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[marinetowing]

Finally got to run the new car in a speed event on Sunday, a local car club held a regularity event at Baskerville raceway. The format regularity is that you run 3 practice sessions of 4 laps each to try and achieve a consistant time, after the practice sessions are completed you must nominate a lap time and complete 4 runs of 4 laps per run trying to complete each lap in the nominated time.
Each competitor starts the day with 100 points and 2 points are subtracted for every second faster or slower you are in comparison to your nominated time per lap.
The track was wet and very greasy in the morning for the practice session so lap times were fairly ordinary-running road tyres did not help matters much either...I actually looped the car at the end of the main straight and ended up on the grass:o:w00t:
The track was starting to slowly dry by the end of practice so I nominated a time 2 seconds faster than my average practice time, went out on the first run and lost 16 points as I ended up running 2-3 seconds per lap faster than my nominated time:rolleyes:
Ended up runnng my last 3 sessions almost perfectly on the nominated time but had lost too many points on the first run to be in contention, finished the day in 7th place.
So stoked with the car it did not show any signs of understeer but tends to step out the rear when pushed hard. With a set of semis and a dry track it will be very capable of setting some impressive times.
I have entered the Tasmanian hillclimb championship the first round starting on the 9th of August at Baskerville, with the right conditions the car has the potential to be a front runner:thumbsup:
I have included a clip of my first session at regularity, excuse the shocking sound quality-need to make a few adjustments to my camera:)
http://www.youtube.c...watch-main-area

[GSRSOL]

:thumbsup:

[DOUGMO]

about time scotty!

oh and nice work

[Dean]

Right Behind Ya Scotty!
Good Work Mate!

[bazeng]

Sounds tuff!

Look like fun too!

[Liberoz]

Look it its what they're built 4 ,
that track reminds me of the ol goat track(WP) in its day.

Any one take any pics at the event? looks like it was tons of fun

[Liberoz]

awewsome track

[Evo-00x]

The accelerator pedal is the one on the right Scotty lol TIC.
Good to see you're out enjoying the new toy mate and a great first outing. Thanks for upping the video too, we appreciate you sharing it with us

[marinetowing]

Look it its what they're built 4 ,
that track reminds me of the ol goat track(WP) in its day.

Any one take any pics at the event? looks like it was tons of fun

It's a brilliant track John but the surface is starting to wear in quite a few spots and motorsport Tasmania use most of the budget keeping Symmons plains in top order for the major meets.
The great thing is it's only an hour away from my place and for $60 you can use it all day for private practice providing no meets are being held on the day.
There should be some pics uploaded to the CMI website soon, I will post up a link as soon as they are available:thumbsup:

The accelerator pedal is the one on the right Scotty lol TIC.
Good to see you're out enjoying the new toy mate and a great first outing. Thanks for upping the video too, we appreciate you sharing it with us

Lol thanks Rob
You are on the money though mate as the car had a very easy day-I don't think it was pushed past 6000rpm for the whole event....the next 2 events however will be a different story:thumbsup:
I just need to sort out the quality issues with my camera setup, very disappointed with the sound recording as the car sounds crazy under power-no muffler and straight out, I want to try and capture that in all it's glory:lol:

[GSRSOL]

for 60 bucks?? im bringing the GSR down next time

[p3akin]

looks like fun scotty..

dont worry, just take i easy until your used to the track and car.

[3zercrowd]

Hmmmmmmmm....T4G Nationals?

Need to edit that pic a little...Bit big there

[marinetowing]

Am running in the first round of the state hillclimb championship tomorrow, rain and snow are forecasted...should make for an interesting day
Will post some footage tomorrow night

[DOUGMO]

go fast scotty

[Liberoz]

Nice one footage footage

[SIVART]

awsome laps Scotty

[marinetowing]

Had a fun day but once again the rain was pouring down and the track was greasy as hell
Ended up winning my class which was E (3400) had a bit of stiff competition too with a tarmac prepped IX, a VI and a VII.
Very good turnout with nearly 50 cars entering of various makes and models, just a pity the weather was so ordinary.
Starting to get a feel for the car-it loves to step the rear, is twitchy as hell but I love it:lol:

Got the winning run on vid as well as a not so good one!!

[p3akin]

Congrats on the win Scotty..

[vsthis]

Good stuff mate!

[(2much)]

That track looks like fun mate... it's weird being back in vic, after being at the track yesterday...
I can't believe the varitiey of cars that were there. I'm not sure if you saw it, but the new mini looped it at the end of the front straight before lunch.. it was quite funny. (and man that would cost some points)