My first Auto Salon mag

[Duncan]

Interesting point Stacey I'd still prefer to see people spend money on training and practice rather than mods.

And, another "article" I found remarkable was in one of the HPI videos. They marketed it as a comparision of how good tyres improve lap times.

The car in question was the HPI R34 GTT which if I remember correctly was an 11 second car. The amazing thing is they showed it doing 2 laps of Wakefield with different sets of tyres. The 2 laps were (from memory) 1.19 and then 1.17........

Now a magazine editor may or may not be the best driver in the world, but that's not really the point. People are out there making buying decisions thinking that the second set of tyres are 2 seconds better.

[DoughBoy]

Where were Leewah's R33, Nigel's Supra, Ben's R33, etc.? Surely the Autosalon lads would know about those cars - they are better "Street Machines" than any blinged out bro mobile.

Interesting challenge though, how do you get to enter your car in the "competition"? Might have a stab at it next year.

[Guest two.06l]

Interesting challenge though, how do you get to enter your car in the "competition"? Might have a stab at it next year.

Maybe SAU should have our own "Skyline of the year" annual comp. We all know we have some great cars out there. Something for SAU to think about?

To enter the above mention comp you just had to fill out a form in the mag. They were promoting it at all all DC events.

I also agree with Duncan about training and practice. I will be doing an advance driver training course at Oran Park this year. Maybe we could also arrange this with SAU and have a few of us there?

[Guest two.06l]

cool, no idea what that cyrogenic stuff is, never heard of it, do u drive ur cars on the road? cos like sometime about a month ago maybe i saw two silver gtrs, on george st. on a friday night, thought it could be u.

Yes we drive our car on the road, but we havent been in Sydney for a while. We live about 2 hours away in Port Stephens.

Cyrogenic is a special chemical treatment to strenghten metal. The car parts (we have had most of our engine done pistons, crank, etc) are placed into a freezing chemical bath for 24 hours. The atoms of the metal are changed, made stronger, and last longer. Lots of race cars in the US do it to their engines (think their called the NAS cars??). Don't know much about it, Paul is the expert (but he is asleep so I can't ask him).

CHEERS

[Duncan]

yeah SAU in NSW have organised 2 driver training courses now, I did the Peter Finlay one that was run about 3 years ago, it was tops. And another bunch did one with Aaron McGill last year.

I love this pic, every grid should look like this

[GTRgeoff]

Very impressive grid Duncan and thanks for the package .

I have to agree on driver training. I've trained a lot of drivers and truck drivers and armoured vehicle drivers as well (all on military vehicles and some skidpan work) and the no nonsense approach we took resulted in great drivers, some without civilian licenses (we never needed them then, may have changed since). I think it isn't too much for similar efforts to go into everyday road users.

Tyres are such a ripoff, and shaky marketing is not helping things. That article would maybe be of value if the driver was John Bowe or someone similar.