Queensland Raceway Happy Laps (v.5) 27th May 2012 (breakfast)

[Ben J]

Awesome photos, Cheers! Been wanting a shot of the thing rolling for agess. Wish I'd cleaned the car now!

[team_v]

My pleasure. Great group of cars and people. I drive an e30, so I parked away from the group

Ill be overseas when you guys are on the track, but I will inform the crew and see if anyone is available for the day.

Awesome, would be good to get some continued coverage.

[seangti]

Great shots Ferdinand, thanks for the comments too!

Sean, I have the SS which upgrades to the RR with the SD reader Hmmmm should I go for it??

Very tempted. I guess it's something that can be onsold once you've stopped using it and not loose much assuming it's kept in good condition. Performance Box is too expensive and a little serious for my intent. Will do some research, or catch up with you to discuss it more. Really only wanting lap times, having segments is an awesome feature too. (assuming it's consistent)

[Nardi330]

thanks for the photos and videos.

[Tobes_WIR35]

Hey Everyone,

Seemed like you all had an enjoyable time, unfortunately I didnt read the last posts on the forum, in which the track time was moved forward from 8:30 -> 7:30, so I wasnt able to get any photos of the action.

However I was able to get some photos from the meet afterwards, I hope to cover future events.

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Ferdinand

Hi Mate,

Sorry to bother you, but do you have any more photos of my Red GTI?

[sillywet]

Hey Ferdinand, it was great to meet you at the end and thanks for the photos - they're brilliant. Just out of interest, do you have a special Canon lense that makes dirty cars look clean? I can't imagine how the front wheels on my car look even remotely silver in that second photo after the bashing the brakes got during the session!

If you're bored this weekend coming, the annual VW Driving Experience is on at Norwell, so there'll be a handful of Golf and Scirocco Rs going round the track and on the skid pan (Saturday arvo in particular).

Ben - 220 down the back straight is staggering pace considering your car wasn't running as you wanted it to. Got to be happy with those numbers. Just to plant a seed - slicks and a ripped out interior.... you know you want to!

I'm going to try to get out to Lakeside with the Westfield Club for sprints on the 16th, so i'll hopefully see some of you there after your session!

[EvoBlitz]

Hey Ferdinand, it was great to meet you at the end and thanks for the photos - they're brilliant. Just out of interest, do you have a special Canon lense that makes dirty cars look clean? I can't imagine how the front wheels on my car look even remotely silver in that second photo after the bashing the brakes got during the session!

If you're bored this weekend coming, the annual VW Driving Experience is on at Norwell, so there'll be a handful of Golf and Scirocco Rs going round the track and on the skid pan (Saturday arvo in particular).

Ben - 220 down the back straight is staggering pace considering your car wasn't running as you wanted it to. Got to be happy with those numbers. Just to plant a seed - slicks and a ripped out interior.... you know you want to!

I'm going to try to get out to Lakeside with the Westfield Club for sprints on the 16th, so i'll hopefully see some of you there after your session!

So far I have no plans, so youll most likely see me out there then, thanks for the heads up

Hi Mate,

Sorry to bother you, but do you have any more photos of my Red GTI?

Ill have a look when I get home for you. Might be in luck

Edit: This one?


If so, its the only one I got.

[syhm1984]

Regarding to the Brakes:

Does anyone know where I can get brackets made up?? I spotted some of the GTI and S3 have big brakes on it. I got a pair of AP Racing 4 pot here that came off the Lotus EXIGE Cup 240 but I need the brackets to be made. Anyone can point me into the right way??

[THE_EGG]

For those that wanted a spectator point-of-view at QR, I have uploaded another video for you. This one has a few different clips that I put together that were filmed by dad. You have the right to laugh at my very good *sarcasm* film editting skills, haha.

Anyway here it is,

I noticed in the first part of this video, when I go past my car sounds like a jet from the massive whine my transmission makes haha.

[redline3345]

For brake stuff i would hit up gslrallysport on the forums here, he is a local distributor for brake related goodness and knows his stuff.

Based near Brissie.

Yup, I second greg at GSL. I'm running the street pads, Remsa's I think they are (whatever it says in my signature), I've found them to be fine for our events and well priced. The track pads were like twice the price. I also like having the slotted rotors.

If you can get Formula Ferodo DS2500's, they are also a very good pad, a bit more track oriented than the remsa's, meaning they lack a little feel when cold.

Thanks for the info guys!

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For brake stuff i would hit up gslrallysport on the forums here, he is a local distributor for brake related goodness and knows his stuff.

Based near Brissie.

Yup, I second greg at GSL. I'm running the street pads, Remsa's I think they are (whatever it says in my signature), I've found them to be fine for our events and well priced. The track pads were like twice the price. I also like having the slotted rotors.

If you can get Formula Ferodo DS2500's, they are also a very good pad, a bit more track oriented than the remsa's, meaning they lack a little feel when cold.

Thanks Aaron for organising everything, myself and the old man had a great day. Now just to remind him I dont like people revving my car to 7500 lmao. As for offs I swear I must have been the car behind each moment and I didnt have a camera to record any of them, but boy did that Honda go in way too fast in the cnr lol

No worries; thanks for joining in! There is a little grab of the Honda going hot into turn 3 near the end of Rhys's (The Egg) Video Part 1.

[Ben J]

Awesome, thanks

[THE_EGG]

So far I have no plans, so youll most likely see me out there then, thanks for the heads up



Ill have a look when I get home for you. Might be in luck

Edit: This one?


If so, its the only one I got.

Hey mate that's a fantastic picture of the golf there.
I'm guessing you probably didn't get any photos of me because I drive a french car lol (black Citroen DS3). But if you did, when you have the time could you upload picture(s) of it?

[redline3345]

For brake stuff i would hit up gslrallysport on the forums here, he is a local distributor for brake related goodness and knows his stuff.

Based near Brissie.

Yup, I second greg at GSL. I'm running the street pads, Remsa's I think they are (whatever it says in my signature), I've found them to be fine for our events and well priced. The track pads were like twice the price. I also like having the slotted rotors.

If you can get Formula Ferodo DS2500's, they are also a very good pad, a bit more track oriented than the remsa's, meaning they lack a little feel when cold.

Thanks for the brake info guys!

Aaron, thanks again for organising.
I witnessed 2 new things yesterday like many others: the snow sign on the dash and oversteer!! And that was with ESP on at that point (T4, 1st lap...).

Whilst Lakeside is by far a more interesting course, I think I actually had more fun at QR. More room for everyone, the track marhsalls were totally relaxed and the bacon was really thick (the last bit's a joke of course).

Rhys did your old man get some photos? Did anyone else? There was a guy from Downshift there at the end taking some photos of the car in the carpark. Sadly he got there just after the happy laps finished otherwise some of us could have been famous.

Did anyone else keep an eye out for their speed down the back straight? I cracked 200 pretty easily, but to be honest I was thinking it would have been more (i've only ever driven the clubman circuit there and just assumed the national track's back straight was bigger than it was). Mind you, watching some in-car footage of the V8s on youtube it seems they only hit 250, so i guess 200ish isn't bad on stock tyres etc. They leave turn 2 at 160km/h+ too which helps!

Oh, and way to go Webber!!

Might see some of you at Norwell next Saturday arvo?

Andrew

I think a few people were surprised by the Euro snowflake/road ice warning - I was surpised AFTER it came on @ 4 degrees and then the temp reading kept getting lower the closer we got to QR!

Thanks for joining in!

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Thanks

BTW I noticed a couple of people commenting after the happy laps about my hazards flashing at the end of the back straight at turn 3. The hazards annoys me so much >=( Anyway its some sort of safety feature when the car detects its about to crash or something like that haha.

VW/Audi/Skoda etc have them as well - I have activated mine via VCDS, but there must have a higher activation threshold - the only way I can get the hazards to work under brakes is when the brakes are hammered to get the ABS working.[COLOR="Silver"]

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Didn't actually see the Type R incident but apparently it was full of understeery goodness.

Check out near the end of Rhys's Part 1 vid.

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Thanks for Organizing Aaron. It was good to do a different track. Its a lot harsher on brakes than lakeside. We also seem to have a little more freedom with speed which was good.
This was my first test with the GTX3071 turbo. Initially had overboost problems where the boost controller would shut down and then not allow me to make boost. Hence some of you would have seen me pulled over.....several times. After turning down the boost i then had issues with the DV leaking (flat spots on gear changes and holding boost). Which will be upgraded this week, i blocked it off last night to see if it was the issue and as i thought it was. Car run perfect with it blocked off (no one try this with your K03,K04)
Glad i put DS2500 pads on the car friday. That with the braided lines and motul fluid works well. Someone mentioned top speed. I saw 220km/h with a safe amount of breaking room. Could be more with a BBK.
Did some 4WD drifting, car now spins all 4 wheels which was fun but not very good on 19's.
Anyway, look forward to the next 1.

Glad to hear you were able to have some fun while carrying out your "research"!

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Id recommend gsl rallysport aswell, ive dealed with them before and they were brilliant. I only got my greenstuff pads from the us because I was buying a whole bunch of different stuff and they worked out to be a fair bit cheaper.

I was pushing my car to its limits and would be lucky if I could hit ~155 on the back straight with its 60kw of 1.8 8v fury haha

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Thanks for the info mate!

[THE_EGG]

The crazy understeering Type R civic, can be seen at 13:25 in my part 1 of the onboard video. It does it severly in turn 3 and a little in 4/5. The driver did a good save at turn 3 though.

[redline3345]

it was an awesome morning! thanks to Aaron for organising it

i also did a bit of off roading action in T4 on my second lap :p

misjudged the corner and it was a very slippery surface too (thin ice??).

looking forward to the next one

hopefully the Norwell session this saturday will help me learn cornering better

Thanks for coming along Nat - I think that T4 was a vexation for a quite a few. It has a tight entry that opens out on the exit, making it a deceptive corner that looks like it can be taken faster that it should. There doesn't seem to be a natural flow from T4 apex to the ripple strip on the right between T4 and T5 and then onto T5 either, making it a technical little piece of track. It's certainly learn-able though, but it really differs to what I remember last time I was at QR, when it seemed to be more flowing.

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Thanks to Aaron for a great morning. Always a good thing to experience totally different driving conditions to what we're generally used to. Agree with a few of you about LS being more entertaining but learned a lot more about the Devil at QR. Didn't really see any of the off road action, but loved seeing a few sets of brakes smoking like a Bob Marley concert at the end

The Devil held up well and was more challenging this time having the front end braced up harder with the new Wiechers combo and the back stripped out which resulted in some rear sliding fun in turns 3 and 6. My rear tyres are almost shot after the last outing at LS and it showed by the end of the session so I came in a bit early.

Was impressed with the straight line speed of a few cars, Bens R obviously , the fake R32 1.9 TDI which was boosted to all hell and the silver S3. I think there was another white R that was quick too. Cars that disappointed were the Benz and the white EVO but think the drivers may have been taking it a little easy. Cars I want to see but never did are the bonkers Tiggy of Clay and the Fiat 500. Next time then!

Trying to post some footage soon.

Cheers!

Thanks for coming along! I also did not get to see Clay's Tig or Steve's Fiat on the track, which was disappointing (only saw them in the distance on the other side of the track).

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first of all, thanks Aaron for organising.

personally i like QR more than Lakeside as i can push a bit harder, feel safer and it's much easier to deal with traffic (whether passing or being passed).

T3 is definitely a PITA. the dirt at apex didn't help. my car held up fine brake wise and i allowed it to cool down every few laps and i let off the throttle early into T3. my biggest problem was actually windscreen fogging up straight after getting on the track. was pretty scary driving blind into T3 for the first time. would definitely love to come back in the future.

lastly, GSL Rallysport is good. they are now based in Acacia Ridge.

Thanks for the info re GSL, and thanks for coming along! Fogged windows would have been scary!