Originally Posted by O2GO

No problem there. As soon as the R888s are done I'm keen to try out those weird tyres you all rave about. Mean time quite enjoying a bit of movement of the rear end on track when carrying extra speed through corners. I'm sure it's slower overall but check out the grin it creates. Z221s might be a bit too sticky for that?

I think I'm a little in Dave's camp on tyres, enjoying a bit less grip, except when knocking on the door of 1:19.x

Originally Posted by Macca

Good point. Hes building it for himself not others. In which case Im sure he doesn't care what others think as you say. He's what a "youth marketing specialist" would say is a "leader" not a "follower" and I might add a very canny businessman (remember the story about how he got started buying some cargo style pants down the road and reselling them up the road then buying some jeans, stitching some stuff on them and being asked where he bought them, thus starting a business making them).

Its just in the past and for the most part Ive found his taste to be eclectic and different but mostly to my liking. He has joined together design elements I did not think would work and he has pulled it off. This is the sign of someone with a true creative eye. Some of his industrial design cues have become his signature dish (drilled handles, perspex holed rear engine cover or with louvers etc).

With the rotoform wheels and now the 964 (from what Ive seen) Im not finding the cohesion I did with his earlier designs. Also his purity in the beginning was in part his freshness to the industry. I feel he has very much seized it as a business opportunity, as probably any of us would do so, and I think it may have started corrupting his creative energy. This is a personal view but borne out by many that have gone before him. Once something becomes common place early adopters move on and the space becomes commercialized. Im very jealous he has made his recent fame and fortune through playing with old Porsches, Im sure most are. remember its not his first fame or fortune but his third after fashion and commercial property.

He is a very canny operator. He is evolving his offerings and increasing his brands traction (there are now many ways you can spend you money with Magnus walker although not all of them are at first obvious - another very clever strategy). Unlike say Nakai San (RWB) who I see as a very pure artist. His product doenst evolve much across platforms but it does evolve subtly within its genre and he is a true artist never wholesaling his work.

Im a Virgo and an aesthetician so my views are tempered from that frame ;-)

Originally Posted by Macca

Doug. You need to join drift club. After you try the Z221 you will be hooked. Track is for going fast. People slide at the track when they have no traction, not for fun, because if for fun it causes danger to others and we have to send them home :-). For mojo and soul surfing there are better places to do Chris Harris and Jethro Bothrington. I suggest empty carpark gymkhana or disused runway. It will be fun. Bring old tyres and cord them. My 993 likes sideways. Maybe someone can organise such a day for RSG?

Originally Posted by Kiwi Carguy

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Originally Posted by Kiwi Carguy

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Originally Posted by Kiwi Carguy

Well said and I think you're mostly on the money. Like yourself the things like front guard louvres are predictable or "done already" although I've not seen on a 964 but I guess there's only so many ways to mod a guard lol. I confess to buying some Magnus shirts so I've contributed to the build

He's certainly smart in knowing when to drop a line of business and move to another and I guess in a way luckily found fame through something that was just a hobby and something he enjoyed.

Originally Posted by Kiwi Carguy

I'm assuming that one of its wheels in the background.

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Originally Posted by O2GO

^^^^^ I'm mostly joking Macca. I pulled a drift around turn 5 just for John and his camera. That was fun but a one off. I was also experimenting with how much speed I could carry through the corners after feedback that in my breaking I kill too much speed. Finding the limits and when exceeding them a little "movement" results. I think having less grip teaches you more about the car and really feeling it near the limits. Saying that, a couple more track day conditions like Saturday will having us all improving and hopefully setting new PBs.

Saying that, overall I don't care that much about lap times, and just enjoy feeling the car and working it..... except when there's some close competition to play with. I've now got John and Dave to play cat and mouse with.

It will be really interesting to see how Dave's Orange T performs after she's fully run in and can be let loose on full noise. I chased Steve R in her for a few laps and he was doing similar times (~1:21 late in the day) and I wasn't catching him. I enjoyed watching the car cornering and observing the old school suspension geometry working under pressure. Racing those machines in the old days on their skinny tyres must have been so much fun. A different kind of race skills to modern kit today I guess.

Bring on December 12 with 7 x 964s

PS John, can I borrow your wheels and race seat - ha ha :-P