winton fun day july 3rd

[Big Trev]

The rules for the Fun Day are quite clear "no open wheelers" I don't know what they were thinking. The bloke driving that big old thing was a pain in the arse, he sat in the middle of the track, which made it very hard to pass.

Here is a link to some photos
http://gavinlewisphotography.com/Aut...-Day-July-2010

[JT252]

Here are some photos there are more on my flickr. And i have many more on my computer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5032510...7624298616631/

[SilverRA23]

www.ifpix.com should have some photos up shortly too I imagine.

Its not showing anything there now, but I can't tell if that is my computer or their website ...

[twentyEight]

www.ifpix.com should have some photos up shortly too I imagine.

Its not showing anything there now, but I can't tell if that is my computer or their website ...

They're showing on mine... (Once you click a category like All Blue for example.)

http://www.ifpix.com/index.php?cPath=71_375

[andrew_mx83]

spewing i missed this, sounds like it was a great day. dunno about 70 cars on the track at once tho! would have been like burke st lol

how did the cressy go simon?

[Slim]

The cressida went pretty well considering i have a hole in one of the intercooler pipes. The Skyline brakes were definitely a bit step up from the stock brakes i had last time i went. It's still a bit of a boat though. I really should have got my act together and organised to have one of your swaybar contraptions made and fitted before the Fun Day.

[andrew_mx83]

haha that hard part would have been getting MY ass into gear to make them lol, they have been on the back burner a bit as ive got shitloads on atm and my bad back makes it hard to go do stuff in the shed

and yes i agree on the skyline brakes, they are the gift that just keeps giving! first 2 sessions at the tampered day last yr i had no fade at all, last session they started getting a bit hot tho, but thats after a fair bit of punishment.

[Slim]

and yes i agree on the skyline brakes, they are the gift that just keeps giving!

Aren't they the gift that never stops stopping?

[andrew_mx83]

almost never stop stopping

like i said last session at tampered i was running out of pedal, but i can scream up and down Mt. D. all nite, washing off some serious speed into corners without any real probs. thats with slotted rotors, semi-metallic pads & high temp fluid.

[whiterolla]

was good to see so many Celicas out there!

got this one of joey's better half

acutally this is Joey's better half... *BOOM TISH

[RobYob]

I was in the ST162.

You're in my youtube vid @ 3:09 I think. Don't worry about your speed you were being much nicer than a lot of other drivers. I recon I spent half a lap behind a Suzuki Liana (where was Stig?) that was intent on not letting anyone by.

[SilverRA23]

I suspect the girl in that Liana was a first timer and was doing the best she could in a pretty over whelming situation... she was one of the ones I was thinking of when I suggested that there needed to be a beginners group... must have been fairly intimidating to have cars dive bombing you left right and centre when you dont have much idea of what you are doing..

[RobYob]

Ah ok yeah she'd dropped herself right in at the deep end! Hope the experience didn't put her off trackdays.

[JT252]

Yeah i had trouble with the liana as well she was really blocking the whole course. At one point i was watching an she came down the straight with a line of about 10 or so cars behind her.

[SilverRA23]

I would have thought the fun day should be the shallow end of driving on a circuit... anyways she was a mobile road block no too ways about it... I would have thought someone should have had a chat to her about mirrors, racing lines, getting out of the way of faster cars etc etc... times like those they need some instructors handy I reckon

Anyways, its easy to have an opinion about these things... its another thing to actually put the event on. I reckon it was a great event and well worth the spend and congrats to Winton for putting on something so cheap!