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Awesome looking forward to this!

Although go easy, last time I went the flamin mongrels from work slammed me into the wall at high speed. Practically had the steering wheel embedded into my chest and for days after I was stiff as a board and felt like I'd been in a car accident!

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sorry kingo = kingston hotel/ pub

kat are you sure it wasn't caused by a lack of awd that you have become custom too? :) preivous events with the supra guys have had no major inccidents and the guys there are pretty good at making sure no one is being pushed over their limits or deliberately taken out. anyone playing unsafe wont be racing again or in any other events for that matter.

there might be possible rain on sunday which means slower times and more drifting haha

Haha I'm sure that it was the second corner outside (where the guys running it can't see) and I was completely on my breaks and I had 2 people push me at full speed into the wall! They boys at work were pretty rough!!

natett,

I'm working on sunday, but i may be able to join in. i wont know until sunday morning though. So if i dont show i'll let DriftGTS (James) know and we can talk about a refund....

fingers crossed i'll be right though....

Well that was great fun! wet at the start so drifting was the flavor of the 1st session, but then it dried out which led the way to an SAU victory! Reece set the fastest time with a 32.4 closely followed by myself with a 32.5 then one the supra guys managed a 32.6 and James rounded out the top 4 with a 32.7. those who missed out, missed some great fun....

Thanks to natett and the supra guys for organising it. i know i'll be attending more supra club events if the invite gets extended our way again!

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