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Happylaps - Queensland Raceway - August 17Th


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I was talking to some of the guys from QR shortly after the death at Lakeside a few months back. Insurance for happy laps is insane for them and getting worse, my guess is that this has to be done to keep their coverage. Inexperienced drivers, no safety gear, passengers etc. If I ran an insurance company I'd be demanding the earth in premiums.

There's always the if you're inexperienced you don't have go out and try and chase the big fish out on the track you spend the first few times learning the track and your car, also helps if people properly maintain their car and appropriate safety equipment like decent brakes or atleast not run rooted pads. I personally go over my car as much as I can a week or two leading to happy laps or any racing event/ cruise.

have paid all ready to go,hopefully they dont police the 110-120 km as talked about,the whole idea is to give your car abit of a wind out in a controlled enviroment,if the organisers get to strict on speed limits,then it will drive people away from these events,and more prone to do stupid things on public roads,which is not what anyone wants,just a thought. :woot::angry:

is this event going to be split up into a couple of groups as have had a look on the supra site and they have 28 coming along,that means at the moment there will be 45 skylines and supras on the track at the same time,talk about hectic,with that many will probably not get out of 2nd gear!!.maybe something to look into for next time,the supra club are a very enthusiastic bunch,haha,good on them,everone to there own.

Why am I giving said cactus a blowie? Shouldn't it be you giving said cactus a blowie?

Because I suspected you wouldn't want to do that, hence the chances of my putting an rb back into it was slim to none....

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