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Great day yesterday. Good to see lots of awesome cars/drivers getting really good times around the courses.

Now I have to get over this sunburn of mine and make sure MY GTR is ready for next time.

Heli's!! FTW!!! lol

bahahah love the starlet pics!

David!!

go to AAA tyre factory in Fairfield St, Fairfield East.

they sell pairs of 18" for $50 fitted. ($40 for 17")

u can choose from a warehouse full of 2nd hand tyres :)

Thats great! We all just all need a few sets of spare rims now

With a little bit of persuasion I finally got the Trollberty sliding... kind of...

LOL I'm pretty sure that's me that you beat! I have too many excuses to list as to why i lost :thumbsup: . Kind of intimidating when the car next to you is launching of the limiter (even if it is a liberty.

Now I have to get over this sunburn of mine.

Same lol didnt realise how red i was till i got home!

I should have some video up within the next few days hopefully. Not sure if people wanna see the slow r32 though. Only got one other car on the gopro and that was Ben's S15.

Lee in the Ute was nuts lol. Smoke show every time he was out.

And i definitely need to bring my stockies to the next event! I had brand new federals and was trying to limit wear.

bahahah love the starlet pics!David!!go to AAA tyre factory in Fairfield St, Fairfield East.they sell pairs of 18" for $50 fitted. ($40 for 17")u can choose from a warehouse full of 2nd hand tyres :)

+ 1 for AAA tyres!

Matt, when will your R33/LS1 be finished?

Mate of mine says he may have left one of his floor mats at texi. Should be pretty easy to identify as it says MX-5 on it :P

If anyone picked it up it would be greatly appreciated if you get in contact with me :)

here my video of the day,

2 runs have traction control on by mistake haha.

i have footage of the r31, the blue r33 with flutter, the grey 34 gtr, and the red na s14

msg me if you want your footage,

was going to make a video with them all but was scared id get in trouble off someone for some reason.

Jarrad.

Hahaha it was sooooo much better weather wise than last time Ben!!

Was a great day, good to catch up with everyone. Glad everyone had a good day of skids (or even half a day for those with broken cars *cough* Brett), and special thanks to the owner of the black ute for spraying us all with dirt clumps :laugh:

Mate of mine says he may have left one of his floor mats at texi. Should be pretty easy to identify as it says MX-5 on it :P

If anyone picked it up it would be greatly appreciated if you get in contact with me :)

I got it Cassbo, It was either annas or shark boys and im up that way alot.. Or when u next come my way ill give it to you with the tyres

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