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Back from Bali in time: check

Car collected today from tuner: check

Semi slicks fitted in time? Fail

Please put me down for a blue triangle - just in case Officeworks runs out of blue contact. If they don't I'll have thousands of blue triangles.

I may end up at VSport before lunch to get some new pads fitted, my A1RMS should be fine but if its only 5 min down the road a extended pit stop may be needed.

They still have 50% left though, found this out when I fitted up my track rims with the new Khumo 235/40 17 V700s I got for the front with my $500 voucher from the last round from FSport, they are a bit smaller than the 265s that I usually run but they are fresh and soft compound so will be better than the 6 yr old Dunlop Rs I usually run on.

Also are numbers needed, I'll have mine "414", people may need some black electrical tape, or white if your car is black, or are we just running windsceen numbers like last time ?

competitors will be given a pit lane garage space and an allocated race #, i have the race # stickers here. Im happy for any SAU people to call me after 545 AM if they need advice. 0410313104. If you call between now and 5:45 expect jibberish.

I expect to be in one of the end most mazda garages, Come find me if you need assistance.

Edit: Scott - you've got a battery sticker as long as you come find me. Look for a black fc with kumho stickers on the doors. Love the red eye flight to track day commitment.

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1:57.5, new PB for me, car went well with no oil issues, though it was breaking down along the straights. I lowered the boost but it still didn't like any of the straights, but I'm awsomely happy never the less.

My new soft comp khumos are now dead though.

Still a bit of testing to do with the settings on the camera, but having your window down didn't help :P

Will play around with the Dashware software during the week.

Definitely still dazed and confused this morning - missed at least 5 turn offs to get to the Creek, tipped my toolbox over the pit garage floor the second I unpacked it from the car, and missed a red flag at one point. Throw in a 50% power increase, same shitty tyres, clutch slipping at 4500rpm in 3rd and 4th gear i.e. the sweet spot out of corners, some serious spark issues from the end of the second session AND the fact it was my first time round the track - interesting morning! I was pretty stressed about the sheer number of entrants

gregor - thanks for the offer for the battery triangle and acknowledgement of my levels of commitment - is there a kumho prize for that?!

thanks also to Michael for the superbly crafted silver backed triangle that I went with and to Ben for making me at least look the part with a raceloglaptimer thingo stuck on my windscreen.

My contour video is a bit of joke with bad sound (also had me windows open whoops) but captured one spill ahead of me into turn 11 - will post up later.

the rain seemed to appear just as my group went out, with the first 2 sessions being wet

the the weather fined up, but the gearbox decided it had had enough during the 3rd session

it looked at bit like a nissan graveyard around the pit bays where we were unfortunately :(

sorry to hear it dnissi. Apparently at least 4 subarus had engines go, not sure how the evos faired and somehow I think the renew boys managed to not lose a single apex seal between us. Still trying to figure that one out. I went out in the white instruction group just when it started raining, ended up going backwards twice so that was interesting. Overall i think the weather stayed pretty decent though.

Scott - maybe no prize for it but much credit :cheers: How did you find the numbers once you got going on the track?

If you have any feedback on what was good or could be improved please send me a pm. I'll be following up with the WRX guys in a few weeks, hopefully we can do it again next year with no SAU nats clashes.

I'll work on the rd3 and total results this week.

Natsoft link: http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?30/10/2011.EAST

LoL nice Video There - you can see my Stag parked top of the hill on last turn :-) I got a few photos of SAUers on the day I will post it up soon - I was planned to do track with my DC5 with BYP but car isnt ready because of an Oil Leak

MLR I will post some of your car in Action

Super Dooper, Im a big fan of my vanity shots.

And because I was being a big girls blouse I only got my wheels of the track once and never spun at all so no epic "WTFATYREWALLOMG" pics, Ill try harder next time though.

Mark you need to buy some second hand semi's or get your suspension looked at, you understeer quite a lot!

Gregor: As a spectator for 4hrs, the organization of the cars at the dummy grid....needs work! What the obsession is with having "colour" groups instead of "number" groups at trackdays in NSW is beyond me, then having 2 white groups or 2 blue groups or whatever was going on in the morning? Group 1, Group 2, Group 3...... sorted! No confusion, no multiple groups, everyone knows exactly what group they are in, when they are on track and when you form at the dummy grid.

It was good having the different manufacturers and quite a packed pit area for a change, even if it was for only 3 laps at a time.




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