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over the whole 3 days i was there i would of had 40mins on the track if that and the track is soo fu#*king slippery in the wet, the rest of the time was spent waiting in line for cruising.

heres a short vid of my mates & i, aarons 180sx, ako's r32, my r32.

We did 2 sessions one in wet and one in dry in a mate's FPV over 2 days and I'd say we had at least 40 mins of track time...

Also didn't think it was that slippery I think a lot of that comes down to factors like tyre choice, car setup and driver.

Few reasons actually:

1000 entrants who all think their car is most important and want track time

constantly changing weather requiriing constant change in program to keep the most amount of people happy

Retard who break rules, requiring more changes

Oil downs, also from retards, making track worse

Eastern Creek and CAMS stepping in at times.

the list goes on

Anyone who has run a national level event, let alone one with 1000 entrants, will tell you it aint easy.

They did the best they could for the situation. A lot of people would have closed the track all day Friday and most of Saturday, but they did what they could to keep pople doing something. Organising motorkhana/drift/thrash demos o the straight was a great idea to keep people amused and something happening.

After all the practice, how cant they have the organization for this SPOT ON?

Edited by JET200

R33 in the burnout comp was uselessLoved the drifting Total of about 8 holdens broke down or crashed... (yay)only loud riders were the blue nsx , an rx7 and maybe 1 or 2 silviasOne very very diry r32 worth the $35 in my opinionOh and chips and drink was $10? .........




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