OK. my turn to bitch. :P
first of all, i wanna give two thumbs up to dorifto who organised our group as it was on the day. it was fantastic to know that all the people in our group knew each other so we felt safe driving with each other to allow some battles to happen ;) after this track day i felt more that he is what an organiser should be: responsible punctual and a crack up :P good on ya mate! :) as of now i am very happy with what i got and i'm officially "SEMI-RETIRED" be sure that next time, i'll be back either on the tampered or the exe-crew track day later on in the year and with new mods to boot.
congrats to all the people who earned their PBs. i hope every mod that was done for their cars was worth the money. some people came in improve their skills with no new mods. some did a hell of a lot to their cars. regardless, everyone went well and the day progressed smoothly without any major hassles.
Now on to my personal experience...
This is the second time i've been to winton. Weather was absolutely fantastic. Early morning the sun greeting our cars with its glorious shine (check 1stkills first picture above). Parked our cars and i started to unpack my stuff. While i was busy doing stuff Whitney (camera girl) was taking ninja shots of me prepping my car. Looked around and found that no one was prepping their cars with me. After so long, i realised that they were at the office getting paper work done so i quickly raced (on foot) there and got my bands and paper work done. Like the first time, my car was the first at the scrutineering bay. Wazza checked out my car for 10 seconds and said OK, chucked the flouro green sticker on my car and number 47.
this time around these were the new mods on my car.
1 inch wider rims
energy suspension mount inserts with custom washers
varex muffler
brand new federal tyre on the front left to be abused
-1.5mm toe out with 0.0 camber
xtreme clutch + lightened flyewheel
32 psi warm in the front and 30psi at the rear
Group A called.. Group B called... Then time for us to go. Group C (winton time attack group). Johnnieboi flagged me to go first so i went. I was behind the EG civic and dorifto. The feeling of peak adrenaline came to me as the first time as i rolled up to the entrance. Car was cold so revved conservatively at 5000 rpm. did a bit of steering to warm up the tyres. relearning the track i improved my lines abit so i could go a bit faster. i also took advantage of the weather because it wasn't that hot during that time. dorifto hunting the EG on the warm up lap. the EG spun out as tyres weren't heated up enough. Dorifto passed him and i followed, EG cut in front of me to get back on the track -_- i let him go and the final turn before the long straight on the 3rd lap, EG spun out...
4th lap, Daniel in the Clio sport passed and i tried to catch him. I did catch up to him but he was too quick around the corners and left me for dust :( (video fastest lap above) This is the lap i also got my new personal best in. ;)
i cant rememeber who told me i got 1.51 in the first session but whoever it was i thought he was bullshitting i walked casually up to the tv and saw it... my name... 1.51. walked out with all smiles.
2nd time i took Whitney and while she felt a bit queesy after, she ended up all cool. ;) i also ended up taking the left foggy out for more direct air flow and ended up with a hole in the under guard because of all the wind pushing it back against the rolling tyre which literally melted a hole in there...
we ended up using 3 cable ties in there to hold it forward. at this time its a win win win situation as i got direct cold air in front and behind the cold air intake plus the extra wind cooling down the brakes and the tyre!
best time 1:53