kiwi 911

Some Car p*rn from the day:

nzskater

Thanks for organising today Paul (and others), was lots of fun, even if it did bucket down. Looking forward to the next one.



How good are those sandwiches!? When I was in the USA last year I tried a few Reuben's, and was sorely disappointed each time - Federal Deli makes one of if not the best Reuben IMO.

Macca

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like we may loose a couple more GT3 to the UK.

991 GT3RS - Odd track day? Its exactly what it was built for. Spank it I say - bring it down to our Taupo NITT next year, I know Ron, myself, Richard, and Jon (RSG 991 GT3 owners) would love to have it on the track with us...

pcarplayer

Normally i don't lift and enjoy driving through and out of the corner letting it drift to the outside of the corner like you say. Today though my stupid impatience had me up skirt of the car in front and had to back out when it slowed. Not the right day for it for sure.

Maxem

Bit wet aye? Opposite here. Too hot. After a week in Italy and seeing nothing exotic at all, and I mean nothing except a few water coolers, we drove past the Grand Casino in Monaco twice today on the way to Cannes and got a good fix. Cannes not bad for exotica either but I have more interest in heading to the beach to see if I can can spot some beached white pointers before sun down.

Macca

The Monte Carlo casino is the spot for it Dave. We were never crass enough to park the new Gat3 in the line up rather around the corner at the Hermitage but we did hang out around the square when we weren't pounding the pavements for sights and I must say plenty of tasty metal. The dealerships there very cool too. Saw my first Speciale there - still by far the car I most want to own in the supercar bracket (no interest in mega cars personally). Enjoy the beach. It's France so it will always be enjoyable going toothed beach ;-)

996tnz

Good to see you putting in the hard yards Dave.

And great work at HD everybody for keeping your machines off the walls! Wet track days hold more peril but they also do more to develop drivers I reckon, making us safer in the wet on road.

peterC2S

Just read the regulations for next weekend. Apparently the enduro is reverting to the old Puke layout - straight through on the back straight without the new long chicane section. seems due to some works in that area which haven't settled.

Gonna make for some high speeds coming into the hairpin with the faster metal that's on the grid.

Macca

Will be following you on race monitor. Make sure you have plenty of meat on disc and pad!!

shiraz

T.me Listing #: 919836955 - $ looks ok '04 turbo

kiwi 911

I wouldn't say that - Eddie Grooten did a Doug and lost traction half way down the straight in his Targa Spec SC - damage not as bad at Doug's. I was standing on the start/finish tower taking pic's and this happened directly under my feet - quite exciting - big puff of concrete dust and car bits.........

We then closed the track for an hour and watched Eddie on CCTV. We watched Gary's stash of CCTV 'greatest hits', with Neil and a few others.

John McM

Paul, I think this was also a 888 shod car. Maybe the safety checks should have a focus on suitable tyres for the conditions?

Accidents happen and you may have pulled us off the track anyway with the conditions but 47 people missed out on an hour of track time because someone chose to go out on the wrong spec tyres for the conditions. Just saying...

Kiwi Carguy

This wet track day conversation has gone on the last couple of years and I say this with the utmost respect so not looking to offend but we're all adults, got our big boy pants on now and you simply drive to the conditions. Its no different to the road. If it's raining heavy you slow down, if its torrential you stop, if you have dry track tyres on stop or swap to wets. I've tracked several times on wet tracks and IMO it all adds to your driving repertoire. I think I'm a much better driver for it and have had the rear out in the wet and mostly know what to do. You can aquaplane you say... sure but usually you know where that is or you can see it so you SLOW down. I've not even driving HD and even I know from all the posts on here there's a flow of water across the front straight in heavy rain. So take it all in perspective... they're trackways not the Porsche Cup where you're racing for points. I wouldn't pull out just because its wet... I'd just drive accordingly and focus on my wet driving abilities.

kiwi 911

Well said.

John McM

Yes, well said. The driver in this case is a Targa competitor, not a newbie and the briefing couldn't have been clearer about the danger. That's why I suggested the safety check on the appropriate equipment because the experience and explanation of the dangers didn't get through.