takahashi

ic... I saw a bit of that.

RXVIII

Your favourite part of the track if my memory serves me correctly. One time starring directly at those round things painted white & stacked up neatly!

Ewok

Thanks to the organisers. I was the guy in the STi and had a great day. Met some nice people and saw some great cars.

Cheers,
Ben

ILIV48

I filmed a bit of that. I knew if I stood there long enough Andrew would perform... And as you can see he did

A 1:46 by Russell with the both of us in the car is pretty good. In Russell's car the time difference for laps with a passenger and without was approx 2-3 seconds. So I think he could have done a 1:44 on his own in the MX. Damn I would love to be able to do that! All I can say is he can bloody drive.

Overall a great fun day besides the few little mishaps... Friggin Wombats!

jormatom

Another great event organised by the VICS.

Well done guys. sounds like you all had a good time.


Greg

auzoom

Ben,

I Have to say I enjoyed watching and listening to the Rex go around. Glad you enjoyed it.

Ohh and I have the car in today getting wheel changed back over and my road kill damage assessed. Will let you know how it pans out.

Cheers

Andrew

auzoom

Greg, we missed you and Brewer on the track yesterday...More Rx-8's I say! To many bloddy Hondas :-D Joking (about the Hondas that is).

Brewer, sorry I couldnt catch up a bit more but as usual I was busy on the track or running around like a headless chook!

Stu, forgot to say thanks for the filming. Also can you pass the axial Flow web address (http://www.axialflow.com/) onto Phil. He was interested in the S2000 Application being considered.

takahashi

I am going to clean the car now... thanks to you Mr auzoom

ILIV48

Yep all is being taken care of. If the stock Mazda wheel is stupid expensive another set of Enkei's could just be on the way

I would suggest next time you guys take advantage of Russell if he is there, to sit in the passenger seat while you do a few laps. His teaching is fantastic and in just a few laps had completely altered my driving style to the better. He really showed me how to set up and attack the corner by driving the car through it. Made a big difference.

What he showed me in those few laps was superior to what I have learnt at the Sandown days so far. A real in your face teaching style as he yells NO, NO, NO if you don't do exactly what he's trying to teach you. Loved it. Actually got so much out of it I am thinking of paying for him to come to the next day to get him in the car with me some more!

auzoom

Hey why is that my fault

takahashi

You suppose to carry it with you not splashing all the meat to my car

auzoom

LMAO...Hows this everyone...Dr Taka who spent last year studying dead bodies has a soft spot for rotary cooked Wombat! We pulled up after our meeting with the said wombat and did an inspection. Taka was dry reaching the whole time...Is it just me or is that seriously funny??

takahashi

Not very funny when a piece of wombat meat stuck on the Hymee grill

takahashi

David just reminded me that Honda sports car club will be having one in Novembe.

A weekend.

I am in.

auzoom

Funny story, one of my clients in Malaysia was adamat that he wanted to taste all of our native animals like Kangaroo, Crocadile, emu, etc Then he went into Koala, WOmbat etc. I told him the story last night and he told me to go back and pick it up for him :-|

ILIV48

If he wants to lick the underneath of my car then there is plenty of Wombat there to satisfy his cravings... Yuck

mirx*8

hey guys, looks like you had a fine time, sorry I couldn't join you. Andrew, I think it's time to rename (or name) the chicane......look forward to broady!!!!

air23box

Thx for all the hard work and great day....looking forward to see you guys again.....

takahashi

Thanks for coming....

auzoom

Guys some bad news. My car has gotten progressively worse with each speed bump I scrapped. I have had my tyres changed and while it was there I got them to have a look at the damage. The gearbox crossmember has torn back and the nut welded onto the chasis has been pulled through. I am also hearing some ugly noises on left turns so I am now worried about damage to other than the gearbox crossmember. I am off to my dealer now to have them assess it.

Andrew

takahashi

After advise of someone else, I went over to my mechanics quickly for a once check over. The only complain I had is the spongie brakes. There is no bubble to the line but a wrapped rear disc - so machined both at the brake shop a few doors back. AOK now. Still have not swap back to normal road tyre yet

I found there is a lot of wombat meat underneath. When I saw it coming, it was already skinned off.

Check all 4 suspensions and arms auzoom.

Bloody stupid animals on the road... with brown hair

Why

Thats very sad, nobody like to have there toys broken, especially such a nice toy.

Get well soon.

auzoom

Well I am back and $400 out of pocket. I can safely say that for me the track is safer than the road...and I am making a big point of it to my wife :-D

I told a lie befoe its not a gearbox crossmember (hang over from my R100 that I ave been dealing with recently) its just a drivetrain crossmember that sits over the cat. Its absolutely @#$%^&*(. Twisted to all buggery and ripped one of the bolts through the floor pan. sounds worse that it is and the extra noises on cornering were just becuase of the way it was twisted.

As for the wombat, I am definately going to need an underbody clean...its abslutely disgusting!!!

Cheers

Andrew

takahashi

Nice to hear that.... all is fixed.

But what about it - you are an absolute wombat murderer!

ILIV48

Bloody Wombats.
(the last one is probably a bit too close to home though )

Hard to imagine 1 Wombat did all this to the cars. An expensive little critter that was!

Glad to hear the car is not as bad as first thought Andrew!

Maybe next time we draw straws and have someone drive point 500m ahead of the rest of us