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I dunno, dry track is a lot of fun if you're out there with the intention of improving times as opposed to circulating.

To be honest, i think i do more skids in the dry than i did yesterday as generally you can drive through it in the dry, where as you have to have a lot better control in the wet, particularly when you are chasing the limit of grip on the dryer line.

That said, it was a great learning experience. trying to find the limit of grip was definitely a good thing, finding it in the braking zone of the fish hook, not so good :P

That said, it was a great learning experience. trying to find the limit of grip was definitely a good thing, finding it in the braking zone of the fish hook, not so good :)

hahah esp when there was there was an "ocean" just after the fish hook on the left!!!

If you fooked up that, you'll be swimming out!! :thumbsup:

Whats wrong with you and wet weather? My hair goes all wavy. It sucks.

I had 3 decent offs in the first 3 sessions. After the second and third ones i had to spend half an hour cleaning mud out of my wheels so that they weren't horribly out of balance. Dished 3 spoke rims make good shovels btw.

You could have practiced skidz y0.

It did for one evo driver.

Lost it coming onto the front straight at maybe 60km/h and went into the tyres at the pit entry side on. Broken arm and broken car. There were a few evo guys who seemed to be caught out by sudden massive oversteer on that corner through out the day.

yeah i got home ok. Cheers for the help.

At least its motivating me to change the rear housing around

Glad to help and great to hear that you got home OK.

Yes it is a great time to change the rear housing and I hope that you don't show off like Mr Chubbs.....

Great pictures and driving Chris, hopefully the next time it is dry for you.




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