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Cars and motorsport are not cheap things. A drift day at QR can be pretty cost effective, Morgan Park track days are fairly cheap, if your car is set up for it, QR sprints aren't too bad either. Neither are skidpan days. The Dutton rally on the other hand, is over $1600 to enter. Plus tyres, plus accomodation, plus everything.

I know skidpan days well, so that's what I'll talk about. All you people who say you "can't afford it" or its "too expensive" should think about the following.

I am planning on having a full skidpan day every 3 months from now on. Say its $180 to enter. There are 90 days between skidpan days, so you only have to save $2 a day, to afford a full skidpan/time trial day every 3 months. As far as other costs go - you don't go through a set of tyres, its not hard on the clutch, or anything else for that matter. I probably wear my tyres more on a few mountain runs than a full skidpan day. It's a very cost effective low risk event. Yes something on your car might fail - but it somethings going to break, it's going to break no matter where you are. $2 a day for an awesome full day event (and lunch!) is very very cheap. You can run almost anything, its a fairly even playing field - stock VL's to GTR's, doesnt matter.

Morgan Park track days are also great, more tyre wear if you don't have your wheel alignment sorted (i didnt), but you can go out there in a road car and have a blast. Low entry cost, but it is a bit of a drive.

$2 a day.....

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I went for a track day organised by a major manufacturer on wednesday and got to drive some pretty groovy machinery, and then got served continental lunch, and was given a gift before i left for home, and didn't cost a cent.

So unless your dealing i'm not coming.

on a lighter note $180 isn't alot, for a dayful of fun with a bunch of decent ppls

or u can go and sit at the local plaza and stare at the dredge of the society for nothing.

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Hi slip,

I'm not having a go so dont take this the wrong way...

The only skidpan day I attended was about $90 from memory, however current days have doubled to $180.  

What has caused the price hike since I last went... More track time, lunch, more professional drivers?

Correct me if I am wrong Shane, but you attended the last one I went on last year and if was only a half day, pan only day. Not a full day, pan and LVMA day.

lol at SLIP

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What is the track time expected for the day per driver ?

Morgan Park is great value, I organise a day there and it costs around $35 a head. And most people are sick of driving by the end of it. 40 to 50 laps for the really keen.

The track is also good. Reminds me more of the street than a race track. No worries with oil surge etc, like if you go to QR.

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just lvma and skidpan.

the lvma is a large area with water bubblers on it that leak water onto the surface, some of its dry, some of its wet, and a small part of it is actually linoleum - which is tricky. They set out 3 time trial runs with cones. 1 slalom with a diamond at the end, you run through, round the diamond, run back. 27secs is quick. The other one is a launch, left turn, sprint down a straight, then a 4 cone clover leaf style section, then sprint back. 40secs is quick. Half the group does each one, then you swap. Then we use the whole area in a large time trial. I forget what the times are for that. In the now infamous words of Tze, you can go for time, or go for sick! Tze prefers the latter. If you try too hard to get a quick time and stuff up, the worst that will happen is you might tap a cone.

I think it's cheap, for what you get, the low risk, and low vehicle wear.

Check the last "skidpan day pics" thread for LVMA pics.

Also - how many other events can you do where an NA 31 has a chance against 33 GTSt's, noone cares what you drive, and with such a great friendly atmosphere? The lunch is good too.

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just lvma and skidpan.

the lvma is a large area with water bubblers on it that leak water onto the surface, some of its dry, some of its wet, and a small part of it is actually linoleum - which is tricky. They set out 3 time trial runs with cones. 1 slalom with a diamond at the end, you run through, round the diamond, run back. 27secs is quick. The other one is a launch, left turn, sprint down a straight, then a 4 cone clover leaf style section, then sprint back. 40secs is quick. Half the group does each one, then you swap. Then we use the whole area in a large time trial. I forget what the times are for that. In the now infamous words of Tze, you can go for time, or go for sick! Tze prefers the latter. If you try too hard to get a quick time and stuff up, the worst that will happen is you might tap a cone.

I think it's cheap, for what you get, the low risk, and low vehicle wear.

Check the last "skidpan day pics" thread for LVMA pics.

Also - how many other events can you do where an NA 31 has a chance against 33 GTSt's, noone cares what you drive, and with such a great friendly atmosphere? The lunch is good too.

:cheers:

Pics from the last one are at: www.skylinesaustralia.com/members/strutto/skidpan

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