First track day experience - Wakefield Park

[Snowman]

Its should be done. I know Im planning to come raid you Welshmen at some stage later this year!

[Duncan]

woo hoo! road trip! sandown, winton, calder park, phillip island....hope we can do them all in 4 days

[B-Man]

I got my 4 cheater tyres for this - yeee haaa ! ! !

Should be good fun boiz

[Roy]

I got my 4 cheater tyres for this - yeee haaa ! ! !

 

Should be good fun boiz

Ive got my cheater tyres, but i cant find my car, its too busy spilling its guts around Melb workshops, i may have to miss yet another track day

[Duncan]

roy :slap:

brendan.....you be nice to those tyres

[Roy]

roy :slap:

brendan.....you be nice to those tyres

Duncan :idea: ... you have a spare car or two

I have had the car in workshops for the last 4 weeks, getting it ready for this weekend... ... and now the circus must do its tour without its clown

[Duncan]

haha spare car or two eh?

I'm sick of the ReBuild25DET and ReBuild26DETTs right now

[franks]

geez that yellow is nice!

gotta get white wheels now dunc

[benm]

How about that... my GTS-t is quicker than a GTR ... well Duncans anyhow

[Roy]

Well i hope mine aint in that many pieces ... but you never can tell :Oops:

Enjoy the day folks!!!!!!

[Duncan]

pfft my gtst was quicker than my gtr too.....by about 2 sec on oran park short.....gtrs are definately not magical invincible cars, especially when they are 12 years old....

[Roy]

Laggy with wallowy suspension, they are my favourite kind of GTR when at Eastern Creek, as they are the only ones i can keep up with! Just remember Duncan, "we have the technology...we can rebuild her!"

[red900ss]

heh, the last time someone said that Roy it cost six million dollars.

[Tosh]

How much fun I had:

Words cannot describe how much fun I had. I was very very excited leading upto it and it by far exceeded all my expectations.

What I learned:

1. HOW TO TAKE TURN 1!!! - That was a very big off but I am glad that I got them all out of my system @ the first trackday so now I know what not to do. I'm disappointed that I did it so close to Steve Bullin but it was great that Daz, Carlo and Steve were all very supportive of me

2. WINDOWS UP!!!!! - everyone saw my interior

3. Duncan is a champion!!! (more than he was before ) without him I wouldn't have learned as much as I did

What I need to work on:

Braking & heel-toeing. Although by the end of the day I was using the ABS less, I was using it alot coming into the horseshoe and turn 10. I was also compression locking into 2nd alot too..

[benm]

Although by the end of the day I was using the ABS less, I was using it alot coming into the horseshoe and turn 10.

Better tyres and suspension setup will fix this. You will probably find that your front end is too stiff or too low.

[Blitz]

How much fun I had:

Words cannot describe how much fun I had. I was very very excited leading upto it and it by far exceeded all my expectations.  

What I learned:

1. HOW TO TAKE TURN 1!!! - That was a very big off but I am glad that I got them all out of my system @ the first trackday so now I know what not to do. I'm disappointed that I did it so close to Steve Bullin but it was great that Daz, Carlo and Steve were all very supportive of me

2. WINDOWS UP!!!!! - everyone saw my interior

3. Duncan is a champion!!! (more than he was before ) without him I wouldn't have learned as much as I did

What I need to work on:

Braking & heel-toeing. Although by the end of the day I was using the ABS less, I was using it alot coming into the horseshoe and turn 10. I was also compression locking into 2nd alot too..

Its funny, my experience was almost identical Tosh. Turn 1 looks ominous and seeing the speeds that some of the GTR's approach it made me somewhat nervous but after a couple of laps you get the feel for it and begin improve your line/speed.

1 big off that I had was unfortunately also with the window down and my interior was caked in brown dust.

I would have liked to have had duncan passengering for a few laps but the car wasnt behaving well at all so I called it a day.

Looking forward to the next one

[benm]

If Duncan charged a fee for his driving services he could fix the GTR

[Tosh]

Come with me to the rotor one in NSW events if they allow us in

[benm]

which ?

[Duncan]

hahaha what is it about turn 1 and MR2s spinning

actually I did a few laps in tush's MR2 and I was very impressed, its got great turn in, and traction out of corners. - you do have to be careful under brakes but it was certainly not the super spin-ey car that some people claim.

Shame that Ben kept chopping us on the straight tho

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