Happy Laps Lakeside Park 19-October-2014

[Cadmoon]

Event:
Happy Laps - Lakeside Park

Description:
A chance to get out on track for a fun cruise and have some om nom noms! Bit of spirited driving is allowed but it is still an event on a race track so a few rules need to be followed (see below). Breakfast will be served with bacon, eggs, beans and toast.

Location:
Lakeside Park
Link To Map.

Date:
Sunday 19th of October

Time:
7:00 AM Arrival
7:30 AM Breakfast
8:00 AM On Track

Cost:
$35 for members and guests of members riding/driving the members car.

$50 for non members.
Please note that this is a per person cost, any passengers are required to pay as well.
If you wish to come along to watch and not have breakfast it is free.

Requirements:
1. Participants must meet minimum age requirements for being on track.

2. No overtaking in the first 2 laps.
3. The overtaking car is responsible for completing the overtaking move safely.
4. Overtaking is only permitted on straights, unless clearly waved passed by the car in front.
5. Overtaking move must be completed well before the end of the straight, and the car being overtaken must be given plenty of room.
6. Cars should not be more than 2 abreast at any point on the track.
7. Be aware of cars around you, in front and behind (and beside when being overtaken).
8. Do not assume that the car in front of you knows you are there.
9. Please pay cash on the day, no EFTPOS is available.
Lakeside Specific Rules:
10. Participants must have completed at least ONE QR Happy Laps before participating in a Lakeside session. (If you have done other Lakeside events before you may be eligible. PM me to clarify)
11. No overtaking or cars side by side on the kink.

Payment Details:

Name: Skylines Australia Queensland Club

Bank: Westpac

BSB: 034 063

ACC: 354012

PAYMENT REFERENCE: Username&HappyLaps

Attendees:

1. Cadmoon +1
2. boiracer
3. wolfman101
4. Ants
5. gts032 +1 PAID
6. Harks +1
7. wolfman101
8. AndrewK34 +2 PAID
9. Sho Pi
10. dubchick95
11. B-BoiR34 +1

[boiracer]

IN! this could be fun.....or slow. maybe both

[Melly]

Don't think I'll be driving that early the day after Oktoberfest but possibly be out to spectate.

[wolfman101]

In！

[Ants]

Don't think I'll be driving that early the day after Oktoberfest but possibly be out to spectate.

don't drink and get pinky on track instead Mel

[Ants]

also in.

[wolfman101]

You dudes are SO much more fun to go to the track with than some other groups.

[boiracer]

Getting sick of the powercruise style track day drag races? this is gonna be heaps of fun Even if it means no Octoberfestivities for me.

[Cadmoon]

I'm just going to enjoy my Oktoberfest celebrations in moderation and get the SS into lakeside

[Melly]

don't drink and get pinky on track instead Mel

Ants... If I don't drink any other day of the year I always do Oktoberfest it's my QLD tradition... All the Jager, Schnapps, pretzels and pork knuckle!!!

[AndrewK34]

In+ 1. can't wait

[Ants]

Ants... If I don't drink any other day of the year I always do Oktoberfest it's my QLD tradition... All the Jager, Schnapps, pretzels and pork knuckle!!!

celebrate after happy laps?

[Melly]

celebrate after happy laps?

Nah because happy laps is on the Sunday... I go to Oktoberfest on the Saturday... Having to arrange shit around multiple jobs means I arrange it early or it just doesn't happen lol

[gts032]

in +1,will be whistling all the way,ask andrew he knows after the bbq and cruise,its all he could hear,lol,definitely unique.

[AndrewK34]

in +1,will be whistling all the way,ask andrew he knows after the bbq and cruise,its all he could hear,lol,definitely unique.

we will here you coming up the highway.

[Kiwi_Phil]

Maybe ... im also going to drink beer hahah

[SCR48]

Should attend an LP one

[Ants]

Should attend an LP one

yes, yes you should

[Simink]

Lakeside Specific Rules:

10. Participants must have completed at least ONE QR Happy Laps before participating in a Lakeside session. (If you have done other Lakeside events before you may be eligible. PM me to clarify)

Do they accept Nordschleife instead?

Bit of a weird rule. I wonder what the theory behind it is... "Now that you've tackled a flat race track, prepare yourself for some slight hills (cause public roads don't have those...)"

[Smity42]

Bit of a weird rule. I wonder what the theory behind it is... "Now that you've tackled a flat race track, prepare yourself for some slight hills (cause public roads don't have those...)"

This is basically the result of an unfortunate incident a year or two ago which resulted in a member writing off their GT-R at lakeside. It was the first time they had ever driven their car in any situation other than on the street, they lost it and were unable to catch it, and went into the wall.

NO ONE wants a repeat of that, so this rule was brought in to help minimise the risk. It's not about the fact that QR is flat and lakeside has hills, it's more about the amount of run off area (and also the width of the track / proximity to other cars). If you have an off at lakeside, there's about a 95% chance that it's going to end in a bent car. At QR, theres about a 95% chance you'll have brown trousers but otherwise be OK. That's the difference.

Of course, if people drive happy laps at an appropriate pace (ie, no where near the limit of the car) it wouldn't be an issue. But for first time / inexeperienced drivers sometimes the fact they are on a race track gets the better of them and the red mist comes down. And some people are just d*ckheads.

So, the "QR first" rule acheives 2 things:

1) It allows inexeperienced drivers to get a tast of a race track / happy laps in a lower risk environment than lakeside.

2) It allows the exec to observe these drivers and make sure the ones that drive like knobs don't come back.

Allowances can be made if one/some of the exec know that you are an experienced driver and not a d*ckhead, but they're not going to just take your word for it.

The club runs plenty of QR happy laps so it's not really a big issue to get yourself to one of them first.