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The garages at Wakey are pretty flat anyway, I find my car sits pretty sweet without leaving it in gear or with the handbrake up. Chocs can't hurt for an extra bit of insurance though ;)

Hey what's the go with garages on the day, do you need to book in advance or is it part of the deal?

I'm gonna have suitcases and tools and crap like that so need to put them somewhere.

Cheers

Dave / Everyone.

Garages are first come first serve! But there are heaps of them!!

As for leaving tools about, I have NEVER had any issues with leaving any of my stuff out and about during any track day, be it SAU, Circuit Club, Autosports as it is all a very friendly environment..... I would hate to think that there will be people at our day who would consider 'taking' stuff.

I have a set of old aircraft chocs, for any act people who want to borrow them. (stupid 4wd system being farked :rofl2: )

I'll borrow them CJ! You're coming right? So you can bring them with you?

Dam looks like im going to miss this, wont get the gearbox and new suspension back in time

I seem to remember you owning a skyline Jas!

Gonna be pretty epicly tired.. got 2 days off between now and the friday that im heading down.. Stupid work

Thanks everybody for your response to this day.

We are now full, so please do not send any further payments. Any payments we receive after today will be refunded.

We are happy to run a waiting list for spots, so if you still want to coming along please post up your interest for the waiting list.

It is great to be able to fill this event, and it means we can afford to keep running them - so we will organise another one (or maybe 2!) for next year.

I seem to remember you owning a skyline Jas!

Gonna be pretty epicly tired.. got 2 days off between now and the friday that im heading down.. Stupid work

Haha True :rolleyes: lol

Might come down to watch if i get a chance, ill teach you what to do on the dirt haha

***** UPDATE 01/07/2010 - EVENT IS NOW FULL *****

AWESOME STUFF LADIES N GENTS! WE ARE NOW FULL AND ALL DRIVER ENTRIES ARE CLOSED!!!

We will still accept passenger payments, but considering we are taking payment on the day, just as easy to pay then!!

As Duncan said, it is bloody awesome to see we were able to fill this event with ease! Shows people are keen to get out and have a go and make this a worth while venture for the exec commitee for SAU:NSW!!!!

Thanks for all your support!! Stay tuned as over the next few days i will organise groups and further finer details for the day!!!

:):down::P:rolleyes::cool:

The two Evo's juuuussstttt made it in.. haha!

How are the organisers managing groups..?

That would be me organising groups......

I am grouping entrants by experience and previous times.

I am looking at having 4 or 5 groups of 9 to maybe 12 cars in each. Each group has anywhere from 12-15 minute runs (including out lap, hot laps and in lap) so that way you are getting 1 run an hour.

You are going to end up getting about 6-8 HOT LAPS in per session, so plenty of time to 'learn the trade'

As mentioned above, i will be looking into this, sorting it all out over the next few days and will post final groupings shortly.

Hi Chris

It seems this drive day is full. I'm still keen to go. Let me know if someone drops out.

Regards

Allan/Hammer

Gents - can we please put Allan on the reserves list please? He is from mx5cartalk forums.

:)

Well guys I haven't made the grade... but I do have the car running and nearly ready for tuning... just need to replace a few sensors and then put some decent oil into it.

However, seeing as there won't be another SAU track day for a while I may start to move a few things around... make sure it is ship shape for next time...

Have fun guys and girls!

Stay sidewayz Kidz! (But not at the SAU track day :D)

Dan.

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