Superlap 2010 Ramblings

[Marlin]

I'll be sure to take your suggestions on board 600hp.

Roy or anyone else, whats your thoughts on Classes?

I'm unsure whether to enter in Open or Clubsprint, I believe my car is elligible for both, the choice of tyre being the only question.

[Beer Baron]

GIVE ME KEYS TO SILVER S13!!!! It is safer this way. Past form shows that i bin my car but never others cars

in all seriousness you are welcome to drive it if you want. would be good fun in clubsprint class. got some little improvements for it too. swapped out no name intercooler for new trust kit. about to put in some greddy cams and a re-tune too. and MORE BOOST!

[Beer Baron]

Nope, just talking shit!

Only serious question i have are the Honda powered Exige boys entered? They will take lots of beating if they are!

not sure if the HPE are coming or not? but you're right if they are in they will be at or near the front. there are some other serious cars to contend with though too. not least of course mark in the 34 and I will do my best to help Russ in the 32 show everyone that the old POS can still do it! oh and that the car is good too... lol. lots of changes to the 32 means it will almost certainly gone quicker than it has before at EC. much quicker.

[Roy]

Classes? Meh, throw some semis on it and see how fast you can go. Whilst i think a rwd car will be closer to any stoopid Evo or STI at EC then it woudl ever be at OP, i think the Clubsprint will be dominated by the AWD boys still. So throw on the tyres and give open a go. the GTSt will need the grip and then you can at least gauge how far you off all those aliens that wear race suits and driving gloves

[rehab2010]

He, just thinking of going there to have a look-see. Trying to get back into the car scene after a few years hiatus. Any suggestions, recomendations on viewing spots. Will there be a decent enough action to warrant a 10hr trip each way?

[benm]

EC has lots of great viewing spots, 2 or 3 spots around the track give some great angles of multiple corners.

[Bozman1]

Just to help with times at E/C.

Garth would do a 37 in the Evo and has done a 29 in a 1500cc Radical, the 2800cc Sr8 Radical would be at least another 3 seconds faster. My predictions is that a 36 in Pro will win it. Not sure what the Honda Powered Lotus would do on R compounds, as I think they do 32's or 33's on slicks from memory.

To help with Open, I have only tested 1 of the cars that I am driving at the Creek. It is an Evo and I only did 2 laps and produced a 43.4 with the centre diff not working. This car will probably end up doing a 40 - 41 I say. Not sure what the Honda S2000 or the Lotus Exige is going to do, but the 3 cars I am driving in Open are all very different and will be very similar in pace.

Warren Luff drove an R35 GTR for MOTOR magazine and I think he did a 45 in a stock standard car. Will ask him to confirm but it is in the Performance Car Of The Year Edition. If anyone has an R35 and can steer, that will win Clubsprint!!

[Roy]

But if you drive an R35 you will be too busy getting hand jobs off the 14 year old boys in the pits! LOl, ok that might be too harsh.

Yeh, hadnt considered the R35, you would think its going to be hard to beat, i am guessing a mortal can get within 2 seconds of Luffs time? Its pretty sad to think that i would be stoked if i could get a 1:48 and out of my mind happy if i did a 1:47 in my R32 GTSt on semis...which will still be miles off the pace

Snowie will probably Cobb up his R35 and go get some hand job action

[Bozman1]

Yep, he did a 44.2 in a stocker R35

[NISMO]

Not sure if its been posted, and if it has oh well.

But now its the World Time Attack Challenge

http://www.caradvice.com.au/53819/world-ti...-eastern-creek/

some nice cars from Japan and the US, including the Cyber EVO

[600hp]

Do you need much steering angle at EC? as i know of a car getting built which may have steering angle issues because of tyre size?

Say for eg, if you lost 8degrees would that be a problem?

i personally don't see it as an issue.

I also think the japs will be 4 secs quiker than us on the day. around the 1.32's

[Snowman]

But if you drive an R35 you will be too busy getting hand jobs off the 14 year old boys in the pits! LOl, ok that might be too harsh.

Yeh, hadnt considered the R35, you would think its going to be hard to beat, i am guessing a mortal can get within 2 seconds of Luffs time? Its pretty sad to think that i would be stoked if i could get a 1:48 and out of my mind happy if i did a 1:47 in my R32 GTSt on semis...which will still be miles off the pace

Snowie will probably Cobb up his R35 and go get some hand job action

I think there is about 6 of us in R35's talking about going (for whatever reason had only been talked about on the EMO forums). But I'm currently 50/50 as this year is bad timing for me as I'll be flat out here at work for the first half of the year, and I have Targa stuck in the middle of it that will probably consume any real spare time I might have. So I won't know until much closer to the date if I can even make it - and by then I'll probably have missed out anyways. But if the stars do happen to align I'll bring the 35 for a crack.

But I'm pretty sure Duncan is going to be there (R35 Duncan - not the dorky R32 one) and he'll be hard to beat in Club. Unless Slip goes in his thing in which case it'll be on!

[Travis Trayhern]

I am keen to give this superlap a go never raced at EC or even seen the track b4, but going to head up with my gtr from melb and give it a crack looks like its going to be a great day and full of win.... is this a power track or tight twisty track? got 400 wasps to push me round in open class to have some fun just abit shitty about the semi slick choices i now have to go out and buy a set.

[NZM.031]

few twists but mainly power... has a long straight and first corner, v8 supercars crack 270km/hr down the straight

[600hp]

with only 400kw you will need to have your car on a major diet.

[Russman]

haha. "only 400kw"

I'm hoping to be there with my 230kw's.... Prob in open class.

[badhairdave]

few twists but mainly power... has a long straight and first corner, v8 supercars crack 270km/hr down the straight

I disagree. You make time at EC by maintaining high corner speeds. Power only helps on the main and back straights and gathering speed out of a couple of slower corners (assuming you can put it down cleanly).

High power on it's own is useless at EC

[NZM.031]

i think its been said in here before but if your not there to really compete, its alot of money for what is essentially a 12 lap track day.

alot of the cars that will be in open class are unlimited budget time attack cars.. capable of destroying a set of 285 semi slicks in 2 or 3 hard laps, and will have spare sets ready to go..

[NZM.031]

I disagree. You make time at EC by maintaining high corner speeds. Power only helps on the main and back straights and gathering speed out of a couple of slower corners (assuming you can put it down cleanly).

High power on it's own is useless at EC

i disagree.... alot of the corners at eastern creek are almost hairpins, with a brake hard in, turn, throttle hard out. OP has much more flowy corners with much more variety and a bumpier surface... so the responsive awd cars excel... i think EC will put the high powered rwd cars in contention as its a much better track surface and the power can be put down.

i was watching the telemetry of one of the djr cars that i got a ride in last year with warren luff, most of the time he was hard 100% on the brakes then 100% on the throttle.

turn 1 is flat out, turn 2 is hard in, hard out, turn 3 is sketchy as its off camber, turn 4 and 5 is sketchy as its down the hill, but mostly flat ou, turn 6 and 7 are sketchy as its a bit of a dogleg onb entry and it feels more like a hairpin than a lh corner, but you brake hard to make the first dogleg then power around the corner and out, turn 8 is fairly flat out and flowy, turn 9 is hard in fast out, then from there its fairly flatout through turn 10 and flat out down the straight and around turn 1.

but what idiot turns up to a race track and relies on power alone??

[Marlin]

I think 600hp is right, I reckon 1:32's will be the time it takes to win Pro class.