2012 VW Nationals Supersprint,

[MACCAA]

Kerkers are father and son.
Eddy[father] has done a great job developing that Polo for about six years from back when I had one.
That's a seriously quick laptime for a 9n Polo GTI with 138kw at the front wheels....
Exceptional driving by Eddy to comprehensively flog his son by .0464 of a second!
Cheers
Len

[mikinoz]

Paging Arno! We need an update brother.

[static1800]

Paging Arno! We need an update brother.

Last I saw he was on a 1:11.4 after the track warmed up a bit, it was super slippery early on apparently.

[pog]

Pog, Yep, Cassie. Did you hear the Forge atmospheric vent dumping as I was on and off the throttle warming up the tyres? I hope you liked the straight through exhaust. No power gain, just making noise for fun. Sounds like a diesel below 4500 but nice up to 7000, followed by that crisp fart on gear change.

Cheers,
Andrew.

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Oil change tomorrow, as after every track day. Last one was a scheduled service only 2000k ago. Castrol Edge Titanium 0-40.

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How about the Kerker brothers Benjamin and Everhardus in their Polo GTIs. Both running 1:09 laps. Awesome.

Not from within the cabin, but I could hear the exhaust. It sounded angry lol. I was behind you in the Polo Cup Edition (white) - Car number 1 in one of the sessions.

Yeah Eddy and son, did exceptional times! The track was hard to get grip early morning, it was just cold and slightly wet with morning due on the track. It was so bad on the first session I almost lost it on the warm up lap moving side to side at ~60km/h! Weather was a bit all over the place but eventually it cleared up and everyone meant business there on after!

[gldgti]

I had a great day. It was good to see a nice variety of cars there, especially so many mk1's!

We ran into some troubles from the end of the second session - I had a split boost hose which I didnt diagnose until after the 3rd (very slow) session, and then I only got 3 and a half quick laps in the 4th session before it broke again. We decided to fix it and nurse her home since we had to drive back to CC last night.

Either way it was great fun. My times improved by 8 seconds through the day and I'm sure my driving didnt do the car much justice - although I am positive with some proper coilovers and tyres it would be a lot easier to be faster through the corners (sooo tail happy with hottunings and crusty old tyres!)

Very pleased, was so much fun. Highly reccommended! I learned a lot that I'd say only experience would glean, and armed with this I'm sure the next outing will be even more fun!

Also, great to catch up with old faces and meet new ones. Hope everyone has a smashing day at the show'n shine today!

***edit*** from up on the hill, the Golf R sounded a bit like a big radial engined fighter - like a Hawker Sea Fury cruising past at low altitude! Great!

[abreut]

Paging Arno! We need an update brother.

Car went really well Mick, the new motor is so much gruntier. The first session was so slippery it was all you could do to not spin. The second session the track started coming good and I knocked 1 second off my pb and I wasn't even giving it 10/10ths yet. In fact even my cool down lap where I was just holding a higher gear through corners, I got a better time than I used to get a couple of years ago Unfortunately that's where the day ended for me, I managed to pop a valve-stem oil seal so it was blowing oil out the breather under boost. Can't wait to see what the car will do once I get a proper full day.

There were 5-6 mk1's out there, including 3 yellow ones which made for a bit of confusion. Was the biggest mk1 turnout I have seen. The late-model stuff is getting quicker too, but hats off to that polo pulling 1:09's.

[kaanage]

It was so bad on the first session I almost lost it on the warm up lap moving side to side at ~60km/h!

There's your problem - warm up weaving doesn't do anything except make you a hazard to others. You need real cornering to put heat into the tyres (and to clean them up if you have loads of pickup).

[zhifchik]

Not from within the cabin, but I could hear the exhaust. It sounded angry lol. I was behind you in the Polo Cup Edition (white) - Car number 1 in one of the sessions.

Yeah Eddy and son, did exceptional times! The track was hard to get grip early morning, it was just cold and slightly wet with morning due on the track. It was so bad on the first session I almost lost it on the warm up lap moving side to side at ~60km/h! Weather was a bit all over the place but eventually it cleared up and everyone meant business there on after!

Glad you liked the sound. As long as one person did it was worth the effort. It was just the rear muffler removed (front went long ago) and a Y extension splitting the 3" single into 2 x 3" at the back. All fun.

[static1800]

The track was hard to get grip early morning, it was just cold and slightly wet with morning due on the track. It was so bad on the first session I almost lost it on the warm up lap moving side to side at ~60km/h! Weather was a bit all over the place but eventually it cleared up and everyone meant business there on after!

I saw that moment you had

That first session looked really hairy, so many people went off or spun.

[pog]

There's your problem - warm up weaving doesn't do anything except make you a hazard to others. You need real cornering to put heat into the tyres (and to clean them up if you have loads of pickup).

It was moreso to get a feel for the tyres and how they gripped the surface

[Guy_H]

It was slippery, but very happy to put the Polo in the 10's during the day Not bad against all those "big block" Polo's with those massive 1.8 motors now.

[kaanage]

It was moreso to get a feel for the tyres and how they gripped the surface

Sorry, looking back I was a too strident with that post. I've just seen to many racing incidents (and almost been involved in a few) on warmup laps where competitors did the crazy zigzag thing.

I still think that you would be better feeling out the track by pushing at a slow corner (not hard to find those at Wakefield) rather than zigzagging as you need to hurl a car reasonably hard to break grip and forcing a transition mid turn is much more likely to produce sudden breakaway.

[Eddy]

Kerkers are father and son.
Eddy[father] has done a great job developing that Polo for about six years from back when I had one.
That's a seriously quick laptime for a 9n Polo GTI with 138kw at the front wheels....
Exceptional driving by Eddy to comprehensively flog his son by .0464 of a second!
Cheers
Len

Hoyhoy.

Thank you Len, thats a very nice comment from ya.