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From a time when Dessie (An SA63 Celica with all nissan suspension, modified GTR trubos, R32GTR brakes R32GTR rear cradle and more) was still being built in Sara & Noddy's shed, Gentle (An R33 drift car realy) has told her stories about Street Sprints like Gatton & Leyburn. This helped Dessie dream of the day when she would do battle in the concrete canyons... And now she has had the chance. Late last year Dessie got her entry in for the Gatton Sprints and quizzed Gentle endlessly about the tyre chicanes, off camber corners and concrete bariers. Unfortunately Gentle was fliping in and out of conectedness, due to complications with her new cams. This also stopped Noddy putting in Gen's entry untill he knew she would be 100%. Unfortunately entries closed by that time and Gen was put on a stand by list.

Last Friday Dessie Jumped on her trailer and headed off for Gatton with Tobie leading the way. Tobie had some tyres for Gen so she could go to the drifting at QR on Sat night. Tobie and Dessie went down via Toowoomba visiting the Jim's Jerky factory to pick up some of her sponsors product for the weekend. Gentle went to School with Noddy and headed down that afternoon.

Gentle and Noddy found Tobie & Dessie nicely set up in the pits. Noddy asked the nice ppl if there were any last moment drop outs from the sprints and as luck would have it, there had been 2 drop out that morning. Woo hoo! Gentle was in!!!!! They settled down for a good nights sleep, the canyon waited them in the morning.

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Gentle told Dessie the way to get around the track. "The secret is not to over do it anywhere." she told her quietly so the othe hopefulls diddn't get any hot tips.

Dont light the tyres at the start, just get away quick.

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Get through the first bend in 2nd gear, boot it up the hill and line up the first tyre chicane.

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She told Dessie to remember the brush and berry technique of braking.

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Turn in easy, dont understear into a barier, you can always bail out and try again on the next run.

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Get out of the corners nice and easy, be careful of the crown of the road because it can throw you into the concrete.

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last of all, and most importantly, If you get messy and start to slide... :ohsnap: ENLOY IT AND PLEASE THE CROWD :boobs:

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"OH Yeh" smiled Gentle "And when you come back in; glote to all the others about how good you just were" she said with a smile :sick:

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Dessi listened very carefully and thought it all through even more carfully.

She went out on the track and had her first look, it all went by so fast. Before dessie knew it, there was the start line and a man saying come closer to the line.

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Stop there and get ready

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GO!!!!! he said and Dessie hammered off loudly

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"2nd gear and round turn 1" she was thinking

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"Pin it hard and up the hill, brake for the tyre chicane, turn in easy" she looked like an old hand at this.

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Round turn 2 and down the hill, careful, not to get too side wayz

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Down to a other set of tyre chicanes, "By Golly!!! they come up quick" she thought sucessfuly geting through them around turn 3 an on to the back straight where everyone was watching. "Keep it to gether and up to the final set of tyres" Dessie was doing her best to stay focused on the task at hand.

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Round the last bend and over the finish line. It was all over in a smidge over 40 sec. What a RUSH.

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The two cars had a ball and can't wait for the next run. Both finished the weekend in as good condition as they had started. Some cars didn't. 1 left its mark along 13 of the concrete bariers.

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Carnell raceway is the next event I think and it will be Dessies turn to explain the way.

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