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Team Wang Phillip Island Report and Pics 19/09/04

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By JAMESW,
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Duncan Grand Master

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damn, 2.01.42, I would have won the class on Saturday by about 1.5 seconds. bugger.

Congrats to Andrew on some top times, and to Chris for acheiving such close times with an undoubtably inferior setup

That final sprint was top fun, I spent about 1/2 lap side by side with one of those jag race cars after taking him under brakes at honda...shame the brakes died at the end of that lap.

A good weekend and well done to everyone brave enough to give it a go :rofl:

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In the supersprint I slowed down to wait for Emre to show him some lines, But as soon as I saw the WRX closing in on me instead of the chacoal monster. I knew it was time to boot it, cause I couldn't let a WRX beat me in the supersprint. I'm glad I went for it, cause that next lap was my best.

Duncan Grand Master

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OK, thanks to bec here's a heap of photos (unfortunately I had the camera on the wrong setting on sat so some of the photos are blurry ;) )

Anyway....

Sat

http://www.hgeconsulting.com.au/pi20040918...pi200409181.htm

Sun

http://www.hgeconsulting.com.au/pi20040919...pi200409191.htm

Duncan Grand Master

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Actually that was a very unlucky incident.

I've seen quite a few skylines blow off cooler pipes over the years, but this is the only one I've ever seen where the fuel caught fire. Very unlucky, but Geoff was quick with the fire extinguisher.

Ronin 09 I'm afraid it looks like all of Melbourne's 32 drivers are a bit short on balls ;) But then again I only saw 1 GTST out there as well, which is a shame because now these gtr drivers think they are unbeatable :)

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It's true, that was me. Was coming over the finish line in 5th at 220kmh and POP. Off came a turbo hose. I had been stuffing around looking for a leak and in my haste left one clamp a little loose. The hose blew completely off so no forced air was making it to the engine. What I couldn't see was the flame out the exhaust as the car overfuelled due to the AFM seeing plenty of intake air. There was a slight heat shimmer but that was all.

One of the flaggies was waving blue and yellow which was kinda strange as I should have got meatball, but I was just rolling around to the turn 4 exit anyway. Then in the exit lane I was told the car was on fire so I pulled over onto gravel and Al was coming down the pit lane. He grabbed the Fire Ext as I was climbing out and put the fire out (Good man Al!!). Then the fireys arrived to cool the melting plastic off with foam.

I already have a price on the tail light and I will repair the rest with ally flashing for the race cred look.

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Guys who were there on the day, i've almost finished editing the footage from the day so stay tuned. P.M me and give me your e-mail addresses and let see if we can work out a way to get the DVD out to the folks there on the day.

It was my first day with this camera so its not exactly the most professional of videos especially with the crappy tripod I was using however I've gone to the trouble of putting in some cheesy "techno" music to try and make it full siiiiiik.

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