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On Thursday October 7th, SAU:SA held there second private track day held at Mallala Raceway. With a pre-meet at Villi's at 6am, it was bound to be a long day. This did however provide some nice light on the drive up, something I couldn't go past.

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Once everyone arrived, they spent little time stuffing around and got to business of getting the cars ready to get out on track. Entrants we're split into three groups, first timers, intermediates and advanced and would go out in 20 minutes sessions.

First cars out, first timers which comprised mainly of street cars/daily drivers

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They sure did get stuck into it,

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Next up were the intermediates with a good variation of skylines, from R31-R34 and even a Onevia.

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Then it was time for the advanced/pro's to come out for there first session. Oddly enough, this was the group that had teh least amount of skylines in it.

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They sure were pushing hard

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Now that everyone had gotten the first session nerves out of the way, people started getting into the flow. With timers available, people were able to find out what times they were running. This made some push harder and try different lines to get there times down.

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Others were just out there to have fun.

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Even an EVO X popped out of no-where

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A great day had by all. A big thank-you to the executives of SAU:SA for organizing the day, especially the bbq for lunch. Also to Mallala Motorsport Park for giving us a track to use and everyone that helped on the day to make the day run smooth.

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The rest of the pictures are here http://s701.photobucket.com/albums/ww13/LT...071010/?start=0

If you are interested in high-res prints or a cd of pictures of your car, pm me.

For those interested, $25 for a cd of EVERY shot I took of your car for the day.

If you like this, pm me!

are all the pics of my EVO displayed on this URL?

http://s701.photobucket.com/albums/ww13/LT...071010/?start=0

or are there others as well?

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