meeni wrote:
anyway well done mate, now u wont be able to stop
The man speaks the truth!
After too long since the last trip to Winton, due to a hectic interstate work travel schedule, I made a fairly last minute decision to take the day off work and head up to Winton for a Test and Tune day on Friday.
I talked a mate with a Nissan 180SX into getting up @ 6am to make the trip with me and dragged his younger cousins along as a pit crew and cheif Videographers. (Unfortunately it seems this backfired, as I found out the boys names were actually Shakey McShakealot and his brother Trembles!
)
This was only my second trip to the track and it was my mate, Mark's 1st, and as we were soon to discover, Test and Tune days are frequented by all sorts of cars, mainly of the "race" variety!
There is nothing quite as unnerving as a Muscle Car Masters Ford Mustang driven by John Bowe getting very big in the rear vision mirror before blasting past, all the while I have my foot through the floor trying to go faster!
Anyway, at the end of the day I got a new PB - 1:50.5! Yay!
Almost 4 seconds better than last time and faster than the Daewoo Lanos Championship lap record!
And I'm getting much more consistent on the street tires, keeping them from totally going off for 4 or 5 hot (ish) laps. (although V8s in the mirror tend to encourage quick learning.
) I put this down to slowly working out better lines.
The day wasn't completely without incident. I found out my fuel gauge only goes down to 1/4 tank then stops, so of course I ran out of fuel on the track.
And as I was spluttering across the infield trying to make it back to the pits, I managed to find the only mud patch in the paddock and promptly became bogged... right in the middle of the Winton infield!
So I had to get towed out.....
More petrol fixed the problem it turns out!
Anyway, good times and can't wait for the next one.
When I shuffle through the footage and find some that isn't nauseating, I'll post it up.
