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You got 3 weeks man, get on it! haha.

Few things I need/want sorted. On full lock my tyres were just scrubbing on the loom in the guard, luckily I pulled back in when I did otherwise could have been very interesting, might move my loom or tuck it up more in the drivers side guard so I can get some more low. Because I was running 16's on the front, massive fail but not much choice in the matter I was getting shocking understeer, fkn fail. So next time when I go out I'll hopefully have some KU31's up front on the 33-R wheels and changing my rear cradel bushes up for more slip rather then grip

What tyres you running?

215/45/17

Other then the loom issue and understeer car didn't skip a beat. Syncros on 3rd & 4th are a bit shit too, hard to jam 3rd gear mid skid when it grinds going in so might look at epic budget get the box out and replace the syncros. I'll ring round n' see what thats worth

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i dont ahve any pics.... but it could have been avoided quite easily imho..

in summary

cream 31 wagon came into turn one and lost rear left wheel, either loose or snapped studs....

he spun 2 or 3 times before coming to a stop halfway between turn one and two..

5 seconds later a mint 31 come into the picture at near full noise, by the time he seen the wagon had no where to go

and smacked him in the ass...

white 21 a write off for sure, cream wagon looked like a pig anyways so now it has even more ghetto rep :)

in the mine time the goons at the start line are still letting cars go, awesome communication eh

Bloke in the mint 31 should be more awear and should have slowed right down, even mid scando should have been able to bail...

I know its take your car out at own risk and blah blah blah but if I had clearly spun out and in the middle of the track and some douche came around the corner full bore I'd be f**king peaking. Mutual respect between the drivers on the track and that mutual trust. Thick headed flamin mongrels.

cream 31 wagon came into turn one and lost rear left wheel, either loose or snapped studs....

he spun 2 or 3 times before coming to a stop halfway between turn one and two..

5 seconds later a mint 31 come into the picture at near full noise, by the time he seen the wagon had no where to go

and smacked him in the ass...

That's where he f**ked up, it looked like he was 100% focussed on the entry into 1 and didn't look far enough ahead.

I shoot a quick glance down to the entry to 2 just before I initiate into 1 to make sure no dickhead is dropping ringies trying to get moving again after a spin.

If the sedan driver did that he would've seen the wagon sitting there, or at least the smoke the wags pumped out as he was pirouetting to a stop, OR the other 2 or 3 cars that were taking evasive action, and could've avoided the whole ordeal.

Edited by AndrewJZX100
You roll the dice, you're playing the game. If it's your daily, prized possession, etc you probably shouldn't be drifting it

I know this Luke,

But if it could be easily avoided by the other driver being a bit more awear I would be fuming. Like f**ken hell, get off the track if you dont have that parriferal vision (spelling).

If your doing tight tandems and you spin out and collide stiff shit, but if it can be avoided and the other drive is oblivious to whats going on around him/her they shouldn't be racing either.

Point taken Wayne. Then again look at it this way. If I crash my GTR by braking just that split moment later than I usually do just to get that extra little bit of time knocked off resulting me hitting a concrete wall, flipping in the sand traps, etc. It's the same deal. It could have easily been avoided yet I was pushing. That's what it comes down to. If you can't afford/aren't willing to risk losing it all, don't play.

Simple as that.

anyways... whos gonna be out on the 14th?? i is :P

gonna be soo much better with brand new 235s on the front, opposed to hard as f**k 50% 215s lol

oh and the hydro hand break opposed to no hand break at all haha

You roll the dice, you're playing the game. If it's your daily, prized possession, etc you probably shouldn't be drifting it

And you also learn some things aswell

They need yellow flags to be waved into turn one so people know they need to slow down or even a yellow flashing light at night if a car is stopped on track.

Edited by DSTROY
Point taken Wayne. Then again look at it this way. If I crash my GTR by braking just that split moment later than I usually do just to get that extra little bit of time knocked off resulting me hitting a concrete wall, flipping in the sand traps, etc. It's the same deal. It could have easily been avoided yet I was pushing. That's what it comes down to. If you can't afford/aren't willing to risk losing it all, don't play.

Simple as that.

By all means smash your own car, but to collide into someone else's because you dont have peripheral vision would cut me deep.

Anywho,

I won't be out untill September'ish I reckon Craig... Whose holding a private day? I'd rather pay $220 for track time all day rather then 30 minute slots at 10 runs during that time because there is a million people attending lol - Hydro's are good fun!

the crash with the two R31's was just stupid, wagon loses a wheel and puts his foot down (people just dont get that its stupid to do a burnout after u have spun) but the R31 was at least 2 cars behind the wagon and just drove right into the smoke

the crash shouldnt have happened and someone complained to Clem about the crash and they wouldnt let anybody do tandems, was so fail

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