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Thanks for saving me a pit spot guys, much obliged.

Was a very mixed bag for me. Car made no extra power after going from a smaller turbo on 14psi to a larger one on 17psi, filled the catch can twice, leaked out the back of the rocker cover and handled like a wet sock all day. Only managed to shave 3 tenths off my PB. I'll be compression testing shortly as I have a feeling the engine is showing its 23yrs and 145,000ks of age.

Could have been worse, got there and back in one piece and got to do some testing on setup and learn a few things the car needs and despite all the hurdles still managed to go a touch faster.

EDIT: I've sent an email to Adam about those VL drivers. I almost had the front of my car ripped off a number of times. they don't signal to pass and will drive across into your line without any hesitation. Also happy to go two wide, and sideways, through corners if you get up beside them.

I don't mind pushing harder and doing that sort of thing with mates but not people who drive like lunatics who clearly aren't watching mirrors plus it's not a door to door racing event.

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There was an incident in one of the last sessions wasnt there?

Dont know the full story but it sucks when that happens at the track. Especially all the way out at Winton.

Hope all involved got there cars sorted and made the journy home.

Cheers all to a good day though.

The poor RSR's wernt up for the challenge but still had a lot of fun!!

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yeah around 4:30 2 cars made contact. Unfortunately one of them a SAU member.

Short of it was one of the Honda's spun at the sweeper and went into the side of the SAU members car.

some bent arms damaged rim and panel damage ended his day.

no-one hurt thankfully.

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Damn, sorry to hear that to whoever it was.

Martin you might remember me lamenting having so many Honda drivers in my group, the first 2 sessions were more a case of self preservation than going for outright lap times.

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I got this from Adam re the VLs

"Hi Dan,

The VL’s are a group of people that come from Bendigo. They are generally pretty good, but on the weekend they had a couple of new drivers, but they were allocated into the Beginners group. I will have a chat to them and tell them to be more careful on the track. Obviously we want everyone to have an enjoyable experience so I am glad you took the time to email and let me know.

Part of the problem is the way we run the groups. I am working on a new process that we can easily identify which driver is in which group, so that our man on the track entry can control it better.

We are always evolving, or trying to anyway.

Cheers

Adam"

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Much love to the SAU crew for sticking around and making sure I was all right and helping out. The car is messed up bad and it's going to be insane to repair it now. I'm just lucky that I noticed him lose control and managed to react quick enough to try to avoid it, otherwise he would have hit me right in the drivers side door.

Other than that, the day was great and was a lot of fun. I've uploaded all my photos for the day, check them out here. Took a photo of pretty much every car. :)

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Mate that's no good about the damage and you managed to get 0 photos of my car but that's cool :D

The silver Evo5/6 in those pics, if you know the driver, tell him that I apologise for not seeing him coming sooner down the back straight. He might remember my S13 green/grey and big wing. I was on a cool down lap and checking guages etc when he was coming up behind me and I may have inadvertently caused him to brake earlier than he wanted to into the chicane.

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42secs - footage of me on a cooldown lap yay :D I remember seeing that Evo roll off the road and wondered if he wasn't watching where he was going or had something bust as he wasn't going that quick and I'd followed him through there a few laps before at higher speeds.

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