Circuit Racing Thread

[evil_weevil]

As long as it was an evil laugh that's ok!

[Duncan]

Well you couldn't have a better debut....well done

[Snowman]

I can only go backwards from here hey!

[evil_weevil]

Duncan,

When are you going to join us at an MRA round?

[k_d]

got any video snowman?

looking at doing mra next season, left my run a bit late this year, still need to do a few more mods

[Snowman]

Will try and post up some vids later. The "win" vid is pretty unexciting if I'm honest.

However the rest of my weekend sure was a lot more interesting in a way than my first day.

Sunday morning we had our full audit scrutiny done - of which part was to test the kill switch. What I didn't know is that a kill switch cut-off in my car sends the car into limp mode.

This was only discovered as I headed out onto the track to take my position on pole for race 2. Unfortunately it meant I had to head into the pits and had a DNS for race 2. The fix for the limp mode is a simple plug into a PC and clear the fault so I was fixed 5 mins later but it was a simple lesson learnt on my first race weekend.

Upshot of this was it meant for the final race I started from the back of the grid. Conditions on Sunday were dry so the top GT cars had more speed on me regardless but none the less I was able to make my way from 20th all the way back up to 5th by the end of the 12 lap race. In reality I probably would have ended up in 5th even if I started 5th as the top cars are a good few secs / lap quicker than me at this stage.

But it was great fun coming through the field and was a nice learning experience including some pretty fun passes such as going between 2 cars down the main straight with only a few cm's space on each side.

Was good fun and I look forwards to the next one in Oct.

[Snowman]

Couple more pics from the winning race.

[phunky_monkey]

Well done again mate, quite the debut I was hoping to make it down, but was tired up on the Sunday.

When's the next round for you?

[Snowman]

Oct 26-27 at Phillip Island.

Not sure how many of the GT car will be there however since most of them will be off to NZ for a race at Tony Quinn's new track over there.

[JZP]

Vey esteemed company it seems. Great work .

[hrd-hr30]

Great Stuff Snowy!

The Lambo on the grid behind you would be AWD as well, wouldn't it?

[Snowman]

The Lambo is a full GT3 spec one so no it is also only RWD as per GT3 rules.

[hrd-hr30]

ah... I recognised the R8 as a RWD GT3 car but the Lambo didn't quite look as 'out-there'. Beating full on GT3 spec cars is no mean feat!

We'll all do rain dances for your next race.

[R31Nismoid]

I'll chuck the wet launch video onto YouTube soon as I get a chance (prob tomorrow).

It's farken hilarious...

Again, well done Snowy, top fun all weekend. WIll happily crew again

[ssxRicho]

I'll chuck the wet launch video onto YouTube soon as I get a chance (prob tomorrow).

It's farken hilarious...

It's Daytona'esk arcade game catch up spec.

Had a good chuckle.

[Snowman]

Here's the race win vid. Other than trying to go from hero to zero at turn 2 and dealing with lapped traffic at the end (yep I had lapped traffic in a 4 lap race) it's not all that exciting.

Still - here it is.

[R31Nismoid]

And video is ready

[zebra]

Haha epic hole shot!

[blackrex]

Race Three

[evil_weevil]

Quiet thread is quiet.

What's people's plans for 2014?