Motorsport Round 2 - Winton Sat 14th Of March

[Beeble]

70 cars, only 4 groups so 17 or 18 cars on track at once which IMO is too many for time attack at winton. So hard to get a clean lap given the big time spread 17 cars will have.

only every second session is timed.
Sounds more like a happy laps day.

Honestly if I knew this I wouldn't be going.... but I hope it's better than expected!!

would they consider running 5 groups x12min instead of 4 groups x15min or similar I wonder?

[Odium]

I'm still gonna have fun regardless... but... now I see why we haven't seen Supp Regs (still)... That email doesn't count for much at all...

[Brett SS]

I'm still gonna have fun regardless... but... now I see why we haven't seen Supp Regs (still)... That email doesn't count for much at all...

Same here, it's my first time at Winton so it's just a test and tune now so I'm not taking it too seriously.

[blags]

Car must have a muffler. Does a resonator/hot dog count? I hope so. Useless organisers not having supp regs available in advance.

[acsplit]

Hotdog /resonator is fine

[ssxRicho]

The day ran well concidering the car failures and oil down.

[Downforce]

Good to see Aaron was out there having a punt in the 86!

[hot richard]

Yeah the 4 group thing worked out really well in terms of track time i thought. Got track time pretty much every 45 mins

[miniwog]

Good to see the timing decision got reversed. Recoveries were a bit slow but otherwise seemed to run ok, for the bit I took part in at least. Seem's I cursed myself complaining about tourist laps. Went sub 40's which is a PB but damaged a tyre at the same time so disappointed I didn't get another session to attempt a 38 which I think is possible. What wasn't possible was driving home on the damaged tyre.....

And the lap

Big thanks to Craig for lending me a wheel to make it home (lesson learnt, carry spares and a jack!) and Aaron for roadside assistance. Also cool to have a few people pull over and see if I needed a hand, even if they were in a bit of strife themselves. Though not the FA crew, they top gear'd me. I'd have done it to them haha.

The results don't list club so I'll need a hand confirming who are SAU Vic members for the motorsport championship update. I've assumed some of these....

2     1  Aaron Barnes             Nissan R35 GTR           16     7 1:34.6096  0:00.4865
5    53  Matt Lowth               Lotus Exige S            28    20 1:37.3754  0:03.2523
8    26  Dave Marinucci           Toyota 86                13    12 1:39.6462  0:05.5231
9    42  John Olasau              Nissan Skyline           12     7 1:40.3381  0:06.2150
12    2  Aaron Klaver             Toyota GT86              31    11 1:41.6419  0:07.5188
17   41  Jian C Pook              Toyota Supra             21    16 1:42.6462  0:08.5231
20   25  Darren Cox               Nissan Skyline R32 G     23    14 1:42.8739  0:08.7508
21   24  Craig Furniss            Subaru BRZ               42    32 1:42.9372  0:08.8141
22   54  Matthew Borci            Nissan R33 GTR           29    18 1:42.9563  0:08.8332
24    4  Aidan Mongor             Nissan Silvia S15 Au     40    32 1:43.6117  0:09.4886
28   22  Christopher Starr        BMW 328is                32    25 1:43.8816  0:09.7585
29   55  Michael Brne             Nissan R32 GTR           26    24 1:44.0793  0:09.9562
30    6  Alex Barnes              HSV GTS                  17    17 1:44.7840  0:10.6609
33   81  Quintin Richardson       Skyline                  32    11 1:45.1377  0:11.0146
36   43  John Richardson          Nissan R33 GTST          19     3 1:45.4729  0:11.3498
37   70  Shivam Rohit             Nissan R32 GTR           30    26 1:45.6113  0:11.4882
39   71  Simon Henman             Nissan Skyline           17    17 1:45.9468  0:11.8237
40   32  George Gerakis           nissan r32 skyline       29    27 1:45.9637  0:11.8406
41   10  Ashley Cosgriff          HSV R8                   25    16 1:46.0869  0:11.9638
56   18  Brett Stuchbery          Holden VX Commodore      25    16 1:50.0763  0:15.9532

[Downforce]

That's some smooth driving .... you almost look relaxed The gearbox in the 86 looks super smooth to shift as well, wish I could say the same for the s15.

Richo - what goes on there? what issues did you have with the r33?

[Odium]

Richo - what goes on there? what issues did you have with the r33?

Wasn't his 33 He was driving a bimmer and another skyline on the day

[Downforce]

haha well now that makes more sense

[naga]

Was a good day even though i didn't know anyone. Was a bit hard to get a clean lap with so many cars.

Managed to do a sub 1:50 time with cheap street tyres. Happy to get my car home in one piece and working.

[bobi_t]

not the best day for me personally day ended short due to the cooler pipe that comes off the turbo splitting/melting twice once in the first session and then completely splitting in half in the second session

still managed to almost equal my old PB of 1:43.3 with a 1:43.8 on my 9th lap with a full tank of fuel and a passenger so was looking good to beat the old PB

A big thanks to John "ssxRicho" and Neil form Primal Garage for the help and assistance to try and get the car back on the track, hopefully get out there soon

[miniwog]

That's some smooth driving .... you almost look relaxed The gearbox in the 86 looks super smooth to shift as well, wish I could say the same for the s15.

I thought it was a pretty sketchy lap actually. Gearbox is nice when warm since putting in Motul 300, still horrible when cold though. Pretty sure its just a newer revision of what you've got in the S15, been a while since I had mine but I liked the gearbox in that car once I put decent fluid in.

[R31Nismoid]

Day started nearly an hour late and slow recovery. Probably cost at least an entire full session for everyone...

And there was other issues with some guys going 100% while course was under yellow's on more than one occasion, having shit like that come flying up behind you mid-corner isn't intelligent and very, very dangerous... People need to use some brains.

But that aside Circuit Club ran a good day, am very thankful all sessions were timed - good move that one. Some guys mention issue with traffic but I didn't have many drama's. I was fast enough that if I went out last, the guys that went out first wouldn't quite catch me. It wouldn't have been the same if I was 5-10 sec slower though.

So thumbs up from my corner! Would attend again.

Although I didn't make as good use as I should've due to exhaust gasket blowout which then fell off entirely on way home. Fixed it yesty and turned out the other side had *juuuust* started to come lose as well.

[naga]

Day started nearly an hour late and slow recovery. Probably cost at least an entire full session for everyone...

And there was other issues with some guys going 100% while course was under yellow's on more than one occasion, having shit like that come flying up behind you mid-corner isn't intelligent and very, very dangerous... People need to use some brains.

But that aside Circuit Club ran a good day, am very thankful all sessions were timed - good move that one. Some guys mention issue with traffic but I didn't have many drama's. I was fast enough that if I went out last, the guys that went out first wouldn't quite catch me. It wouldn't have been the same if I was 5-10 sec slower though.

So thumbs up from my corner! Would attend again.

Although I didn't make as good use as I should've due to exhaust gasket blowout which then fell off entirely on way home. Fixed it yesty and turned out the other side had *juuuust* started to come lose as well.

I suspect class A-C was more consistent. I was in class D where there was a big variation in laptimes anywhere from 1:48 to 2:00. Lead to overtaking almost every lap. Wasn't too bad once i queued up towards the front of the dummy grid.

[matlowth]

Really happy with how the day ran, however, I suspect some people need to understand that when it's hot, cars overheat.

Lotus ran like a champ all day though, with the new Hankook Semi Comps, ran a good PB with a 1.37.37 in the third session.

Only got one more and got Dave to jump in the car to provide some tips and pointers, unfortunately, didn't get a chance to put that to use as the track got oil down and closed for an hour and I wasn't game to go out onto an oily track. Looking forward to the next outing.

Dunno why I waited so long to go to semis - these things are awesome.

Here's my vid of the best lap (Sorry about the clicking - it's the camera rubbing against the seat).

[Leroy Peterson]

nice time! looking very flat on (what im assuming is) stock suspension. except for when braking lol

[Downforce]

Nice one Matt, the lotus loves 3rd gear... Are you using RaceChrono on android? do you use external GPS receiver with it or your phone's GPS?