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i know some guys had some cameras, so if you've got any pics or videos, do share :)

adz, get off your lazy ass and post your videos! :closedeyes: I'm keen to see you're middle run on the skid pan, you know, you had your little warm up, then i believe you had a near flawless middle run? :D

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can also be a general discussion of the day in here as well.

Hahahah, Ziad and your cheater evo that refused to step out of line. Even the great Kev wasn't able to hold "much" of a slide continously in your beast. It's an amazing car Ziad, should be very happy with it. I know what i'd prefer to be in, in the wet! :thumbsup:

One thing i think might help me next time on the skidpan.... momentum.. I reckon to keep a continuous drift going around, i think you might need to be going a fair bit faster initially. Because Ziad mentioned that Kev was doing between 60-80, and i'm sure as hell most of us were trying to fight a skid waaay before those speeds.

So i reckon next time, work up to 60, trying not to step it out, then give it a "little" extra just to step it out, and try and control with the throttle from there.

well that's i reckon, until the theory is destroyed next time i do it! :D

actually i noticed Adz going quite a bit quicker than most of us, and he was holding some nice drifts.

anyone remember that we were trying to learn how to recover from a skid?

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nope didn't think so :D

the foot that gets you in trouble, gets you out of trouble, that's true.

You mash the go pedal, start to skid, come off it, and then steer your way out of it. It works, and that's the point of what Kev was showing us...

but after realising that that was true.... we just tried to drift :thumbsup:

Ziad: you don't have to worry, your car gets you out of trouble :D

Had a blast guys, i think this course doesnt or hasnt made me a better driver, but it has made me think about more awareness when it comes to driving on the road.

Skid pan was awesome..

Bring on level 2!@!

Oh and how funny is this, i went into the burwood car wash tonight, and Kev was there!! haha small world, was there with the prado lol and the echo on a trailor! he lives around the corner from me haha

bradski.

had a quick look at that card we got with the speeds and stopping distances....it says at 60~km/h you need 60 odd meters to stop, including about 20 meters wasted in reaction time...

weren't we all stopping either just in or just outside of the cones that were 20m away from where he blew the whistle....?

yeh but lets face it everyone was rolling up to the first set of cones with their foot on the clutch and the other foot hovering over the brake. Remember after, he got Al to stop and leave his car there then he added on the reaction time distances etc.....does add up...and the fact everyones car obviously doesn't pull up as good.....

I still think that if its a car you're following, then its not a stationary object, like Al's car was in the example...and therefor the car in front also has a distance its going to take to stop....

That example is more relevant in terms of a kid running out onto the road, as thats then a stationary object (in terms of distance from the car)...at the end of the day, the kid isn't going to jump out exactly 60+ meters away everytime, so all you can do is stay alert and prey that if the situation ever comes up, you can stop in time or avoid the kid/dog

Thanks to all that came along to the course yesterday, we really enjoyed working with every single one of you Guys, an absolute pleasure. :bunny:

Thanks also to Ash and Bec for their hard work in organising the course.

Cheers

Kev

No, thank you :P Already paid up for the next one. Hopefully I'll be a bit more comfortable with my new car by that one :D

Had a blast guys, i think this course doesnt or hasnt made me a better driver, but it has made me think about more awareness when it comes to driving on the road.

Skid pan was awesome..

Bring on level 2!@!

Oh and how funny is this, i went into the burwood car wash tonight, and Kev was there!! haha small world, was there with the prado lol and the echo on a trailor! he lives around the corner from me haha

bradski.

Small world Brad, we're nearly next door neighbours !

It's amazing we haven't bumped into each other before.

Small world Brad, we nearly next door neighbours !

It's amazing we haven't bumped into each other before.

hrmm i guess, just the times we leave for work etc.. Im up and outta my place by 6. home at 6 too.

and you prob never go to the same shops as i do in the area.

i do... what ever foot gets you in trouble gets you out of it :-) umm yeah how?

what i meant was, does anyone remember what we were TRYING to do? :P It wasn't to hold a drift, it was to learn that the pedal that gets you into trouble, gets you out of trouble. Not, what were we learning :rant:

we learnt that coming off the loud pedal helped us get our steering back, hence, bring the car back under control.

but after that, i think we were all trying to become the DI champion in 8 minutes :D, just needed that extra minute :bunny:

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