Attended our first topgear racing weekend.
Saturday Morning Practise
Saturday Afternoon Sprint Racing
Sunday Circuit Race Meeting
Overall I had a great weekend Managed a PB on the sprint circuit and got some great time on the national circuit breaking the 90 second barrier on my first effort at the long circuit.
Learned a couple of things this weekend, brakes cant handle the extra braking required due to higher top speeds now that we have the turbo, but i think that would have been a problem on the national circuit anyway.
Saturday saw continual brake fade and some minor hot spots on the rotors. Ditched the PBR racing fluid and filled her up with motul RF600 ready for sunday. No brake fade on sunday, but severely hot spotted the front rotors, it got the the point where the shudder was so violent that you couldnt brake & turn at the same time, so i had to brake until i was slow enough to corner before i could turn in.
Overall had a great weekend, Qualified 11th out of 16 cars.
Race 1 National Circuit - finished in 6th, this was my first ever race start. Once i settled in a bit manager to pick up quite a few spots.
Race 2 Sportsman Circuit - finished in 3rd position, race finished under red flag due to car off the track at the end of the back straight.
Race 3 - Clubman Circuit - finished 9th - Got swamped coming into the dipper, couldnt brake well, got off line and that was that. By now brake rotors are totally sh*t.
Race 4 - Sprint circuit 7th, the small circuit has so many tight braking spots and not enough straights so really feeling the brake issue.
Race 5 - National Circuit 2nd place Handicap Race had a great run, brakes werent as much of an issue as i could make up lost time on the straights as there are plenty of them on the longer circuit.
Natsoft timing here
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/resul ... 6/2008.QR1
Video's Here
http://www.youtube.com/user/datto510