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bring on the porsches i say!

They must have different Porsche's in QLD as down here a GT3 Carrera Cup will smash our times. One of our customers , John Webb, who races the new GT3 sequential job does a minute flat at Wakefield on full NEW slicks though.

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they havent won any duttons yet and there have been quite a few entered including peter fitzgerald and the gemballa.

i think slicks add quite a bit of time also. i dont know of any car thats bettered a 1.05 on semi's at wakefield.

i still say bring them on :O

zactly roy they are a very different kettle of fish to a road going porker.

Touring Car Lap Records:

Production Cars: Phil Coles Skyline GTR N1 1.09.5ish

Improved Production: Wayne Wakefield Mazda 808 Wagon 1:06.3986

Sports Sedans: Kerry Bailey Nissan 300ZX 0:59.2100

Porche Cup: Matt Coleman Porsche GT3 1:02.8168

Nations Cup: John Bowe Ferrari 360 GT 0:58.9346

Outright Lap Record:

Formula Three: Aaron Caratti Dallara F304 0:54.6171

Last year I got to go round as a passenger in a Porsche cup car at Philip Island.He was doing 1.45's,250kmh down the straight.I told him the speed and acceleration didnt overly impress me as I drove down in a 600hp GTR,but the braking was out of this world,nothing I had ever experienced before.It was his first time at the Island,and we did 6 laps,but the braking,oh the braking.

He said his Porsche was making about 400hp,was around 1200kg I think,but the braking.

good work guys. nice to see mark and pete showing our melbourne cousins how we do it in nsw. mark and pete thanks for the calls and texts, your love was felt even though i was down with brisby in meihico.

congrats giant on top honours, that is a nice effort! to say the least.

i am still sorry i couldnt make it as my liver has been getting a bit cheeky lately and could have used a good smashing to show him who's boss.

exactly 400kg lighter makes all the difference in the workld to braking and mid corner grip, no doubt that the quick GTRs would have more power than most of the race cars I posted up. Probably only sports sedans with the 6litre chev 700hp = 530kw at the fly would have more power than a quick GTR

mark and i picked up a pearler a while back for me. it was a 5 speed sillo with a decent box in it a good LSD. had like 10 months rego too. even came with 8 wheels including a full set of sillo alloys. was great fun until i killed it. then sold it.

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