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I went tyre testing at Lakeside last Sunday. Dont mind these KU36 things as a crossover road and occasional track thing. Excellent value.

Not a fantastic race tyre but good for 1:02 on the day.

Edited by Noddy

I went tyre testing at Lakeside last Sunday. Dont mind these KU36 things as a crossover road and occasional track thing. Excellent value.

Not a fantastic race tyre but good for 1:02 on the day.

yep, I loved the KU36. Great bang for buck, and awesome fun. You had to slide them around a bit to get the times out of them. :) 60 seconds on my old Supra with Tein Flex, pod, and catback.

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Yeah its a good fun little track. Next time out we are doing the F8 layout which will be a nice mix up.

The car is getting there. I basically spent that whole day making set-up changes and in the end it was much improved after some ride height adjustemnts. We have made a couple of other small changes this week and am back out testing this weekend at Sandown so I will see what difference we have made given I have a base time at this track in this car already from back when it was poo. LOL

Here's a little vid of me in an M3 under controlled conditions. Once a year BMW take all the Master Parts Advisers and Service Master Tech's away for a weekend of fun. This year was E/C,,,we did track work,,,khana's,,,abs testing and go-karts. Oh and free food and lots of piss.

This vid was made using an apple 4,,,handheld by my passenger,,,excellent quality.

Jeff Brabham is the head driver trainer,,,great guy with tons of info.

Cheers

Neil.

From the autocross yesterday. Its a short, smooth dirt circuit. Awesome fun!

2nd run of the day - messing around with what gear to be in throught he middle of the track. 6th outright on this run, surprisingly!

And the first run in the reverse direction

just on normal street tyres. they don't allow rally tyres (or anything nobby)

the fast/serious guys use semi slicks becaus ethe track ends up being really hard packed and rubbered up like a speedway track after a couple of runs. hearing tyres squeal on dirt is strange...

freakin awesome harry ! looks like a workout with lots of steering work, like a sprintcar! was the car ok after hammering over bumps?

racing at LS on the weekend was a new experience. the field was small due to the way they organised the classes, so we got lumped in with formula fords for the first couple of races! wtf.

There were plenty of similar cars that got spread out amongst the other classes. strange.

pretty intense to actually have to push 100% for the full 5 laps, not just against yourself/the clock.

Perfect laps were not as easy to achieve compared with a sprint session and being alone with clear track.

Edited by scooby36

That track isn't bumpy - plenty of people take lowered road cars there. Worst damage you'll get is hitting a witches hat at speed.

Handbrake - GCTMC run similar races at Pimpama down the Gold Coast(Yawalpah rd nursery) which is a bit rougher, but still a lot of road cars enter. Also, they run a khana cross at PArklands showgrounds, but I've never driven there so don't know what the track is like. The only others I know are fairly bumpy and not really suited to "nice" road cars. Hirstglen has a fantastic layout, but it's more like a proper rally stages (ie be prepared to get some air). Unfortunately the track washed away in the floods in January, so it will likely be a long time before the track is useable again, and the local council is giving the land owners a hard time about using it fio motorsport.

I did a khanacross at Parklands about 10 years ago. It was a little rough in places. I wouldn't recommend that for a road car.

The IWMAC Autocross is smoother than that horrible racetrack that's right next door - QR! No problem at all for my car which is really setup for track - reasonably low, not much travel with the Tein coilovers and 7/6kg springs. Only needs a good clean out in the wheelarches!

Morgan Park started life as a dirt short circuit before it evolved into what it is now. And Carnell at Stanthorpe used to be a dirt short circuit as well I think, but has been bitumen for the whole time I've known it. The IWMAC Autocross track is the last of the maintained dirt circuit as far as I know. There was talk years ago of sealing it too, but I'm glad they didn't because its pretty unique the way it is.

Scooby - congrats on the racing debut! And good work keeping up with Tony's RX7, its obviously far more powerful and he also runs full slicks. Would have been pretty hairy racing against FF's! Would be bloody hard to see them alongside you in a car. CAMS would never run open wheelers against tin-tops.

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