Wakefield Park 17th May

[carlo]

yeah I got tyres..

but the nexens are coming too..

[GTR R35]

For the people who are not going today, what time are you leaving Sydney and what UHF channel are people going to be on ?

I was planning on leaving about 06:30 that should get me there by 9am.

It would be nice to go in convoy

Mal

[GTR R35]

Carlo and friends,

Thanks for a great day.

I will try to get the video edited and up pm the web ASAP.

[dacow]

Cheers to Carlo and Darren for organising I'm sure everyone had a great day , I know I did

GO NEXEN!!!!

[Tosh]

Fantastic day!!

Couldn't have asked for a better first trackday

Thanks Gus for letting me take your car out I feel your pain with the Nexen's buddy It certainly had the pace down the straight but it's easy to see how Nissan factored in ride comfort alot into the suspension setup Having said that it was easy to adjust to.

Duncan, I'm going to get you back twice as hard for mock-black flagging me!!

[B-Man]

Times ????

[Moanie]

Awesome day!!! I was crying i couldn't take my baby out!! but all the scrubbing made up for it

which car were you, 4Door?

Thanks to Carlo and Daz for organising! and also thanks for nick (drifto) for the awesome drift experience!

[Kinks]

great day guys.. had a ball

[benm]

Absolutely awesome day, both my mum and I thoroughly enjoyed it (especially because nothing broke). Nothing like a car that you can arrive in, remove the spare tyre and jack and then just do laps all day long.

First out was mum for the "3 Lap Dash" (err follow the leader observation laps), then mum went out for the first session with me yelling in her ear every corner to tell her when to brake, when to turn in and when to put her foot down... all went according to plan with no missed gears, ABS lockups or sliding and she clocked up a 1m:43sec. Straight into the garage to cool down with the bonnet up for a total of ~5mins before Group A was called and off I went...

Did a total of 8 laps, couldn't believe how bumpy the circuit was, some corners have 2 or 3 different patches of tarmac, definitely a 'good suspension setup' track. Clocked a 1m:32sec in the 3 or 4 fast laps I had whilst trying to let the faster cars past. Back into the garage again for a 40min cool down, made a front shock adjustment (no idea whether it was soft or hard, I think softer).

Next up was mums turn again, had some fun this time, abit later on the braking, afew line adjustments and 16 laps later we decided to pit just for the hell of it with a best time of 1m:30sec. Gave the car an hour to cool down whilst trying to workout how I was going to find 2sec a lap quicker just to wipe the smile off my mums face.

First session after lunch dropped from 1m:32sec down to 1m:28sec just from later braking (yes I started to get really confident with my brake setup) and mum was no longer smiling

Out I went again (this time with Duncan), abit later braking and no braking on some corners, tried to let the car flow through the corners better, afew different lines for the horse-shoe and the last corner to try and maximise the exit speeds. Dropped my laptime from 1m:28sec to 1m:27sec.

Talked to Duncan abit more (thanks heaps) and then took Tosh out for some hot laps, went abit more wild on this 1 trying to brake well before the corner and then accellerate through the corner, after a dozen laps came into the pits to find I went from a 1m:27sec to a 1m:21sec (mum forgot to time all my laps so only got my 2nd last lap grr).

So now I know that a few more suspension bits n pieces along with some cheater tyres and I should be well into the teens Not bad for a first time at Wakefield, I was very happy. My Michelin 225/50/16's held up well with the best laptime being recorded on the 67th lap of the day Brakes performed outstanding all day, always a solid pedal and hardly any ABS at all (twice I think and that was on the bumpy part so back to my front suspension setup). I didn't get the tail out at all and the frontend was very controllable.

Out of 10 i'd rate this trackday a 13.6 and i'll certainly be back (I think my mum is sitting at home now studying the course to try and find a 1m:20sec)

:wassup:

Edit: Tosh; Got dust?

[Tosh]

not anymore but I think I filled the vacuum cleaner bag

[B-Man]

Tosh - did you have a big off ???

[Tosh]

bloody oath I did!!

Tell you about it in person some time

[Tosh]

Dan, you'd be proud of Geoff

[hawks]

who's cat did he run over ?

[GTR R35]

Awesome day!!! I was crying i couldn't take my baby out!! but all the scrubbing made up for it

which car were you, 4Door?

Thanks to Carlo and Daz for organising! and also thanks for nick (drifto) for the awesome drift experience!

Moanie,

I was in the silver XR6 Turbo.

I was the big guy with the video camera.

I would have liked to have met you....or maybe I did see you there.:headspin:

[Tosh]

less talk more video

[Moanie]

Moanie,

I was in the silver XR6 Turbo.

I was the big guy with the video camera.

I would have liked to have met you....or maybe I did see you there.:headspin:

Ahhh!!! i was expecting you'd have been in a 4 door GTR cept there weren't any there! lol! So you and the XR8 were representing! nice!!! now were were the holdens!!!

hehehe...yeap!! i agree with Tosh!!! where are the vids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dacow]

we want vids! we want vids! did anyone catch tosh spinning out in my car ??? bloody hoon lol

[Kinks]

haha yeah those drift tyres were no match for the RB.... would make a pretty good 'owned' pic

[Majanal]

Kinks you have done well my son... I see that you have mastered the art of dis-re-spect to da tyre!

So you coming for a swing in the drift comp this Saturday (22nd)?

Sounds like a very nice day... shame I couldn't make it. Next time I'm there!

Dan.