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Well on Saturday I started the trek to Goulburn to run at Wakefield on Monday. What an awful drive south, it broke me. I was muttering how I will never do this drive again (though yet to drive back to Brisbane).Anyway, got to Goulburn on Sunday with a drama free, albeit rough and noisy, drive.
There were 2 other watercooled members who went down, Ben (Machine) in a Golf R and Alan (Grandturismo) in his mkVI GTI. Unfortunately Alan had an issue as we drove out to wakefield, so his day never really started and went back to Sydney to get it sorted as he's running at Eastern Creek today. So 3 became 2. We did a TarmacAttack day, which consists of open practice in the morning and timed laps in the afternoon. My best official timed lap was a 1:12.48. I did a GPS timed 1:12.1 in the morning and was really hoping to be in the 11’s, but wasn’t to be. 11’s was my goal when coming down, which was based off times of other polo’s. I'm still really quite happy with the lap time, it was a bit hard to a clean hot lap with the other drivers of varying speed. The suspension set-up/chassis balance is awesome, I was getting a reasonable amount of oversteer on cold tyres, but as they came up to temp it was great, nicely adjustable without being twitchy. With the power of the car, I really struggled to get power down without an LSD. Turn 8 (fish hook) was a trial of patience waiting till I could get back on the gas, and when I would, it’d boost and light up the inside tyre. Similarly coming on to the straight.
Wakefield is an awesome circuit, more fun than QR and Lakeside, more like Morgan Park, but better still. I had an absolutely blast, it almost made the drive down worth it, the car ran well all day, I was 9th quickest of the cars out there, losing out to a few Evo’s, fast honda’s and a bloody Golf R driven by Ben. Though the car is looping at idle now, not sure what the go is so will look into that before driving home on Friday
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Originally Posted by kaanage
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