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Our car is doing well, lost a vacume pipe on the prolouge, so we were only running 0.6 bar, all fixed now :thumbsup: .

Day 1 went good, appart from dad knocking his intercom mic off on stage 4, but it stuck back on now.

pic of dad having fun at beconsfield

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Hey Ben - that was me filling the jerry cans in the BP this arvo.

We also blew a cooler pipe off on first stage this morning! Didn't loose too much time but was annoying nonetheless. Big t-bolt clamp on there now - will get some silicon pipes if we have any more trouble.

remember the GTR is on street tyres not semis as well. That will be quite a penalty in the dry. All I can say for sure is Tony is a better steerer than me, he was second in class in prologue last year behind Rick Bates, I was 3rd. Also for what it is worth they are unhappy with the rear suspension (either that or the car got so phat by eating people)

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OK today's SAU results!

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16 979 Wooster, Ben Kulhanek, Tim QLD Tas 2001 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-spec II N1 CM23 8 1 00:50 0:50 00:38 00:03

23 901 Alford, Tony Farmer, Karl QLD QLD 2007 Nissan GTR R35 CM14 8 6 01:09 01:09 00:57 00:01

28 895 Manion, Brendan Manion, Benjamin Tas Tas 1995 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1 BM23 3 3 01:20 1:20 01:08 00:01

31 942 Beable, Jeff Beable, Nerida VIC VIC 2000 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1 CM23 19 3 01:26 01:26 01:14

35 984 Johnston, Greg Stoneman, Mike Tas Tas 2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 CM22 22 17 01:29 01:29 01:17

56 808 Leemhuis, Peter Handley, Kelly ACT NSW 1993 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1 BM23 8 7 02:14 2:14 02:02 00:01

64 803 Thatcher, Stephen Plenderlith, Stella NSW NSW 1993 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1 BM23 12 8 02:30 02:30 02:18 00:01

75 814 Bowker, Steven Stephenson, Paul VIC VIC 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1 BM23 16 10 03:10 03:10 02:58 00:02

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1 961 Warren, Tony Boyle, Greg Tas NSW 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 CSR42 1 1 00:55 00:55

great to see everyone still running (sorry if I just jinxed someone) apparently there were a fair few out today.

f**king d'oh! do you know if they continued snowy or is it game over for this year?

Tony has pulled out of the stage so its all over for the R35 for today at least.

It blew both front tyres and damaged one of the rear wheels when it came off.

They have a spare set of wheels and tyres so we will see what they decide.

Well it sure hasn't left me feeling like it's going to be the next big thing in tarmac rallies to take on the Gallardo, Porka's and EVO's. I wonder if there is a bunch of people that have already forked out a lot of coin for one that are starting to feel the same!?

Guess we'll get a better idea after Targa West where a couple more will be running as well. But all in all quite a disappointing start to the R35 here in Oz.

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