Eastern Creek Drive Day Thursday 24th July, 2003

[carlo]

Yeah top work dan..

Benm... Tyres didnt like the treatment, once warm they where okay, but a lap later they where to hot and just didnt grip. Was fun anyway, I would not call it drift.. More like sliding around, so I emjoyed it. Went for a session with dino (who is a top notch instructor) and worked more on my technique. After dino's lessons I was hammering around alot smoother and using the track more.

Brakes Held up 100%

Tyres I think need to be replaced

Car performed perfectly!

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[red900ss]

Thanks for getting us the slots and the discount Dan.

lol thanks for the rap Carlo :bahaha: all in a day's work :burnout:

[carlo]

Dino... Next you gotta show me how to get those 747 things around tight corners fast. I always have problems with people screaming in the back.

[red900ss]

Yeah me too...:confused:

[Kinks]

Just tell them "if you don't all shut up right now I'm going to turn around and go back"

ahh, just like bus drivers in high school.

[nissaner]

was there a white bug eye sti that blew engine yesterday? it came to our workshop (scuderia veloce) only to find out his warranty got rejected... aftermarket exhuast system and circuit racing... NONO for warranty... feel sorry for that poor man...

[Kinks]

I think there was one, didn't hear about it blowing anything but then I wasn't listening.

Funny, you would have thought an STI would be designed well enough to cope happily with an exhaust swap (which shouldn't really change all that much) and a bit of track work. But I suppose they only design them just well enough for 40 year old mid-life-crisis candidates to burble lumpily around the city in and make PPSSSSHHHHHHHHH noises at 2000RPM shifts.

(note, I'm not showing brand favouritism here even though I laugh at wrx's weak gearboxes - I'm just being cynical at how cars and a lot of other things in life are designed these days.. ie cheaply. sigh).

[red900ss]

Originally posted by red900ss

Good shots Carlo

Where's the vid Prank? Where's the vid???? :uh-huh:

jeez my fingers hurt....

[Marty]

Great day, good to see a bunch of old faces again, i'm going to have to do this more often!! (although i don't think i can justify driving each time)

DAN - thanks for taking me out a couple of times, showing the RIGHT line and the DORIFT line - loads of fun

I think i took out 1/2 the life of my new tyres.. the mrs won't be impressed! oh well, means i can justify track tyres

Oh and yeah, they did get you waving

oh - someone wanted laptimes - well i only had my last (i think it was 4th) session timed (thanks Dal) and the best i did was about 2:01 (with 2 2:02s and a 2:03 thrown in)

[nissky]

thanks dan for organising this

i'm hooked; i'll be there for the next one, i thought i was going alright until scott took me around in his r32, my brakes were just warm after my last session haha

[Majanal]

Hey guys,

Was my pleasure to organise as always.

Am really hanging for the incar footage from the prankster... will it be long mate?

I took my "drift" tyres off when I got home and noticed that I might have done a bit more damage than I had thought!

The result of drifting turns 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 12!

[red900ss]

Take them back and tell 'em you were sold a dud tyre! It blistered after only a couple of hundred lap-...err...kilometres!

[benm]

ahh c'mon u only managed to ruin 1 half of the tyres

Turn the wheels around and put em on the opposite side for the next trackday so that you can even them out.

[carlo]

hhahahaha

Reverse rotation style.. Eaak

[Duncan]

well pete, dan's thrown down the tyre destruction gauntlet!

[Majanal]

and pete got so scared that he sold his GTR!

[fatz]

that is the weekest tyre wear i have ever seen

i have never left the creek not showing half a tyre of canvas

you got nothing.... nothing i say

and my grass helli's r much better

lol

and i was far drunker at the footy on saturday

yo muma

lol

[Kinks]

your grass helis come far too close to the pulsar I'm sposed to be keeping in cotton wool

[fatz]

funniest thing i have seen all week was the look on your face

priceless

pete

[Majanal]

So Did someone say that the prankster was going to upload some footage from this track day yesterday?