Mallala Open Track Day

[Madaz]

here is the porche cup car

edit

for only cosmetic will cost at least 5-6k to fix

[heslo]

Wow that video so doesn't do it justice, it really was off its tits!

[Madaz]

yeah plus not being able to zoom whilst in video mode doesn't' help and being up high i had a couple whilst on pit straight but then theres only 10 secs of footage

[Madaz]

ok Luke one more

[heslo]

Haha, nice! Much better Steve

[Inline 6]

the porsche vid looks like its been sped up. damn that thing musta cut some good times.

[craig R33]

looks like it would have been a good day

wish i heard about it, i was bored as hell all day

good pics and vids

[nisskid]

f**k, i didnt even know this was on, was this day advertised on mallala.com?

[nisskid]

also will the R35 be out at the next prac day?

[rhys5169]

lol and i was sitting at home doing nuthing all day

[23 GTR]

the porsche vid looks like its been sped up. damn that thing musta cut some good times.

I heard it was only doing 1:13s

[heslo]

Michael, yours sounded tough as out there today! Noticed smoke come from underneath the car under deacceleration/down shifts, I presume power steering fluid dropping on the exhaust?

[Nightcrawler]

f**k, i didnt even know this was on, was this day advertised on mallala.com?

Private track days aren't actually public spectating days, and hence are not advertised.

I guess we were a little bit naughty in inviting so many people out (well a couple of invites somehow turned into an entourage - but you get that), and no doubt a few of the drivers who shelled out big bucks were a little bit miffed there were so many gawkers in their way about the place.

But hey, a bit of hype over the first track day of the 1st street legal R35GTR is not entirely a bad thing.

I noticed Martin take some shots of us vultures surrounding the R35GTR when we got there, that will no doubt make the pages of HPI sooner or later It was a bit of an excited throng of Nissan lovers .... and with good reason - that car is HOT!

Hey Michael, do you know what times Steve got out of the 35GTR? I had to leave half way through his session And yes, I agree - your car looked (and sounded) pure porn out there Michael

[Hotwire]

.... do you know what times Steve got out of the 35GTR? ...

The magic Question I think

[thirtythree-II]

If I knew about this 'open day' I would of been there as a spectator in a flash.

[Damo_R34]

lol, the whole point of everyone not knowing was for a reason.

[kralster]

times?

[chops]

I was really hoping to make it out there.

Too much drinky not enough sleepy fixed that though.

On times, Martin posted this:

1:15.6 as driven there on the stock tyres etc.

Timed using a Performance Box, peak logged speed 213km/h at the braking zone into the northern hairpin

[Hotwire]

So comparing to some of the other lap records:

Porsche Cup Cars

Matt Coleman (Porsche GT3)

01:11.8 4/08/2002

Saloon Cars

Bruce Heinrich (EA Falcon)

01:20.6 29/06/2002

Improved Production

Adam Allan (Datsun)

01:16.2 22/08/1998

V8 Supercars

Greg Murphy (Commodore)

01:08.1 13/07/1997

Super Touring

Brad Jones (Audi)

01:10.3 19/07/1998

That's pretty damn impressive - enter it into improved production without any improvements! LOL

[Martin Donnon]

The R35 would have been much quicker on proper semi-comp rubber, with maybe somewhere around a 1:14.5 to be had on the new Proxes R888 20s that have just been released (time will tell)

However, to my knowledge our R35 was the fastest ever factory specification road car to lap Mallala

Edited October 7, 2008 by Martin Donnon