Archie, your thing has a wicked top end. Maybe a 50 shot of gas will help get it out of corners. :rolleyes:

SXR Rising Star

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Great day....thanks to all the organisers.

I think this is my best result. :rolleyes:

Definately done a head gasket on mine.....Now its time for rebuild. :PBJ:

Hope to make it to Winton....rwd class seems to be heating up.

Garreth your a mad man......i wanna sponsor you some tyres just to see how fast you could go.

archie01 Community Regular

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Great lap time for your first Sandown Archie, your thing has a wicked top end. Maybe a 50 shot of gas will help get it out of corners. :)

Thanks Andrew. Congrats on your PB too. 22's ain't hanging around and now that I know what it takes to get there I have great respect for you guys doing those times (or anyone in the 1.2X's for that matter, not to mention the crazy guys doing sub 1.20's!!)

lol @ Ash

Which NOS installer do you guys recommend?? :)

Garreth your a mad man......i wanna sponsor you some tyres just to see how fast you could go

I second that. A man doing those times on street tyres with that car is a great steerer. Well done.

LAGWAGON Enthusiast

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I headed out for my first sandown session with another datto mate after joining SAU a couple of months ago and had a ball. I was in the white datsun 1600 with poorly setup rear suspension and old hard rear race tyres, just couldn't keep the dam thing straight! had a spin, had i little elctrical fire, got towed, lost brakes (as in LOST brakes) at the end of the back straight but its all racing i guess. you GTR boys sure are quick!

is there somewhere where all the times are listed?

Aaron34 Proficient

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Thanks Andrew. Congrats on your PB too. 22's ain't hanging around and now that I know what it takes to get there I have great respect for you guys doing those times (or anyone in the 1.2X's for that matter, not to mention the crazy guys doing sub 1.20's!!)

lol @ Ash

Which NOS installer do you guys recommend?? :)

I second that. A man doing those times on street tyres with that car is a great steerer. Well done.

That was some real fun, close and fast laps we were doing out there. 240kph and only a couple of feet apart. You cracked me up. I was laughing big time watching that big single hit mid corner and seeing you end up totally sideways. Too cool.... Make sure you get to Winton. It's much more fun..

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That was some real fun, close and fast laps we were doing out there. 240kph and only a couple of feet apart. You cracked me up. I was laughing big time watching that big single hit mid corner and seeing you end up totally sideways. Too cool.... Make sure you get to Winton. It's much more fun..

Yeah, looking back now it was great fun.

I particularly enjoyed when you went past me at turn 1 and so getting the opportunity to follow you for as long as I could in an effort to help me get a better idea of what speeds you do (esp through the back section). I can tell you that was the fastest I had taken that back section all day! Then in trying to stay with you at the left hander at dandenong put down the power too early and that's where you would have been looking at a crossed up car in your rear vision mirror and laughing.

I don't have good memories of Winton *cough* spun big end bearing *cough* and the tightness of the track makes my lag problem even more pronounced dammit!! But i agree it is a fun track.

Rowdyr32 Mentor

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What a fantastic day. The car felt really good once I got the feel of it again and knocked 3 thenths of my last time. Had a few issues with the car having some blow by clogging up my afms which had the same effect of a cooler pipe blowing off which ended 2 sessions early. It has also done an exhaust gasket somewhere in the line which dropped the performance a little but it still went ok.

I gained so much more confidence with the car carrying more corner speed though the back section and turn one but by the last sprints they had turned the timers off so don't know if it was faster. Most of it was found when the pads failed to grip as much as I would like. There was no fade but it also wouldn't lock the brakes as hard as I tried.

Ray if you want to arrange something let me know. I would love to have a go with some sticky tyres since mine are rated at 280 and re55's are 40 so there is a heap more corner speed and braking available.

Well done to everybody. I had some great fun when there was about 4 of us racing around together for a few laps even though I was scared of going up the back of John.

Alan I'll start a new topic soon on cornering. It would be good if we could get a picture/drawing of the track and everybody could draw and explain the different lines they take at Sandown. There is a lot we could still learn from each other. Just one good point I believe would make it wothwhile.

BBGTR Experienced

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Here is my track data for the day.

I am still scratching my head as to the lap in red as I have no idea where that extra top speed came from up the back straight, and it wasn't even my fastest lap. Add up all the fastest sectors for the day and my theoretical perfect lap was a 1.21.48.

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My corner loads where not as high as P.I. so can possibly go faster over the back at the left hand sweeper. Then again I drove it home with the only thing missing being fuel so I'm happy.

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Ant97GTR Grand Master

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What a great day...a big thatnks to all the organizers and marshalls :thumbsup:

It was great to see all the GTR's ripping up the track with some old faces back in action. John...big thanks for our close battle in the middle of the day was a highlight for me trying to catch you through those corners :rant: Archie....good to see your beast back on the track mate....awesome straight line speed :P ...and Gareth everyone says it but you sir, are a madman :mad: watching you take the left-hander at the end of the back straight on street tyres is a memory that will last :rant:

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