Anyone keen for a DECA skidpan day (Shepparton)

[timbosaurus]

I want to give my gearbox/diff/tailshaft/etc a hiding well in advance of the 6 hour, and a DECA day would be ideal.

Does anyone know of any coming up in July/August? I think the Nissan guys have one in September, but that's getting a bit close to the 6hr.

[Blair]

I would be keen.

[Big Trev]

YIKES, I worked there for 13 years

[timbosaurus]

Really? what were ya doin' Trev... Stunt driving buses?

[twentyEight]

Providing my car is, I'd be up for it.

[wombat]

Oh God Yes. pencil me in!

[Slim]

A skidpan day is a big patch of concrete covered in water ? or is it dry?

[wombat]

i think they can do either.
But I hope the drifter will be available for this. lol

[wirysage]

How much is it?

[Big Trev]

Really? what were ya doin' Trev... Stunt driving buses?

I was a trainer for 6.5 years, specialising in truck, but also did car and emergency vehicle training,, for the following 6.5 years I was the Training and Quality Coordinator. I did all their Quality Assurance stuff, their Vicroads compliance stuff, their trainer employment process, from advertising through to selection, I assisted with the trainer performance review process, all this stuff for all their then 4 sites, Shepp, Melb, Sydney & NZ.

Life now is much easier.

When I was training there I regularly took a semi-trailer onto the skid pan.

A skidpan day is a big patch of concrete covered in water ? or is it dry?

They can do both, but once wet it stays wet for some time, so you do your dry stuff first.

How much is it?

It used to be about $3k for the day for the 100 acre facility, 7 k's of roads, plus the 4 acre skid pan.

[chaRwie]

I'm down!

so we need 30+ people?? to keep it reasonably priced

skyline australia had it at $80 with 50 people...

[boxh34d]

I would be up for this as long as its not in the next 2 weeks.

[timbosaurus]

Jeez guys, everyone's keen... all we need now is an event!

The one I went to used all three tracks. There was one ~40sec sprint track with some small hills, a few turns, and a few witches hats thrown in as chicanes. There was one really short circuit... basically launch into a RH turn, straight into a left sweeper with another witches hat chicane. Then there was the skidpan... dry in the morning with a motorkhana style course, and then they wet it down and setup a giant drift circle.

Not 100% keen on organising another day, as I'm pretty flat out with work... but I'll have a looksee. More interested in whether other clubs have already organised one.

[shornesheep]

YIKES, I worked there for 13 years

as an instructor Trev??
you also had a ke10 club car?

[andrew_mx83]

i think we just missed one a couple weeks back


id be keen to go but not supposed to be rooting around on the car atm so we will see