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My car trailer hiring experience is not fantastic but it will vary based on your local options. 

Local hire trailer here that was not stupid expensive was heavy AF, towed like shit, and I had to go get it, worry about getting it back on time or being charged more, take it back etc. I'm not big on putting my car on something that's been abused by heaps of others and hoping it doesn't snap a stub axle while I'm using it (seen that one personally but luckily it happened while moving the trailer over a gutter unloaded). 

Absolutely cheaper than buying one, but driving to/from the track is still an option for plenty of people. 

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Touch wood, after nearly 20 years of track events, I've only ever been left stranded once due to a mechanical failure. That tow from Wakefield was around $600. So buying a tow car, trailer, paying for rego and insurance on both just so I can tow the car home in the event of a breakdown never really made financial sense to me. Plus I've never really had anywhere to put said tow rig and trailer. 

The downside is, I drive with a lot of mechanical sympathy for the car. So I'll be staged at the drags and a part of me really wants to launch the car as hard as I can... but I never do. Or I'll be at a drift event and the situation really calls for a big clutch kick.... but I'll just let the car straighten and next time out I'll just try and use a bit more weight transfer and a little hand brake.

One day I'll adopt the "fkn just send it" mindset and I'm thinking this might be a solution for me - 

https://www.shannons.com.au/roadside-assist/overview

The roadside assist is very well priced and you get unlimited tows home from the track (within 100km of the track).  

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I wish I had that luck haha
out of the dozen or so I've done, I've winched the 32 on more then driven it on after a track day.
But hey, thats what you get when you have a dedicated track car and start to "upgrade" things on the cheap and then they break, or make other things break.  Was fine when she was stock haha
The poor man pays twice. Ive learnt that the hard way haha. 
Ive said this before, if my 32 was a street car, it would be crushed by now haha. 

The only season I've won at club level was the season I went in with the approach of Win it or bin it, the engine held on but was tired by the end of the season and I broke plenty shit along the way for a small plaque with a photo of my car, my name, and 1st written on it lol

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Oh and that led me to the 4-5yr gap we have today where the car is partially stripped, engine on the way, tons of money spent on parts sitting on shelves because I was going "refresh" the car "a little". 

Had I just been nicer to the car and sensibly favoured seat time over mods, I'd have 4-5 YEARS more driving experience/fun etc. 

To be fair the gap is also in part to moving out of town, having no time to work on the car, then getting into MTB which eats even more time... 

But it all started with trying to "win".

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Yep and it's the reverse for me lol. If I'm not at the bottom of the list, I'm very surprised. 

But the way I see it, literally no one cares how faster or slow I drive or where I place. But to me, the most important thing is that I drive home and that I had a good day. 

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11 hours ago, MBS206 said:

hire a trailer for the few times you go to the track

This does come up in conversation with my mates however we only have 1x car so if I take it to tow the shit box my wife and son are stranded at home.

Also as per @ActionDan's point the trailers for hire are hit and miss. Some are great and some days they're just awful and you're left scratching your head how it's even road worthy (these are the ones you see at BP).

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1 hour ago, Murray_Calavera said:

One day I'll adopt the "fkn just send it" mindset.

Lol... Yep, that's me 😂

2x blown motors later, countless snapped anti roll bar brackets (when running super stiff ARBs were cool, I no longer follow that methodology), warped rotors etc. 

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Hire trailers, I've seen / had some interesting ones. It's why I only put the hire ones behind the Cruiser. At least then I've got a lot of weight up front towing it if things go awry or the brakes be stupid!

 

As to the going to the track/Motorsport event and not giving it a full send... That's not in my vocabulary... Even when I go out going "just take it easy", the stupid demon takes over once the loud pedal goes down :P

 

Only time I take it a "little" easier is when I'm driving someone else's car... Ha ha

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Same, I will drive other people's cars around the track well within my limits.

When it comes to my own, it's driven harder than a hired car from Hertz lol.

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Yeah same with others cars.
But when I hand you the keys to the 32 Johnny, i expect to see what the car will do more than I can drive it haha
Basically its a case of drive it as hard as you like, if it breaks mechanically while your driving, thats on me as it would of happened anyways, if you bin it and break stuff thats on you to fix. 
 

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1 minute ago, SiR_RB said:

That’s cute 

 

find me all Jap day ticket yet ?

I heard there might be someone in this thread that may or may not have one for you.

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