Went to Phillip Island trackday yesterday

**vwthunder** · 13-02-2011, 11:35 AM

Well I didn't know where to post this, seeing as it isn't pics of my ride.

Well yestreday myself and Van(ssman) went to Phillip Island to a trackday to watch Paul in his R32.
It was a fun day just watching, myself and Van were commenting on how great it would be do do something like this (if our cars were setup for it lol)

At the start of the day, Paul said a instructor took him around the track in his (pauls) car to give him a idea of lines through corners, braking points etc, and he said it was amazing what someone with experence can do.

There was everything from a R35 GTR, Evo's, Go carts, Formula Fords, Porsches, V8's etc. I heard James (waterboys) Dad was around somewhere, I think he was instructing

Anyway here are a few pics

LINK TO MORE PICS http://s770.photobucket.com/albums/x...llip%20Island/

**Driven Threads** · 13-02-2011, 11:41 AM

Thank for the pics Troy! Yeah so so much to learn! I started the day of really crap, and by the end of the day I was still crap but felt alot more confident. But I guess you have to start somewhere! Car feels awesome with the unibrace, really need slick tyres. Car is good...its just the driver that needs to practise on driving!

It was great to see Troy (vwthunder) and Van (ssman) there in their fully sick polos. Volkspower guys were also there, running the new golf r.

**Water Boy** · 13-02-2011, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

Dad spent most of that day driving this LHD beast.

And yes my olman is an instructor at drive days.

I would have been there if it wasnt for work (I need to pay for engine mounts some how...)

**Blitzen** · 13-02-2011, 06:54 PM

Awesome!! I haven't seen Super Karts in years.... I remember when they were a supporting the F1 cars at Adelaide and lapping 7 seconds slower than the last qualifying F1 car!!

**vwthunder** · 13-02-2011, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Water Boy

Dad spent most of that day driving this LHD beast.

And yes my olman is an instructor at drive days.
I would have been there if it wasnt for work (I need to pay for engine mounts some how...)

Oh it must have been your dad getting in then, I didn't recognise him, I was standing there getting hot chips lol and 2 guys were getting ready to get in the carI took the Glovebox down there, by chance I thought you might have been there too

**JET147** · 13-02-2011, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Blitzen

Awesome!! I haven't seen Super Karts in years.... I remember when they were a supporting the F1 cars at Adelaide and lapping 7 seconds slower than the last qualifying F1 car!!

A mate was one of the guys racing the superkarts yesterday...he was lapping around the 1:45 mark! They are good little beasts and very quick...
Also had a mate with an Evo 8 there today, he managed a 1:57 even while hitting a 200km/h limiter early on the straight!
Good day out with some pretty insane cars from race-spec R35 GTR, M3, Porsche's etc etc...

**ssman** · 13-02-2011, 08:10 PM

What a great experience standing on to top of pit lane, the smell of race fuel, the noise, and the behind the scenes action.

Paul I think that a lot of us talk about it, want to do it, think that we are going to do it and in the end we watch people like yourself go out and give it a go. It was so cool to watch you on the track and every time you came in you always had a grin that went from ear to ear, it looked like so much fun. That's why I was congratulating you.

You can look at my pics on photo bucket user name (vssman) I'm posting a few that I thought were my best.

**kaanage** · 13-02-2011, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

It was a fun day just watching, myself and Van were commenting on how great it would be do do something like this (if our cars were setup for it lol)

Just do the track days - don't worry about getting the car perfect for it as you will NEVER know what it is like on a track. In fact, track days are what you should use to develop your mods (or at least to decide which ones you need next as you discover the weak points in your vehicle set up.

Originally Posted by JET147

A mate was one of the guys racing the superkarts yesterday...he was lapping around the 1:45 mark! They are good little beasts and very quick...
Also had a mate with an Evo 8 there today, he managed a 1:57 even while hitting a 200km/h limiter early on the straight!

Were the conditions slow (wet patches etc)? I would expect much better times than that.
Were the superkarts 125cc 2-stroke ones? 250 twin 2 strokes should be down in the 1:30's somewhere.

**JET147** · 14-02-2011, 10:09 AM

Conditions on the Saturday I believe were fairly much that same as the Sunday when I was there, with plenty of sunshine. (Mate's evo was coming back with plenty of fresh rubber pieces on his wheels)

Interesting re: lap times…you're probably thinking of the 250cc karts which are about 5 seconds quicker?

A quick search found the below lap records at PI for the karts:
125cc Rotax Light- Jason McIntyre: 1.57.242
125cc Rotax Heavy- Mark Wicks: 1.59.685
125cc Rotax Junior- Sean Whitfield: 2.02.4
125cc Gearbox - Russell Jamieson: 1.42.7163
250cc National - David Holdforth: 1.37.7053
250cc International - Warren McIllveen: 1.32.6516

My mate has a 125cc Gearbox, and won 2 of the 3 races on Saturday, with 1:45 lap times and wrong gearing. So with the right set-up hoping he can cut it down as the next meet there.