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Harry of course, a few old Datto Zeds including mine. Mate of mine mentioned talking with Peter Brock about going through the kink, advice was to get the line right, keep the pedal to the metal and get the car straight before braking for the Karrousel . Easy, not :/

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Harry of course, a few old Datto Zeds including mine. Mate of mine mentioned talking with Peter Brock about going through the kink, advice was to get the line right, keep the pedal to the metal and get the car straight before braking for the Karrousel . Easy, not :D

:blink: The only way to do it :D

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Easy with my 200RWHP :D

And therein lies the key to lakeside marlin. The track was built when 200 hp was considered hot.

I was so looking forward to the reopening of lakeside but after doing some marshalling there for time attack I have decided to wait till the upgrades before i use the track.

In the short space it has been reopened the amount of write offs and cars in to the wall is disturbing to say the least. It is not a mistake friendly track at all compared to qr or morgan park simply because it was built when cars were a lot slower than they are today.

Heres hoping the resurface and reshaping of the runoff areas etc brings it up to speed.

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But that is the essence of why I enjoy it, and I've driven it in 600hp cars too :D To me it rewards good smooth driving, and is as close to a tarmac rally stage as you can get on an Aussie race track.

lol... you watch, I'll go out and bin my car saturday now :blink: hope not though....... :D

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But that is the essence of why I enjoy it, and I've driven it in 600hp cars too :blink: To me it rewards good smooth driving, and is as close to a tarmac rally stage as you can get on an Aussie race track.

lol... you watch, I'll go out and bin my car saturday now :D hope not though....... :O

You better not you tard. :D

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I think the word you are looking for Noel is "challenging". QR isn't, Lakeside is. All it takes to be fast at QR is power and brakes. Lakeside requires a driver too. Double Apexes, changing cambers mid corner, blind exit to the bumpy high speed sweeper under the bridge, uphill and downhill turns and a lack of run-off area to seperate the men from the boys. :D

but the kink is easy - can take that flat in the Supra on Federal road tyres! its under the bridge that's the real challenge to take flat out!

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I think the word you are looking for Noel is "challenging". QR isn't, Lakeside is. All it takes to be fast at QR is power and brakes. Lakeside requires a driver too. Double Apexes, changing cambers mid corner, blind exit to the bumpy high speed sweeper under the bridge, uphill and downhill turns and a lack of run-off area to seperate the men from the boys. :D

but the kink is easy - can take that flat in the Supra on Federal road tyres! its under the bridge that's the real challenge to take flat out!

I'm all for challenge Harry. Hence my love of morgan park. It is at least the challenge of lakeside or even higher but it comes with the added bonus of modern safety standards with generous runoffs etc.

I will run lakeside again, i am looking forward to it but not in its current guise.

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morgan park is OK. certainly alot better than QR but there's no heart in the mouth corners at Morgan Park, and its all pretty low speed. But there are a few more technical corners than QR that's for sure. I think the old short track A out the front is still probably the most technical layout they have. That was great with the blind corner at the top of the hill and the curvy braking area for the hairpin. Don't know if they still use that for a round of the Supersprint series these days. I haven't run there since 2004 I think, apart from a somewhat shortened test day last year.

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morgan park is OK. certainly alot better than QR but there's no heart in the mouth corners at Morgan Park, and its all pretty low speed. But there are a few more technical corners than QR that's for sure. I think the old short track A out the front is still probably the most technical layout they have. That was great with the blind corner at the top of the hill and the curvy braking area for the hairpin. Don't know if they still use that for a round of the Supersprint series these days. I haven't run there since 2004 I think, apart from a somewhat shortened test day last year.

That blind corner at the top of the hill is scary as. Esp when ur pushing at the top of 4th in an R33..... and it steps out at the wall!!!!!!!

They still use the short track in the supersprint series. The SuperSprint State title are out there next weekend and should be a hoot. Sat will be on the Short track and Sunday on the long track. I aiming for a top 5 finish, dreaming for top 3.

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Morgan Park is at Warwick mate.

Next Lakeside day is this saturday, spectators are welcome and free. Kicks off about 9.30. It's the last day before they close it to re-profile and resurface it.

Thanks mate, i'll try to drag myself out to have a look i thought it was on sunday.

If its saturday cant make it, got to drive out to toowoomba to pick up my new radiator support panel to get the 32 back on the road.

Also iam going to sound like a noob but here go's, what does re-profile mean?

Cheers Ben :kiss:

mralbino Enthusiast

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I see, re-profiling = hopefuly more forgiving for possibly people like me to have a crack.

What about the noise levels any change in that department?

My cars pretty quiet but herd people have been booted for high noise. :( doh

Bummer its happening on saturday, will have to come out next time :D

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Would love to do the last Lakeside sprint....but cant run on the Hoosier's..they wont let me(even though they are no quicker that semi's, oh, and some people cry about it) :D Anyone have a set of nearly stuffed RE55's in 255/40 17 they want to sell??

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Would love to do the last Lakeside sprint....but cant run on the Hoosier's..they wont let me(even though they are no quicker that semi's, oh, and some people cry about it) :( Anyone have a set of nearly stuffed RE55's in 255/40 17 they want to sell??

I've got a near new set of 235 and 255/40R17, hard compound, buggers won't heat up on my Zed unless its a hot day, going to have to get a set of mediums or perhaps R888's. So fingers crossed for a hot day.

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