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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 :rofl:

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

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

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 :thumbsup:

Edited by Martin Donnon

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